I have a HD with a single NTFS partion which have lost the partition table info because of corrupt sectors/blocks. I have tried DIY DataRecovery iRecover and OnTrack EasyRecovery to copy/recover the...

I have an Asus P4P800 Deluxe with a P4 2.4C processor, on the latest BIOS. I am running two WD 1200JB drives, one drive is on IDE 0 and the other drive is on one of the VIA RAID channels. IDE 1 has...

When partitioning a large drive (80 gigabyte) are there any principles to apply to ensure optimum performance for a general file system (i.e. not a file system consisting of large A/V files)? In...

Can I make a CD image of my computer HD using another computer, record it on a CD, and then restore it using a CD (not a CD RW)? The programs I have to do this are Drive Image 2002 and Ghost 2003. ...

Hi, My dad brought his PC to me a few weeks ago, which was infected with 3 or 4 viruses and about 600 spywares. I fixed it all and sent him on his way. It's an HP, Wal-Mart special, 1.2GHz CPU,...

Just got a new 120gig sata hard drive it is seen at bootup but can't see it in bios am I missing something, newbie be gentle

Can anyone help - I am running XP Pro and Ghost 2003. It appears that my BIOS will let me boot from an external USB drive (250gb Maxtor in my case) I haven't actually got it to boot as I get the...

Is DVD-RAM, used without a caddy, sufficiently reliable for backing up the data on a hard drive, if it used in a home where no one smokes? If it not, are there any under $250 DVD-RAM caddy drives...

I'm thinking of buying an ADS USB Drive Kit so that I can use my Pioneer DVD burner on my laptop. Does anyone know if the kit works well with DVD burners? Thanks, TM

Hi! My NT 4.0 server won't start after a power cut. The message was as follows: Disk I/O Error: Status= 00001000 ...... Windows NT could not start because the following file is missing...

Im buying a new hdd within the next few days, i remember someone once benchmarking 2 ATA100's raid 0 to an ATA133 and the ATA133 came out on top, what im asking is will this be true of SATA as...

How well does it compare to other freeware or shareware diagnostics, like MemTest86 (www.memtest86.com) and Gold Memory (www.goldmemory.cz)? It's downloadable...

Hi, Is there anyway to add second hard drive to NAS 3000 from Maxtor? It has place for it, also power and free IDE-bus. Any ideas?

First of all I have to tell that I have got almost 0 experience with harddisk crashes so I prefer that any answer someone might give would be easy for newbie in these matters: I have 160gt samsung...

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Greetings, I'm currently in the market for a 4-drive SATA controller. Anyone have any especially good or bad experiences or, even better, comparisons between the 3ware 8506-4LP, Adaptec 2410SA, or...

Has anyone had any success cloning a HD on one IDE channel to a HD on another IDE channel using Drive Image 2002? I find that cloning from Master to Slave on the same IDE channel goes OK, but not...

Hello to all! I need to buy one hard-drives for a pc that will stay up 24/24h up (ok ins't a server that will run for years without stopping..but will stay up something as 24/24h for days..) and/or...

We have some DLT IV tapes that insert without problem in DLT4000 and DLT7000 drives. On one DLT7000 drive the tapes refuse to insert. The drive continually fails to load the tape and after many...