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I'm interested both in the "pre-packaged" drives and those which the user can put in a shell kit. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------ "Today's problems were yesterday's...

Do you think a USB 2.0 flash drive would be fast enough that it could be treated as a removable hard disk? It would be a replacement for a dying SCSI Jaz drive. (I don't expect it to be as fast as a...

Hi: I've upgraded my machine and take an hard drive from an old machine with info I need on it and installed in the new XP Machine. Windows Explorer does not see the drive. I understand I have to...

I just took a Maxtor 120GB drive (one of the first Diamond 5400 RPM drives from them) that I wasn't using and added it to my system as a second drive, formatted with NTFS under WinXP Pro w/SP1 and...

You dont say what OS is involved. If its XP it can get seriously confused if it can see the original and the clone during the first boot after the copy. The trick is to physically disconnect the 40GB...

I will be installing WXP Pro Sp1 (slipstreamed) on a RAID 0 with a 160Gb capacity. Will windows see the entire drive capacity or only a portion of it?

On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 13:46:04 GMT "Someone" <someone@somewhere.com> wrote: Western Digital does not put "Dell" labels on drives they sell to Dell. Nonetheless they do keep a record of which drives...

My current C drive is 80GB. I want to upgrade it to a 160GB drive. Can I do a simple copy of everything on this drive to a 160GB drive THEN replace the 80GB with the 160GB as drive C? Will Windows XP...

I have a Seagate ST328040A 28.5 GByte disk drive which has crashed. It doesn't seem to power up. Just dead! I was thinking of buying an exact replacement (ST328040A) and swap parts to retrieve...

I'm using an IBM ThinkPad laptop running Win2k Pro; 32GB primary drive with about 7 GB used. I'm looking for a good backup solution and have considered the following 2 options: 1) IBM portable 20 GB...

Hello all, I've been reading this newsgroup for about five minutes now, and I already know that there is strong feeling about the quality of IBM Deskstars (or lack thereof). So I can imagine what...

I am currently working on a device that shall sit on an IDE bus, between the host and drives, where it shall do some specific tasks, and: - There will be a delay through the circuit, maybe as much...

Have a 120 GB 3.5 inch Maxtor presently hooked to a USB 1.1 which I want to use as backup between Laptop and other desktop PC's. Maxtor diagnostics that work from DOS cannot see HDD on USB from...

Hi, If a ML370 G2 or G3 has been set-up with 4 drives as a RAID 5 configuration and no other disks are in the server is it possible to add two new disks and configure them as part of the RAID 5 - or...

I have installed two Western Digital Raptor 36GB drives on a test machine. They connected via Serial ATA cables to an Intel 875PBZ motherboard. Intel RAID is enabled. I have setup a RAID 0 array...

If you have a given sector, say 5000th sector (logical), how can you get the physical location in: platters, tracks and sectors?

"The errors vary from Kernal_Mode_Exception, Session 3 Initialisation Error, Session 5 Initialistaion Error, C00randomnumberhere Hard Error it will sometimes go through a chkdsk and report errors...

I'm new to RAID and a lot confused. I just need a SCSI-RAID controller that duplicates every single byte from one disk to another, boot and system volumes included. I've read that RAID 1 actually...