I've had to RMA more than half the drives I purchased in the past 3 years, but this is my first Seagate RMA experience. Are all HD makers this inefficient now? 14 Oct - Priority Mailed per RMA...

Hi, I have an old "Computer Connections Shuttle" drive. They don't make them any longer as far as I know. It's a box in which you install a regular 3.5 inch HDD, which is then connected to the PC...

Anyone know what would cause this loud buzzing from what SEEMS to be the hard drive area under my hand rest just in front of the keyboard? It seems to sound like the arm buzzing over the disc...

Hello Unluckly after have turned on pc..... it show the messagge "error loading operating system" ??? what it's the cause of this msg of error? It's the mbr? if so, as some have had advised to me i...

I have problem mounting a IDE drive(60GB) being attached to a IDE to USB enclosure. The system seems to know the existence of the HD when I turn on the enclosure. I can see the model of the drive...

I have a Windows 2000 PC using FAT32 at the latest patch level. Now I have added a Firewire enclosure with a 160GB Maxtor drive and the PC recognises the drive as 160GB (It was formatted FAT32 in...

Using win2k, I'm getting a scewball display on the stock defragmenter program. I copied a lot of files onto a new logical drive and when I defragmented the drive, the green win2k system files for...

I'm hoping someone can help me out here. I'm looking to upgrade my parents computer for them as it is currently a 500Mhz P3 with 128MB RAM running XP. My question lies in getting them a new CPU. ...

My Maxtor DiamondMax 40GB now gives me a SMART warning, so I am looking for a replacement. I want to upgrade to a 80GB. I bought today a Western Digital WD800JB 80GB 8Meg buffer, only to find that it...

Please help - I have a ST318436LW Ultra 160 connected to a AHA29160 and I get really poor performance in Windows XP. Right now the drive is set up not as the boot drive but is the only one connected...

Have NTFS partitions on a 4GB IDE drive on NT 4.0 Server, spack 6a, that need cloning for backup. PowerQuest's DeployCenter 5.0 returns Error 128, as if to say the hard drives were prepared with...

Remember an article :- http://www.dansdata.com/rcables.htm put me off round cables for life but anyone know of some shielded round cables that will do the job ?

Hi all, this may be a basic SCSI/RAID question or an adapter specific one - - I'm not sure which. The general question is, is it possible to have a hot spare (failover) drive that functions across...

100MB/s for each ATA channel and 150MB/s for each sATA port. Nobody has tryed measuring totals when using more than two at once. "@drian" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in...

I've got a pretty badly damaged harddrive which I can't salvage anything off or even reformat or zeroise. I can see it in BIOS, POST and System devices, but it's unaccessible beyond that. It's under...

Hi we had a crash of our xp home system. It refused to boot and a repair installation wouldn't work. So I booted the repair console and checked the XP guide on my laptop. Using 'map' showed for the c...

I wanted a job to be undone on a IBM drive, but I forgot that some hours before I replaced that drive with another one (WD)! So I did it launching NDD from dos and reading the "undo" file from a...

Hi folks. Want to copy some files off a failing laptop HDD. I've got the HDD out of the laptop and I've got the necessary cable adapter to connect the laptop HDD to the IDE ribbon connector of my...

Hello List, I was searching for a two days for a solution but my knowledge is to little to be suer so I would be happy for a advice two years ago i install a boot manger , i like it because...

Does anyone make a CD burner with a magazine for 100 or so blanks, that you plug into your PC, queue up a bunch of files to be burned to upto 100 different CDs, and let it do its thing? There are...