I'm looking for a decent Firewire enclosure for a 7200rpm IDE hard disk. The enclosure needs to have dual 1394 ports so it can be daisy-chained. I gather a 5.25" form factor box is a good idea for...

hi, After upgraded BIOS to ver. C03 and running dell diagnostics, diag reports bad sector 0. when i opened the computer the HD was a IBM OEM DLGA 23080 made for apple! it says Internal HDD firmware...

Don't know about Ghost, DriveImage can, HARDWARE RAID that is. -- Joep "Timothy Daniels" <TDaniels@NoSpamDot.com> wrote in message news:ZAidnSphL5Xkfb2iXTWJjw@comcast.com...

Anyone knows the noise levels on the lates S-ATA disks from Maxtor, WD and Seagate?? Want the most quiet one. :-)

Data loss, data rate slower. "Scott" <Scott@post.any.replies> wrote in message news:3f265ec4.504866159@news.west.cox.net...

I am currently running a full cab full of NetApp, but am looking for a new solution for a new project. Ideally, I would like a commercial IDE RAID NAS with Linux/Windows support. It must be able to...

i downloaded the program powermax from maxtor.com to fix my hdd bad sectors. it worked. but what im interested is that how does it fixes them?? isnt bad sectors physical problems on hdd?? and i don't...

If you have any interest, let me know and I will get you a list over. Its all NEW from UK Distribution, so full warranty is in place. Simon

I recently got a Napa PA24 USB pen drive/mp3 player. When I copy mp3 files to it either by dragging and dropping from Windows Explorer or using xcopy in a DOS box, when the mp3s are played back they...

Previously Scott <Scott@post.any.replies> wrote: It is o.k.. 40 pin cables will slows some devices down (usually HDDs), but they do not influence whether error checking is used on the bus or...

On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 23:22:51 GMT Scott@post.any.replies (Scott) wrote: The 80-wire cables are needed for ATA-66 and higher. They have no discernible benefit (despite hype you will hear to the...

On 27 Jul 2003 02:30:08 -0700 nymphetamine@aol.com (Nymphetamine) wrote: If you have a lot of small files then you may have a lot of partially used sectors--generally the reporting of space used is...

My system is a Win 2000 Server. I have an IBM drive as the primary master drive and a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 120GB as the primary slave drive. This configuration has been working for the past 4...

On 20 Jul 2003 06:21:56 -0700 paul_moloney@hotmail.com (Paul Moloney) wrote: If you search Google Groups on "Deskstar" you'll find numerous tales of woe. Personally I've never had a problem with a...

La Parka wrote: I had bad luck with removerble drive caddies, it do nto matter which ones I used, they all gave me problems. My mate got some for me, so he could bring his drive over, so he...

I replaced a 3.1 GB HD in an Emachine 566i with an ulta ata WD 120gb HD 7200rpm. Installed XP on it and it worked fine for about two weeks. Today it gave me the BSOD and I contacted e-machines. ...

Tony Rae <antonyrae@optushome.com.au> wrote in message news:63v4ivgiqvpes1tmvfkrkm2onpehrhga9k@4ax.com... Nope, not if you plan to run a single OS on it. The main exception would be if you want to...

I need some advise from someone that has experience with the low-end Promise RAID controllers. I want to install a 2 drive RAID 1 setup in my home PC. After some research it seems that the Promise...

In article <bfops9$77a$1@ngspool-d02.news.aol.com>, Ralph Alvy <ralvy@compuserve.com> writes It'd be easier to help if you told us what error message you're getting! Have you tried 'mount -t auto...

Hi Had a hard drive crash with my IBM Thinkpad T21 Laptop. It may have been caused by having installed a piece of software meant for Windows XP. After I realize that the software does not meet my...