I have just purchased a new Western Digital 80gb hard drive, I get it home, install it as master, run FDISK, and can only achieve 10gb. I have a PIII700, Bios detects the hard drive as 80gb. I have...

Hello to all i need to choose for some hd (not ibm maxtor, but all other productors) it's easy to find a complete chart with all indicative performances number.... but it's not for a chart with...

Hello, as I wrote a few ago, my 17 months old Maxtor D540X-4K 60GB suddenly refused to work - simply stopped and even is not recognized by BIOS. I have bought an indentical HDD (with some bad...

Hi! I am trying to create a ghost image of a Windows 2000 Profession edition hardrive containing VMWare software onto a Win2K Server using remote client install. However, when I try to install the...

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 19:21:21 +0100 "John Smith" <tawse57NOSPAM@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote: I've got two Samsungs in my Tivo--they seem to be just a hair louder than the Seagates in my PC. I have...

It may just be a firmware difference, but WD uses the same model number, sometimes for drives of different physical characteristics (different number of discs, etc.). "anon"...

Sure, why not? If it wise to do so remains to be seen though. Are you serious? -- Joep

My PC running Win XP has an option in power management to turn the hard disks off after "X" number of minutes of inactivity. Is this a good thing to do or not. Thanks for any comments. RD

Oddly enough, a comparison review appeared a few days ago: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1175844,00.asp (between the Raptor and a SATA version of the 200 GB Diamond Max Plus...

What are some brands of recommended external USB hard drive enclosures, hopefully not too expensive, that have a fan? Thanks. RD

"Hiawatha Bray" <watha@monitortan.com> wrote in message news:5p3Oa.31538$U23.29946@nwrdny01.gnilink.net... BVasically want to add the same as Rod, but want to underline his last words. There was not...

They are pricing it the same as the cheapest SCSI 10K counterpart. They have to use the same components as SCSI to get the lower seek time. 10K IDE may get cheaper over time. However, I think 2½"...

On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 17:25:37 +0100 "John Smith" <tawse57NOSPAM@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote: Not for a 10,000 RPM 36 gig drive. -- --

You need the same FW Rev thats for sure ;O). If you cannot get the firmware rev from the identify command you should get the same DCM .... Good luck "anon" <recyclecomputer@@&hotmail.com>...

I have a WD drive in an ADS enclosure. Is it harmful to the hard drive to shut down and power it back up often (couple times a day) or should I leave it up and running as long as the PC is up? The...

Hiawatha Bray <watha@monitortan.com> wrote in message news:5p3Oa.31538$U23.29946@nwrdny01.gnilink.net... Not so much 'overburdened' as just not configured properly. Nope.

I just purchased an ADS dual link drive kit (usb & firewire connectors). I have found that I cannot have this drive kit plugged in at the same time as my hp 300e dvd writer if both are using usb...

"Barry OGrady" <god_fre_jones@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:qfeggv0i6pb94ltsst0fop3qdmpvkq73o9@4ax.com... Clueless.

"Li'l ol' me" <richie42@***SPAMOFF**eidosnet.co.uk> wrote in message news:be9avh$ltf$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk... Thanks for your replies so far guys. While you're all still around....hello?...

A newly referred customer (as opposed to someone who's been exposed my repeated exhortations to back up all data religiously) just brought me a Maxtor Romulus 60 GB drive which has unbacked-up...