I'm trying to get an oldish system up and running to put Linux on and am having some problems with the HD detection. It's a Fujitsu MPC3043AT 4.3GB drive and the Award BIOS dated 10/13/1998 detects...

Li'l ol' me <richie42@***SPAMOFF**eidosnet.co.uk> wrote in message news:be1nc9$r49$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk... They do mostly have the same jumpering alternatives as a 3.5" drive, master/slave/cable...

Hello, I need the precomp for a samsung HD model SV0432A which on its label says: cyl 8912 HD 15 SEC 63 Size 4.3GB

intrepid_dw@hotmail.com (David Whitney) wrote: To find the parameters with which the drive was configured, do as follows: Set the drive type as AUTO and LBA mode. Download RESQ from...

Isnt it on the drive? and if not on the drive look at the tech sheet for the drive on the manufacturers website. "David Whitney" <intrepid_dw@hotmail.com> wrote in...

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 08:47:51 +0800 "Nocturnal" <nocturnally SpAm sPaM @iprimus.com.au> wrote: I have 40 meg drives that still work fine. In general they'll be running long after they have ceased to...

I bought IBM Deskstar 180GXP hard drive and installed it as a slave drive. I finished formatting the new drive using Disk Management tool (Windows XP). Here, I can only see 128 GB of space instead of...

I have a raid card installed in my system, Now, I want to add 2 hard drives to it, but I don't want them in any configuration, I want to use them as 2 seperate drives (as if they were on a primary or...

Piotr ne <piotrn12e@poczta.onet.pl> wrote in message news:bdvlds$dpl$1@news.polbox.pl... Yes, its one of the most common ways for a hard drive to fail. Yes, you may well be able to swap the logic...

From Partition Magic, I can see Western Digial 120GB = 114470MB Iomega 120GB = 117796MB Maxtor 160GB = 131069MB I don't understand how they calculate the size but it should be only called like...

is smartdisk accurate in telling me of pending drive faluire? -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Are you still wasting your time with spam?... There is a...

I have just bought used a P4 Socket 423 motherboard, which came without the fan clips; it has the retention brackets (the plasticy bits). I'd like to find any (UK preferably) place that sells...

I have 4 hard drives attached to a Promise PCI card: A couple of 120 WD's, an 80 Maxtor, and a new WD 200. On the ATA I have a 100 WD and for the boot drive a 40 WD. The other ATA spaces went for a...

Hi I'm thinking of upgrading to a 200Gb (8mb buffer) Western Digital drive. Is there any special preparation I need to do in Win XP Pro before fitting it to cope with such a large drive. The mobo...

Hi All, Yes, this is the infamous Award BIOS 32GB limit bug. All 05/1999 and earlier Award BIOSes have this limit. I can send you a patched M5ATA BIOS where this limit is fixed. Please send me an...

Ok, I have ran fdisk to partition IBM deskstar 40gb drive all goes ok , reboot then partitions are lost. drive used to work. Then one day all partitions where lost. Is this drive DEAD or can i...

Hello all, I'm running a fairly new system with an IBM Deskstar 180GXP (8MB cache), P4 3.06GHz, 1 GB dual-channel DDR, Asus P4C800 Deluxe, Koolance water-cooled case. The problem I've been...

hi, i am running win2k and have a 40gb hardrive with a error in the NTFS Index (error in Index $130 for file 9272) when windows boots up, chkdsk starts and scans the drive, it finds the problem,...

I just upgrade my 40gig Western Digital drive to a 180gig Western Digital drive, and I am quite sure that it runs, physically speaking, at least twice as "hot" as the 40gig drive. It's *not* so hot...

Hi! I have one main HD, and one secondary HD that I wish to use for backups. However in order to keep the noise and heat level down, I don't want the secondary HD to be turned on other than at the...