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 months. Yesterday when I started the system I got an error shown on the blue screen: "Can not load...

On 20 Jul 2003 06:21:56 -0700 (Paul Moloney) wrote: I'm thinking of picking up a new disk drive (it's amazing how quickly you can fill up 40GB) and found a few good reviews for the Deskstar GXP180 line, suggesting the drives were faster and quieter than...

La Parka wrote: Any opinions on who makes the better frame/carrier removable hard drive, Antec Dataswap or Startech? 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. They flat out stated that the system can only take up to 40gb at 5400rpm. Since the system,...

Tony Rae wrote in message ... I'll soon be receiving a Seagate 160GB serial ATA drive, to replace my older 40GB drive. The 40GB drive will still be used, for backup,downloads and install files etc. I'll be using...

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 TX2000 best meets my needs; except, I read somewhere that there is/was a compatibility issue with the...

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 needs and un-installed it (without removing shared components), my IBM thinkpad has been giving me...

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In article , Ralph Alvy writes Anyone know of a command line that will successfully mount my Fujitsu MO (1.3gb) drive on my RedHat 8 system. Something as simple as this fails: mount -t msdos /dev/sdan /mnt/mo It'd be...

Hi I'm interested in setting up a Hard disk test/diagnostic work bench for Hard disks from the pc Windows world. (I'd also be interested to hear of similar solutions for other operating systems) Any suggestions solutions? Thanks

hi. my ~10.8 GB Seagate SCSI drive has died. i've asked friends about finding a cheap, reliable data recovery service, but they often tell me: "just find an identical drive and swap the electronics." now my questions to you: 1) can this swapping operation be performed on an ST410800N? the...

If one implements RAID 0 with an adapter card (such as ones offered by Promise Technology), can normal defrag utilities be used to defrag the 2 hard disks which comprise the "striped" RAID system? TimmyDan

The CDROM on my Toshiba Techra 8000 Laptop has stopped functioning. No Lights, tray won't open. WIN98SE Device MGR, not showing CDROM. but do see PRI and SEC IDE Hcontrollers and both are "WORKING PROPERLY". The internal HD is OK too. Does this mean the CDROM's Controller is OK and only the CDROM...

I'm in a pickle and pretty desperate here..will buy two if you have 'em. No one, and I mean NO ONE stocks these cables. Need for an install tonight, will pay. Email me if this is possible. Bought two OEM drives and have one cable, need to set up a raid array. Not one store stocks these in all...

I have a laptop with XP and a desktop with Win2K. Is it possible to transfer data from the desktop to the laptop by connecting a cord between the two network cards? I do not have a CD-RW, nor do I have a serial cable, so I think using the network cards is my only option?

I have a Quantum 30Gb 7200rpm ATA100 that stopped working. It had never exibited any grinding noises, and scandisk (last performed 1 week ago) never returned any errors. The PC was powered down Saturday night without any signs of trouble, but Sunday morning it wouldn't POST. BIOS doesn't see the...

Hi I'm looking for an external enclosure for a standard IDE hard drive that allows a quick an easy way of inserting and removing the drive. Ive just found a neat piece of kit which allows any standard IDE drive (HDD, CD, DVD) to be used externally via a USB port. So the only thing I'm after now...

I've been attempting to install a couple of WD Raptor 36G drives in a RAID 0 array, and get stopped every time. I've got an Intel MOBO with Serial ATA RAID built-on the board (Silicon Image) I've got the drives connected, they're recognized by the MOBO, and I can configure the array. The...

Additional follow up: server hangs up after uptime of about 30-40 minutes. System image has been installed from default install. Version 1.2 With best regards, Andrew Khanoff. E-mail:

Hello, When I boot my system, I sometimes get a message that some files are corrupt and that I need to restore them by running a repair XP setup. I did repair the XP installation and I still get the same problem. Sometimes, when the system boots ok, I get I/O erors. My hard disk is dying and I...