Hi, I am transferring an old hard disk (20 Gbyte Maxtor D740X) from an old PC to a newer one (Dell Dimension 3000). On the old machine the disk was the boot drive, and so was configured as the Master device. On the newer machine it will be a Slave device. I have the "Jumper, CHS, and Install...

Hi there, I have recently suffered a master hard drive failure. I cant pay $700+ for data recovery and I know that the data still exists on the platters. I have discovered that if I don't get the right criteria for a donor PCB board then the drive will not work. My specs, and a few...

I have 9 USB hard drives, used for storing videos and backup of PCs. All of them were rarely used more than twice a week. Recently 2 have failed. A Verbatim showed SMART errors. Fortunately, I was able to copy the data and scrap it. Worse is a WD My ****pot: the USB interface is kaput, so I can't...

I need a new cheap hard disk (not SSD) for my old desktop PC. The broken drive was a MAXTOR STM380211AS (80 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II) on mainboard Asus P5L-VM 1394 To be sure about compatibility I want to check the following. Are SATA-II and SATA-III interchangeable?

Enjoy. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-data-feb2015/ (H/T Josh Centers at TidBITS.)

"The SSD Endurance Experiment: They're all dead" http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead Why did Intel brick the 335? Lynn

"Backing Up for Small Business" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backing-up-for-small-business/ "Here’s another sobering statistic: Lots of businesses never backup their data. One-third, according to one recent survey. Talk about flying without a net! What’s worse, almost half of all...

Why is the cheapest WD 8 TB bare drive on Big River $303 ? https://www.amazon.com/Red-8TB-Hard-Disk-Drive/dp/B01BYLY4DM/ Do I need to buy an WD 8 TB external drive for $225 and remove the bare drive from it ? ...

You can now buy a 12 Tb drive for $604: https://www.amazon.com/Gold-12TB-Enterprise-Class-Drive/dp/B075L6FJH8/ Amazing ! Lynn

I have a SATA drive I got out of and older laptop running vista. I attached it to a USB/ATA/SATA bridge. It had a blue titled text HP recovery partition made obviously by vista installer CD and another partition whose title is in black text. First off I reformatted the partitions to wipe the old...

Ahoy mateys! Do SSDs make any heat like old fashion hard disk drives (HDDs)? I noticed my Corsair Force Series F115 Solid-State Disk (SSD) (CSSD-F115GB2-BRKT-A) SSD was not even warm/hot like my old PATA/IDE Barracuda 7200.7 (ST380011A; 7200 RPM) HDD above it. It was over 80F degrees in my...

I need a good Windows XP freeware program to inspect my 2tb SATA hard drive. Computer Management says that it has a 232.88 gb partition which is healthy and active but when I try to explore it Windows says that it is not formatted. I think the partition has files on it from my Tivx DVR. I would...

My Windows 2000 pro installation has gone bad so I am booting from a Win98 boot disk into dos. I can see my C drive, but not my other rather large (100 gig) hard drive (E:). I am thinking that my Win98 boot disk needs a device driver for my Ultra66 (Promise Tech) controller? I have downloaded...

Specifically I consider getting the Barracuda 80GB with either 2MB or 8MB - does it really make a difference? If so, for what type of operations is it really noticable?

Hoping someone can help me out here. I'm finally upgrading my computer system and trying to put together the new one on paper before ordering. The computer will be used mainly for graphics work and home office stuff. I know that I've decided on SATA for the hard drive (or drives) but I'm...

I want to reconfigure my Master/Slave devices but the 40/80 ribbon cable connections wont span from the 3.5" bays to the 5.5" bays as I need them to do what I want. Do they commonly make longer ribbon cables, longer between the master and slave connections? Is this something you can pick...

I have been looking for an HD LED cable to connect my controller card to my motherboard but it seems like nobody carries them. Does anybody know where I can find some? Thanks joe

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" wrote in message ... I'll ask my 2 questions at the top in case people don't want to read the details: #1. Is it bad to use a 40-pin standard EIDE cable for a 16x DVD-ROM and 48x CD...

Am trying to find the answer to a simple question. Or some help. I have a laptop with one drive. Partitioned as "C:" and "D:". When I boot my 2002 ghost from a floppy I can select "C" as the partition I want to image but when the screen goes to the destination only the floppy "A" drive is listed....