I am looking for a bigger SCSI Hard Drive for upgrade. After researching EBay, Yahoo Stores and Pricewatch carefully, it is my observation that although Maxtor is cheaper than Seagate, its warranty service is a mess. Most drives in the market are OEMs. If I need service, I can only return to the...

Hello. A friend is having issues with his XP Home SP2 system (fairly new HP with Athlon 2.4GHz) after adding a second hard drive and installing Win98SE on the new drive. My research indicates that possibly the OS boot sector on the orginal drive has been rewritten due to the install of Win98SE on...

Hi, I need the ability to boot to multiple kernels or OS's from a USB drive without having to install anything on a system's primary fixed HDD. In other words, as a technician, I need the ability to walk up to a powered-off PC, insert a USB key, power up the PC, and be presented with a selectable...

Hello. I haven't been to this group in a while, work has been so crazy. But now I need some help. My son's computer just started the following weird behavior. It boot and goes right into the boot menu with safe boot, last good config, etc. Whatever you pick, it just reboots and comes back to the...

I have encountered several times lately the boot-time error message "A Disk Read Error Occured". Does anyone know the source of this error, i.e. is it the BIOS, or is it the IDE's boot code? -- Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over. - Frank Zappa

I'm trying to decide between Ghost 10 or Trueimage 9 for a client and wanted to find out if someone knew how long it takes to backup onto another computer over the network. I'm assuming a 60gig drive, compressing down to 40gig. I'm assuming at least 10mbps through a wired connection. Thanks, Pete

I have an IBM IC35L120 HDD, set up as slave on IDE2, running Windows XP SP2. I have an Asus A7V333 mobo. All was well until yesterday when my system slowed then ground to a halt. I rebooted and then did not have the drive available to me in My Computer. The drive shows up in Device Manager with...

Hi everyone, I need advice for building a case to hold all my IDE drives. I have about 12 hard drives in external enclosures. To make space and save power outlets I think it would be better to buy a computer case dedicated to hold and store the hard drives. I will put about 7 hard drives inside...

This week (Apr 23 - Apr 29) Circuit City is offering a Seagate ST310011ARK (100GB, 7200 RPM, 2MB cache, PATA) HDD for $40 after rebate. The ST310011ARK is a 7200.7 model. This seems like it might be useful as a second HDD for my six year old Dell Dimension 4100. I'm interested in downloading the...

I'm considering getting an external enclosure to use an internal drive externally, or maybe even just an IDE to USB cable + power adapter. I'm wondering about the effect on the drive's longevity of plugging the thing directly into a surge protector.

Yesterday on my XP pc, the 100 GB Maxtor HDD (made in 2003) suddenly began required many accesses to do a simple display directory. Over a very few minutes the drive went from instant response to 10-20 seconds of clicking to do same dir list. Then while trying to list files, gave message "Drive F...

Hello How to make a HDD SMART report a malfunction to me in my Windows XP Pro SP2?

A while back I bought a 80GB SATA HDD, an upgrade from 40GB PATA. Now Windows will start to load hang and then go ahead and load. The problem occurse when the "loading windows" screen starts to fade in. It will fade in 50% hang for about ten seconds then continue on. I have ran fixmbr and checked...

Environment - Win2K, Dell P4, Drive 0 = 40Gb, Drive 1 = 160GB, NTFS Situation - chkdsk indicated index problems which it fixed, but I want to ensure that there aren't other problems in the offing When I run Spinrite, it 'sees' the drives, but in the entry for the 160GB drive it warns that the...

I purchased an Adaptec 1420SA RAID0/1 card (SATA2) and a pair of WD1600JS drives (also SATA2). After many problems I have found out that the JS series drives are INCOMPATIBLE with RAID in general, due to the lack of a feature called TLER (Time Limited Error Recovery). The symptom is that the...

I tested a new USB external hard drive with Partition Magic's Partition Info tool, and it reported that "Error #108. Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary ucEndHead expected to be 254, not 239". What's this mean? And should I return the drive. Its is a rather noisy too.

I have an image of a hard disc in raw format (1:1 copy of all sectors in a single file, created with /bin/dd, no header, no compression). Does Ghost support image files like this ? What about Acronis TrueImage or other programs ? Is there a program that can convert this file to some other...

My mom's Seagate ST38421A died after my sister's kids installed a game on her computer (I do not think the kids caused the problem, however.) The HD was factory installed into a Compaq 5441, and my attempt to diagnose the problem is the first time that anyone has touched the innards of the PC...

Hi, I have formatted my hard drive so that there are about 5 32GB FAT32 paritions and the rest (around 100 GB) as NTFS, in order to be able to work with both PC and Mac. Now my computer doesn't even see my hard drive, let alone recognize it. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Noa

Your opinions please! Which is faster: (6) U320 15K drives in a RAID 10 array, attached to a PCI-X controller. or (6) SATA-300 10K drives in a RAID 10 array, attached to a PCI-E controller.