Hi all, Yesterday night, my Windows 7 started a disk defragmentation (Windows 7 defaultly scheduled a disk defrag once a week). Unfortunately, the Murphy's law was verified once again : the defrag started at 1:00 AM and my house had a general power failure at 1:10 AM in the middle of the C:\...

(Crossposted, please feel free to trim group) Are the following Solid-State Disk drive tweaks for Windows XP legitimate and significant? Anything else? Disable AHCI in both Windows and in the BIOS. Make sure write caching for the SSD is enabled. Change the Windows registry.

I've got this WD 500 gb Firewire external My Book drive I've been using to store mostly video files for a big video project. It doesn't have an on/off switch, it powers up when power is first applied, goes dormant after a period of inactivity and restarts when you try to access it. It's worked...

Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage, 24hoursupport.helpdesk Hi Friends Here is a strange problem, when I connect my hard disk using the 80 wire cable my computer does not recognize it. It happened this way. I had to check another hard disk and so I swapped the disks (IDE0) and found it...

I purchased a Maxtor 250g which includes their ATA133 PCI board. The question is since my MB supports ATA100 is there much of a performance if I don't use the Maxtor board? The new drive will be installed as "D" since some of my software installed on "C" is registered and references to something on...

A friend of mine had an WD My Book external case, which contained a 500GB WDC WD5000AAVS-00ZTB0 hard drive inside it. At some point along the way the My Book's interface failed, it's warranty was expired, and so we took its hard drive out and installed it directly inside his PC case. This was back...

Hello guys I have a satellite receiver with built-in plug to connect a SATA hdd: The plug is female and of course transmits both data/power supply. Now, I wonder if there is some adapter to connect an IDE hdd instead. I would avoid spending money for a SATA, as I have a number of IDE hdds.

A friend of mine has a desktop running Windows 7 Ultimate x64. In it, there is a 1TB spanned volume consisting of 3 disks: (1) 200GB, (2) 300GB, & (3) 500GB. The middle disk, disk #2, suffered a temporary communications failure, and disappeared from the volume all of a sudden. After the reboot,...

Because that wears out the SSD quickly, and it is better to put it on a slow HDD. If so, then how do computer (especially laptop/notebook) users with only a SSD (not hybrids with HDDs) do this? I assume Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux follow this rule? Currently, I have a Debian stable box that...

Hi Guys, I am thinking about backing up our 7 PC workgroup. We dont have a server or a domain controller, but we do have a spare PC which can host the backup device. I think at this stage it would be sufficent to backup everthing under Documents N Settings on each XP PC. I was looking at using...

What wears out in an HDD? Is it only the tone arm that breaks? or can the bearings the platter rides on break??? Good watches use jewels, rubies, as bearings; and cheap watches use metal. What do hard drives use? I googled but couldn't find much about this. Does the spindle really ride on...

I used Diskeeper 8 and it seemed to do a better job than the original defragmenter in Win2k. I read someone using Perfect Disk. Any other recommendations? And what are some other utilities to keep your hard drives working well? Does error checking in Windows make any difference? Does it really...

I just used BootItNG to resize the 2 NTFS partitions on my hard disk. I was increasing the size of the C drive, so I had to shrink the D drive and slide it down to the end of the disk. When I did the slide operation, I told it to slide everything including the unused areas. I ended up getting an...

I bought an HD PVR and they use a SATA port to connect an external HDD instead of USB for extra storage space. I have 5 external USB HDDs and would rather use one of those than having to buy a new external SATA HDD. I looked on NCIX for such a converter and can't find one. Is there such a...

I have had many different HDDs in my computers for the last 10 years, and never suffered any hdd death or loss of data. Maybe I was just lucky. I haven't been too worried about being at the bleeding edge of access times and sustained transfer speeds, and I have tried P-ATA RAID0 with various...

I've read that it's best to set up RAID with identical disks (same brand and model). I've got a Samsung SP1213N hard drive which I got 21 months ago, and now I want to set up RAID 1 on my machine. So I'll need to get another Samsung SP1213N. But I know that sometimes manufacturers will make...

I have not been keeping a close watch on the price of IDE hard disks here in the UK but I took a look at prices recently and they seem to have fallen a lot. I know it's all "faster and cheaper" with a lot of computer equipment but it seems that HDDs have really taken a big drop. I am looking at...

I am running XP Pro. I am looking for a product that will do the following: 1) Be able to create a complete and total (including hidden files, open files, Registry, OE info, etc) backup of my OS partition from within XP Pro on to an external USB 2.0 disk, seamlessly and without multiple drops...

I want to use a slave hard drive occasionally as a Drive Image backup disk. I don't like the idea of the backup hard drive always being powered on because hard drives are rated for a certain number of on/off cycles. Can I just unplug the power cable and leave the flat ribbon cable connected when...

A friend gave me a 5 1/4 inch floppy that she wants to retrieve some data from. It has a reinforcing ring around the center hole. That means it's low density, right? 360KB per disk, right? Another friend tells me that newer HD drives will not read LD disks**. That I have to find a LD drive. ...