ISTR a review which said that Western Digital's WD3200KS has sockets for both SATA or PATA. Is this correct? The WD website seems to discuss WD3200KS as only a SATA drive. http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=196&language=en

Hi Ive just ordered a new 250Gb drive (eek!) Does Win XP require any drivers or updates to cope? I have a 6 month old MSI K7N2 motherboard so I'm pretty sure the BIOS should be OK with it. Is there anything else you think I need to know or do?

I've a P5VD2-X mobo with OS caddy. 64 bit XP Pro, eSATA off SATA mobo header hot swaps. 32 bit XP Pro, same PC, eSATA off same SATA mobo header doesn't hot swap. So obviously the mobo supports hot swapping.

A cautionary tale: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/04/caveat-emptor-smr-disks-are-being-submarined-into-unexpected-channels/ Buyer beware~that 2TB-6TB "NAS" drive you've been eyeing might be SMR Hard drives were already bad at random access I/O~but SMR disks are worse.

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Don't trust Western Digital's rebate offers. For the second time in a few monnths I've had a rebate denied. The latest, they claim I didn't submit the bar code. I've got the package sitting here next to me with a big chunk cut out of it where the bar code was, and I was meticulous in taping the...

I have a rather old compaq deskpro, 647mhz intel processor running XP (without any boot diskettes) , i have had a 10 gig hdd since i bought the computer fer a tenner, a year ago, and i put a 4 gig slave drive in it. Now i know these are small drives, but I have just bought an 80 gig maxtor hdd, and...

I have a home server with several partitions. One of them is on the primary disk and formated fat32. when I boot from my ghost 2003 cd, I can see that partiton. The ghost cd boots to some flavor of DOS and sets up usb drivers for my external hd for recovery. it works great, but Ideally I would...

Hi, Has anyone successfully used a Cruzer (SDCZ1) with DOS? And how, of course. I've been able to use a JumpDrive (Lexar) with DOS; but not the Cruzer. Thanks.

Does a DVD-RAM driver for DOS/FAT32 exist for the Panasonic ATAPI SW-9572 drive? I would like to mount the DVD-RAM to use Ghost from DOS. Mine did not come with any DOS driver, though it came with lots of Windows software.

This page has information and links to all the USB drivers for DOS - Cypress duse, Panasonic, Iomega: http://newdos.yginfo.net/usbdos.htm

fat hdd with bad mbr needs to backed up to flash but most of Hirens recovery tools do not see flash at all, so any ideas wellcome.Booting with Dr Dos boot cd enables usb flash access but is that going to help the aforementioned apps, or app has to be written-programmed to support usb drive?

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Hi! Got a 60gb Maxtor drive which has been working perfectly well as the boot drive in my last system. It's now mounted as secondary master on an Asus A7N8X-Deluxe/Athlon XP3000/1gb Crucial RAM system which has a Maxtor 120gb serial ATA drive as the boot drive. I really want to use the 60gb drive...

I have a program which needs to be written on a 720KD 3.5" Floppy with qrst5 in order to work. I ordered some such floppies, but am in a hurry and would rather do a software fix. Any tricks for reading such an image so I can get to work? - = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan,...

Hi, I have XP Pro and for some reason the thing locked up whilst I was transferring files to drive:H I fixed the crash which was a corrupted GeForce Display file but now notice my 3rd HD (DRive H:) shows no name and tells me it is unformatted. I have checked with a Recovery tool and it tells me...

Hi I just got an old IDE zip 100 drive. On the back, it's label for the jumpers is split into 2 boxes, labelled "Not Drive A" and "Drive A". Each box shows three different jumper settings for how to set the drive to slave/master/cable. So in other words, there's six jumper settings on the back. ...

Hi all, I have recently installed 2 new drives to create a RAID 0 setup. Since doing so I hear this "throbbing" sound and am pretty sure its caused by the two drives spinning at slightly different speeds creating a beat frequency... (correct me if I am wrong) I have moved the disks about the...

Had an IBM Travelstar 20GB from a Dell laptop I was recovering data from. Initial tests showed bad sectors and it would intermittently show Primary hard disk drive 0 not found message on boot up. After looking at it connected with a USB enclosure, it was severely fragmented, and after deleting...