I want to set up a RAID 5 array, probably using the Highpoint 1640 SATA RAID controller and Samsung SP1614C drives: http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/SpinPointPSeries/HardDiskDrive_SpinPointPSeries_SP1614C_sp.htm http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/rr1640.htm I have tried to get...

I've got a Seagate HD which seems to have been the victim of a power surge and now the PC will not even spin the fan if it's connected. Something to do with the safety cut-out on the mainboard to stop damage. Is there any smart workaround to recover any data from this disk? As I cannot get the...

I have a Intel D845PEBT2 mobo with the on-board SATA mentioned in the subject line. One of the 2 year old Seagate Baracuda 200Gb SATA HDDs is reported as "dropped" by the Silicon Image BIOS/setup. I have been told that the only way to safely keep from losing data is to swap in a fresh HDD for...

I have a home computer with two 300gB HDD's set up as a RAID 0 / striped configuration. I set it up that way as an experiment when I built the system 6 months ago. I kind of forgot that it was an experiment and left it as RAID 0 and gradually more programs and data were installed / added. I...

I need a circuit board for a 61Gig Maxtor Model# 96147H6 HDA# 06A PCBA# 01A Unique# 11A I just need to get my data off the drive before it goes back to Maxtor. It is still under warranty and I did the Maxtor advanced RMA but I did not get the exact same model back. Now I have just under...

How do I low level format a DTLA-305020? Thx!

Hi, After a resize attempt with partition magic 6 I cannot access the data on my second drive. It had 2 parttions 1- windows (fat32) ~10mb 2- linux (mandrake) ~10mb I've used linux to delete the linux partition and then tried to resize the win partition to take the whole space.

I tried to rezise a partitioned 20G hd with partition magic 6. Right on the final steps of the loooong procedure, PM6 raised a message #50, i guess, and crashed. The drive is no longer recognized by windows and many recovery tools i´ve tried reports a sector 0 read failure. Fdisk can see it but...

Hello, I am looking for fastest raid 0 storage solution for a workstation. Is Adaptec 39320 controler + 6 Fujitsu mas 36gb 15000 rpm drives u 320 the fastest i could get or is there something else, faster? Thanks

Here's what happened. I opened the case of one of my PC's to attach a CD Burner to test it quickly. I shutdown the computer, and then attached the IDE cable and then the Molex power connector to the Burner. There was a spark as I was trying to connect the Molex as I had it lined up incorrectly (it...

I have a 200GB WD that is divided into 5 partitions. One of them has 4kb in bad clusters according to CHKDSK. Is it worth trying to run SpinRite or HDD Regenerator to fix this? Does that mean the other partitions are OK?..... A little advice here would be appreciated. The WD Diag utitlily gave...

Looking at several file backup programs and they all seem to want to backup a session into some big file with a strange file extension like a cab file. Nero backup, Microsoft Backup, etc. When you go to Restore from these, it probably works fine if your setup is the same, but if the backed up...

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...

WinXP-Home; one hard drive (80GB) with multiple partitions. My email client (The Bat!) crashed. When I reboot, I cannot access my L: drive (the mail directory). However, Partition Magic 8.01's PartitionInfo report no error on L: drive -- "No partition errors detected". However, Partition Magic...

I don't see the answer to this in the service manual for my HP Pavilion ze4430, but since I'm getting a SMART warning that the 40 GB drive is about to fail I'd like to replace it with a 60 or 100 GB drive. The manual mentions support for drives up to 60 GB, but I suspect that's because that was the...

Suppose I wish to replace a 500 GB hard disk with a 500 GB SSD. Should I use the manufacturers data migration software, or can I just use a workhorse like Clonezilla or Acronis?

I tried to install Centos 7 on an old PC that had Vista on it. But installer did not detect any disks. Drove me mad for hours. Eventually I found out this PC originally had RAID mirror on it. One of the drives shat itself, so owner carried on using one disk, just by deselecting RAID in BIOS, and...

I purchased the wrong HD for my laptop that required IDE not SATA. Product is still in anti-static bag unsealed. selling on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190188159009&ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:US:1123

IBM CLONE, XP HOME 1 HD, 1 FLOPPY, 1 CDRW. cdrw stops responding, it will not load/run any cd. I installed a new cdrw drive on IDE 2, jumpered as Master. PC takes 5 minutes to boot, says new hardware found once I get to desktop, PC/Mouse is frozen at this point. I configured as a slave and...

Can I use Symantec Ghost to clone from Dell Computer Dimension 4100 hard drive to the HP Vectra 515 hard drive? Well, I tried but it was not working? It did not boot in the HP computer. Anyway I can make this work? Thank you.