I was told I may be able to put the hard drive from my Compaq Presario laptop into a Dell laptop. Does this sound right? Is the architecture similar in laptop hard drives as it is in desktops? Thanks Brian

Hello, We've got a couple MSI 955x Platinum motherboards that we're using for a couple workgroup servers running windows server 2003. The Msi 955x has 4 sata II ports running off the ICH74 chipset and 2 more connected to the SiI 3132. Ideally, we'd have all 4 channels on the ICH7R configured in...

I have a Toshiba MK3021GAS 30GB Laptop Hard Drive which has been in my laptop for a long time (4 years). Recently, after I did a hard reset, Windows XP failed to boot off of it. Gave me an 0x0000ED error (UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME error). I tried booting Windows Recovery disk but checkdisk said it...

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 18:36:35 +0100, "Jaime" wrote: I just got a long cable and want to connect 2 drives that are far appart with one being close to the motherboard. Do I have to plug the master into the connector marked master etc.. or can I plug the farthest drive on...

Well, here they are, granted, in back order: http://snurl.com/2sp3 Looks like whoever said they would be around $300 is correct. @drian.

Does the bridge chip installed on Maxtor, WD and IBM/Hitachi SATA drives affect performance significantly? I didn't realize that these makes of drives didn't natively support Serial ATA. As I believe, only Seagate does. @drian.

Anyone know of a good-to-deal-with online vendor that sells quality rounded SCSI cables? Thank you. @drian.

Recently as some may have read, I have been having trouble getting XP to boot onto a RAID 0 array, using the onboard RAID controller on my Intel D875PBZ motherboard (ICH5-R). I have two SATA Western Digital (WD) Raptor 36GB drives, hooked up to the Serial ATA ports of my motherboard. I created...

Can anyone recommend a reliable, quick and feature-packed PCI RAID controller for use with a pair of WD Raptor (WD360GD) drives? I cannot get my Raptors to boot to Windows XP using a RAID 0 array with the ICH5-R on an Intel 875PBZ motherboard. Considering it refuses to boot the O.S., I've...

I have installed two Western Digital Raptor 36GB drives on a test machine. They connected via Serial ATA cables to an Intel 875PBZ motherboard. Intel RAID is enabled. I have setup a RAID 0 array with 128Kb stripe. Basically, I go through this sequence: a) XP boots off the CD drive b) I press F6...

Hello all, I'm new to the board, as I'm having some problems with a hard drive and though this would be a good place to turn. The HD is a 160 Gig Maxtor that I've had hooked up for 6 months or sop. All along it has been operating at 137G, dur to the problem that windows experiences with this. I...

Is there any reason for me to be suspicious or worried about using the Samsung HD103UJ? I've seen no hard evidence against them, but they are the only drives on the market with more than 250GB/platter (a third more, in fact), and they've entered the market quite late and at a very low price. I...

I've been looking at a number of UK online retailers, and their prices for Western Digital WD5000AAKB (500GB, 16MB cache, PATA) hard disks all seem to be about 10% less than those for other 500GB disks, including the WD5000AAJB (8MB cache). Have any reliability issues been reported for these drives...

I have an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard, and I want to create 3TB of, let's call it temporary space, on a single NTFS partition. (By temporary, I mean the contents are replaceable from the source data in the event of a disk crash, and the source data is safely backed up; so RAID-0 will...

I bought five Western Digital WD2000JB PATA hard disks four weeks ago. One of them fails to format fully in Windows 2000, due to a large chunk of bad sectors; another one has begun sticking - at random intervals it makes a clunking noise, and no further disk access is possible without cycling the...

Western Digital WD3200JB (8M cache, but not the fancy RAID edition.) Has anyone tried these? Can anyone comment on their reliability? They cost about the same as a 300Gb drive (from any manufacturer), and, all other things being equal, the extra 20Gb is worth having.

Hi! I need different USB flashdisks for testing. Does anybody know of an overview - which chipsets exist - which manufacturer integrates them - where to get the flashdisks (Europe/Germany preferred) TIA

Restoring from Norton Ghost-Image Intention: 1. Save a System-Partition to a ghost-image at point A. 2. fool around with the system (add new software etc.) 3. At point B restore system partition from ghost-image Expectations: the restored system is an exact copy as saved at point A.

I use firefox browser and my C: drive tells me about clean-up but hangs. I think if I find the firefox temporary files and delete them, It will be solved. Anyone knows where the FireFox browser stores the temporary files? Regards, A.H.Sharif

I have an Iwill P4D motherboard and 1.6G CPU. I used an USB Keyboard and a USB Mouse. My motherboard always rejects this devices after a while. Some times detects them, when I disconnect and reconnect them and sometimes this method do not get answer. What do you recommend to solve this...