Using xp pro I rebooted because a particular ms online update failed to install, (a recent active x related one I think) and found it would not boot. A bios setup message displayed complaining that the speed settings were too fast. (I wondered if the processor was going too slow from...

I have a WD IDE HD that just froze up my system one day.. No warning, no nothing! I shut down and rebooted and noticed that the HD was "clicking" from time to time and would lock up and that was the end. After a signiicant rest I could boot the system up but eventually, the clicking and freeze...

I recently built a computer because my Compaq presario 5102us processor fan stopped and fried my processor. So i got a new case and installed an ASUS K8N motherboard with a AMD Athlon 64 3000+ box cpu and fan. I also installed windows xp home edition ( because my compaq was running ME} and...

The actual response given by tech support when a customer asked if they could take a peek inside the case of an external hard drive to check for something: "Opening a drive is not a resource I have available." Much better than, "I can't open a drive."

I have an internal hard drive hooked up as a slave to a computer and a USB external connected. I am trying to copy about 80 gigs to the external from the slaved internal. It has literally been running 10 hours and has copied less than quarter of it based on the progress bar. It is also claiming it...

I have an internal hard drive hooked up as a slave to a computer and a USB external connected. I am trying to copy about 80 gigs to the external from the slaved internal. It has literally been running 10 hours and has copied less than quarter of it based on the progress bar. It is also claiming it...

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Company is making preparations and research to set hudge repository (hundreds of terabytes). Outsourcing is taken under consideration. Any information of firms offering such services will be apprecjated. Regards Darek pardar (at) wp.pl

La Parka wrote: Any opinions on who makes the better frame/carrier removable hard drive, Antec Dataswap or Startech? I had bad luck with removerble drive caddies, it do nto matter which ones I used, they all gave me problems. My mate got some for me, so he could bring his drive over, so he...

I have 2 ATA100 drives 30GB and 60GB. I would like to add a 160GB ATA133 drive plus controller card. Are there any BIOS issues which would prevent this OS is XP Pro SP1? David Forder

My system is running Win98SE. I have PowerQuest PartitionMagic 8.0 installed. When I try to copy a partition, I get the following error message: "Error 626. Operation is to be performed on a hard drive not visible from boot-mode." This error message occurs when PM8 goes into

"Adam" wrote in message ... I am interested in buying another drive for my ASUS N61JQ-X1 notebook. Two drives currently under consideration are ... 1) Seagate Momentus 7200.4 2) Western Digital Scorpio Black ...

Anyone know how I need to set the BIOS in order to get my system to boot from the 120 GB HDD that is "not" connected to the Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 PCI Adapter Card? "Adam" wrote in message news:... Using the Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 PCI Adapter Card, how do I set the BIOS in...

"Adam" wrote in message news:... After more testing, it turns out that the primary slave HDD (ST380021A) may have gone bad. My system was able to boot with the following: HDD (PriMastr): Seagate Barracuda ATA IV - ST340016A - ATA100 - 40 GB - 7200 RPM HDD...

My system is running Win98SE. I have PowerQuest PartitionMagic 8.0 installed. When I try to copy a partition to a new 120 GB HDD (Seagate ST3120026A), I get the following error message: "Error 626. Operation is to be performed on a hard drive not visible from boot-mode."

My system is running Windows 98 SE. After the PM7 window opens, I get the error (for disk #1): Error 116 - Partition table Begin and Start inconsistent I'd like to backup partitions on disk #1 but PM7 won't allow it so long as it thinks there are errors. Despite the error from PM7, my system...

What do I need to do to get my system to recognize and boot from a 250 GB drive? Award BIOS 1009 will not properly recognize a 250 GB drive. Is there a newer Award BIOS version that will support 250 GB drives? Or, is it better to just use the Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 PCI Adapter Card? Using the...

I just replaced my notebook HDD (Fujitsu - MHK2120AT) with a new HDD (Seagate - ST96023A). But now, I am hearing a slight "clink" sound on shutdown. Is this normal?

My system is running Win98SE. I have PowerQuest PartitionMagic 7.0 installed. I just bought a 80 GB HDD (Seagate ST3200822A), which exceeds PM7's capabilities. So, I need to either upgrade to or buy PM8. But, due to Symantec and PowerQuest's deal, I hear people are very disappointed with...

Host OS: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Guest OS: Windows XP Pro SP3 I am interested in increasing the size of the root (/) partition. Here's a screenshot of the disk (via GParted) ... http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images...agpartedb.png/ And, here's additional disk usage info ...