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| | Hi Everyone, I'm looking to put together a small NAS RAID, probably just as RAID 1 (maybe RAID 5...but doubtful). What I'd really like is to use hard drives with on-disk encryption, like the ones Seagate Makes. I'm not quite sure though if it's possible to use drives like this … |
 | Hi all, im new to this forum and i hope you can help me with my problem, i've seen this "issue" on other threads and forums but none of the solutions given have worked for me. I got a new SATA HDD for my computer and ever since I installed … |
| | Hi there, The problem i have is that my laptop has two FUJITSU harddrives 250gb each it used to work properly both of them on RAID 0 configuration. But one of them gave me an error of loosing all the data on it and make a backup which i did. …  |
| | Hey, Yesterday my 30GB iPod video stopped working. Because I hate using iTunes, i Decided to put rockbox onto it. I had rockbox installed and working properly, but all of a sudden it wont boot rockbox or the original firmware. diagnostic mode and disk mode still work, but diagnostic mode … |
| | Hi all, I have recently connected a second sata drive to my motherboard. It powers up and is listed as working properly in XPs "device manager" however it does not appear in the "disc management" list. As such I can not use it. I'm pretty sure it has to be …  |
| | Recently my laptop's hard drive died. I'm not so good with computers but I've managed to connect it to my PC, with an IDE adaptor. The files I need to recover were on the desktop, but I can't access Documents and Settings\Home User - I guess because it was password … |
| | Hi, I am wondering if someone can help me with this issue. I had a desktop with ASUS P5GC-MX/133 motherboard installed with two physical hard drives - 1 IDE and 1 SATA2. A year ago I installed window XP SP2 on the IDE hard drive and used SATA2 as storage … |
| | Can you format the drives in an extended partition with 2 different file systems? One is already formatted and is not a regular system so is not seen by Vista's explorer and the other I would format as an NTFS logical partition. thank you! |
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| | Would I be able to use this adapter to add my old ATA HDD to my new HP computer. I want to be able to transfer my files. Also, if I can use this adapter, will the computer know to boot up from the SATA HDD? [url]http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Serial-ATA-Adapter-SATA2ATA133/dp/B0001MVMPE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1228285287&sr=1-1[/url] Thanks, Den |
| | I went over to a friends house to work on their computer for them and ended up replacing their video card. As I was working on it I was messing around with their intel raid storage and noticed that it was not working anymore and it said the driver was … |
| | Well, I have a Samsung 40 GB PATA HDD( I know its long time I upgraded . but i terribly need to recover this HDD). I think i disconnected this HDD before I turned off the power supply. Ever since I get an error during post : Detecting Primary master …  |
| | when i go to burn a dvd it tells me i dont have a dvd burner. i know thats untrue cause i have burnt dvds before. it has me confused |
| | can any body explain how the hardisk is read by a blank OS what is the logical structure of a hardisk how a new Operating system reads the different sectors of the hardisk how the read/writer pointer moves by software  |
| | Hi :) I have a problem with transfering larger files on my USB Drive. I'm using Toshiba Satellite L305D with Windovs Vista Home Premium (32 bit) on it, problem starts when I tried to transfer larger files to my 8 Gb USB Drive which is recognized by Vista like Sky … |
| | And I am having trouble with my computer! Does anyone here know if I can completely redo a hard drive without EITHER the reformat disk OR a windows xp disk? My reformat disk was completely destroyed and I'd like to avoid paying 27 bucks for a new one if possible. … |
 | So I am looking to move my 2 SATA RAID arrays from Windows Vista into Windows Server 2008. My current configuration is 2x250(Raid0) 2x500(Raid0) both arrays need to stay in there current configuration. I have tried moving both of these arrays to the Windows Server 2008 desktop and the result … |
 | Switching from Vista to XP Pro: Have a wide-screen Vaio laptop that came from the factory with Vista and Sony does not support XP on this box. I allocated next week the time to pull the drive, drop in two 500gb new SATA drives, and do a complete install of … |
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| | hi, i googled alot but couldnt find a solution, hope someone can help me^^ i had a 120gb hdd which was devided into 3 partition (20gb, 40gb and 60gb) with windows xp pro sp2. i wanted to repartition everything so i what i did was boot from the windows cd, … |
| | ok well the old HDD died and so i went over to the local computer store, bought myself a new hdd and put it in. The bios doesn't recognize it and gives me the error of no HDD being found. Thinking that it could be, because there was no partition … |
| | Hello...I have a Western Digital 750GB External Hard Drive which has worked for months... Than Ive tried to make a partition and install linux on it...but than after about 5% of formatting i realized i made a mistake and it was deleting my data off of it...i canceled it at …  |
 | Hi, If this observation is correct: If two drives (preferably of equal size are set up as a RAID 1 configuration all data is mirrored between the two drives. If an error is detected on one drive the system keeps going with data from the mirrored good sector and the … |
| | I creating a file server for a client, I want to set up RAID 1. However, I'd like HD0 (aprox. 2 40-80 GB drives) for the OS. I'd like to set up another HD, HD1 (2 1TB drives for file storage) seperate of the first RAID 1. The files that … |
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| | hello, i am having some major computer issues and I am hoping I can get some assistance. Beware I am not a whiz, but can get around a computer pretty good, so be easy if I am not making an sense or trying to do the unthinkable. I have an … |
| | Last night I bought a 160-gig Toshiba external hard drive at Circuit City for backing up my current files and for storage of future downloads. When I plug it in, I get a message that says something to the effect of "this device has exceeded the power limits of its … |
| | Hi Experts I am using Dell Desktop PC. I Removed my HardDisk and Formatted in some other PC and installed the OS succesfully. But when i am attaching this formatted hard disk to my Dell PC it is saying Hard Drive Not Found. It is working fine in some other … |
| | Need help, I had vista running on this samsung hard drive, wanted to add a partition to install ubunto so I could have two operating systems on it, ran norton partition magic on it, and now it is locked, cannot format or partition- or boot. it shows as filled up … |
| | I have Transcend 1GB JV30 USB pen drive . After installing Win XP SP2 my pen drive does not seem to get detected. Prior to SP2 installation , my drive used to function normally. My Computer does not show the removable disk drive ;therefore I cannot read my drive contents … |
| | Hi, I have an MOV file on my USB key that won't delete. Every time I try to delete is says its being used by another program, but nothing is running the video. Any suggestions? |
| | I have 2 computers and both had working CD/DVD burners, but now they are not working (when click on My Computer, they're not there). I've uninstalled and tried reinstalling, but get error message: driver either corrupted or missing, code 39. I ran various spyware/malware programs...they still don't work. I removed … |
| | Hello everyone, I have a P4 with a WD-2000 Sata HD. Recently it crashed with the blue screen of death with the stop error 000000051. Because of it I can't boot Windows. I am trying to recover my data on it. I want to add a 20g IDE HD as … |
| | Ok I've got a Toshiba Satellite M65 that is giving me some serious problems. It's currently an XP SP3 machine. Whats going on is I've got a Matsushita DVD RAM Multi drive installed. It used to burn dvd's and Cd's. For some reason unbeknownst to me, it stopped burning dvd's … |
| | Help, I'm trying to burn 4.7 GB DVD+R discs using Nero 7.2.0.3, on Windows XP Pro SP2, and I don't want to burn the whole DVD at once, I want to keep adding a few files at a time. The only problem (and it's a big one) is that I … |
| | An external HD enclosure permits massive amounts of storage, and under a SCSI regime, the SCSI data cable can be long enough to run from the workstation backplane to the enclosure. With an Adaptec U160 SCSI controller with both internal and external (backplane) channels in which to address storage, as … |
| | Hi, My pen drive appears completely dead when I insert it. I can't select in anywhere and the light is not coming on. Is there any way of getting the information from it before it goes in the bin? Thanks. Windows Vista Home Premium |
| | Hi [B]Simple problem Drive C is running out of space. Easy solution buy a new hard drive and copy everything to the new drive. Simple? a nightmare![/B] I have bought a larger HDD a Seagate 250GB and want to use that as a replacement for my existing 60GB WD HDD. … |
 | I have also posted this to Vista section but if any: My TOSHIBA external HDD stopped working. It failed to copy data and I had to force restart due to system hang up! I found then it isn't even detected. I tried on my friend Laptop XP no success! It … |
| | my Hard disk is infected from bad sectors and my data is removed after detecting while Scandisk is running. need help! |
| | My computer died a couple of weeks ago , so I decided to rebuild it. Here’s what I used : Asus M2A-VM motherboard AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ cpu 2 gig A-Data DDR memory Here’s what I had from my old machine Maxtor 40 gig IDE hard drive WD 160 … |
 | Percept Technology Labs, Inc. is an established, independent product test and consulting company. Percept's testing demonstrates that Diskeeper keeps its promise to maintain clean, defragmented hard drives while not affecting overall system performance. |
| | This paper details the purpose and benefits of a ground-breaking technology alliance between NAND Flash hardware leader Apacer Technology Inc, and storage performance technology innovator Diskeeper Corporation. |
| | All SQL Server databases, over time, experience "internal" fragmentation of its data. In SQL Server, there are several ways to defrag internal fragmentation. Unfortunately, internal fragmentation is only part of the fragmentation problem. |
| | This document will explain the behavior and benefit of implementing Diskeeper defragmentation software with intricate modern hardware technologies such as RAID, NAS and SANs. SANs, NAS devices, corporate servers, and even high end workstations and multimedia-centric desktops characteristically implement multiple physical disk drives in some form of fault tolerant disk … |
| | Going Green with Diskeeper: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate benefits in performance, cost, time to complete, wattage consumed for each test and overall KWH consumption by using Diskeeper defragmentation software. |
| | Hi, A friend and I are planing to get new eMachine computers and we want to add the hard drive from our old towers as slaves in the new tower so we can access our files and bookmarks. My old computer is a 9 year old Dell and hers is … |
| | I have a Dell Dimension 2400. It has been working okay for about a year. Today when I got home from church the window's XP blue screen of death was up and I had to reboot. No big deal, it has been happening since shortly after I bought the computer. … |
| | hi there.. i have a 1gb pqi flash drive and when i inserted it.. it appears on the my computer as [Removable Disk] and then... when right click/properties.. 0 bytes used 0 bytes free.. and another.. when i try to format... it says there is no disk in the drive.. … |
| | Hi All: Dell support has confirmed my worse fears--the registry error I had meant that my hard drive is dead. As I go to install the replacement drive, is there a way I can connect or access the hard drive through another computer (boot as a secondary drive) and access … |
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