Storage

drive with read-only dip switch
I recall that many, many years ago, there were PATA drives that had a dip switch setting that prevented all writing to the drive. In light of so many novel security issues, I miss this very old feature. Are there any drives that still have such a feature? (SATA preferred, but I would live with PATA.) (PS: ... 1 Feb 2008 23:37

Seagate, Maxtor and Western Digital
I just replaced 1 Maxtor and 2 Seagate hard drives with Western Digital. All are internal 3.5inch, 7200RPM, 8MB cache. The replacements were made based on SMART data on the drives read by www.grc.com SpinRite application. The Seagates and Maxtor (manufactured by Seagate) all reported massive Seek Errors, ECC Er... 1 Feb 2008 18:07

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boot laptop with eSATA ExpressCard?
Has anyone here booted a laptop using an external HD connected via an eSATA ExpressCard? The ExpressCard that I had been planning to use is this one by SIIG: http://siig.com/ViewProduct.aspx?pn=SC-SAEE22-S1 . But a call to SIIG indicates that the HD couldn't be used to boot a laptop, only to hold data. Has anyon... 1 Feb 2008 00:48

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External Drive Malfunction - testdisk "CHS and LBA don't match"
I have an Lenovo 120 GB external hard drive. I copied all my data from my laptop onto it which pretty much filled it up bar a few spare MB's (yes supid thing to do I know but I didn't have any other option. My situation - the night before I was leaving Japan to go to China. I'm doing a world trip by bicycle and ... 28 Jan 2008 06:32

Need WD logic board!!!
Hi All; My logic board went on my hard drive before my monthly backup. (Always works out that way.) Anyway wanted to pull some data off the drive before I scrap it and need a transplant. If you all are like me you have old drives lying around all over the place. It turns out locating this board is a little harde... 1 Feb 2008 00:48

HDD Enclosure and XP
Hi everyone, I have looked through all of the old posts regarding what problems people have had with HDD enclosures and XP and unfortunately have not found a solution. Here is my situation: Imicro 3.5" HDD Enclosure Seagate 160 GB IDE Drive ( works inside of the machine, has all of its data) Windows XP Pro SP2... 29 Jan 2008 07:08

ghosting to usb hd and booting from it
Does Ghost or another program allow me to copy the files from my HD to my USB drive and if needed boot from the usb drive? Thanks, Pete ... 26 Jan 2008 20:36

dying Seagate 500GB SATA drive?
It runs fine for ~ half a year. Without any warning, I have trouble powering up. It powers up ok like any other HD I've seen but it also making a clicking noise at a regular pace (~ once a second) like it got stuck by something at rotation. After a few minutes, it shuts itself down. If I power it up again, it would... 1 Feb 2008 00:48