Storage

Western digital 250 gb drive no longer seen in windows, weird boot msg
My 250 gb drive has died. Windows no longer sees it at all. During boot I hear 3 repeating beeps (long-short-long), prior to boot. It delays boot process by about a minute. Smart has been enabled now, but it finds nothing. Weirdest thing is that IDE detection no longer shows the drive model, but it now identifies t... 17 Aug 2008 19:12

WD Caviar® GreenT - any opinion on these ?
"june" <june(a)june.com> wrote in message news:nIGdneueWZ9GMBbVnZ2dnUVZ8sHinZ2d(a)giganews.com... Read some reviews - like the slower speed and less vibration i use samsungs all the time - only fault in my eyes anyway is the vibration Samsungs vibrate? Do expound please. Tony ... 14 Aug 2008 07:16

Bad disk controller? Dying HDD? (rich text)
Squeeze wrote using X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437: ...... Pity it's zero, zip, nada, Roddy. You into necrophilia too, because your brain must have died. Just line breaks. And some brainfarts, yours included. I am so used to chkdsk, scandisk, pretty images, etc. :) ... 13 Aug 2008 16:56

Bad disk controller? Dying HDD?
Hi. My old mini-tower PC's HDDs are acting crazy today. I came home and noticed my second drive wasn't there so I checked dmesg (deleted normal logs before hdb): hdb: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61 hdb: DMA timeout error hdb: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } ide: f... 16 Aug 2008 21:47

EasyRecovery Pro Found All Lost Files
I was deleting some redundant files from an old USB 1.1 external hard drive. The data on this drive consisted of several gigabytes of software installer packages. I was planning to copy all this software to a new system. For reasons I cannot explain, the two partitions on this external drive are lost. Window... 12 Aug 2008 11:07

Testing Speed of USB2 External Harddrive
Is there a way (method) to test the actual speed of an external USB2.0 harddrive. I just installed a Western Digital external USB2.0 harddrive and, at times, it appears to be a bit slow. Are there tests that can be run to determine the actual speed? I have it connected to a USB2 port and am running WinXP SP3. ... 12 Aug 2008 19:23

Mike Richter's Cockamamie Mumbo Jumbo on DVD (format/erase)
.. -------------------------------------- Mike Richter, were you born with "Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face? -------------------------------------- http://tinyurl.com/gqnae (No Mikey S-lickers have been able to prove ANY of the above ) (is a L... 11 Aug 2008 03:20

Lost Partition Data - Looking for Quick Fix
My pc froze while I was in the process of moving a few files around. I waited a few minutes without luck and was forced to shutdown manually. Doing so lost the MBR file structure (Drive is no longer recognized by windows xp). I'm looking for a fast fix. My drive storage is 750G so a thorough deep recovery is not an... 14 Aug 2008 20:40

Pub XP system won't recognize usb partition
created 2 -60 GB partitions, one primary, one logical on a 250 GB IDE drive. Using usb adapter, plugged drive into usb port on XP library system. XP system assigns two drive letters, one for the primary and other for the logical. HOWEVER it says the primary letter drive has not been formatted. I just formatte... 17 Aug 2008 19:12

Western Digital Hard Drive New
I ran the basic new hard drive with: In the lower windowpane on the right hand side, you should see unallocated space for the drive. Right-click anywhere on the unallocated space to see a menu of available options. Click on Create Partition The Create Partition Wizard will appear. Click on Next. Leave Pri... 8 Aug 2008 17:10