Storage

WD My Book Essential drive questions
I just bought a new Western Digital USB external hard drive, 250 GB in size, called "My Book Essential" and am trying to use it to store some large backup files created with Nova Back, vers. 8 - I think. The files are roughly 4 GB in size with extensions of .nb7, thus the confusion on the actual version at the mom... 17 Nov 2006 20:35

Deframenter That Will Create New Hard Drive?
After seeing how much work some defragmenters will go through to do their job, I'm wondering does anyone make a defragmenter that could be ordered to actually construct a new drive as the result of the defragmentation? In other words, rather than just shuffling sectors around, the fragmenter would write out a wh... 20 Oct 2006 12:26

SMART failure warning: maintenance possible?
My laptop computer gave me a SMART failure warning with a low (1) reallocated sector count. Checking other messages on this group I understood that my HD is at risk of failure so I backed up all relevant data. As I use this computer mainly for games and music playback and never for sensitive data, I would like t... 21 Oct 2006 07:47

Seagate STD624000N and Windows XP
What do I have to do to get Windows XP to find a Seagate STD624000N external tape drive? The tape drive is hooked to a SCSI card. The scsi card is recognized by the system. Its like I need a system driver for the tape drive but I can't find one anywhere. Any ideas? ... 17 Oct 2006 13:32

Western Digital "My Book" - Questions
Hello! I can´t find any information about the standby-mode of the Western Digital My Book - harddrive! Can it be turned off by software? I could only find a lot of reviews talking about a standby-mode after 5 minutes! But I don´t want to turn of the HD´s motor! (for a longer life of the HD) I also c... 22 Oct 2006 12:04

How Did the Techie Get The Data Off the "Dead" Drive?
At work, the PC I had been using "died". BSOD message that the "Boot Device" couldn't be found. When a tech from another office came by, he verified the complaint, and then took the HDD with him, saying that he'd try to get the data from it onto CDs. A week later, he came by with the drive and a fist full of ... 23 Oct 2006 21:04

Problems with Samsung SP2514N (Spinpoint P120 Series)
Hi, this is my first post on this forum. Is there a FAQ or charter? Anyway, I'm experiencing error messages with my 250GB Samsung SP2514N (Spinpoint P120 series). I split it up in 2 partitions. When running defragmentation O&O Defrag, I get error messages on both partitions, even though it manages to defra... 8 Oct 2006 14:29

TURN OF HD363N
sory for my english . I have HD363N my firmware is NetHDD007-0802 and I have 1 problem . When I turn on my hd363n i ok but when my 363n is on but i dont use hd363n i turn of my configuration Set Sleep Mode Time is max 60min. IP static DHCP turn of . Please helep me i wont to my hd363n is on about 8h every day. it i... 29 Sep 2006 23:39

PF usage. What is it? and RAM usage problems.
In windows XP / in the windows Task Manager there is a window that says "PF usage" is that referencing your RAM usage or something else? I wanted to know because it would be usefull to know just how much RAM I'm using. If it isn't is there a way to find out how much RAM you are using? I was also wondering because I... 25 Sep 2006 09:21

Failed HD - How to rebuild RAID 1 array Adaptec 1420SA?
We recently installed a server with an Adaptec 1420SA RAID card running SBS 2003. The server has two mirrored pairs of drives (RAID 1). One pair is for the OS (80GB), and the other pair is for data files (400GB). Everything has been working fine until one of the 400GB drives failed. -- Here's our problem - we ... 20 Sep 2006 14:44