Storage

WD My Book Essential: FAT32 vs NTFS?
I got my WD My Book Essential (250 Gigs) installed using USB 2.0, thanks to the replies I got on an earlier thread. Now that it's up and running, "Properties" reports that there are approx 232 Gigs free on the drive. (It comes with some software on it, which takes up the rest of the space.) It also says that... 13 Nov 2006 13:58

WD400BB controller board swap
I'm trying to do poor man's data recovery on a Western Digital WD400BB drive (40gb). I'm pretty sure the controller board is fried, so I went ahead and purchased a controller board with the identical part # on eBay. Unfortunately, it's from an 8gb drive, so of course I found out after the fact that it won't work wi... 31 Oct 2006 11:48

Inaccessible Partition XP Media Centre Edition
Dear Friends, I got this computer Packard bell with 200 GB hard drive, It came with Windows XP media centre edition pre-installed. It had two partitions one is a 6 GB one and the rest around 182 GB which had the main OS installed. Some thing happened and the hard disk would just not load the OS but just reboot aft... 1 Nov 2006 15:44

problem recognizing external Hardrive
Hi, I have a Lacie 300gb external hardrive. It was working fine, but then I moved (from one apartment to another), and in the new apartment, when I tried to connect the hardrive, it didn't appear in "My Computer". I thought maybe it was a letter allocation problem, which I know happens sometimes, so I allocated a ... 26 Oct 2006 16:50

ARGOSY - HD363N - Network Storage
New Argosy firmware available: http://www.argosy.com.tw/mana_php/prod/file/Argosy-NetHDD007-1005.bin dated: 05.10.06, relead: today (25.10.06). best regards Quest ... 18 Jan 2007 00:25

HD Specs?
Do you have any hints and tips for people looking to buy a new hard drive? (I'd like to buy a new ATA/IDE drive for a machine running Windows 2000, with an ABIT NF7 motherboard.) What are the important specs to be checking? I can buy these for about ?30ukp: ExcelStor Technology 80GB 7200rpm 2MB U100 ExcelSto... 25 Oct 2006 02:23

Set up External Drive on Network
How do I set up a Seagate 300GB external drive (ST3300601CB-RK) on a home network? I have a notebook (wireless) and three desktops (wired) hooked up to a WGT624 Netgear router. I can use the 300GB drive just plugged into one computer as always, but it would be handy to have the drive easily available to all th... 25 Oct 2006 04:27

Knoppix and USB 2.0 external disk
I am trying to clone my laptop's hard disk by booting with Knoppix 5.0. The laptop does not have USB 2.0 so I am using a PCMCIA USB 2.0 adaptor and connecting the external disk (SimpleDrive) to it. I can see the external disk recognized as a scsi emulated drive /dev/sda1. I can read this disk but when I write to ... 23 Oct 2006 16:20

Maxtor 250GB hard drive problem
Got this one for free since it "doesn't work" according to previous owner. I plugged it in and all I got was repeating "twang... twang..." noise. BIOS does not find the hard drive and some heavy duty diagnostic software failed to find it as well. Including Maxtor's own software. Mfg date is April 2004 so warran... 22 Oct 2006 13:38

SES-2 over I2C == multimaster I2C?
Dear Everyone, while investigating the theoretical background of some recent SuperMicro SAS backplanes with the AMI MG9072 enclosure management processor, I've ended up with the following unanswered question: it would seem that "enclosure management over I2C", as specified in the SATA 2.5 spec, implies the use o... 20 Oct 2006 10:20