Storage

WD800 connector
A friend gave me a Western Digital WD800 drive. It has a strange connector on the end. In place of the normal 40 pin connector, or 80 wire 40-pin connector, that other drives have, and that the WD website indicates that it uses. Instead, it has one or maybe 2 connectors for closely spaced pins S1 to S7 and ano... 27 Nov 2006 16:57

Do I have to reformat ?
I had my power supply fail on me last week. My system rebooted a few times then I realized what had happened. I replaced my PSU unit and XP loaded [almost] completely. Then my system rebooted again, one more time. This time, the system ran chkdsk and spent a great deal of time "fixing" the hard drive. The... 24 Nov 2006 17:23

DeskStar 60GXP 40GB is now 33GB ?!
Hi all, I have a very strange problem on my hard drive. One week ago, my PC badly crashed and damaged the MBR. So I began to work on it to repair the situation. Suddenly I noticed that the drive was now only 33GB instead 40GB !!! I read couple of thread and forums and I tried many tools without success. It is no... 14 Nov 2006 14:20

Unlock ATA Password
I've a Toshiba HDD 40 GB, locked with ATA Password. I'm not interested in datas. Just would like to remove the password. What have I to do? ... 17 Nov 2006 20:04

floppy
Looking for a way to connect 2 pc's via floppy ports? Any suggestions would be helpfull. Please do not suggest the obvious as using floppy diskettes. I want to try to connect 2 pc's using the floppy's 34 pin cables. Thanks. ... 14 Nov 2006 11:10

OS file system confusion
I'm in a bit of a dilemma with a Samsung 400GB HDD I bought the drive a few months ago and the very first use I put the drive to was installing it in an old PC experimenting with FreeNas which uses the UFS file system. I subsequently removed it from that system and installed it into a normal XP setup as a d... 11 Nov 2006 07:10

ICY Dock MB454SPF-B Multi-Bay Backplane - opinions ?
Hi any comment on this sort of thing ? takes 4 drives external from the pc in its own case all removable - thinking SATA by the way unit has a fan at the back which i think is great - removable as well if need be this takes 4 horiz - http://www.icydock.com/product/mb454spf.html this takes 5 vert -... 10 Nov 2006 19:15

IBM ThinkPad R52/T43 Password Removal , RPC8394
Searching for password removal for IBM ThinkPad R52/T43 or higher models is just waste of time. IBM has changed the security system on their newer laptop models so it is included in the general I/O controller. Some guys over the internet are claiming that they have a solution based of CMOS Decoder and Reader, such ... 8 Nov 2006 18:48

Formatting a drive for Win98
Relative has a Win98 PC with a small drive. They don't need a bigger drive but the one they have is failing. I've got an 80G drive going spare that's unformatted and could format it on my WinXP box with Fat32 but what about the size? I'm sure the Bios and OS limit is going to be a problem. Is it possible to fo... 12 Nov 2006 15:53

Password Protect USB key?
Hi I would be grateful if anyone could recommend a USB data key with built in password protection or third party software which can be applied to any data key. I would prefer to have recommendations based on your own experience of use. Many thanks. Ian ... 7 Nov 2006 21:10