Storage

partition order in partition table
Hello. How important is the partition order in the MBR partition table? I seem to remember from reading that some software products care and some don't. It is a long story, as always, but the short version is that I have a desktop with a multiboot setup using bootmagic and partition magic. I knew I was doing som... 6 Sep 2005 21:30

At Wits' End
To All Cognoscenti, Greeting! I've already posted here the story of my tribulations caused by heat damage to my HDDs. The damaged drives have at last been replaced, including the GigaByte motherboard that had a bad IDE controller. Now I'm struggling with the task of rebuilding my operating system (Windows XP P... 6 Sep 2005 19:56

IBM Travelstar connecting to PC
Hello all I have a problem with my IBM travelstar (laptop HDD). I want to connect this to my pc, I have been out and brought a USB interface where you can supposidly connect a 2.5" device into it and then conect to the PC via USB. Only problem is the hdd doesnt connect into the USB device!! Any help ? ... 20 Aug 2005 19:51

40GB external USB Harddisk fails
Hi all, my brand new 40GB Hitachi USB Drive fails to work after a short period of time. I can connect the drive via USB about 3-4 times and Win XP will detect it. Then every time I connect it the detection process gets slower and slower until XP fails to detect the drive at all. Sometimes theres is also a la... 19 Aug 2005 20:23

w2k chkdsk "windows replaced bad clusters in file" question
When Windows 2000 checkdisk chkdsk reports "windows replaced bad clusters in file" does that mean that data was lost or not? I got the message on while doing a chkdsk /f /r on an 80GB supposedly refurbished Seagate ST380011A hard drive - on three large ISO type files. However when chkdsk completed it said ther... 12 Aug 2005 13:57

WD200 Faults
I've seen an alarming number of failures in some Western Digital Protege 20Gb drives over recent weeks, in particular WD Protege WD200 units, model number WD200EB-11CSF0, Manufacture date late October 2001. These have been installed in Compaq DeskPro EXDs purchased at the very tail end of 2001 and therefore hav... 3 Aug 2005 06:10

external hard drive not showing up
For some reason, my laptop isn't recognizng my SimpleTech external hard drive - it doesn't come up as a possible drive under My Computer, and when I look it up under Device Manager, it seems to think it's a Samsung device. I've tried updating the driver and using the disc that came with the SimpleDrive, but XP tel... 2 Aug 2005 11:39

Hard Drive Lag
For some reason whenever I try to play a movie off of my local hard disk it freezes every two minutes or so and resumes about 2-5 seconds later. This does not happen on my data drive. My local disk has Windows XP Professional SP2 installed on it. The hard drive is a RAID0 array of two Maxtor 6B080M0 drives (Dia... 1 Aug 2005 22:49

CRC errors on a USB harddisk
Hello. Lately, I've been having some problems with a portable USB harddisk and I'm puzzled how to resolve them. I use a cheap USB enclosure for a 200 GB maxtor disk. I've run the maxblast utility for windows which said it enabled support for large drives. I can check the drive in win XP and it doesn't report an... 8 Aug 2005 11:59

Physical hard drive failure.
I have a no-name (Platinum) 160GB 7200RPM hard drive that has had some sort of physical failure. The bios sees it, but any reads from the drive result in errors or time out. I have tried many hard drive tools to try to recover the data, but all point to a physical failure. The drive is not making the normal 'cli... 10 Aug 2005 19:11