Storage

Maxtor Ext Drive & USB Upgrade issue
I hope this is the correct group.. I recently bought a Maxtor external hard drive to use as a backup/storage drive. My PC which is 3 1/2 years old has 1.1 ports. We installed the Dantz software and the drive and backed up my PC, but I must admit the backup process was painfully slow to the point where I almost... 9 Nov 2005 21:55

Calculating possible partition size
When you specify a general partition size (such as 8000 MB), this usually gets changed to some other value, I guess because of cylinder boundaries or something. How do you calculate what is and isn't a "real" valid size for a partition? ... 19 Oct 2005 21:52

DDS5 tapes?
We are using DDS4 tapes for our daily backup. We are looking for larger capacity tapes(DDS5) but not sure if the tape drive would support the DDS5 tapes. Appropriate suggestions/comments are much appreciated. Thank you, -Dock ... 27 Sep 2005 16:03

Maxtor hdd crash (track 0 corruption ?)
3 days before my system unexpectedly restated and HDD refused to pass the POST test (Bios detects the HDD name but not the exact name which was detected before the crash).it just says ***** Hard Disk Fail ! (press F1 to contiune). i tried everything , changnig the HDD master/slave,primary/secondary. i even found a... 14 Oct 2005 21:27

IBM HDD Problem
I have a IBM Travelstar that quit. Drive clicks when I try to access it. I was able to see it once on the Laptop when I used HDDREG 1.41. It showed that the first block was bad and sat there for awhile. I should have tried to start at 1M but didnt. Is there a program out there that will rewrite the MBR [track zer... 19 Sep 2005 16:37

Need help - USB Flashdrive cant be formatted anymore
Guys, I have s 256 MB Sharkoon flash USB stick ... it used to work well until one time I unplugged it from 98SE while it was still writing ... ever since it cant be accessed and also cant be formatted anymore... Tried with XP as well .. no luck... Is there anything that can be done to revive the thing? Or is t... 16 Sep 2005 03:18

Accessing HD by bypassing BIOS?
My mom's Seagate ST38421A died after my sister's kids installed a game on her computer (I do not think the kids caused the problem, however.) The HD was factory installed into a Compaq 5441, and my attempt to diagnose the problem is the first time that anyone has touched the innards of the PC since it was asse... 18 Sep 2005 11:12

BartPE and Smart Arrary 6i driver
In my work place I have an HP Proliant 380 G4 server with a 300GB hard drive using HP Smart Array 6i controller. Trying to boot up the system in Bart-PE but the later cannot see the hard drive because it does not have the 6i driver. Since this server does not have a floopy disk, there is no way to boot up Ba... 10 Sep 2005 23:38

Flash memory failure
Hi, I have 3 flash memory chips xD Picture Cards I am trying to recover data from. They apparently all failed in the same camera when they became 100% full of photos. I have tried to read them in three readers, that all work with a good chip. They fail with a error message of 'Device not ready' (error stat... 12 Sep 2005 06:21

Ever-popular Maxtor DiamondMax 8 "N40P" firmware failure
I recently was given ten DiamondMax 8 drives from Maxtor. (Of course, they're all out of warranty.) All of them exhibit the well-known "N40P" problem due to the drives losing their on-disk firmware. As a result, they fail upon every boot-up. Sometimes they appear as drive "N40P" (Maxtor's internal descripti... 6 Sep 2005 23:33