Storage

USB HD no longer recognized!
I bought a new 80G Toshiba 2.5" HD to use as a backup USB drive for my ancient desktop. I run Win 98SE on the 233Mhz desktop. At first the desktop couldn't see more than 10G of the USB drive. Someone suggested updating the Fdisk to a newer version. I did and bingo, it could now see 80G. I partitioned the driv... 12 Jan 2006 12:59

bad sectors
Hello. I haven't been to this group in a while, work has been so crazy. But now I need some help. My son's computer just started the following weird behavior. It boot and goes right into the boot menu with safe boot, last good config, etc. Whatever you pick, it just reboots and comes back to the same menu. OK, s... 16 Jan 2006 23:06

Floppy into a Dell
This is a physical mounting question. Please send me in the the proper direction if c.s.i.p.h.s is not the right newsgroup. I bought a Dell 4700 w/o the 'A'drive. I have an extra floppy and cable to install. I discovered that although Dell does provide a front slot position, there is no support bracket... 22 Dec 2005 13:36

DVD writer no writing at the advertized speed
Hi, I recently bought a new HP Pavilion a1220n Pentium 4 Computer with a HP DVD Writer 740b Lightscribe drive. It advertizes that it is an 8x writer. I have 4X dvd blanks and it will only write at 1.3x speed. Even the CD writer only writes at about 9X speed. I use Sony 1-8X dvd blanks and TDK 4x dvd blan... 14 Dec 2005 19:35

hardrive failure
The hardrive on a computer has been damaged and I am unable to boot it up (even in safemode) so I can retrieve important files. It gets as far a the blue screen of death where it tells me that windows xp has halted the operation and to reboot and start up in safemode. I have removed the hardrive and installed ... 14 Dec 2005 03:23

Prob: How to install multipel S-ATA drives
Greetings! I am new to this S-ATA stuff. Running an ASUS P5LD2-VM. Two S-ATA sockets on MB - one labelled S-ATA 1-3 and the other labelled S-ATA 2-4. I installed a single S-ATA drive (my bootable XPdrive), and plugged it into the 1-3 SATA socket and it was recognised as Third Primary Master. 1. Why the ... 12 Dec 2005 10:57

USB 250GB drive and WinME
I have just bought a Freecom Classic SL 250GB external (USB) HD It installs and runs (OK so far :) ) with WindowsME & displays in Explorer as a 232GB drive G. I have read that WinME does not recognise drives greater than 132(?) GB Does that apply only to _internal_ drives ? Is Explorer telling me a true stor... 9 Dec 2005 19:35

137GB barrier - multi O/S install problem
I recently managed to scrape enough pennies to rebuild my lightning-bit workstation. Motherboard ECS KM400-M2 (rev 3.0) HD wd1600JB, 160gb. I created a small NTFS partition (8gb) for Win2k, and a few more 30gb FAT32 partitions to share with FreeBSD and Linux, which also need to go on this box. Then I noticed a ... 28 Nov 2005 14:02

another FAT32 formatter for Win 2K/XP
The c't h2format link has been posted before. Here is another: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/fat32format.htm ... 21 Nov 2005 13:38

HardDisk dead after been overheated
Hi, I have a harddisk Western Digital model WD800JB, its a 7200RPM 80GB and 8MB cache disk. I left my computer unatended and it was a hot day, so I think the computer got overheated and now the disk does not start up. It was power but there is no spin, no sound no nothing. The disk is not detected by the BIO... 24 Nov 2005 03:56