Storage

Data Recovery
This link: http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000840067578/ describes how someone recovered data by disassembling a hard drive and transplanting the platters into a known good drive. Has anyone here successfully tried this? I'm currently trying to recover the data on an 80GB Maxtor drive. The drive does not spi... 18 May 2006 23:27

maxtor low level format
Hi My Maxtor drive failed with bad sectors. I also get SMART error condition relocatable sector count on this drive. The company support told me to do a low level format with maxblast and then I can use the drive again. Isnt a SMART error and indication that the drive is at the end of life? Is it worth to do... 18 May 2006 20:22

HDD size
I thought I understood HDD size but perhaps not! Have a used 2.5 HDD in USB enclosure. Label says 4.86gb Format as NTFS and it shows as 4.02gb As FAT 32 as 4.01gb Understand (I think) about 1000 versus 1024 as kilo etc. At gb level that gives a factor of 1.074 (1.024 cubed) That gets the 4.02 up to 4.32. Checki... 13 Apr 2006 16:43

Can not see external hard drive
I have an external Maxtor USB 2 120GB Hard drive. I was using it as an archive for software. I just replaced the master drive in my system and reinstalled Windows XP Pro. What I found was that the system could no longer see the external hard drive. I went to the Device Manager and could see no problems. I ... 15 Apr 2006 02:19

SATA-II hard drive or IDE?
My motherboard doesn't have SATA support so I would have to get a controller for it (I think they're like $50). Would doing this be worth it for the increase in speed of SATA-II drives or should I just get an IDE drive? Any help would be greatly appreciated. ... 28 Mar 2006 13:28

External Hard Drive Screw
This subject was brought up before in the NG, but the answers all were that it was a Torx bit, which I do not think it is. Anyhow I have the same problem. I bought a Seagate external HD and want to be able to replace the drive after I fill it up. These screws are visible on the bottom. Questions are: 1) are th... 18 Mar 2006 01:37

Western Digital WD800
Hi, I have a western Digital WD800 Cavior series HDD. I cant read the drive from the last day, my BIOS detects the drive, no partiton information. While trying to crate a new partition using FDISK, it fails in the integrity check. My data is valid, how can I recover it? Plz help. Toby A. ... 16 Mar 2006 04:21

Best Cloning Software?
Hi, I want to clone my hard drive to an external firewire drive. I'd like the firewire drive to be bootable as well, in case my PC drive fails. What is the best software to do this? Thank you! Frank ... 13 Mar 2006 19:10

16x DVD-R can't exceed 8x write speed ?
Hi ! I just bought a Memorex DVD-R spindle. Both the package and the disk shows "16x" as the maximum write speed. I made a test burn and Nero refused to write at a speed higher than 8x. Nero DVD-Speed (Disk Info) shows the following "basic" information : Disk Type : DVD-R Book Type : DVD-R Manufactur... 8 Mar 2006 18:43

usb hard drive found but not visible
Hi everyone, Wondering if anyone can help. I have an external Hitachi Deskstar 3.5" hard drive mounted in a an external enclosure made by Dabsvalue. When I plug it in and power it up, Windows finds a USB mass storage device and gets as far as identifying it as a hard drive, but then does not show the drive ... 8 Mar 2006 08:46