Storage

SATA Drive cant boot XP: NTLDR error
Rod Speed wrote: Both will work fine. And True Image calls that op a clone. An image isnt bootable. Then reboot? Yep, but you will have to adjust what drive you are booting from in the bios. And its safer to physically disconnect the original boot drive for the first boo... 10 Dec 2007 00:38

NEW WD 750GB USB drive model WD7500C032 $200
For sale is a brand new and SEALED Western Digital 750GB USB drive model WD7500c032. these drives sell for $279 at most shops. Price is $200 plus shipping. Shipping will be depnding on the number of drives and location. I have 6 drives left, depending on quantity I can make a small discount or work somethin... 10 Dec 2007 00:38

What order of imaging is required?
It just dawned on me. Should I use Acronis via Dos (CD) or within XP to copy the image onto the SATA drive to make it bootable? Then reboot? With the current main C drive, will XP may get confused if I have 2 boot drives with the new drive having also having a Windows Directory. ... 10 Dec 2007 00:38

2.5" Toshiba MK8025GAS Circuit board
Hi Folks, I have one of the above drives on which I think the circuit board is fried. Does anyone have, or know where I might get a second hand circuit board to fix it? I dont really want to spend too much money on it, as its more of a test of my theory than anything, but I will happily remburse postage! (To ... 10 Dec 2007 00:38

western digital won't work with 5 year old computer
TH O <tho(a)tho.23.invalid> wrote: I bought a new Western Digital EIDE drive but I can't get it to work with my old PC. The WD boot disk freezes before it can successfully boot as it is trying to communicate with the drive. That normally means that the bios has the Award 32GB bug. The BIOS shows the dr... 10 Dec 2007 00:38

FAT32 partition does not mount. How to recover data?
Hi, a 400 GB Seagate Pushbutton Backup External Hard Drives with a 333GB FAT32 and a 39GB Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partition does not mount the big FAT32 partition. Neither with firewire 400 nor USB. Neither with OS X nor Ubuntu. The Mac partition does mount and work. Here are three Christophe Greniers Test... 10 Dec 2007 00:38

Secure File Erase form the right click in XP ?
Looking for a decent freeware or similar to provide a right click and file secure erase the same way you might select a copy / paste so not a full disk or partition erase product just a in-flight one any suggestions welcome thanks ... 10 Dec 2007 00:38

Need Recommendations on Hard Drive Configuration
Hi there, I have just purchased a 500 GB SATA Hitiachi Hard Drive. I currently have two exisiting IDE drives (250 GB x 2) and one burner. The main C drive is on IDE1 and the Secondary drive is sharing IDE 2 with the burner. Both drives currently are partitioned with FAT 32 and NTFS. I wish to have the SAT... 10 Dec 2007 00:38

Question On WD EXT 1 TB hard drive vs Internal 1 TB model
Question for the experts, currently I see a Western Digital Ext HD 1 TB for $269 The internal Sata Version is $299 (the one I want) If I buy the external one and open it up, will it be the same as the internal model? Can I do this, buy the external, open it up and make it sata internal, will it work? ... 10 Dec 2007 00:38

External harddrive wont accept files
i bought a brand-new 500gb Mybook essential and i tried to transfer some files onto it and it took all the smaller video and movie files up to a little over 1gb but it wouldnt accept the larger iso files that were 4gigs or over it says the files are too large for the destination and i dont understand why or how t... 10 Dec 2007 00:38