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Hard drive limitations?
It turns out the problem was that the usb hard drive was formatted with the drive label E. Now windows vista uses E for the CD/DVD drive so it doesn't recognise the E that is formatted in the usb hard drive. Using the computer management tool/disk management I changed the CD/DVD's drive letter from E to Z. Voila,

Did TUSL2C eat my hard drives?
Phil Weldon pwel...@mindspring.com alt comp hardware homebuilt alt comp hardware overclocking alt comp hardware pc-homebuilt No, the answer is not a hard drive cooler. #1. The small size of hard drive cooler fans greatly restricts the air flow volume. The hard drive coolers that use centrifugal fans are even less

Windows 2000 does not recognize my second hard drive.
Hard drives are manufactured to hold data and make money for the manufacturer. Neither of those goals is always achieved. Jeezuss you're dense. We're talking about a specific _kind_ of hard drive here. Removable media. I'm not dense at all. You are obviously dense. Great rejoinder! Full of wit, subtlety and

Hard Drive Configuration
Al Smith inva...@address.com microsoft public windowsxp general someplace in my house i have drive image. i was wondering if i can use it to place the images right on an external hard drive. the last time i looked into doing this, you had to partition your C drive, put the image there and then copy the image to the

Issues for extra large hard drives.
Tony Toews tto...@telusplanet.net alt comp periphs mainboard abit Folks With respoect to coexisting a regular hard drive and an ATA100 hard drive on the same IDE port I'm wondering if 1) it's possible? 2) it's reasonable? I'm setting up a system with four hard drives and a CD-Rom and DVD player.

Blue Screen - Drive C
The master HDD is normally the last drive in the daisy chain with the slave in the middle--Drive 0 and Drive 1 I think would be correct--it troubles me the auto detect fails, that's why I'd recommend checking all the above... mad hatter wrote: ok I have a maxtor eide hard drive i bought for my acer model 2731.

usb hard drive not showing in explorer
Both drives seek forlornly every few seconds forever. In both instances, swapping the on board controller card for a known good one does not alter the behaviour. Anyone had any experience of this type of fault in this model of drive. ______ Hard Drive Model# of UnitsFailure % Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 250GB SATAII

HD capacity vs. reliability
Assuming new bios, just have it do it's "auto" on the hard disk. Only other thing you have to do is fdisk and format the drive After that Windows will simply have a second hard disk drive "D" with any cd-rom drives etc. all shuffled down one letter. I keep program and windows on first hard disk, games and files

Can a hard drive be physically damaged due to power loss at ...
Outsider nonvalid_em...@yahoo.com microsoft public win98 setup Roman Mervart wrote: I had a new hard drive installed and partitioned into three partitions. I also have CD ROM and ZIP drives. I have left the original hard drive in. New hard drive had Windows98 installed on C:\.. I wanted to finish with new hard

Clone Additonal Hard Drive for Back Up
kerfoker kerfo...@ix.netcom.com alt support depression whiskers wrote: "Ensoul100"<ensoul...@aol.com> wrote: on daughter's computer right now need to replace my hard drive, warrantee now only covers parts called Dell to talk me through it other than getting the casing off they might as well have been talking

Hard Drive Activity Light and Coolermaster Case
I have two SATA Hard Drives, both Western Digital, my C: Drive is a 10000RPM the second drive is 7200RPM, both are about 40% full. When I run HD Tack I get much better performance from the 7200 drive, about 75 Mb/s than from the 10000 drive, 55Mb/s,I have run tests on the drives and both are testing as okay,

Which external hard drive?
Jeff Richards JRicha...@msn.com.au microsoft public win98 disks general When you re-installed Windows to the first hard drive, did you repartition it? If so, you may have removed the Seagate drive management software that you were using to allow the system to see a second hard drive of the size you have mentioned.

Hard Drive problems
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"Even 'Erased' Hard Drives Hold Info "
I've decided that I want to get a new hard drive for my PC in the next month or two. I'm going to go SATA. I've been watching prices, and it looks like 750 GB drives are about $160 right now. 500 GB drives seem to be about $110. The last time I bought drives was about a year and a half ago, when I got 5 Seagate 160

help appreciated on dual hard drive setup
First windows95A version will only support partitions up to 2.1 Gig.....so if you have that version of windows and a larger hard drive you would need multiable partitions on the hard drive....which is no big deal...... if you are using windows95B or Windows98 or newer version you dont have that problem as long as

Slow Hard Drive
Robert Bonomi bon...@host122.r-bonomi.com rec outdoors rv-travel In article <ddr0r39us8srq5buv3b7a3mvqinarpr...@4ax.com>, Albert Lason <amla...@Hotmail.com> wrote: Christmas day my PC crashed and I originally thought it was my primary hard drive so I took it to the geek squad at Best Buy to have it checked out and

Unrecognized second hard drive
Sam s...@email-scan.com comp os linux misc Ivan writes: Hi all, I was welcomed this morning to my server displaying this error: Please back up your data, hard disk failure is imminent. Perhaps not the best message to see. Does this mean that one of my hard drives stopped working? Just about.

How long can stuff stay on your HARD DRIVE?
houghREM...@MEblueyonder.co.uk> contains these words: naza wrote: I have brought a new Maxtor STM3160815AS 160GB hard drive to replace one that fried its head. I decided to look at the smart information for the hard drive as new, just to rule out any problems. Nothing but one thing flagged up. The hard drive was

Hard Disk driver problem - XP accept 200 Gb drives?
IDE hard drives store data in a hardware cache (temporary memory) and write the date to the hard disk later. For these computers, data can be lost during the shutdown process because the amount of time that it takes for fast processors to shut down is so shout that the hard disk may shut down before the date in the

Hard disk failure is imminent
Also, what log files should one monitor to see if there is something wrong with the hard drive? What are the various error messages I should look out for? I checked the hard drive for badblocks and there are none. But somehow I feel (cannot prove) that it is taking up a lot of time to write large files than it did