Hello, All!
I checked the health of my drives, 2 SATA (Raid0), and 2 IDE drives. All of
them are showing ID5 reallocated sector count failures. I can understand one
showing this but all of them?? Any ideas what could cause this?

this is driving me crazy:
I have SiI 06 80 RAID controller and two HDDs hooked up, one maxtor and
the other wd, both 80GB, dynamic setting.
I am getting CRC errors most of the time. Disks are both healthy,

Is there a gigabit NAS that can function as a JBOD? I don't need RAID and I
want the disk to be standard NTFS - swapable into any win XP system?
Thanks
Joe

Inherited a barebones box, so I put in 1 GB RAM, new video card, a
300gb hard drive and installed Windows XP. About every other day the
machine crashes and reboots, but fails to detect the hard drive. When i
turn on the monitor, it has the "primary drive not recognized..." error

Okay, I'm running some gateway comp with windows xp pro. I convert my
80gig partioned HD to a dynamic disk. I wanted to undo that without
having to reinstall xp, so I tried a system restore (I know, I
know...). After this I got

Part number: ST3160023A-RK
Bought 08/13/2004 online at outpost.com, and it still has almost 4 years
on the warranty. I've never lost a HD before, although I RMA'd one that
was getting bad sectors 6 months after purchase. I've had over 10 HDD's.

While looking for an external HDD to hold me over 'til I build a PC in six
months or so I've been exploring external HDD interfaces. Currently, I have
a 4 year old Dell Dimension w/ XP Pro. I'm going to buy a USB2 Firewire
1394b internal card for it .I'd like to find out if ...

I recently purchased a second hard drive (ntfs) for my laptop. I ran
some tests using HD Tach and was surprised by the results:
Disk #1: HTS548040M9AT00 (Hitachi Travelstar)
 40GB, 5400 RPM, "Ultra ATA 100", 12 ms seek time

I have heard conflicting reports about the viability of using Acronis' True
Image (9) imaging software and the current tech. builds of Vista.
1. That it will not work from within Vista's UI?
2. You can however back up and restore from the media bootable disc for True

;(
How to remove it?
Is  there any software/hardware available that will do it?
tnx.

strangest thing happened.
While coping a *.mpeg movie to backup, disk system suddenly hanged and
I needed to force restart it.
Win xp then reported some errors on d: disk and recommended repair.

-> In response to the terminal stupidity in the above mentioned
thread, here is the question I posed to Acronis:

Polar 5 1/4 USB 2.0 & Firewire Case for DVD Burner any good ??
Its thar or a laser case from my local PC store. And laser is crap in
most things.
Just never hear dof Polar. Anyone got any URLS for reviews of this

My Western Digital Caviar SE WD3200 has just died -- at startup it
clicks a few times then fails and is not detected in BIOS.
Since I have another working WD3200 drive and the data on the damaged
drive is worth something to me (NOT enough to spend on commercial data

Hello, All!
On a related matter to the discussion underway regarding problems I am
having with a possible imminent drive failure for one of my RAID0 array
drives, question. I need to find out which is acting up. I can boot windows