Does first-generation SATA hot-plug without killing the mobo, the
disk, or both?
I've got a PC with an ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe mobo with SATA on it.  It's on
the bench and I have several SATA disks I want to run disk fitness

I have a Maxtor 160GB 3.5" drive in a USB/Firewire external case
(chipset Prolific 3507). When I try to use Norton Disk Doctor on it,
the test stalls at 43% complete, every time. I tried Check Disk on it
and that also stalls, both in Windows and upon reboot before Windows

I currently have 3 2.5" USB external drives (all under 160gb). I use one
for a bootable backup, one to back up my data and one for my pictures
(I'm Wedding photographer).
As the drives are physically small and run directly off the USB bus off

I believe my Asus A7N8X2.0 (deluxe) motherboard is damaged, because
the system would not shut down for three weeks and now it will not
boot my system disk. The fans turn, but the after five seconds, the
system seems to restart. I never see the bios screens.

Yesterday night, my house RCD tripped while I'm uploading file to
internet. After recovered PC power, I found that my SATA HDD
disappeared from windows HDD list - other 2 IDE HDD, FDD, DVD drives &
movable drive remained. I opened device manager, selected drives icon

Hi, on my ECS L7VTA1.1 Motherboard, there are two standard IDE connections,
as well as two Promise connections (IDE3&4) linked to a Promise 20265
Controller.    Obviously these can be used for RAID configuring, but I'm not
using RAID at all, and I've used over the past couple of ...

Can anyone tell me if going through 5 hard drives in 7 yeas, same box,
is abnormal? I have lost an IBM, a Hitachi, and three Seagates. A
friend says there must be something else wrong, and that to loose so
many drives is abnormal.

I had 2 hard drives in my desktop. One died ( 40gb), and the other
still lives (an IBM 12GB, DESKSTAR TITAN 3.5' Ultra ATA).
I lost my windows and everything on the 1st one. Life continued with
the IBM intact. Now I want to buy a new HDD, and transfer everything

I am cleaning up an old computer and am going to replace the ide cables.
I am debating with myself whether to use round ide or flat ribbon cable...
I can get a good price on 24" round IDE, but as the 24" is longer than
the 18" spec.

I added an additional SATA controller to my system.  The HDD activity
LED is connected to controller on the motherboard.  I would like to
hook up a second LED to the pins provided on the add on card.  Is
there a product available to plug in?  Since the side panel on the

Is there anyway to create RAID 0 using two external SATA hard drives?
If yes, since the external SATA drives have their own power button
what would occur if I switch off one of the disk?
Thanks,

I'm going to use a 160GB (one disk) windows vista ultimate notebook(4GB
ram). Regardless of what some "experts" state about disk fragmentation, I've
noticed that packing "similar" data on multiple partition, fastens
defragmentation.

Question for the experts,
Can Vista be installed on a new drive while several other drives are already
connected or does the install drive have to be alone during install?
I thought that a prompt might come up during Vista install that gave you a

Bought a Sphereon 4300 12 port fabric switch with only (4) ports
activated (unaware); Question, does anyone have a license key to
enable the other (8) ports?
Thanks,

I have 3 hard disks in a raid 5 and yesterday, one of the disk "failed". So I
selected the option to repair the raid on the drive (which has worked before),
and after about 2 hours, it blue screened my computer.
now it will not boot up, as the WHOLE raid has failed.