I  bought a 2 1/2 inch 160 MB SAMSUNG external hdd using USB that
worked fine until this morning.When i plug it in now, windows does not
see it. It is not displayed in windows
explorer, . However, the "Safely remove hardware" icon does

I need to replace the hard drive in an Apple eMac G4 700Mhz. The
service manual says "The hard drive has 3 thermal pads. If the thermal
pads become damaged, replace them." (Apple part No. 076-0950)
OK, I want to change them, but they're unbelievably expensive for

My system is a Dell PowerEdge 400SC running as a desktop, dual boot
Mandriva 2008.1 and Win XP Pro.  I have 2 drives installed, a WDC
WD400BB and a Seagate ST3400633AS.
Yesterday, I installed lm-sensors and KSensors, and I saw that while the

I want to start using PGP WDE but wanted to see if anyone has
experienced any problems restoring an acronis home edition 11 image
back to the same drive? I've been searching the web and from what I
can tell, it won't be able to restore the mbr and you'll need to use

I need to replace a hard drive in a laptop. The hard drive is mounted
in a metal caddy. There's a brown plastic insulator glued to the metal
caddy to prevent the circuit board of the original hard drive touching
the metal and cause a short circuit. The plastic is custom-cut for the

Currently in my are 2 GB of physical RAM.
In would like to test the performance impace for certain scenarios if I would
have only 1 GB physical memory. How can I decrease the total amount of usable memory
(of cause without removing physically 1 GB)?

I'm trying to get email notification to work but the test email fails with
unable to contact SMTP server.
I assume it's a firewall issue but need to know which bit of DI sends the
message. Is it the Agent, Server or Console or ?

I've been searching for the manual and jumper settings for a Quantum
Atlas10kII SCSI drive and the best I could find were the following:
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/storage/8848p/Jumpers.htm
http://www.hothardware.com/hh_files/Drives/qatlas10kii.htm

I got 3 SATA WDC HD's coming from a Intel RAID 5 (matrix Storage) . I
suppose that the RAID was not dismantled before taking the disks off.
Now I would like to use them for an ordinary non-RAID configuration
and I do _NOT_ need to backup the data. I just want to format them and

I used an old 40Gb IDE laptop drive in a USB enclosure to store Ghost
images.  When I'm restoring an image with this drive connected to a
USB 2.0 port, I'm only getting 150Mb /s transfer rate.  Is this the
normal speed for such a setup ?  It seems rather slow to me.

My hard drive seems to be running slow. Is there a utility to check its
speed?

Hi to all.
I just had a strange problem fix itself, and wondered if anyone had
any idea how it happened.
I'm running Vista Home Premium with SP1 and keep it updated. Mobo is

I have several backup drives in removable caddies so they can be swapped
incrementally.
The docking bay the caddy goes in to is on a single SATA channel.
However each drive gets assigned a specific letter. One drive is always "X"

This is a HighPoint RocketRaid 100 ATA raid card.  Not scsi, sorry.
Have a raid 1 with Win XP.  1st drive died.  Had broken raid 1 message.
Shut down and replaced 1st drive with new drive.  Powered up, went into raid
utility and selected "choose replacement drive and rebuild".  ...

I have a Hitachi Travelstar 120 gig drive which is a year old. It
started giving error messages saying that the media could not be found
but then tested OK on the DFT
Suddenly it failed yesterday and gives error code 0x70 with a TRC