I recently got a western digital 500gb scorpio hard drive for my
laptop that I've installed bootit ng on.  I've found a lot of websites
I get timeout errors and have to press F5 to refresh when I'm using
internet explore/firefox or google chrome.  This is a dell laptop and

I built my son a machine about 3 months ago from parts of other
machines laying around.  His 60 gig hd that had been perfectly fine
prior to that point failed immediately.  So I replaced it with a 40gig
that had been laying around.  It worked about  a week and failed.  So

Hi, all.
I have 2 different external USB hard disks, one 3.5" under NTFS, and
one 2.5" under FAT32. I'm running XP SP2.
I really want to be able to occasionally defrag the folders on these

With the rapidly decreasing price of SDHC cards and USB Flash drives,
I have become interested in trying to set up a PC that boots only from
one of these drives, just to experiment with.
  I started wondering about the possibility of something like this when

I am building a PC and want to use RAID 1 to mirror the system disk
and RAID 1 to mirror a data disk. The plan is as follows:
System disk:
One 300GB SATA HD mirrored to a second 300GB SATA HD using RAID

I need to start taking more precautions when backing up my data.
What about an 'online backup solution' (http://www.backupright.com)
What about 'tape disk backup
(http://www.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/storage)

A friend of mine has a 500GB WD My Book. It's got one wierd issue, and
that is that you can't read its SMART info when it's being connected
via ESATA, but it works perfectly fine when connected through USB. My
assumption was that SMART only works through ESATA not USB, but it

I recently bought a new 500 GB SATA Seagate Barracuda 7200.11
ST3500320AS before Christmas 2008 and started using it on the 27th (work
time: 17 days). I am worried if I need to upgrade its firmware or return
the drive after reading about high failure rates online. However, those

Hello all, sorry if this has been covered, but I have not been able to
turn up a thread on this subject.
I can use some help installing my new Seagate 1.5TB HD as a data
drive. Everything is telling me it is a 500GB drive, including the

Can anyone recommend an adapter that would allow me to connect a spare
IDE drive to a USB connector on my desktop? I want to Acronis image
direct to this drive. I'm not familiar with these adapters, as I usually
image to a partition, then copy across to a USB drive. I thought it

I have a maxtor external portable hard drive of 160GB and when I
connect it to my pc via 2 USB2.0 cables (one for power and data and
the other for data) data transfer is almost instant. When I connect it
to my router to use it as a Network/NAS drive, it takes ages to read/

My Win2K box is running on a nForce2-based mainboard (Delta ILSR by MSI) and
these boards would support IDE by default, but also provide additional SATA
support by a second controller.
This seems to be the problem where the Seagate guys did not test thoroughly

Are you affected?
Welcome, Seagate hard drive owners.  A number of Seagate hard drives
from the following families may become inaccessible when the host system
is powered on:

After unpacking the ISO that Seagate recently provided to address a
"bricking" bug in its Barracuda 7200.11 drives, I found the following
SD1A firmware image:
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/SD1AMOOS.LOD

Like any software tools? Thanks in advance. :)