I got a small Gateway desktop and it's hard to open the DVD drive.
You have to push really hard and slow on the button, or sometimes you
have to open the hinged part first.  Sometimes I've had to look for
an

I have a Seagate ST3500320AS 7200.11 500GB hard drive that I need a
board for.  The Dell computer it came with overheated and fried the
board.
The board has the following information below:

I want to efficiently clone a number of SATA harddrives.  Instead of
purchasing an expensive dedicated drive cloning box, I wonder if there
are fast PCIe SATA disk controller cards which are able to directly
clone disks using appropriate software. Either ont-to-one or one-to-two

Can someone recommend a vendor who sells a slot cover that has two External
SATA ports that wire internally to the motherboard I-SATA connectors?

I want to mirror 2 disks mirror using RAID.
Can this be done on a 750GB and 500GB disk?
It's a single user desktop running XP with RAID provided by a PCI card.
Might change the mobo to one with RIAD if it's better?

Hell
this is my first post here, i have found these groups to be ver
useful, and i want to enrich them by adding an interesting question. h
he ;

Does anyone know of a SATA host adapter that will work with the Quantum DLT
V4 SATA external tape drive?    Plugging this into a Promise TX4302 it did
not appear to Windows XP.

I have a  Toshiba MK3021GAS 30GB Laptop Hard Drive which has been in
my laptop for a long time (>4 years).
Recently, after I did a hard reset, Windows XP failed to boot off of
it. Gave me an 0x0000ED error (UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME error). I tried

I'm looking for a boot manager that allows me to have multiples OS
partitions on my C drive, but with the inactive partitions hidden, and
an easy way to select the OS to boot when you turn on your system. I'm
willing to spend some money to get a reliable and solid product.

Windows won't start, boot from Acronis Trueimage CD to recover a backup and
it says
"Unable to read from Sector 5.062 etc of hard Disk 1" when I look for
backups to restore

We have a Western Digital WD6400AACS "green" 640GB drive in an external SATA
enclosure attached to a Dell computer through a Promise TX4302 two port
external SATA adapter.     If we power on the SATA drive and then power on
the computer, the drive is seen by the Promise BIOS.    ...

Anyone recommend a windows (or a something on a bootable disk maybe)
disk tool that can exercise drives (read and write)?  Preferably
something that works with USB drives too.
I need something I can leave running for a few hours as I've been given

Hi group,
Background; A friend has a Fujitsu Siemens laptop with an 80 GB HD.
There are only abt 12 GB files and folders on it, but still Windows
says there is only a handful GB free space on it. So there must be

I have a question just out of curiosity.
I notice with ZIP discs and floppies, the disc is a soft dark-brown
round film-like material that can easily be shredded -- with paper-
shredder -- to remove confidential information.

I got a new hard drive and have started moving data off some over full
(90%) hard drives.
What sort of amount of percentage fullness should I aim for?
I'm hoping there's a "knee" in the graph which shows fullness versus