I dropped my external hard drive and now it just beeps and will not work. Any ideas on how I can recover the data?

mike

11-28-2006 03:57 PM
Arno Wagner

Hi, Anyone help with this..... ....just got nice new additional hard drive..can't get it to go....what happens when I attach it..Windows XP won't...

John Jones

11-28-2006 01:12 PM
RAID!!!

A friend gave me a Western Digital WD800 drive. It has a strange connector on the end. In place of the normal 40 pin connector, or 80 wire 40-pin...

mm

11-27-2006 03:43 PM
Shelly K.

I have a 2-year-old Dell Dimension from an old job that I beefed up with a new SATA board and 2 new Seagate 320GB 7200rpm SATA-2 drives. I sometimes...

Spammay Blockay

11-27-2006 12:45 PM
Spammay Blockay

I pulled a IBM Travelstar disk from a T21 (I know it works fine, the problem on the laptop was with the motherboard). I connected it to a Argosy...

aribloch@gmail.com

11-26-2006 03:16 PM
Eric Gisin

I have just bought an external hard drive and would like to play around with some linux distros. My motherboard doesn't support booting from a...

Michael

11-26-2006 10:25 AM
Arno Wagner

Michael Cecil wrote: He hasn't said that the drive is necessarily bad. He just said his power supply failed, and then when he replaced it, the...

Sam

11-25-2006 02:14 PM
Folkert Rienstra

Anybody knows what kind of HD inside of this, a notebook HD or not? Does Maxtor have its own notebook 2.5" drives?

Rey

11-25-2006 01:42 PM
Folkert Rienstra

Currently I have an 80GB HDD on my Dell Dimension 5150 and in desperately in need of a secondary drive. I've found the one I want, a Western Digital...

Oliver

11-25-2006 01:16 PM
Rod Speed

Hello and happy thanksgiving. I ran chkdsk on my drive with both auto fix and try to recover enabled, and now most of my files are gone. What is a...

Irwin

11-25-2006 02:08 AM
Edwin vMierlo

Hi, I have an Atlas II 15K 147 gig SCSI drive on an Adaptec controller. I keep getting corrupt mft's and volumes when I add more than 50 or so...

Randy Starkey

11-24-2006 07:20 PM
Randy Starkey

Of all the different computers on the market today, what kind of computer would benefit from memory optimization software? Laptops? Servers?...

JehanNYNJ@aol.com

11-24-2006 09:37 AM
Arno Wagner

I'm trying to shrink my Windows98 partiton but Ranish tells me the minimum size is only 44 less than the current size (current: 40,017,852 minimum:...

glue

11-22-2006 06:10 PM
Arno Wagner

I have a Maxtor drive here, it's a 120GB DiamondMax Plus9 SATA drive, model 6Y120M0. One of the components on the controller card have fried,...

nospam@wd01.co.uk

11-22-2006 08:19 AM
nospam@wd01.co.uk

In article <45635A3A.D30F4A41 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com>, Odie Ferrous wrote: computer again. Can't get the staff these days ... <SIGH> just as...

Aidan Karley

11-22-2006 07:05 AM
Aidan Karley

Total newbie here, are these any...

Keith Wilby

11-22-2006 05:57 AM
Keith Wilby

(Home PC question) I have a Dell Dimension 5150 with 1 x 160Gb SATA II - Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, photos, music 1 x 120GB IDE - Vista...

nigel.l.jones@gmail.com

11-21-2006 03:25 PM
Folkert Rienstra

Is the Corsair Voyager Flash Drive supposed to have a USB cable included or does it depend on the size? I've looked on a couple different sites but...

Mike S.

11-21-2006 05:07 AM
Uwe Sieber

"Michael Cecil" <macecil (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote Yep, you have to make it clear to those stupid drives that ze- roes are meaningful data and...

Edward

11-20-2006 04:20 PM
Fred

SCSI Products Thanksgiving Deals at SCSI4ME. Save 50% or more on selected items Offer valid from 11/17 -...

DZJZ79@gmail.com

11-20-2006 12:05 PM
DZJZ79@gmail.com

Hello, I currently have an enourmous amount of media and othe leisure programs that are installed on my computer that take up a huge amount of space,...

music man

11-20-2006 08:58 AM
Anna

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Howard Rose <howardusenet (AT) googlemail (DOT) com> wrote: Linux still supports DD 6.25" floppy...

frethoa@aol.com

11-19-2006 08:42 PM
Arno Wagner

"Andreas Keppler" <andreas.keppler (AT) googlemail (DOT) com> wrote Which is perfectly attainable with USB too. I would even go so far as saying...

Olin K. McDaniel

11-17-2006 07:02 PM
jeslpd-google@yahoo.com

I've a Toshiba HDD 40 GB, locked with ATA Password. I'm not interested in datas. Just would like to remove the password. What have I to do?

Qbert

11-17-2006 06:10 PM
Fred

I completely understand why SpinRite only runs under DOS. What I don't understand is why SpinRite is even aware of filesystem types. For the longest...

Jon Forrest

11-17-2006 02:56 PM
Folkert Rienstra

I use XPHome/SP2 NTFS and I've got a couple of the above. I notice they are formatted to FAT. Can they be formatted to NTFS or am I stuck...

Mike Gasson

11-17-2006 01:47 PM
Mike Gasson

I need a freeware tool to test disk drives at swapmeets. Seagate has a tester called seatools online. It installs an active-x browser component that...

mike

11-17-2006 11:33 AM
mike

Hi, I was hastily reassembling my pc and inadvertently I switched a couple pins of the USB cable, (the one which connects to the additional...

pamelafluente@libero.it

11-17-2006 07:02 AM
Arno Wagner

I got charged $105 to have the data transferred from one HD to another: D: to C: and vice versa (80g IDE, 60g SATA). Was going to do it myself, but...

shegeek72

11-17-2006 05:52 AM
Bob Willard

I have tried to install the New SuseLinuxEntepriseDesktop on my desktop. But i forgot to unplug my external HD. So the default installation of linux...

flaplante@gmail.com

11-17-2006 05:10 AM
mscotgrove@aol.com

DonLogan wrote: Hello, Don: "Spring cleaning," in November? <g> Cordially, John Turco <jtur (AT) concentric (DOT) net>

John Turco

11-17-2006 04:26 AM
John Turco

Hi Folks: I'm on a quest for something new - for something old. I'm not even sure it exists. Here at work, we use laptops in the field to do...

HarryHydro

11-16-2006 01:24 PM
Rod Speed

Hi Folks: I'm on a quest for something new - for something old. I'm not even sure it exists. Here at work, we use laptops in the field to do...

HarryHydro

11-16-2006 01:22 PM
Rod Speed

Hi Folks: I'm on a quest for something new - for something old. I'm not even sure it exists. Here at work, we use laptops in the field to do...

HarryHydro

11-16-2006 11:26 AM
Arno Wagner

Check out: www.Brandon-Lands.com

lion365@fastmail.fm

11-16-2006 05:54 AM
lion365@fastmail.fm

I took an image of my OS drive to a series of DVDs using True Image v9, but the "Volume 1" disc is empty except for "Acronis Media" being in...

Keith Wilby

11-16-2006 02:53 AM
Keith Wilby

Had an IBM Travelstar 20GB from a Dell laptop I was recovering data from. Initial tests showed bad sectors and it would intermittently show...

02befree

11-15-2006 05:03 PM
02befree

My mainboard (ASrock K7VT4APro/VIA KT400A) supports ATA133 and so does my hard drive (160Gt Samsung). Currently HDD is running in UDMA5 (ATA100) mode...

De Moni

11-15-2006 01:13 PM
Rod Speed

Check out: www.Brandon-Lands.com

Brandon Lands

11-15-2006 06:35 AM
Brandon Lands

I have a Windows 2000 server, SP4. It is a Dell "edge" system which means no possable way to install another internal HDD. Here is the problem: I...

Homer

11-14-2006 04:42 PM
Rod Speed

Hi all, I have a very strange problem on my hard drive. One week ago, my PC badly crashed and damaged the MBR. So I began to work on it to...

raoulvolfoni.en.personne@gmail.com

11-14-2006 12:53 PM
Svend Olaf Mikkelsen

Previously Michael Cecil <macecil (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote: Or if it is older, without a serial port. The serial port is the original...

Ed

11-14-2006 09:38 AM
Arno Wagner

Could someone point me to an faq regarding rules for partitioning, I currently have two versions of windows xp pro & 1 vista installed which are...

trevaaaaaaa

11-13-2006 04:02 PM
VWWall

I got my WD My Book Essential (250 Gigs) installed using USB 2.0, thanks to the replies I got on an earlier thread. Now that it's up and running,...

BRH

11-13-2006 12:32 PM
Eric Gisin

Relative has a Win98 PC with a small drive. They don't need a bigger drive but the one they have is failing. I've got an 80G drive going spare...

CWatters

11-12-2006 02:44 PM
CWatters

Looking at several file backup programs and they all seem to want to backup a session into some big file with a strange file extension like a cab...

02befree

11-11-2006 04:31 PM
Arno Wagner

Previously Jerry Peters <jerry (AT) example (DOT) invalid> wrote: Sounds reasonable. Arno

Groucho

11-11-2006 06:07 AM
Arno Wagner

Hey. There are various brands that offer an external 500 GB USB 2 drive. I've noticed that the one from maxtor has a 16 MB buffer while most other...

name

11-10-2006 11:33 PM
Arno Wagner

Hi any comment on this sort of thing ? takes 4 drives external from the pc in its own case all removable - thinking SATA by the way unit has a...

bored

11-10-2006 06:05 PM
bored

I need to check many dozens of hard drives and make sure they're error free and ready to install an OS. What's the fastest way to do this? I thought...

JakkyTchong@yahoo.com

11-09-2006 08:31 PM
timeOday