Hard Drives

Windows Server 2003 ISASS.EXE System error

I recently removed and re installed my hard drives from my HP server running windows server 2003 and when i restarted the server i received the following message ISASS.EXE - SYSTEM ERROR Security accounts manager initialization failed because of the following error: directory service cannot start....

Missing Disk Space 1TB HDD

Missing Disk Space Hi, have two 1TB HDD's not set up in raid config... (1 listed as C other as D) Recentley moved lots of pics to back up in D... in calculating used space i have noted a loss of 121.6G that i cannot account for. I have pc set up with two users... is it a case of that other users...

Low level formatting for Microsoft Vista

I reinstalled vista os in hope of reinstalling a fresh copy of program, but the program installation it keeps on detecting old copy of this program. I had formatted both drives on machines. How can i remove these hidden program copies? Is there a better way of formatting?

Hard Drive replacement procedure

I have a Dell Latitude D 620 Laptop. I would like to upgrade the internal Hard Drive. What is the procedure to copy the entire HD to an external HD, swap out the internal drive, and then completely restore all of the SW ?

Windows 2003 Enterprise server not seeing new HDrives

Hi there. We have a windows 2003 server here in the office that we just put 4 new 34.6gb HDs in for a total of 6. The drives are running RAID 5. When we first put them in the HP system management software the admin uses to track the RAID arrays and what not had the new ones listed as in Logical...

Cannot find Windows XP ID key

I have just formatted my hard drive and discovered that the Windows XP ID key can not be found. What do I do?

Is a Dell D620 compatible with an SSD?

One of our users is interested in upgrading their laptop drive to a SSD. He currently has the following laptop: Dell D620 (vanilla flavour) He would like to upgrade his drive to the following SSD: Intel X25-M 80GB SSD purchase Does anyone know if this is compatible? I called Dell Support, but...

Command used when replacing a HDD with another from a different PC

Hi Guys, I want to find out about a command that is used when I replace a hard drive with another one from another PC (already installed with windows XP), I know that when you do that, it will give a blue sreen. but when you run this command (on the hard drive you putting in) before shutting it...

AS/400 Hard Drive Copying

To anyone's knowledge, can an AS/400 68-pin SCSI 1GB hard drive be copied or "cloned" such that the new drive will boot up exactly the way the original did (i.e., like "Ghosting" a PC drive)? Is there any other way to deal with a drive that is experiencing random seek errors that prevent an AS/400...

lost hard drive segments

have a sata 80gig (c)drive, but is only showing 31, also have a ide (d)320gig drive(slave)this is only showing 74.5 in my computer. BIOS shows but drives as normal?

SATA hard drive, unable to get it to work in my computer.

Can it be a problem with my power supply that the BIOS detects it now and then (most of the time NOT!) I cannot understand THIS. The drive receive power -it spins! SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!! all of the drive cables was now replaced. The drive work on other computers -NOT ON MYN!

how the hard disk and RAM are accessed to perform read and write operation.

RAM read and write operation.

Lost info on external drive

I was using a sandisk 80G external drive. I was working on a word document saved on it. I saved many times while working on the document. When I tried to close it, I was prompted as asked if I wished to save the document before closing. I clicked on yes and the prompt went away but the document...

Bad sectors

How to identify bad sectors in a hard disk and eliminate them

Are Hard Drives Destined To Be Extinct?

With the onset of ever-increasing storage space on flash drives is it ok to ask the experts here if the hard drive technology will soon be obsolete only to be overtaken by flash drives and 3D memory chips ?

Raid 0 Set up internal to external drive

I have a Dell 420xps. It came with a 320gb sata drive. I have added a 500gb "internal" hard drive. I also added a 250gb USB "external" hard drive and a 500gb eSata "external" hard drive. I would like to run raid 0 on the 500gb internal and 500gb external and leave the other 2 as they are. Can this...

Will adding eATA interfere with my current RAID setup?

I just go a new eATA 1.5 TB harddrive what i like to ad to my setup as data back up drive on board i have 4 eATA conections 2 are used for raid 0 this is the setup CybertronPC X-Cruiser SLI AMD Gaming PC – AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 2.6GHz, 4GB DDR2-667, 2x250GB SATA II (RAID 0), DL DVD±RW, 2x...

Proper procedure for recovering Windows Native Backup of information store?

Our Exchange 2000 Server runs on a Windows 2000 SP4 server and was the only Exchanger server on the network (BDC). The hard drive in the Exchange 2000 server failed completely. I do have a backup of the information store created using Windows Native Backup utility. So what are the correct recovery...

vista cannot show all my hdd partitions

thanks for the previous help, now i am running xp and vista in dual boot , but when i log on into vista and i go to( my computer) it is showing all the drives partitions except the one that xp installed on ....is there any solution for that ?....thanks

compatible hard drive

This is a 2002 Gateway 700x . What to upgrade hard drive