Why we can create only a maximum of 4 primary partitions in a Hard Disk?
how can i retrieve information from a portable hard drive if the power source in the drive is no longer working. it shorted out. i tried to plug it into my desktop and when i do it will not let my hard drive startup.
Ok I know this will sound a little stupid but I really didn't think about it. My wife recently Erased an entire TB of data from my home computer. she has no business using that drive anyways I was fortunate that a data recovery program got about 90% of it back. To safe guard the drive from her I...
I will be upgrading my computer components with a new motherboard and currently have a RAID-0 setup with my old mb's built-in Promise FastTrak 378 controller. I also have a Promise FastTrak TX4310 pci card controller with another RAID-0 setup. Both have two drives each. Will I lose data on either...
Hi, I have Windows XP media on my desktop. I record TV programs on my hard drive. The hard drive is almost full. I have an external 550Gigabyte drive. How can I point my recording to default to the external drive ?. Thanks
When I plug my external hard drive into the USB, it does absolutely nothing. It doesn't recognize that a device has been connected at all. I know it's not a problem with the hard drive itself, because it works just fine when I plug it into my laptop, and I know it's not a problem with the USB port...
About once a week my windows server 2003 locks up completely and I have to hit the power to reboot. It can happen when it is just sitting there or when I have something open, never the same program. Could this be a possible hard drive problem?
I have a WD 300 GB drive that I was using as a portable drive in a USB2 enclosure. The drive worked fine for almost 3 years. All of a sudden I'm having trouble accessing certain folders on the drive. I thought the drive was failing and got my photos (the most important) off of the drive. Next I...
What has worked (and not crashed) for you when looking at a 1TB External Hard Drive. Most of the feedback I find is from a very short user timeframe. I need to know who has used something for more than 6 months or a year.
I am getting ready to do clean re-install of Windows XP... I currently am running Windows XP with 2 hard drives 20gb and a 300gb... The 20gb has the OS and the 300gb has my music and movies... I am planning on keeping the data that is on the 300gb Hard drive and just formatting and putting Windows...
I want to know the Practical / Technical and Management information on how to operate the hard disks can someone help


