Summary: Directon is a good source for cables. I bought some SATA cables before the holidays and they had the best prices by far! You need to know what you're ...
Summary: Well the ports were always working but there was that thing that would pop up that would say to connect to another port and that it would run faster t...
Summary: I'm pretty sure you could pick any port and It would work fine. The reason there are two different chips running your SATA ports is because the system...
Summary: Newer versions of Ghost can also be run from Windows too. Both start the backup image process from within Windows but then restart the computer to ma...
Summary: I recently bought 2x256MB SDRAM SODIMM modules (unbuffered, non-ECC) to replace my existing 2x64MB modules in my Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop. However, t...
Summary: If you reformat (restore) from the image partition on the hard drive, all the drivers that came with the system originally should be installed by the ...
Summary: Of course you need to install drivers and also software to control what is shown on each display. WinXP is much older than the new cards. You can't ...
Summary: Is Vista currently running on the mechanical hard drive? If so, just temporarily disconnect it and then set the SSD to be the first boot device in th...
Summary: Apart from backing up your files. You would do best to create an Image of your drive. Use something like macrium reflect free. UK MP's are thieving...
Summary: Virtually all hard drives have a tiny percentage of bad sectors. All hard drives since very early IDE drives have a small percentage of sectors on the...
Summary: Hello. I just stumbled across this forum while searching for answers. I hope someone can help with this question: I have a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop r...
Summary: In the olden days & still valid for smaller hard drives, the calculation used to be: Sector size times sectors/track times tracks/cylinder times the n...
Summary: A few bad sectors is not a bad thing. However, when they begin to breed, it is generally a sign the disc is on the way out, and best replaced soonest...
Summary: I think best solution for me is to buy a new HD, computer is 5 years old. I scanned the HD after it starting randomly rebootin. Thought i fixed it by ...
Summary: I hope you still have the old drive to copy from. Use Acronis true Image to make an image of the drive, do not clone sector by sector. An image will n...
Summary: Hi there I just formatted a Compact Flash Card using Windows 2000. With a little application I wrote, I'm now trying to read the entire content of the...
Summary: don't try recovering the bad sectors. it will only aggravate the problem. you are lucky those sectors are marked bad. no data will be stored there. H...
Summary: what happened is my mobile phone cover has a strong magnetic catch that was placed on laptop (by accident) and since that night its had errors, i did ...
Summary: Hi, My 40G laptop HD has some bad sectors. By trial and error I have been able to isolate the bad area. I have partitioned off the good sector (25G) a...
Summary: Assuming you didn't round 128gb actually seen by the bios up to 130gb, the bios should see the drive as it's true 250gb size, but it may be seen as 13...
Summary: Hey I have a hard drive that is going bad. It is making noises and then when I try to boot up it gives me a message that ntoskrnl.exe is corrupt or mi...
Summary: Chuck? Noone by the name of Chuck even replied. ham30 wrote that about the sectors. Even if i do a surface scan it still shows trying to recover alloc...
Summary: Knowing how old your hard disk is and what File System you are using would help. When a disk is formatted, space is reserved for the re-allocation of ...
Summary: Here is info from a book I've just read about hard drives. It was an older book discussing 386 and 286 computers, but I think the basics are still ac...
Summary: You can run SCANDISK several times and it will flag the bad areas. If lucky, the drive can run for years with a few bad ones. But on modern drives, i...
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