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hard drive gone bang (long post)
For instance, copying Unreal from my scsi cdrom to ata66 is pretty quick, but installing from the ata66 cd copy to a directory on the same hard drive is excruciating to watch. With FastTrak66 and one more of this drive, you can easily get about sustained 35MB/s of 40GB storage for only about $400. "for sure"?

New Hard Drive
That machine Configuration are SR440 Intel Mother Board with 128 RAM and 40GB Harddisk with the Installing the Windows 2000 server Family under the Domain. Oh no, I think it have the problem may be IDE Controller or Cable. (After use the seagate HARDDISK I detect the data cable have Problem).

Windows Update
In either configuration, I get a yellow exclamation mark for the VIA busmaster IDE controller. The following is from FIC's motherboard support FAQ for the 503A: Dear Customer: You current Bios JN413 can support any HDD larger than 40GB. Please trying to use different HDDs to see how it works.

resume from standby problem after moving to a new hard drive
Hi all, I upgraded my seagate 40GB IDE drive to a Western Digital 8mb cache 80GB IDE hard drive and reinstalled Windows XP home. Most likely you didnt have ACP enabled in the bios before installing XP. Unfortunately the easiest way to deal with that is to enable it in the bios and then do a complete clean

Failure install HDs properly
I've got 2 40Gb IBM drives - both toast. A 30Gb Maxtor - toast. Several WDs - toast. I've got SCSI drives which are toast, IDE drives which are toast, and I think I've even got one of the old Seagate MFM drives which is toast thanks to the infamous "stiction" problem. [1] On average, I see about one drive a month

New Invalid boot.ini / XP new install
I had a Seagate hard drive which was shipped with ATA-33 features turned on and ATA-66 turned off. I need to download a utility to turn on ATA-66 support. Yves "NiPo. 5400rpm I have the right IDE cables (now!), I've tried defrag, and installing XP SP1, but to no avail! Any ideas? Thanks for any help! N. .

Connection of Drives and Motherboard change
I have a pc with a 6GB hard drive. I just installed (physically) a 40GB Maxtor drive, but it wasn't recognised when booting up. My IDE bus speed is I went through the same exercise yesterday, with a 40 GByte Seagate disk, and the BIOS refused to recognise it until I jumpered it down to a capacity of 32 GBytes.

Reminder: defragment your hard drive
I guess I'll just take the wait and see and if this drive goes, Well I'll buy a seagate. I don't know what else to try John -----Original Message----- Well get a load of this. tried to run msconfig and recieved .... Maxtor 80GB SATA (XP) Maxtor 60GB (IDE #1 Primary) Maxtor 40GB (IDE #1 Slave) Help, Thanks John . . . .

Upgrading to XP
Linux uses designations like /dev/hda1 for the first partition on the first hard drive, hda2 for the second, hdb1 for the first partition on the 2nd I just tried a number of times installing RH 7.3, 8.0 and Mandrake 8.2 on an old Compaq Deskpro 4000 with an Evergreen Spectra 400 400Mhz AMD K6-2 CPU upgrade.

OS X is PROOF linux that sucks!
^_^ no_s...@confidential.x alt windows-me I really don't see a point of installing ultra 100 controller, since Maxtor DiamondMax(TM) Plus 40GB 7200rpm maximum speed I have Seagate Barracuda 4 with transfer To/From media of 555Mbits/s (69.375 MB/s), and I did notice a small difference between my motherboard

a7v-600 SATA WinXP
I have installed a new SATA 120gb Seagate today (partitioned into 10gb primary and the rest extended) alongside my 2 exisiting 40gb IDE drives. After changing the relevant BIOS settings I managed to boot to it and install Windows XP (along with pressing F6 and installing the RAID driver when prompted).

How to fix K7S5A slow hard drive - (was- Re: K7S5A hates ...
Personal choice is Seagate for either SCSI in servers or IDE in desktops, The cache flush problem does not apply to XP. I would like it to give me the screen that says 'All right to shutdown computer now' (something like that, I haven't seen this message since installing XP) I figure that the cache would be

Bad sector with O/C?
Thanks David I understand you are replacing your existing HD not installing a new HD and then installing XP on that. Have a look at http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=418 (page 2 references maxtor's Maxblast software - link now broken (seagate now own maxtor) but see

Unexplained pulses of disk activity
Yes, I always use DI's high compression, and I always save to a HDD partition that I have set up only for DI images and some other backup files. I think I mentioned that when I installed a new Maxtor 40GB drive as Drive0, I restored the images of my old 6.4GB drive's partitions (after partitioning and

resume from standby problem after moving to a new hard drive
On a older version of Sandra my hard drive benchmarked at around 4000. That is very very slow. After installing the file below my hard drive benchmarks at 28000! All are running with various 40gb. UDMA 100 HDDs, Seagate WD and Maxtor. DMA is enabled on all. Latest manufacturers chipset drivers installed on all.

20GB drive w/Warp 4?
I think I mentioned that when I installed a new Maxtor 40GB drive as Drive0, I restored the images of my old 6.4GB drive's partitions (after partitioning I only have a 200 Mhz w/MMX Pentium ATA 33 (even though the Maxtor's a ATA-66 The Seagate's a 5400 rpm (well, I thought... the website or PDF file say 4500.

Save a HDD from being formatted for Windows.
Basically you want to take out your old 40GB hard drive and relpace it with the 200GB (then at a later date add another 200GB hard drive). I HAVE GOT NEW FD + IDE-B LEADS What it was I can,t format the new harddrive .I have had a go installing it .I installed stuff from seagate no of vel!

goingoing 2 build my own DAW can anybody give some input into ...
Just in case you haven't been following the "Need some techie help" thread, let me fill you in: I'm installing a new, full version of XP with SP2. (800fsb) RAM: 2x 512MB DDR 3200 HDD-1: 80GB Seagate sata (NTFS) HDD-2: 40GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40 Ultra ATA 100 (FAT32) IDE-1 Slave: AOpen DVD IDE-2 Slave: BENQ

New Invalid boot.ini / XP new install
It is not absolutely clear why the services must be set to automatic, but I'm guessing that there are cases when installing an update requires the user to reboot the computer and the System Info: OS: Windows XP Pro SP2 CPU: Pentium P4 2.4GHz RAM: RAMBUS 1.5Gb HDD: IDE Seagate 40Gb 7Gb free Can anyone help me?

New Hard Drive
In the mean time I bought a new 40Gb Barracuda IV Fresh out of the box I plugged it in without any other drives present on the IDE bus 1 and nothing, Since this has happened I have received a replacement for 20Gb disk back from Seagate and am now shit scared of installing it in case that goes bang too I am also