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- Non-standard RAID levels: RAID 5E and 5EE
- In my previous articleon non-standard RAID levels, I talked a bit about RAID 1E,which is a RAID level that provides RAID-10 like functionality, but with an oddnumber of disks. Although disks are pretty cheap these days, you never knowwhen you might need to save a few bucks on a project!In...
- Tags: Storage, Hardware, Hard drive/disk drive
- Technical articles 2007-05-29
- Follow these steps to secure your hard drive with Windows Vista BitLocker
- Windows Vista offers BitLocker, a new data protection feature that does volume-levelencryption on your hard disk drive. This new feature is supported in theEnterprise and Ultimate editions of Windows Vista to complement, and in somecases replace, Windows EFS Encrypting File System. To learn more about thedifferences between BitLocker and EFS...
- Tags: Authentication and encryption, BitLocker, GB NTFS Active System, George Ou, hard drive, Hard drive/disk drive, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Personal computers, Windows Vista
- Technical articles 2007-02-28
- How do I... Use the Disk Cleanup tool in Microsoft Windows Vista?
- This article is also available as a TechRepublic download and a TechRepublic gallery.Whilethe available cheap capacity of hard drives continues to grow toward terabytesize, there seems to be a never-ending need for more storage space. One of thebest ways to ward of a lack of remaining capacity on your hard...
- Tags: dialog screen, disk, Disk Cleanup, Disk Cleanup Tool, Hard drive/disk drive, Mark Kaelin, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Performance Information, tool, Windows Vista
- Technical articles 2007-02-23
- Bending the laws of physics to increase storage capacity
- If you've watched the storage market at all for the lastten years, you've seen a serious inversion in the relationship between priceand capacity. In short, today?s hard drives pack a whole lot more punch for awhole lot less green. At the same time, however, the capacity available hasonly barely kept...
- Tags: Computer components, grain, HAMR, hard drive, Hard drive/disk drive, Science, Scott Lowe MCSE, Storage
- Technical articles 2007-01-17
- Get to know the versatile eWay TK-63T--and install a hard drive yourself
- Note: This article is also available as a PDF download. For a complete set of images illustrating the harddrive install, be sure to check out this photo gallery.The eWay TK-63T computer system Figure A is an extremely small, energy sipping system that isperfect as a router, gateway, or other networking...
- Tags: Computer components, eWay TK-63T, hard drive, Hard drive/disk drive, Justin James
- Technical articles 2006-12-14
Additional Resources
- Hard Drive Not Detected
- So I have just bought a new hard drive. WD 80GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache. When I go through the bios startup, it recognizes my hard drive...slowly, but it does...then i insert my XP Installation Disk, go through everything, and when it comes to the point to partition the hard drive,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, mysteriousboi108@..., hard drive, XP INSTALLATION
- Discussion threads 2007-07-18
- The Disk in Drive F is not formmated
- i just installed Windows Xp Professional onto a brand new hard drive and after i got it all setup and everything, i turned off the computer to add my Other hard drive i use for storage ONLY [drive f]. it has never had a operating system installed...
- Tags: disk, Chkdsk, t.wilford@..., hard drive, extra hard drive
- Discussion threads 2007-08-14
- External hard disk problem
- Recently I format and install new osxp in my C drive; after that i cant asses my external hard disk(Maxtor 3200). If i try to asses, the error measge shows The drive is not formated Do you want format your hard drive? What happend to my external hard disk...
- Tags: bala_kans@..., hard drive, external hard-disk, ass
- Discussion threads 2007-05-07
- 2nd hard drive
- WinXP Pro. I added a second hard drive to my system. It is recognized in bios and devices manager but does not show on the windows explorer. This shows all other drives but not this one. ??? thanks in advance jessDisk ManagerIf it's a brandy new hard drive, you'll...
- Tags: mcnownjm@..., disk, Disk Manager, hard drive, Disk Management
- Discussion threads 2007-08-31
- New Hard Drive Installation
- I am installing a new hard drive in my PC. The old hard drive is partitioned, with "C:" being the Primary and "D" being Secondary. If I setup the old hard drive as the "Slave" can I just transfer the files from the old hard drive to the...
- Tags: new Hard Drive, old hard drive, hard drive, gbalonek@..., hardware, Serial ATA
- Q&A 2006-03-13
- Hard Drive detection in System bios Dell Inspiron 8600
- I was getting an error message on start up saying my hard drive was not detected. I bought a new hard, same manufacturer, Hitachi. Larger size, 160 GB VS 80 GB. I replaced the hard drive and nowo the systen bios does not see the new Hard...
- Tags: leebarroll@..., hard drive
- Discussion threads 2007-06-30
- External Hard Drive Defrag???
- I am about to purchase a external hard drive and a encloser I run disk keepers on my server should I run disk keepers or some hard drive monitor tool on this external drive or what would be the best soultion for external driveThanksdiskeeper is fine for defragmenting.so long as...
- Tags: hard drive, deerek11@..., hardware, diskeeper
- Q&A 2006-08-03
- NTFS hard disk now recognized as 'RAW'
- My Windows XP was recently corrupted and my hard disk was password protected. In an effort to retrieve my old info I slaved my hard disk to a friends PC. I changed the permissions on my old, slaved drive and all was well. I then installed a secondary 250 GB...
- Tags: NTFS, darksound_@..., primary slave, slave, hard drive
- Discussion threads 2007-07-14
- Laptop can not find hard drive
- I purchased an Acer Aspire 5315 laptop. It came with Windows Vista operating system. I didn't like Vista, so I used a program called Disk Kill to delete everything on the hard drive. I reformatted the hard drive, and tried to install Windows XP Pro. The install could not find...
- Tags: Notebooks, tnt696@..., hard drive, Microsoft Windows XP, Dell Inspiron, Microsoft Windows, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2007-11-13
- DriveSMART (exe)
- DriveSMART is an essential tool to report the health of your hard disk drive and can be used in tandem with CompuApps DriveWizard to save the contents of your hard disk drive before it crashes. DriveSMART utilizes the S.M.A.R.T. technology to track the status of the computer hard disks. Its...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Disk, DriveSMART
- Software downloads 2005-05-16
- Floppy disk drive in disk management
- i need to change my floppy disk drive letter! from z to e.which i know how to do, but for some reason my floppy disk drive does not appear in disk management yet it does appear in my computer and i can use it!!! any ideas on how to make...
- Tags: j.lyon@..., Floopy, floppy disk, disk
- Discussion threads 2007-07-31
- New Laptop Hard Drive and DVD drive
- Both my hard drive and dvd drive have recently stopped working so I purchased replacements. I assumed they would plug and play where I could install windows XP from the new DVD drive, but they computer doesnt recognize either. "Primay hard disk d
- Tags: hardware, windows, new harddrive, BIOS, mr_jonbag@..., DVD-drive, hard drive, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2006-12-26
- Help XP Windows Explorer doesn't display USB Hard drive
- I have a new Samsung 160GB IDE hard drive that I have put in an external USB case (Noontec Sunlite.) When I plug it into my laptop or desktop they both recognise it, install it and report that it is 'working.' However when I bring up windows explorer I don't...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, nikhildhyan2004@..., Disk Management, USB
- Discussion threads 2007-06-11
- hard disk drive error
- ok the problem is when i turn on my desktop pc it goes to a screen where it says my hard disk drive cannot be found the when i try to reload the OS windows xp it says the same thing no hard disk drive can be found can someone...
- Tags: Desktops, shai_khmer_boi@..., disk drive, hard drive
- Discussion threads 2007-04-19
- Disk Boot Failure
- I just intalled a new hard drive. It has been detected in Bios. I did a test and it is working fine. I tried to intstall windows XP (and my recovery disk, and the hard drive software) and all that happens is Boot Disk Failure, Please inseart...
- Tags: BIOS, sabrinadane@..., hard drive, disk
- Discussion threads 2007-09-13
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