choosing an enclosure or an external hard drive. I hear from a lot of people that an enclosure is not as reliable as an external hard drive and that they fail pretty easily. But looking for external hard drives is just as hard. There are way too many and I...

External Hard drive plugged in. Once up and running it treated my Ext. drive as an internal hard drive under 'My Computer'. When I clicked on it, Windows asked my if I wanted to format it. I said 'No' and removed the Ext. hard drive. I then tried...

MySATA External Hardrive. I have a huge problem, I recently formatted a SATA external hard drive to my computer so I could restore the computer. Now I have a problem because the computer no longer reads the hard drive and I have pictures that cannot be replaced...

Laptop Hard Drive Major problem - Urgent help needed!!. Hi All, I am hoping against hope that someone can assist me. I have an Acer laptop with a seagate hard drive. The laptop was having major problems starting - it would just about boot up in safe mode...

If important data or backup clones are stored in the second hard drive we can use that. An additional partition in the hard disk drive does not help in the case of hard disk failure. USB drives (pen drives or external hard disk drives) are awfully slow. I...

go to a usb2 enclosure with a hard drive in it. My OS is Winxp. I am using this external hard drive for my backup files. In Winxp everything work fine. What I need is a dos boot disk that can access the external hard drive. Any ideas how I can find...

installations. Even HP provides a true installation CD with some models. One just has to ask _before_ making the purchase. -- Bruce Chambers Help us help you: You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both...

The drive letter assignments won't change. In DOS and Windows 9x/ME, drive letters were assigned in the same order they were discovered by the BIOS: each physical drive was scanned to note the primary and active partition on that drive to assign a drive...

that write speed would decrease significantly, so I guess I'll just backup often on external hard drives. Any help will be greatly appreciated! Pablo. Hello, I just received a Dell Precision 7500 with 3 hard drives (SAS 450GB 15k) and a DELL PERC 6i...