I saw just today an add in the Frys catalog for a 120 gig...
Only $20 after rebates...

I think that Frys online sales are done at Outpost.com
I have never used the online sales...

See, I do...

Last month Frys had 120 gig Maxtors on sale and after the rebate they ended up costing $20...
Even though I didnt need one I picked up one and had a neighbor pic up one...

Either way get a backup...

Search the forum for IDE #0 Error...

There have been quite a few discussions about it.

About the warrantee.
If he bought a complete PC they will probably swap out the drive under warrantee. However it really is not a fault of the drive. If they do decide to look into the problem or...

Is that an SATA drive?

I have a customer in the same situation...

I set him up with two removeable drive bays...

He just switches one on then boots up...

He DID screw up and have both drives powered on and booted...

Look for the sata driver on your motherboard CD.
You will need to make a floppy with the sata drivers and hit F6 when XP asks about special drivers for Raid etc...

RAID requires two drives...

I would try booting a knoppix cd and using the linux tools to repartition it.

Since your manual said you lose one of your IDE's when You use the sata and you are not using the secondary ide I think you will find that the secondary IDE will not work for adding your new drive.
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the 52at quantum is a 50 meg ide drive.

You should be able to put it on a secondary ide cable (alone) on another newer machine and be able to read it and back it up.

You may need to set it on a...

Are you sure the sound you hear is not the cpu fan going bad and the lockup is related to the cpu overheating and not the hard drive?

Have you checked the cpu temp in cmos or with monitoring...

Do you have a backup of the system when it was working?

It would help if you gave us more information. How does the particle analyzer connect to this computer. Or do you simply enter data into...

Tools like partition magic can do the job but carry a risk factor as well.

I would just reformat the unused space and make it a D drive.

You can just Fdisk it then Format it....

I think you are answering your own question...

One of the reasons they dropped warantee from 3 years to 1 without paying an additional fee.

There are some nasty virus's out there that can wipe...

That is a small hard drive.

Less than 1 meg of free space is virtually the same as none...

Like the Weasel says..
What OS are you running?

What else have you installed, word processing,...

Dont give up hope quite yet...

What error message do you get? Does the drive spin up?
Have you tried a new data cable?

Did this drive ever work in this machine or did you just now plug it in....

Although it is probably the hard drive it could also be that the cmos is set to the wrong number of heads cyl and sectors...

See if the cmos shows the correct parameters for your hard drive.

If...

Yes all disc's are called media.

Yes there are different qualities of disc's

You can use any CD-R up to 52x
So if you find CD-R 48x they will work..

Did your hardware come with Nero?
It is...

If you are only running one drive then you are not running raid..
Raid is two (or more drives) one drive is a mirror of the other or it is stripped where two drives are acting as one to improve...

Is your existing drive ata or ide?

Have you made up a driver floppy from your MB CD...?

I would try and pull my existing OS drive and see if I could do a fresh install/setup (Hit F6 when asked...

Did you set the jumpers...
One should be set to master and the other set to slave...

Dont go to Dell.
There are many good suppliers for the hard drive you need.

You should not have any problems.
Make sure you have a SATA driver disk (floppy) available.
Check the CD that came with your motherboard...

What OS are you using?

Do you plan a fresh install...

Unlike IDE drives notebook drives get power through the same cable. I am just hesitant to plug it in and cross my fingers. I dont mind blowing a HD but my notebook is another matter and my wife...

On a notebook drive is Pin #1 towards the power connector (as I would expect) or is it away from the power connector.

I would suggest you check the manual that came with your enclosure.
It will tell you how to set your second hard drive...
My guess would be with no jumper.. ie master/stand alone..

You should...

This works great. I have used it many times over the years. The only problem you will run into is condensation.

You need to keep the drive cold but also limit air flow if you are in a high...

You do need to add a jumper to your original hard drive in order to add a second drive on the same cable.

If you are having trouble figuring that out you can add your second drive to the cable...

I'll try to make myself more clear..

Even though your existing drive works as a stand alone unit it often needs a jumper in order to add a second drive to the same cable.

Telling me the name of...

Did you set the jumper on the old hard drive to Master instead of stand alone or single drive? What is the drive type..?

You will need to pick up a Y adapter to add a power connection for the...

I picked up an adapter for laptop drives that will let me connect it to a standard IDE cable and it works great and was about $6.

IT has made setting up a laptop hard drive really easy...

I...

I would try two things...

Download Knoppix Live CD which is a bootable CD that will not write anything to your hard drives and see what you can save by moving data to another drive.

I would...

Yep you could just duct tape them all together...

If this is a business and people are going to pay for your service the professional appearance of these (cases) more than justifies the cost.
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You are on the right track with the hit F6 to install special drivers...

It should have promted you to insert a floppy with the drivers...

I have only installed XP on one system with SATA so...

I think if you try to run those drives without adding a power supply to the briefcase you are puting your laptop at risk.

It looks like you could use that adionics hot swap drive holder and a usb...

FIrst of all..
On Startup does your Bios/CMOS see a drive in the system?

Hit pause if things are going by too quickly or go into bios setup and verify that the drive shows up there.

More info...

I use both hard drives and dvd's.

Because HD's are a mechanical device I use them for daily backups but still do regular DVD burns.

Nero 6 does great multi DVD backup sets

My drive did that and about a month later it died completely...

All bios are a little different so I can only give you general instructions.

Usually you would enter the setup by pressing the delete key when you power up and see the memory test. DOnt hold the...

What format is the partition... NTFS or FAT32

You can use ghost 6.5 if not ntfs or the free 10 gig ghost for linux cd google as g4l

or if NTFS use ghost 7 or higher...