i think you could just make a image of the drive for when you need to reinstall windows ,and just backup created data on a storage drive ,don't see the need of creating image all the time . fail to...

hi right clik on myomputer lick manage then go to disk manager , look for unpartitioned /unaloated harddrive ,its posiable you may need to format the ret of the drive to create a 2nd partition , thi...

call me paranoid, your paranoid ! really .
what i would suggest is what i have ,a usb device for the drive and make it external

agree !
my laptop harddrive case has 2 usb plugs one for data one for power! i paid 25$ cdn for enclosure and picked up a 40gig hdd for free !

i use a 40 GIG LAPTOP DRIVE IN A usb EXTERNAL CASE all the time to carry files/programs ,and in my opinion are more reliable than my thumbdrive i have had over time!

i have never see such a large drive in action ,but i see no reason why it wouldn't work as a storage dive ,and as for size it would depend on your need !

if you are just going to use it as a usb storage device it should work ,if you are going to want to boot to it with windows installed on it then it may not work

not sure about ez-scsi ,i see it when google search for it but kind of privey ,and only seems to be for win95-to 2000,

i have an older scsi drive and adaptc card that i installed in a few...

hi, you will need to install the drivers for scsi adapter when install windows ,by hiting f6 when you boot to windows cd. you will need the drives on a floppy disk[there may be other ways ,but...

hello ,not sure of the actually numbers lost ,but when you format any hardrive it changes the gigs size and its always less.
i have a 160gig ,2 partitions ,but they only total 149 gig so i lost 11...

now if i could just follow my own advice for my personal computer i wouldn't be hear at 4am backing up s-hit,before this hdd crashes and while im doing my income taxes .

the best way to have It, one for OS and one for storage/backup , when windows OS gets corrupt you don't loose all the important data ,just format c:\ and reload windows

if you format the 137 ,you can get the use of the rest of of the 500 by going to management tools in the maintenance section in the control panel and using the disk management section to format the...

no ,if you had a master and a slave drive all ready ,then it should be just a matter of making sure the new drive is set to slave and hooked to same cable as old slave drive and it should have worked...

without seeing you have the jumper's right there isn't much i can say except maybe you got a bad hdd!

the recommended one is the windows version ,it will run from the winxp you have if you can get the computer too boot with both drives installed / if you can't just hook the drive as master on the...

yeah i do believe it needs to be formatted ,but you also have problem starting computer with it installed ,try installing it a master on the secondary ide channel ,were the cdrom is , i will post a...

the name of the hdd involved would have been nice.
anyway ,the new drive is brand new i assume ,has it been formated ,did it come with hdd utilities disk to help you set it up.

type or copy paste , this into run, %SystemRoot%\system32\compmgmt.msc /s

go to disk management ,if its there highlite it and right click on the icon and format the drive maybe

don't know for sure but this might help.
http://www.chrysocome.net/explore2fs

This is what i would do ,disconnect the windows xp drive ,use a win98 boot disk ,boot to dos prompt run FDISK ,and delete non-dos partitions ,create new dos partition and format the drive ,then...

Are you trying to flash your bios or install a hard drive