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 | [COLOR=black]Hello, I have a Maxtor 5000Le 80GB external unit. I am running Windows XP Pro. I've had this unit for years and it has been great. About a month ago my computer locked when booting and after checking out all my external hardware, I found out that this unit had … |
| | [COLOR=#000000]There is no master and slave relationship in a Sata. You can set the disk as a Master or a single disk on its own if there is a setting for such. Go out to purchase an external hard disk enclosure, insert the century-old hard drive in it, hook it … |
| | [COLOR=#000000]I Found and used this programs the other day and it worked well. It's a small very easy to use application called Salvage Recovery™ for Windows and is easy to use. I just had to recover the deleted file to a different drive to keep from overwriting, etc. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][B]You … |
| | [COLOR=#000000]Well if you get her HD out, you would need an external HD enclosure to plug it in so you could connect it to your Mac to start with... And depending if it is formatted in FAT32 (you can read and write to it) or NTFS (read only) you get … |
| | [COLOR=#000000]Vista Vista !!! I don’t know how many people are facing problems during upgrading there system with Vista. But I should not have upgraded my system with that. I’ve had my karma about 6 months, initially I had a few problems with it freezing etc but nothing major. Then last … |
| | [COLOR=#000000]Hello, Last night we had a Hard Disk crash and as some of you know this is a very stressful thing and keeps you awake for two days or so. It is 20 hours later and most accounts are restored. We need a lot of server tweaking the next couple … |
| | [COLOR=black]The "clean room" issue is bound to be less of an obstacle to you than your obvious (all respect due) lack of experience in replacing heads. Head stack replacement is *not* easy at the best of times, and you have chosen one of the more difficult drives to work on. … |
| | [COLOR=#000000]I was on my laptop, Inspiron 8100, and everything was fine, no errors or anything. Took a break and when I came back my computer had a black screen. I tried to restart and it goes to the dell load page and windows XP pro page but that’s it. It … |
| | [COLOR=black]It could be bad sectors / damage to partition table or file system structure in such away that it will hang the system. I suggest downloading manufacture disk drive test or you can try the partition repair/data recovery software by “[B]Salvage Data [/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][B]Recovery Lab Inc”.[/B][COLOR=black] You can find it easily … |
| | [COLOR=black]I am receiving about two of these drives daily. (Momentus 5400.2) Without exception, they are manufactured in China, and have firmware 7.01. Also, they are all out of Mac computers. Is anyone else coming across these? Has anyone successfully managed to repair one?[/COLOR] |
| | [COLOR=black]My 12' apple power book’s hard drive has crashed and 2 other data recovery companies have been unable to recovery my data which includes business apps and about 3000 digital pics of my 13 month old son... ech...that will teach me to verify backup data.. Anyone have an opinion if … |
| | [COLOR=black]For a proprietary drive like the Big Disk, the easiest and probably the most cost effective thing to do is to buy another drive. Assuming that the circuit board dying hasn’t corrupted the data, you should be able to swap the drives out of the new unit and put your … |
| | [COLOR=#000000]Hi, [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]It looks like you've lost your data. Last time I met such problem, I almost lost my data when I first connected my CD writer. I got disk boot failure again and again. I tried best possible ways not to format the drive and to recover the OS … |
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