[storage] Forum Topics

Hello, I have a USB flash drive which was working properly for months, but today, when inserted into a workstation, it is being opened in read-only mode, whereby I can read and execute files on it, but not add anything to it or modify a document from it. Tried to …

so i checked my storage on my mac(running windows 10) it said 340gb used out of 500gb. 249gb of that are the windows system files. why are they so big and how do i make more storage. please help. im at high school and all my documents take a crap …

I have a 20 gig drive in a firewire enclosure. It works. I bought a new 80 gig drive to replace the 20. I put it in the enclosure. OS X 3.4 Server told me that I needed to initialize the new disk. Disk Utility opens up. It sees the …

Hi I am trying to salvage user data from a hard drive that was installed in a Dell laptop. I have plugged it in to a Dell 490 workstation running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit using a USB connection kit - leads and power supply. First I used Chkdsk, it …

there is folder on a system protect on windows system restore and it has an active protection but it was marked as missing, the folder is label "G:", i dont know how i can remove this. can someone can help me about this. thank you

Where the data stored temporarily in SOURCE COMPUTER, when sent to another COMPUTER via NETWORK. If to copy in the same COMPUTER stored in CLIPPORD????

I joined this forum recently and found everyone so helpful that I thought I would return as I now have another problem and want to learn more. I have jsut assembled a new system, I have it set up with a small c: drive (20gb) that has windows xp installed …

hi everyone i just bought a new 1tb hitachi hard drive (hua722010cla330) i splitted it on 3 it's temperature is always too high !! 46+  and i hear noises when i copy files or when the antivirus start the scan ! please is this normal or should i …

I'm trying to mount my SD card to my computer because the auto mount feature isn't working for some reason. The card shows up on the first line of the 'lsusb' command, I know that's it because that line goes away when I take the card out and re-run the …

Good day folks. Problem: My program needs to import data from a database and display them in a table then manipulate and display the data in various ways. That bit is solved the next part is where I need help. The program then needs to save locally... 1. the newly …

I bought an OCZ Vector SSD about 6-8 months ago for a new build and currently have Win 7 installed on it. I haven't had any problems yet (touch wood) and it still runs lovely and quick. I installed and ran Astra32 today and it reports my SSD drive health …

Hello everyone. I would like to know if there is a factory default configuration for the WD My book world NAS. I am helping a friend that has one of those in their office and the web interface states that the capacity is 1TB but nowhere in the gui did …

Hi everyone, I've a big problem. My external storage drive (Maxtor OneTouch II 100GB) is lost. I can't access it anymore. Windows Explorer reports the drive as: "O:\ is not accessible The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable." I've used a disk recovery software called R-Studio and it does …

Hello, I made an arbitrary precision integer library a few weeks ago. It works well, but is bounded by `256^(8*sizeof(size_t))` because it uses a simple dynamically allocated array to do its work. I want some way to have theoretically unbounded storage. I think that file io is probably best, but …

The other day I installed a second internal hard drive so that I can put ubuntu on it. The primary hd has windows 7. Using the Ubuntu windows installer everything installed without a problem. When I rebooted I got a lot of error messages during bootup and finally the boot …

Hi, I am afraid somebody somehow broke the usb connector of my Lacie 1TB hard drive (Starck), so I can't connect it ot the laptop anymore. I have removed it from the case and noticed that the plug is actually gone completely and the filaments that used to connect it …

Hi I meet a problem I bought a **WD HDD** (WD2500AAKX) with **SATA3** connection but my **motherboard chipset** only supports **SATA1**. The question is: how to set **jumpers** and to slow down speed at 1.5 Gbps? On the HDD is saying that Jumper on Pin 5-6 slow down to 3 …

Hello, I've finally gotten around to setting up my backup and file server, inside it has a set of hard drives which I've recovered from various computers. The drives are all in good condition, and are sized as: * SDA - 320.1 GB * SDB - 250.1 GB * SDC …

my computer says that i have low disc space by only having 11 mb available and need at least 200. i looked in my installed programs and i only have 3 programs that are 3-4 mb i clear some windows temporary files and more and no change! how do i …

My pc has two hard disk drives. The primary hard disk has become corrupted(or it has got some virus so that pc turns off abruptly). I have win 98 installed in the slave hard disk so i can run win 98 when i disconnect the primary HD. Is there a …

hello everyone, just wondering: would buying a second identical hard drive and setting up raid 0 on my computer be worth it? Will raid 0 give me a preformance boost? Or should i upgrade my drive from my stock WD10EARS (Western Digital Green) to a Western Digital Black? Specs: Gateway …

Hi I have an Antec Easy Sata hotswop hardrive caddy. I have been using it with two hard drives. It seems that I need to restart Windows (version 7 running on a Dell 490 workstation) to get a replaced drive to be recognized. What seems to happen is th name …

Hello, i am creating one multiuser project. All data will be stored on server side. But i need to store some settings on client side. So can any one help me which are the ways to locally store data and which is best??? Thank you..

In some software like tune up, they serve a utility that helps us to recover permanently deleted files from memory, how is this possible ? What really happens in hard disk/ memory when we [SHIFT]+[DELETE] a file ?

Why do we need cache memories, and why L1 cache has greater memory than L2 cache ?

what are some reasons why the operating system might require accurate information on how blocks are stored on a disk? How could the operating system improve file system performance with this knowledge?

i has 500gb hitachi external drive...i have divide to 4 partition...Whenever i plug in my external hard drive in computer, it detect but when i open "my computer", the window explorer just freezes and the green ribbon shows up, moves very slowly, and eventually stops at some point. i can …

Hi I have, almost in a panic, realised that I have some hard drives that need to be replaced as they are 6 years old. Although I have had no issues with them I thought replace them before they fail. It still seems a shame that a working hard drive …

Hi I have set up a RAID 1 and want to move my data to the RAID and leave applications and the operating system on the non raid drive. I just copied My Documents to the RAID and did a backup before deleting My Documents from the non raid disk. …

Windows XP - Computer 1 & 2 - IBM Netvista ThinkCentre's P4; 2.8 GHz Problem: Computer 1 (Windows XP Home) copied photo's from 2gb SD card using Lexmark Pro200 printer with SD card reader to Easygo 4 GB flash drive (verified that the photo's were there.) Computer 2 (Windows XP …