Replaced laptop hard drive, now XP keeps asking for driver

After having recently replaced a laptop hard drive (IDE) with a larger one, Windows XP, sp3 keeps asking for a driver upon reboot for the new and larger Western Digital hard drive. The machine works fine with the new drive, recognizes the entire ...

Message posted on the January 26th, 2010 - 8:10 AM ET

Seagate Reaches 1 Terabit Per Square Inch Milestone in Hard Drive Storage with New Technology Demonstration

Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) has become the first hard drive maker to achieve the milestone storage density of 1 terabit (1 trillion bits) per square inch, producing a demonstration of the technology that promises to double ...

Press published on the March 19th, 2012 - 10:00 AM ET

CMS Products Announces First-Ever Self-Encrypting Drive Module Bay Hard Drive Disk for Dell Laptops

Drive Based on Trusted Computing Group Opal SED Specification.

Press published on the November 29th, 2012 - 7:30 AM ET

Seagate Ships 1 Million Solid State Hybrid Drives; Momentus XT Hybrid Drive Adoption Soars as Major Computer Makers Offer Laptops with World’s Speediest Hard Drive

Seagate to Showcase Momentus® XT Drives at Flash Memory Summit.

Press published on the August 9th, 2011 - 5:59 AM ET

Bitcasa Comes Out of Beta, Kills the Hard Drive

Special Pricing Available Now; 16 Petabytes of User Data Under Management.

Press published on the February 5th, 2013 - 7:00 AM ET

Toshiba and Best Buy Unveil Cutting-Edge Third Generation Blue Label Laptop

Thin and Light Satellite E305 Features All-new Exclusive Design, Second Generation Intel Core Processor and Graphics, Full HD Intel Wireless Display, USB 3.0, Hybrid Hard Drive Technology and Premium Audio Package.

Press published on the January 5th, 2011 - 1:00 PM ET

Hitachi GST Ships Record 25 Million 7mm 2.5-Inch Hard Drives; Launches Industry-Leading, Second-Generation 7,200 RPM, 7mm Drive Family

Maturity, Breadth and Success of Hitachi GST’s 2.5-inch, 7mm 7,200 and 5,400 RPM Product Portfolio Enables Growth and Opportunity in the Slim and Ultra-portable Laptop, Ultrabook™, Ultra-compact CE and Industrial Markets ...

Press published on the February 22nd, 2012 - 2:01 AM ET

Industry Leaders Embrace Seagate Solid State Hybrid Drive Technology

Company Launches Third-Generation Laptop SSHDs and First-Ever Desktop SSHD.

Press published on the March 5th, 2013 - 7:00 AM ET

XP cant access Vista laptop hard drive ?

I am trying to save some data from a friends laptop hard drive, i have plugged it in my usb device. It shows in xp's computer management as 'disk 1', but i cant see it in explorer. All context menu options are greyed out except 'delete partition'. ...

Message posted on the February 6th, 2009 - 3:08 PM ET

OT: how rubust is a laptop hard drive to damage?

From time to time, we have threads relating to the security-conscious destruction of data on a hard drive, which has sometimes come down to "physically destroy the recording media." The one time I've actually personally done this, it was ...

Message posted on the July 23rd, 2010 - 6:22 PM ET

Laptop Hard Drive extremely slow, even in Seagate DOS disktest program

This laptop has been having occasional problems where it pretty much stalls on anything. The last time, I finally found out that Microsoft Security Essentials had somehow gotten turned on. (I use AVG AV and Zonealarm FW) In the diagnostic process, ...

Message posted on the June 21st, 2012 - 12:19 AM ET

Permission Denied On USB Hard Drive

I'm trying to move some .jpg & .mp3 files from a USB hard drive that is formatted under MAC OSX (0xaf) to a Windows Vista Laptop. I am using a Knoppix 6.2 live cd. Knoppix sees the laptop hard drive as System /media/sda2 Vista /media/sda3 ...

Message posted on the April 9th, 2010 - 10:09 AM ET

Iomega hard drive distros

First my apologies. This is nothing to do with Slack, but unable to find answers elsewhere, I turn to a busy site of users who must know what they are doing. I want to load a selection of easier distros onto a USB Iomega external hard drive to ...

Message posted on the December 27th, 2010 - 6:32 PM ET

Accessing Outlook e-mails from external hard drive

My laptop has died, and I am currently accessing my information through another computer, with the laptop hard drive in an external hard drive case. This is fine for documents, but I do not know how I can access old e-mails that i need information ...

Message posted on the October 17th, 2009 - 1:37 PM ET