Search results matching tag 'hard drive'

Need a 2" long IDE hard drive cable ...

chuckm441 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:57:44 GMT

Hello ... I have broken the hard drive cable in my 3.5" external hard drive enclosure. It's a standard 40 pin 80 conductor IDE flat ribbon cable, but it's only 2" long -- and that's the problem. I have spent hours now trying to find a replacement, and the best I could come up with was buying the tools and connectors to make one myself. This should not be so hard to find. Many, many external hard drive enclosures have used these short cables -- they break easy when you pull them off the drive -- so they should be readily available. I checked with Cooler Master, who made mine, and they referred me to three online vendors who they said "should" have them ... and they don't.

So if anyone knows where I can find one of these, please let me know (I'm going to buy several). Any length between 1.75" and 3" ought to be good enough.

Thanks! Chuck

Advice Needed on new hard drive for Macbook

sgalletly — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:27:56 GMT

I am in need of purchasing a new hard drive for my macbook. the old one crashed and I would rather get a new one from newegg.com than get a new one from the mac store.

Can someone please help point me in the right direction for a hard drive that is comparable to the one that came with the computer.

My computer is a 2008 macbook if that helps at all.

thanks for all your help!

Full system over upgrade?

Nickum32 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:36:26 GMT

Hey, I have just got my copy of the Windows 7 Upgrade disc. I'm upgrading from XP 32-bit, and every time I attempt to upgrade I get an 0xC0000005 error, as I have previously posted on the Windows 7 forums. I didn't get anything that helped me, and I was wondering if it was worth it to sell it and get the entire Windows 7, or format my HDD and reinstall XP and then 7 over it. All help is appreciated, Thanks!

Who can help noob find the right hard drive dock?

egoo33 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:58:17 GMT

I recently had my seagate external hard drive case break the black with (orange light) while the drive is still functional i took it out if its original enclosure so now it is just down to the bare hard drive, I wanted to get a dock or an enclosure from newegg along with the proper cables but dont know which ones. On the back of the hard drive it has a slot for SATA, SATA DATA, and JUMPER BLOCK. I can provide a picture if necessary. I know i need a SATA cable but after that i am not entirely sure, thank you for your time and help and please excuse my ignorance.

PCs for Dummies

milklady — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:16:37 GMT

Hello. I have a Western Digital Caviar Blue 7200 RPM, 500GB, 16MB Cache EIDE drive. Does anyone know if it is compatable with ASUS M4A785TD-M EVO AM3 AMD 785G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail Item #: N82E16813131406 and AMD Athlon II X2 240 Regor 2.8GHz Socket AM3 65W Dual-Core Processor Model ADX240OCGQBOX - Retail Item #: N82E16819103688 ??

Thanks.

Vista x64 blue screening during REinstall

Beachy — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:28:43 GMT

This sure has been the most agrivating, confusing, and worst problem I have ever encountered on one of my own computers. Sorry about the length, I originally wrote this as comprehensive as posible in an email to a friend who agreed to help.

I have repeatedly blue screened while trying to REinstall windows vista. Here is a summary of what I have done.

I have a custom build PC here is the hardware I am using:
Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131073
CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115003
RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145034 and
http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/memory/ocz_ddr2_pc2_8500_sli_ready_edition_dual_channel (I think)
GPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130038
Hard drive (x2): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148140

I have been running Windows Vista Business x64 for about 2 years with hardly any problems to speak of. A few weeks ago I was installing an update from Microsoft and it required a restart. After it restarted, and before letting me log back in, it was finishing the update and it froze. I restarted but after that it always froze at some point during startup (even safe mode). I finally got it working using the recovery option on a Vista DVD. A few days later, the next time I restarted, it froze again. I was eventually able to get back in and decided to start preparing data for a complete OS reinstallation.

Using a Vista DVD I cleared both partions off my primary hard drive (I had been dual booting with Vista and XP). Starting from scratch I began installing Vista. There are five steps: transferring files, extracting files, installing features, installing updates, and completing installation. The first four have no trouble. The last one requires a restart and at this point a DVD is no longer needed as it boots from the hard drive for the first time. This is also where it always blue screens, whether it be during the Windows loading bar, during the message that says "Windows is preparing to startup for the first time", or during the "completing installation" step. Trying to "start windows normally" after this only brings a message saying that windows encountered an error, cannot continue, and needs to be reinstalled.

I have tried a couple different Vista DVDs and they all have the same result. I noticed that the Vista DVD doesn't format the hard drive like the XP CD does, in fact it doesn't seem to format it at all. I decided to use the XP CD to format it so I would know I had a clean hard drive. The only way to do this was to install XP since I didn't want to do that I started formatting and then removed the XP CD so it would stop when it was done and not try to install XP. It went all the way to 100% (which takes and hour or two, something the Vista DVD doesn't do) and then said that it encountered some error and couldn't format the drive, also saying that it may be damaged.

I wasn't sure if this was because I had taken out the CD but I decided to remove the hard drive and get it checked out. I couldn't remember which hard drive it was, so I unplugged (with the power off of course) one hard drive and ran the Vista DVD to find out which one was still in. While the DVD was loading files I got another blue screen, this time it was even before the option to install Vista. This has happened a couple of times since then. Restarting, I came to find out that the primary hard drive was the one I had unplugged, thus it couldn't have caused the problem. I thought it must be a hardware problem but I didn't know what (even though I never had problems before I tried to reinstall, other than the lockup during the update).

I ran the Windows Memory Diagnostics tool on both the default and extended settings and found no errors. I removed my TV tuner, took out and put back my GPU (I would try it without it but have no onboard video), reset my motherboard back to default, which put my CPU back to default settings (I had it over-clocked for a few years). None of this made any difference.
I eventually decided to give the XP CD formatting another try and keep CD in this time. However, it made it maybe half way through before giving the same error as it did before, saying that the drive may be damaged.

My current theory, which is on version one or two dozen so it doesn't really hold any significance, is that the multiple power outages this summer may have somehow harmed the hard drive so that it had trouble updating\starting windows. Then also created problems when trying to start a new installation of Windows and has problems when trying to format. I realise that this doesn't account for the blue screens while the Vista DVD is loading the bootable OS or when the hard drive itself was unplugged. But I decided to get the hard drive checked out anyway.

Thank you if you actually managed to read through all that mess and if you have any ideas I would be very much interested.

Hard Drive Replacement question

Akragia — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:42:59 GMT

I'm replacing a laptop HDD for a friend which will no longer boot. The drive may well be bad, or going bad, but I would like to recover the data off of the drive if at all possible. Trouble is, when I tried to plug it into my desktop, the cable does not seem to fit. The laptop drive is a Samsung MP0804H which has an Ultra-ATA 100 interface. From everything I have read, that should be compatible (physically, at least) with a regular IDE/PATA cable, right? So, am I crazy or do I need to buy a different cable? It looks like the same amount of pins, but perhaps it has too much plastic on the strain relief to fit? Also, if I get a smaller cable, will it be stable in my desktop mobo? Any help is appreciated.

Compatible???

bigwhitebear18 — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 03:44:54 GMT

I've got a Rosewill RX81U-ES-25B and was wondering which hdd from newegg is compatible with it.

Perhaps this one? It's going to be a gift for a friend as a back up drive since he has an older computer with a 60gb hdd

Which hard drive is better..?

Djuice — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:16:05 GMT

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…

Or

Western Digital Caviar Black: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…

Here is the TomsHardware Chart comparison: http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2009-…

I think the Seagate is better but it's reviews show alot have come dead. Anyway, any suggestion on which to get or if there are any other 1tb harddrives that are no more then 100$ and as good as these.

Storage Analysis - GB/$

wyldstallyn — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:28:13 GMT

Found this link on Newegg's Facebook Page today --
http://forre.st/storage

This kind gentleman (Mark Holmquist) shared a nice pricing engine created by Forrest Voight that compares hard drive prices from Newegg and ranks them by GB/$. It makes it easy to find the best price point for a hard drive!

Thanks Forrest and Mark!

- Paul

edit: gave proper credit to Forrest Voight, creator of the engine