hard drives

I use a Western Digital 3 tb "MyBook" as an external backup drive. I am having an issue where it sees the hard drive and then does not, sees it and then does not again. It was for the longest time in one of my two USB 3.0 ports. Tried as an experiment plugging it into a USB 2.0 and started...

I have an external hard drive that can't be read and shows as File System = RAW under Disk Management when it should be NTFS. There is nothing vital on it but it would be nice to be able to recover the data. I've done some Googling and it seems likely that the partition information has been...

With my Core 2 Duo E8500 machine getting a bit long in the tooth for newer games (CoD MW3 min spec is E6600) and getting me killed by people who aren't even on my screen yet, I began to lust for an i7 machine, which requires a whole new build. All fine, until I checked out the prices of hard...

I have Maxtor external portable 80GB harddisk. I am able to use it in windows xp but unable to use in windows 98 second edition. ofcourse i need drivers in win98se. i did NOT :(receive any drivers cd with harddisk. CAN i download drivers for win98se from any website. please:confused...

I'm getting a new hard drive for my puter. The present drive is an IDE; most of the internal drives on sale now seem to be SATA. So what is the difference between the two formats? Is SATA better than IDE and should I be getting a SATA drive or not?

Ok,here's a tricky one.......well for me anyway.I need to format and partition a hard drive for a computer.The drive has to be on a controller card.It's an ATA/100 running on an old PCI ATA/33 MB,hence the controller card.Can this be done?I'm not sure how the BIOS will recognize the controller...