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saulat_99

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Recently had some problems and reformatted my primary hard drive. I worked out a system and made a complete back up of my SATA primary hard drive to my secondary IDE hard drive which used to be an external. The secondary drive I also reformatted to NTFS from FAT. Everything worked fine for a while including my networking to other computers and my xbox 360. The other day in the middle of a video the drive stopped working and disappeared. After a few reboots my drive showed back up. I can't seem to do anything as far as reformatting, deleting files, or copying files to my primary hard drive. I keep getting various delayed write failed messages. Can anyone help me out with this?
 
The drive is most likely failing and you should download the hard drive makers disk diagnostic utility and run it and see what it says.
 
Wow I feel stupid. Bought a new hard drive today and discovered my failed hard drive actually just had a loose IDE cord. In my defense it is difficult to get to the case.

Was thinking about RAID but the guy said my system would slow down. I am not sure whether to go with my new SATA drive or my IDE drive. I guess I could return it and buy the IDE to SATA adapter. Does anyone know if the speed is approximately the same with the adapter as for a SATA drive? Thanks.
 
If the motherboard supports SATA, then use the SATA hard drive. The speed will be faster compared to using an IDE drive.
 
Well I wasn't really aware of SATA II or III, maybe I should have upgraded. From what I have been reading the difference between SATA and IDE is very small and the main benefit comes from having a small wire (and more air circulation) and less power usage. My primary drive is a SATA Samsung 320GB 321KJ and my secondary is an IDE Western Digital 400GB 2500JB. The model I purchased today is a SATA Western Digital 320GB 3200AJS for $50. I access my music and video wireless on other computers and on my xbox 360 via a wireless g network, hopefully upgrading soon though. I also do some gaming but mainly use my PC for school work and research. What would you do?

I am tempted to keep all 3, but wonder whether heat would be a problem. Also, I guess it would be best to use a SATA drive for the OS and data, the IDE drive for data backup, and then the other SATA drive for video and music storage as it would be somewhat faster. Is there a point in having the video music on a seperate hard drive. Sorry for all the questions but thanks.
 
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I always recommend keeping your music and data on a separate hard drive or partition than your OS and programs in case you ever have to reinstall windows your data is already on a separate partition or hard drive.

I would also use all SATA drives if my motherboard supported it.
 
I always keep them on the same drive, but you may want to back them up to a second media and not have it running all the time.
 
johnb35 said:
I always recommend keeping your music and data on a separate hard drive or partition than your OS and programs in case you ever have to reinstall windows your data is already on a separate partition or hard drive.

I would also use all SATA drives if my motherboard supported it.
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Depends on the hdd actually, as ata can do up to 133mb/s, and most current hard drives do not do much more than that. However, newer drive technologies are SATA only, which means that even though Pata can support up to 133mb/s, most drives with pata connections wont.
 
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