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    Formating RAID 0

    For better seek times I would set the stripe size to 16KB and format it as FAT32... I'm too lazy to actually care about the sector size. With the above setup, you're going to see zero to little improvement on your write times compared to a single drive system, but your seek & read times will get...
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    Hard drive shows up as unformatted

    That happened to my sister, actually. She had somehow managed to get a trojan or virus of some sort that really messed up her music folder. I was unable to fix it, so I had to FDISK the machine and reinstall windows. Did you back up your music collection on CDs or DVDs before this issue...
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    Computer won't start with external hard drive connected?

    Disconnect the external drive and reboot. Enter the BIOS setup and navigate to the setup priority (or setup order) screen. While some BIOS's will tell the difference, some versions think a USB drive is a CD and will attempt to boot from it if CD is first in boot order (sometimes a manufacturer...
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