Recent content by whbonny

I'll second all of that. Lots of weird things can happen to a windows install when there's more than one drive/install already on the machine. Oh ya, and it really sucks to find out that you just formatted your system drive and can't get on the internet to get your network drivers, trust me...

It kind of sounds like it's not getting enough juice. I hear that it's not that uncommon with usb powered enclosures, though it seems like a laptop drive should be a little less vulnerable. If there's an external power supply then try it. Also make sure that it's plugged into a powered usb...

Or you could check the storage review performance database. Seems like a good place to start at least, and probably as much info as you're ever likely to need. They have a really good review on the current generation of 250's all head to head too.

Well, unfortunately a board swap isn't going to get me out of this one. Good idea though. It's actually the first thing I tried. The drive was part of a 5 drive raid-5 array with all identical drives, so I was able to swap a controller board from one of it's brothers. It helped (it spun up...

Sky - Thanks for checking. I really do appreciate it! intogamer - If I read that right, it's 2 250GB drives for $80?!!! They may be completely different inside, but I'd be willing to pick them up just because its a KILLER deal! I'll check it out for sure! streetkid - Thanks, I'll need it...

And still looking...

Still looking... :(

My attempt to acquire a new drive: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1008193 And http://forums.storagereview.net/index.php?showtopic=21904 If anybody's still reading this, thanks.

Truly, that would be exceptionally cool... Thank you!

Anybody? Somebody out there has to want a jump start getting a shiny new sata drive! I'm open to offers.

Unfortunately, I know EXACTLY what you mean... :( Oh, uh... Sorry to get off topic. :)

Tyan S2460, runs reg ecc now, and thanks for the response. It never hurts to check. :)

Anyone know anything about that 512 meg buffalo reg ecc ram? I don't think monarch would sell junk, I just haven't heard of it. Cas 3 doesn't look too impressive, but I'll only run it as pc2100 on an old dual athlon mp rig, so it should be able to do 2.5 or better. Price is a good $8 cheaper...

Holy cow... I've ordered a lot of stuff online in the last few years, some even from monarch, but this takes the cake!!! I can't believe that you guys are this cool about making deals! All my friends will be watching this thread within the next 24 hours. Here's hoping you can keep it up...

I need an old 250GB pata western with a 2mb cache to attempt a platter swap into from another drive that suffered an untimely death with a lot of my data still on it. If anybody has one, I'll give you a fair price for it, but it has to be an exact match to my old one for obvious reasons...