Tony B wrote:
I can't recommend much else because I have no idea why you've got so
many drives hooked up or what you do with them. Try to consolidate.
I'm not sure that I understand your recommendation.
According to Belarc Advisor, I have about 1.3 terabytes of hard drive
storage. "Why so many drives" is that my PC computer will accept only 3
internal hard drives (bays), and only two of these may be SATA. As my
disk space ran out, I purchased additional external hard drives with
either USB 2.0 or IEEE 1394 interfaces. Right now I am running out of
disk space and thinking that either I have to clean older files or buy
another large hard drive. I guess that your "consolidation" means to
delete files.
I have decided to reformat the F: drive. I still don't know why a good
drive should suddenly be an unformatted drive. I am currently restoring
all files from 3 months ago from a backup on another (external) drive.
For those who have large and important files that need to be kept, is
there a better way of backing up than I am doing? With so much data, is
there an alternative -- maybe BlueRay disks?
BTW, I investigated replacing the F: drive (the one that suddenly became
unformatted) with a newer 750 GB drive. I will wait until I see if the
reformat and restore of my F: drive goes OK, or if not I will replace it.
On Jan 26, 2008 7:16 PM, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A week or more ago, I noticed that the desktop icon for internal drive F
was missing. I reinstalled the shortcut using My Computer (Windows XP
SP 2).
Now trying to access the drive F, I get this message from Windows: "The
disk drive in F is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?"
I have 5 hard drives: 2 internal (including F), three external. Here's
what Belarc Advisor says:
DMI WD5000AAKB-0_UKA IEEE 1394 SBP2 Device [Hard drive] (500.11 GB) --
drive 0
Maxtor 6 L200P0 USB Device [Hard drive] (203.92 GB) -- drive 3
Maxtor 6Y120M0 [Hard drive] (122.94 GB) -- drive 2, s/n Y3KTK99E, rev
YAR51EW0, SMART <http://www.belarc.com/smart.html> Status: Healthy
WD 4000YS External USB Device [Hard drive] (400.09 GB) -- drive 4
WDC WD1200JD-75FYB0 [Hard drive] (120.00 GB) -- drive 1
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