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I think I'll run the scan again on that drive. To be honest I'm not sure I was looking at the final results of the scans. At least I was expecting something else... a different type of report. This way I'll kill 2 birds... Get the actual report and check those cabling errors again. I'll also check t...

The raid thing sounds a little more complicated than I was thinking... I probably just don't understand what it is that I'm trying to do... I want to slide the 3-4 extra drives into one case and access them as if they were separate. Just a desktop space saver really... I'll probably use these drives...

Penguin, You are such a knowledgeable person :) ... I run my DT 24/7, but not my laptop, as it gets pretty hot while I'm using it so I tend to just close the lid (sleep). I need to check the settings on my desktop to be sure the drives are sleeping when appropriate. My DT is probably 5-6 years old; ...

Penguin, I take your advice to heart. I was lucky that I have a backup of the data on that disk, but it was 6 months old so a bit out of date but not dramatically so. I try to synchronize monthly, but obviously I've been a little lax. All my photos are backed up multiple times as they are irreplacea...

Interestingly enough, without changing any settings... ALL drives, internal (3) and external (3) are now seen in SpinRite. I didn't mention this, but in the beginning, by accident I ran spinrite via usb on the WRONG drive (remember I said they were nearly identical :) ); and it didn't take very long...

Yes, I recall that it sees the main hard drive (c:/d:/e:/) and an HP personal drive (h:/) that came with the computer, but is removable. however, it did not see my 2 external WD drives (the one that was failing and a separate 1TB drive) or the internal WD drive attached to the SATA cables. I've been...

Well the good news is the drive is now readable. :p arty I'm in the process of copying the data to another drive. I still want to be able to use SpinRite though... and I don't want it to take weeks to run. Any suggestions on how to get my computer to use IDE mode so I'll be able to do this in a more...

I should have known it would be that easy :( First problem... I cannot find any reference to IDE. My bios screens are as follows: Main tabs at top: Main Advanced Power Boot Exit Main: Time Date Language Floppy NOT RELEVANT 1st Channel Device 0 WD2500JD 1st Channel Device 1 None 2nd Channel Device 0 ...

Firstly, thank you very much for replying... And I appreciate long winded replys. The more detail the better as far as I'm concerned... I am going to follow all your instructions to get spinrite to work internally and see how things go... will respond with results and or questions. egoCeNTRoNiX... I...

As I write this, Spinrite 6 has been running about 2 weeks on a WD 500gb external drive w/2 250gb partitions with TONS of clipart, fonts and other saved items. Each partition is about half full. I am unable to change the screen view as the keyboard is nonresponsive... which also means I cannot stop/...