hello, I have a motorola bmc 9012 dvr and am attempting to connect an external hard drive to it via usb. when i plug in the external hd the dvr recognizes it and wants to format the hd. i let it format the hd but now i can not view the hd from my windows machine. anyone have an idea of what type of ...

I have 8 hard drives that were pulled from a system and I need to scan each of the drives. SMART tells me that all the drives are in good health but I am pretty sure one of the drives are bad and I am trying to find out which one. I have heard that SMART isn't always SMART. What is the best way to s...

Problem: When using the 'radeon' driver in my xorg.conf I get one of 3 problems. The most common one being that it starts to load X, then I get a black screen and the system locks up hard with the only option of a hard-reset. The 2nd most common one is - X loads up to the desktop but upon pressing C...

I am trying to install CentOS 5.2 on a machine with an MSI P45 NEO Motherboard. I have 5 1.5TB hard drives installed. The bios detects them at bootup, but the CentOS installation does not. Am I out of luck? Do I need to go get a new motherboard with a supported SATA controller or is there a way to l...

I have Kubuntu 7.10 upgraded to 8.04 (apparently. don't know why it doesn't go up to 8.10) as shown by /etc/issue: Code: $ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 8.04.2 \n \l my usb flashdrives mounted fine after a safe upgrade, but then I finally preformed the full upgrade and they are no longer automounting. the d...

Greetings, I'm having a little trouble understanding and how to fix this quagmire. I'm simply trying to change the default mount point of a USB drive. I am working with SuSE Enterprise Dektop (SLED) 10.2. I have one harde drive (sda) in the laptop with 3 partiticions (one ntfs for windows, one fat f...

So, I'm helping my brother recover data on a hard drive that was in a NAS box that went south. Somehow it is configured into a 4 partition raid array. Using the utility 'sudo fdisk -l' shows that the hard drive is recognized and that there are four partitions that look something like this. Disk /dev...

I have a Maxtor 120GB SATA HD. This hard disk has two partitions on it: One formatted as NTFS and containing Windows and one formatted as ext3 containing Kubuntu. When I attach this disk to a computer (as second disk) and try to boot linux, this fails. To make myself clear: The linux I'm trying to b...

Hey everyone, I have an ASUS eee PC 1000HA. I have Kubuntu installed and everything was working ok. Then to trouble-shoot a friend's laptop I put my hard drive in her computer (her hard drive was dead). Now with my hard drive in my laptop I have no sound or wireless networking. I'm sure it has to do...

Ok, I have been out of the whole GPU debate for some time and after seven years of hard core nvidia usage I have decided it's time to move on and up. so lets put you in my position, here is the scenario: You have more money than brains, you want a QUAD DVI solution as you have three displays and a f...