What's the fairest way to split gasoline and other costs between riders on a roadtrip? [more inside]
posted on Jun 23, 2008 - 12 answers

External hard showing "weird". Better known as, sharing an external/portable hard drive between osx and winxp. [more inside]
posted on Jun 23, 2008 - 9 answers

What is the highest memory storage capacity for USB portable Flash drive in the market right now? [more inside]
posted on Jun 18, 2008 - 4 answers

Halp! Need advice on a storage solution for a man with media! [more inside]
posted on Jun 12, 2008 - 5 answers

I'm looking for instructions, guides, or suggestions of something fun to do with my camera or laptop during an upcoming cross-country drive. [more inside]
posted on Jun 4, 2008 - 8 answers

My external hard-drive's on the fritz. What can I do to make sure I get all my data off it before it goes? [more inside]
posted on Jun 3, 2008 - 5 answers

I-80 vs. I-70: Which will get me to Missouri from New Jersey with the smaller headache? [more inside]
posted on May 30, 2008 - 15 answers

I have a Dell Inspiron 600m that has a weird problem: USB flash drives aren't detected at all, but other usb devices (i.e. external usb harddrives) work perfectly fine. Clean install of Windows with updated drivers does not fix this problem. My google-fu apparently isn't sophisticated enough to dig up a solution. Ideas?
posted on May 30, 2008 - 6 answers

Tips for teaching someone to drive who is not familiar with USA car culture? [more inside]
posted on May 21, 2008 - 22 answers

Driving through the northern half of Ireland next week, does anyone have any suggestions on castles, sights, breweries, or distilleries that we shouldn't miss? [more inside]
posted on May 21, 2008 - 18 answers

SATA I or II? Hopefully very simple question about hard drives [more inside]
posted on May 20, 2008 - 6 answers

What's the best backup solution for (Ubuntu) Linux? I need a backup as complete as possible of a home directory of ~10+ GB, nightly, etc. I have two large external USB 2.0 drives for the purpose... [more inside]
posted on May 18, 2008 - 11 answers

Tools > Photoshop > Batch... doesn't work when the selected files in Bridge are on an external drive? [more inside]
posted on May 17, 2008 - 1 answers

I seem to have lost all my libido (sex-drive). Mid-forties male, not health related. Advice? More details inside. [more inside]
posted on May 6, 2008 - 10 answers

Please identify this part pulled from a car. [more inside]
posted on May 4, 2008 - 11 answers

The state DMV won'’t let me renew my registration on my current car because I owe property taxes on the old car. Is that legal? Can the state refuse to help me comply with one law if I am potentially violating another one? [more inside]
posted on Apr 30, 2008 - 6 answers

Highly technical hard drive filter: My hard drive failed. Came home, and PC was sitting at the "where's my hard drive" BIOS screen, to my great horror. [more inside]
posted on Apr 27, 2008 - 9 answers

How do I bypass Windows XP's digital camera photo download tool? Or to be more precise, how do I treat my Canon IXUS 75 as a card reader? [more inside]
posted on Apr 26, 2008 - 6 answers

What kind of external hard drive should I buy? [more inside]
posted on Apr 20, 2008 - 27 answers

Can an ATA-7 hard drive be used as a replacement for an ATA-6 hard drive? [more inside]
posted on Apr 17, 2008 - 5 answers

I went to a community college and the computers they had were able to reimage them self each time you rebooted the computer. You could trash the whole OS and render it useless but when you turned it off and back on it was in an OOB state. Where can I find something like this? It would be perfect for work.
posted on Apr 9, 2008 - 8 answers

Why can I see the file structure of an external Hard Drive, but not be able to read or copy any of the actual files? A friend of mine's computer crashed on him recently. He was able to boot up, but when the system tried to start Windows, he got a message saying that a certain necessary file was missing. He gave me the Hard Drive in an attempt to pull his important files off of it so he could reformat the drive and start anew. It is an SATA 3.5" drive for a desktop computer. I have attached it to my Windows XP SP2 laptop via a USB 2.0 to SATA cable. My computer recognizes the two partitions on the drive and mounts them accordingly. I can see the files on the drive. However, when I try to read or copy a file from the drive, I get a "Cannot Find the Specified File." error. What do I do?
posted on Apr 7, 2008 - 10 answers

Why won't the DVD player in my computer play legitimate DVD's? [more inside]
posted on Apr 6, 2008 - 9 answers

Driving from Laguardia to Nashville. Any tips? [more inside]
posted on Mar 25, 2008 - 12 answers

I think I'm finally switching to Ubuntu on my main machine. I have two 160GB external drives, currently both with NTFS, currently mirrored (by software, not a RAID). With what and how should I format/use these guys? [more inside]
posted on Mar 14, 2008 - 8 answers

How do I mount a digital camera as a writable drive (to the SD card) in Windows XP? [more inside]
posted on Mar 13, 2008 - 7 answers

I have a big external USB hard drive with three partitions for infrequently used files and backup. I was wondering what kind of file to make to have it automatically open a folder showing the drive when I power on the device and not ask me what I'd like to do with each of the other drives. [more inside]
posted on Feb 21, 2008 - 7 answers

Trying to install a new optical drive in an old laptop. Windows recognises it, but the BIOS does not! [more inside]
posted on Feb 9, 2008 - 8 answers

Ahhh! My Mac crapped out! Can anyone recommend a good data recovery company that is dependable but won't charge me an arm and a leg to retrieve my files? I really hope so. I have a lot of photos and files that I would be SO distraught over losing. MY MORALE IS IN YOUR HANDS!!! [more inside]
posted on Feb 7, 2008 - 13 answers

How long will it take to do a 7 pass US DoD 5220 Compliant data wipe on a 120 GB Hard Drive? [more inside]
posted on Feb 6, 2008 - 7 answers

Old Computer Filter: I was cleaning out a few boxes the other day from my closet and found my ST-251-1 MFM drive that I had in my first IBM based PC. It had a whopping 40MB. Even though I know it may not boot up after all this time, I still can't help but wonder if it will and would love a chance to see a snapshot of what I was doing computer-wise in 1986. Does anyone in the Hivemind know if there is an adapter/card/whatever to plug an old MFM drive into IDE or USB?
posted on Feb 1, 2008 - 13 answers

What kind of transfer speeds should I be expecting from my new external Firewire 800 drive? [more inside]
posted on Jan 29, 2008 - 10 answers

NoIWillNotFixYourComputerFilter: I've got a 500 gig that won't show up in Windows XP. Help! [more inside]
posted on Jan 29, 2008 - 7 answers

I need to find a way to keep all of my various bits of information handy in one application on my USB drive - things like notes, to-do lists, addresses and project information - and would be very grateful for any recommendations or help you can give me :) ! I'm happy to pay for the right software so paid or free options would both be great. What I'm looking for is something that is... - Self contained: must run on, or from, the USB stick and not* require a webserver or apache to work (browser-based apps are fine if they meet this criteria) - Easy to use - Secure (a login would be ideal) - Searchable - Has checklists for my to-do items - Has the ability to write freeform text for project info / notes Do you know of a portable PIM or similar application that would fit the bill? A huge thank you in advance for taking the time to help me out :)! * Web servers, wiki's and Wordpress (so many w's!) are out of the question sadly since my work computer is in serious IT lockdown and I can't even change the apache port.
posted on Jan 24, 2008 - 12 answers

One often hears about the mid-thirties "sexual peak" for women. I have some questions about that. [more inside]
posted on Jan 22, 2008 - 23 answers

Every night at 12:10AM, the brand new primary hard drive in my computer begins grinding away for a duration of 10-60 seconds. Why? [more inside]
posted on Jan 14, 2008 - 12 answers

short history: I started to get blue screens on my outdated laptop so I decided to just buy a new one. My new laptop came, I installed a fresh version of xp, rebooted, and plugged my old external in. I got the "Installing drivers for you new hardware" bubble in the task bar then after opening the external drive none of my files were there, but there was the four following: clean (Windows nt command script) install (folder ) windows (folder.. with a windows installation I didn't do!) $$ rename (text document) 230 gigs gone :( The only thing I can think of is the initial blue screens on my OLD laptop were caused by a virus that had infected my external drive? This had all my school notes, notes on books I've read, photos, backups of my old laptops partitions, all that kind of stuff from the past 3 years. I'm feeling kinda, sick, pissed off, and am wondering what the crap could have happened? Any help on this one would be VERY appreciated.
posted on Jan 11, 2008 - 17 answers

I have an external hard drive on my Christmas list. I'd like to make the shopping easy on them by giving specific choices. I've done some searching (here and via Gooooogle) but I need that extra oomph from the genius that is the hive mind. [more inside]
posted on Dec 9, 2007 - 12 answers

I am tired of the P4 Intellistation that picked out of the trash. For some reason all my hard disks keep breaking. I am really tired of having to constantly open up my computer and buying new disks. I'm in the market for a cheap, small Linux PC that can stream HD content over the network. Is there such a thing? Kind of like a Mac mini but not so expensive or powerful. [more inside]
posted on Dec 5, 2007 - 13 answers

External firewire drive was working fine with Mac laptop, now won't mount. I hear it make its usual startup noises and then I feel it spinning happily, but the OS can't see it. I've tried lots of troubleshooting steps (list inside); can you think of others I should try? [more inside]
posted on Dec 3, 2007 - 9 answers

Syncing up 2 USB Hdd on a Mac and Font converting software (PC to Mac) [more inside]
posted on Nov 27, 2007 - 4 answers

How do I move everything from one OEM XP Pro PC to another? Confused by posts I've found. [more inside]
posted on Nov 26, 2007 - 8 answers

I want to turn a 10 hour drive into a 10 minute time lapse video. [more inside]
posted on Nov 25, 2007 - 19 answers

Is there such a thing as a hard drive enclosure that supports both SATA 2.5in and 3.5in drives? [more inside]
posted on Nov 21, 2007 - 5 answers

My LaCie 500 GB external hard drive is being uncooperative today - its main partition was deleted somehow. I wasn't doing anything out of the ordinary, just plugged it in and Windows saw it as a blank disk. Although I see the lost partition in TestDisk, repeated attempts to recover it have proved to be fruitless. What should I do now? [more inside]
posted on Nov 20, 2007 - 7 answers

Can I back up / clone my Mac HD to an external HD then swap the Main and external drives? [more inside]
posted on Nov 12, 2007 - 15 answers

Is Firefox churning my Powerbook? When I have more than a few tabs open, I hear (and see- on my little menubar app) heavy hard drive activity. It feels like it gets stuck in some kind of endless swap and the performance of the machine seems to suffer. More importantly, the noise drives me nuts. I suspect Firefox memory management issues. I know Firefox has a bad rep in this dept. Suggestions? Tweeks? Opera?
posted on Nov 6, 2007 - 18 answers

Please recommend the sturdiest USB drive around. Assume that I am rougher on these things than Bigfoot. [more inside]
posted on Nov 4, 2007 - 9 answers

Vista disk space filter: What's eating 190 GB on my computer? [more inside]
posted on Nov 3, 2007 - 8 answers

Help me figure out what's wrong with my old crappy van. [more inside]
posted on Nov 1, 2007 - 9 answers