Drive Definition and 496 Threads

I would like to boot off a usb drive on a pc that does not support it. Has anyone thought of booting off a cd and transferring the start-up to the usb drive?

hi everyone ...i stopped sharing in this amazing forum for long time because of i was so busy in my work >>> but i always come back when i need it . , and i hope you can help me . my problem now that i can not see the CD ROM icon when i open My Computer screen it is not found , and when i...

When searching through a catalog for gear drive reducers, I find that many of them list nominal output torque and nominal input speed. My question is what does the term 'nominal' in that context mean. If it lists nominal output torque of 3186in.lb, and nominal input speed of 2900rpm, does...

My bro has installed a slave drive on his windows box. He can see it in Device Manager, which can tell it's a 160Gb drive, and he's been able to format it too. (He's not switching drives, he's still got Windows running fine on his Master drive, he's simply adding a slave. ) He can't see it...

So my computer is just over 1 year old. I put it on sleep a lot rather than shutting it down (but I don't think this hurts the hard drive). Is there any reason for worry? According to HD Sentinel, the percent health is 88%. According to "Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population", my hard...

1. The figure below shows the drive train of a bicycle that has wheels 67.3 cm in diameter and pedal cranks 17.5 cm long. The cyclist pedals at a steady angular rate of 76.5 rev/min. The chain engages with a front sprocket 15.2 cm in diameter and a rear sprocket 7.25 cm in diameter. 2. v...

My young men, that is. I need to rant. <begin_rant> I just cooked a fantastic meal, main course was red snapper cooked in wine topped with tomatoes, portabella mushrooms, shallots, and then topped with cheese. I used three pounds (three pounds!) of fish filets for four people. Any leftovers...

hi guys >> please help me if u can my problem is : when i try to open th C ( local disk ) drive .. the window ( open with )appears>>as the case when u try to open unknown program or software ... please if u can tell me what is the problem and what is the solution . thank u

I have absolutely no idea how to do this, but tell me if it will theoretically work: Somehow 'slice' the membrane around you into a little membrane bubble you float on, then move it around in Bulk space until you get to where you want to go, then rejoin it with the membrane to get back into...

Brakes on Drive Shaft ?? HI all, I am new to this forum. I have a doubt on braking system. Any help in this regard is highly appreciated. Why can not we have brake on drive shaft or some point at flywheel ?? Any discussion in this regard is appreciated. I am hoping to find a...

Lambda Warp Drive... Here's an interesting paper, http://arxiv.org/abs/0712.1649 It's about "locally manipulating lamdba" to get something similar to the Alcubierre warp "bubble". I love wild stuff like this...

Hey folks. If anyones interested in warp drives I've co-written a new paper. http://xxx.lanl.gov/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0712/0712.1649v2.pdf Its being published inthe Journal of the British Interplanetary Society early 08. Anyone else interested in warp drives/ wormholes etc?

I just got a call from this guy who whines and whines and whines. :rolleyes: He is a small oem that I did a job for about seven years ago. Back then he had bought twenty-year old equipment [industrial controllers] from an HP sale and then expected it to work like the new technology. Of course...

Let's say you're running a Fortran program that writes to the hard drive. What happens when the hard drive is completely full? Do other files get written over?

Does anyone know if there is a way to password protect your thumb drive. Or any other kind of security that I could add to it.

Hi, Anyone knows how to have one bootable thumb drive with multiple programs? So that we can select the program needed to boot up (run). This can save the thumb drive too because some programs are not too big. I will appreacite for any help! Mike

So I use "date modified" as a sort of organizational tool - and would like to keep that. When my NTFS hard drive transfers files to a FAT32 hard drive, date modified attribute of folders is kept. However, I reformatted the FAT32 hard drive into another NTFS hard drive - and the date modified for...

Does anyone have a strong hard drive preference? I used to buy only Seagate drives, but I recently had a Seagate drive die and I'm thinking about going with another company this time. What do you guys think about Western Digital or Maxtor?

Hi, Could I use the following item: http://docs-europe.electrocomponents.com/webdocs/03c4/0900766b803c41c7.pdf" to drive a piezo crystal to produce ultrasound? I know it wouldn't be perfect but it might be good enough for a small underwater depth sensor. Any ideas if it's possible?

Driving a coil...Voltage drive..? Current drive..? Hi Guys As the title...I am now having a 10 turns coil, does it really matter that I drive it with sinusoidal voltage signal or a sinusoidal current signal? Will it affect the response of the coil? (like resonance frequency, Q factor...etc)...

IT is possible to modify a gas-electric hybrid so that you recharge the battery from the outlet, and run the car on battery. This costs electricity which costs money. Of course you can use gas. which also costs money. Which is cheaper to drive 20 miles, gas or electricity? Personally I...

[SIZE="3"]Presently I'm running XP Pro on my C drive, and I just recovered a hard drive that I thought was a gonner with Testdisk 6. What I'm now considering of doing is putting Freespire on the slave drive, and I'm not sure the best way to do this, if you could recommend a good freeware...

While looking at Nissan's website for some stats on the 350Z, I noticed they now have a hybrid Altima. Since my parents own a 2005 Altima, I decide to look at the specs for this hybrid and see how they compare. First thing to notice is that hybrid vehicles have excellent low-end torque...

And do you like it? After getting into a car accident on Fri. my '01 Galant is totaled and I am in the market for new car. I definitely don't want a brand new car, but something that is used. I was looking into possibly getting a Volvo S40 or S60. So what kind of cars do you guys drive and...

I'm fairly familiar with the design and operation of an ion engine, although I do have a two questions in regard to its operation. 1) Normally, an ion engine would be used in space (which is naturally a vacuum) and would output its given thrust. Prior to space flight, is there a need to...

I have a SATA hard drive that I need to format, but the only person I know with a SATA system is my boss...so when he left today, I opened his computer. He has two SATA hard drives, and I unplugged one and connected mine. It didn't recognize the new disk, and plugged his back in. Although I...

to be honest i don't know if this is the right place to be but i got a question, if i have a belt drive consisting of two pulleys what is the equation to find the angle of lap,the tight side tension and number of belts required? I've completely forgot how to do this stuff

It is an statistically established fact that the hometown of the loosing team in the superbowl experiences a dramatic increase in the number of car accidents in the hours after the game[1]. So please, drivers in and around Chicago, PLEASE drive carefully on Sunday night! :) [1]...

Alright forumers, I've heard numerous complaints about the quality of http://en.wikipedia.org" physics articles - an opinion which I share. Far too often they're undetailed, far too technical, and just plain confusing. So who better to rectify the situation than us? I'm looking for...

"Meiotic spindle asymmetry and functional differences between the centromeres of homologous chromosomes and recombinant/nonrecombinant chromatids have been shown to result in non-random segregation during meiosis (meiotic drive)". Does anyone know how this works? How would one chromosome be...

I need to know how to completely wipe my Hard Drive on a Windows XP. There is a virus that will not get off no matter what I do, I have run all antivirus and antispyware devices there are and I would much rather wipe my HDD right now. So anyone know anything I could do.

Hi, so recently I bought an external hard drive and started transferring my data into that to get more space in my internal one. I then noticed that I've used up almost 50% of my c drive but I don't know what it's used for and don't see anything that would use up this much memory. Is there any...

On a cool morning, when the temperature is 16.0 C, you measure the pressure in your car tires to be 20.0 psi. After driving 50.0 mi on the freeway, the temperature of your tires is 38.0 C. What pressure will your tire gauge now show? I have Ti = 289 K Tf = 311 K R = 8.31...

I need to attach an ATA/IDE hard drive to a Linux computer and I'm pretty clueless about how to go about it. I have installed Linux on my desktop computer's SATA hard drive (pretty much the only computer available to me that I can open up and poke around in) and I also have a linux livecd...

Can anyone tell me the forces i may expect to find with this intermitent mutilated gear drive system, it will be driving an almost free wheeling component at i hope up to 6000 rpm the weight of the driven compnent will be ozs, about 2 inches dia by 6 inches long...

I am having trouble w/my laptop. When I put in a cd & try to open it the message comes up saying that the d drive is inaccessable & not ready. I have turned off the computer & tried everything I know & nothing helps. Any suggestions? Thank you.

I bought a Flash Memory Drive and I was using it in my computer in the university, which runs Linux, and in my computer at home, which runs Windows. Today, suddenly, my comp. at the university simply does not even recognize the flash drive, although it's still working perfectly on Windows. Does...

I am trying to hook up my old hard drive to my newer computer. I've done this before on a different computer with success, but this time it won't work. My old hard drive is from a Windows 98 computer. It is a Quantum Bigfoot TX. My newer computer is Windows XP. I unplugged my CD/R cables...

For 10kN vertical load,I just need some instructions to follow and if someone can provide schemes and more details will be great:))))THANKS!

It is illegal to drive a pig over London bridge and it is also illegal to set off a nuclear weapon in the city limits of LA.It is perfectly legal to shoot someone from Wales with a crossbow should they be found in the county of shropshire on the weekend. I'm generally pretty law abiding and I...

All my files......are still accessible! I'm amazed that this thing works. It went through both the washer and the dryer. Here's a picture in case you've never seen one of these: http://www.usbflashdrive.org/art/product/hi_SamsungUSBflashdrive.jpg

I just bought a sata drive for my computer and i connected everthing. i am trying to install windows on this drive. the drive is detected and everything but windows installation does not detect it and as a result the installation process is cancelled. i even turned off the primary ide interface...

Ok, so up until this morning I thought my hard drive was only 20GB (Dell Latitude D800), because that is the size of my C drive and no other drives are visible when I open My Computer. But this morning I was thinking there is no way my computer only came with 20GB, so I went into the System...

Could you afford to lose your 'jump' drive? She found her master’s degree in a trash can Pretty good thinking and some persistence ... borne out of desparation, of course. :smile:

Is it possible to "install" LaTeX (for windows) on, say, a USB pocketdrive? Or better yet could I just copy over all the directories from an existing computer and then be able to compile .tex files using the packages I have installed? I know you can get other pieces of software that run off...

O.k., so I'm a nerd. I like occationally checking out the U.S. patent site for nifty new ideas, which, I'll admit, is a bit like looking through the dictionary for words I'm not familiar with (another of my less than sexy habits), but THIS time I found something you don't see everyday. It's a...

I am thinking about getting an external hard drive, (just buying a harddrive and case). Can you guys give me some pros and cons of an external hard drive compared to an internal one.

I tried installing Ubuntu on my computer. Turns out that the CD-ROM is not compatible with it (it's phillips). Can I install it from an external CD drive (my computer does not boot from external CD Drives)? If so, how? I don't have a floppy drive so I can't use boot floppies. I also...

The other day, I was passing by another area of town, when I saw a sign that said: DRIVE-THROUGH LIQUOR. Now, I know that people aren't SUPPOSED to drink in their car, but I DO know that a lot of them don't. doesn't 'drive through liquor' sound like an oxymoron

I have three laptops which no longer work. I want to take the hard drives out of them and make external hard drives for my new laptop. What do I need to do? I have no idea where to even start.