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I'm sure this has been discussed to death, but what is the bottom line on hard drive enclosures. Are they hard on the HDs. Do they cause...
ricwawee
01-01-2007 07:31 PM
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Don't Trust External Hard Drives! See: http://www.computercraft.com/docs/externalharddrive.shtml
www.GETNJ.com
01-01-2007 07:11 PM
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Wanted: New or Used Maxtor 6.8 G Internal Hard Drive DiamondMax Plus 6800 U66 (90683U2) in working condition. Please reply direclty to e- mail...
Jim
01-01-2007 10:14 AM
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Win2K I attempted to upgrade to WinXP yesterday and it was unsuccessful. Amongst the many problems created was a double entry in Disk Manager...
Ken
01-01-2007 08:18 AM
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Since the question crops up frequently, I think my recent experiences with a specific external enclosure may be of some interest. The enclosure in...
Arno Wagner
01-01-2007 08:09 AM
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Hi I'd be grateful if anyone could tell me the spec of the mounting screws used on internal drives i.e. 3.5 and 2.5 inch hard drives, CD/DVD Drives,...
Ian R
12-31-2006 01:06 PM
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Do Seagate 500GB 7200.9 and 7200.10 SATA-2 hard disks have exactly the same number of guaranteed sectors? If so, can I use two of each in a RAID-0?
ajmoss_throwaway_account_001@hotmail.co.uk
12-31-2006 07:39 AM
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Looking for a floppy image of a blank 1.44 floppy which includes all header and gap information.
Ed
12-29-2006 10:39 PM
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I've recently bought a trekstor LAN-HD as Storage tank for my home network. While it DOES have USB access, it can't do both USB and LAN...
Jesco Lincke
12-29-2006 04:32 AM
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I just pcked up a Western Digital My Book 5000GB Essential Edition. According to the install guide WIndows XP should automatically recoginize the...
dcostantiello@gmail.com
12-27-2006 11:39 PM
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I archive images to hard drives (just my preference) - I want to store these offsite - Does anyone have a recommendation for wrapping / packing...
Joe
12-27-2006 05:35 PM
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Hello everyone! I completely understand the logic behind defragmentation but I simply don't understand how it could work given the hard-drives...
Anthony Paul
12-27-2006 04:28 PM
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My Win XP Pro PC suffered a BSOD yesterday telling me that part of the registry was corrupted. I restored the OS from my Acronis True Image backup...
Keith
12-27-2006 01:09 PM
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Hi, My 8400 has a Seagate Serial ATA dirve (160 GB). I want to add a seocnd drive, but made the mistake of getting an Ultra ATA, which...
nroiter
12-27-2006 05:51 AM
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I have a friend who bought a SanDisk 2GB Flash drive about a month ago and it comes with application software (useless, as far as I can tell)...
Ron Hinds
12-27-2006 05:49 AM
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Anything credible in the 100-120Gb range?? thanks
phreak
12-26-2006 03:07 PM
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http://cheap-computers-review.blogspot.com
shawn
12-26-2006 02:25 PM
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The device is a sort of small HDD in your hand but it could be better if somehow fitted it with the cellphone, as it will not be hassle free to carry...
rishil
12-24-2006 01:49 PM
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Are there free programs like SpinRite that does well to do DEEP disk checking/testings on external hard disk drives like Maxtor's USB (160 GB)? On...
ANTant@zimage.com
12-23-2006 05:03 PM
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Maxtor MaXLine Pro 500 7H500F0 I have just received a SATA drive that has a different connector than I am used to. Instead of the Molex power...
Ken
12-22-2006 11:55 PM
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What is the latest and greatest defragmenter these days? I have been using PerfectDisk 5.0 for Win2K for years but I will be upgrading (finally) to...
Ken
12-22-2006 06:06 PM
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I got a new PC which has 2 WD Raptors in a RAID array from the factory which work fine. I added a Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (SATA II) by connecting...
joefranklin@noreturnaddress.com
12-22-2006 04:44 PM
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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Angry American <angry (AT) theworld (DOT) com> wrote: Basically the on-board ports can be connected in several...
Ken
12-22-2006 02:10 PM
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Registry Rescue scans, removes, and repairs invalid entries, references and links in your Windows registry. Errors in your registry, and stuff left...
kelv
12-21-2006 11:24 PM
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We recently purchased an IBM eServer xSeries 226 computer for our company. This particular computer comes with an integrated SATA RAID controller. ...
Vincent
12-21-2006 05:07 PM
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At present, I have a Promise SATA150 TX2 controller card in my system with an ASUS P4PE mb. I am considering adding a SATA 300 PCI controller card...
Ken
12-21-2006 12:26 PM
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HI. I've had this odd issue where I can power 6 hard drives, even 7, but cannot power 8. If I try to power the eighth one the drive won't fully...
fotoobscura
12-21-2006 10:58 AM
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I have have a 2003 server. It has 36 gig scsi drive in it that is maxed out. I tried to clone the drive to a 80 gig ata drive using...
steve
12-21-2006 09:08 AM
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Looking for some info on the support stories for the Dell/EMC SAN systems. I am sitting on the fence right now on going with Dell/MEC or HP. We...
Twotoneblue
12-20-2006 08:07 PM
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teckytim <technotim (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote: Never ever could bullshit its way out of a wet paper bag.
teckytim
12-20-2006 07:14 PM
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Greetings, I am in the planning stages of creating 5TB of NAS for my home network. I will be creating a RAID5 solution and, for...
Charles.Sachs@gmail.com
12-20-2006 05:10 PM
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I have bought a Buffalo TeraStation Home Server HS-2.0TGL/R5. It is a network attached device with 4 internal hard disks. I have 2 earlier 1Tb units...
Alan Thorne
12-20-2006 07:48 AM
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Spoon wrote: my strong hunch is that it is typical there are at least 40+ people on these two n/g's that have two hard drives
willbill
12-20-2006 12:32 AM
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I have a Win XP pro system with 2 IDE HD's in a RAID-0 configuration, and a 300GB SATA disk for extra storage. This SATA disk has disappeared in...
Gido
12-19-2006 09:59 PM
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I have a second hard drive, a Seagate 300GB, on my system. I had one partition set up and used it as a bulk storage drive. I decided to format the...
luv2kruz
12-19-2006 03:07 PM
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Dec 13, 4:39 PM EST Disk drive pioneer Al Shugart dies SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Alan Shugart, the co-founder of hard drive maker Seagate Technology...
Andy
12-18-2006 09:38 PM
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want to build a NAS either a server or a 4 drive box. I'm a photographer - I mostly just ad to pictures and look at old pictures - I don't modify...
Joe
12-18-2006 09:36 PM
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Hello NG I need a spare electronic-circuit for the a.m. disk: it works fine machanically (no strange noises) but can't be seen by the bios so...
Ammammata
12-18-2006 04:29 PM
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I have a cheap 3.5" ATA drive enclosure with a small fan (40mm or so) and it gets noticably warm when the drive stays active for a while (Seagate...
Paul Rubin
12-18-2006 01:39 PM
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jim evans <jimsTAKEOUTnews2 (AT) houston (DOT) rr.com> wrote Both the risk of someone getting access to your data and the risk of losing it without...
Anna
12-18-2006 01:15 PM
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I am getting a new computer. I need to know what drive(S) to get if I want to burn and read both a dvd and cdrom.I have heard of combo drives but do...
barb
12-18-2006 01:12 PM
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OT floppy drive cable? IN my box of miscellaneous parts, I have two flat cables, probably that a friend gave me, that look like floppy drive cables. ...
mm
12-18-2006 01:06 PM
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Rod Speed wrote: <edited, for brevity> <edited> <edited>
CWatters
12-17-2006 11:42 PM
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I have a Seagate SCSI 17-GB boot drive (source) with one primary (C:) and three logical (D:, E:, F:) partitions. I'd like to move all of that to my...
Lawrence Gould
12-17-2006 11:14 PM
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Hi, I'm in a bit of trouble. I had (have?) a two disk stripe of which I troubleshot for months and finally realised that it wasn't working because...
fotoobscura
12-17-2006 02:44 PM
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I have a windows 2003 server computer that has two SCSI drives. C and D. The C drive is full. I want to increase the size of the 36 Gig drive as it...
steve
12-16-2006 05:20 PM
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Searching for password removal for IBM ThinkPad R52/T43 or higher models is just waste of time. IBM has changed the security system on their newer...
Jack.NilsonJ@gmail.com
12-16-2006 04:08 PM
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http://latest-computers.blogspot.com
john
12-16-2006 01:23 PM
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CHKDSK has suddenly started running on one of my secondary (is that the right phrase?) partitions (NTFS) when my PC starts up. The SMART...
Keith Wilby
12-15-2006 03:54 PM
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jim evans wrote: Hi, Did you check the boot order in your BIOS? Maybe the computer was trying (for whatever reason) to boot from the drive you...
David A. Flory
12-15-2006 04:51 AM
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