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Are Tivo drives different? by
mike
I pulled a WD400EB 40GB hard disk from a tivo.
Deleted the partitions with partmgr.
Partitioned and formatted the drive during
the XPSP3 install. C~10GB d~30GB
Windows runs great. But when I try to back up the
drive using Acronis True Image 10, it hangs on
"checking drive D".
Chkdsk d: runs...
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November 29th 09 03:14 PM
by mike
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ALWAYS close USB flash drive before removing? by
Eddie[_3_]
Do I always need to close or stop a USB flash drive before I remove
it?
I'm using XP. In XP's Device Manager there is an entry for Disk
Drives and when I look at the Policies tab for the flash drive, it
says:
"Optimized For Quick Removal. This setting enables
write caching on the disk...
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Free Space/Used Space = 0 by
MusicalMonkey85
Ok, I just got home from work and I am being asked to work on my moms
computer. The PC starts loading windows XP and then restarting(it just
gets to the windows XP screen). When i connect the drive to my PC to
scan it, it says done right away. The hard drive is showing that there
is 0 bytes...
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Anyone hear about the exFAT file system, the successor to FAT32? by
Yousuf Khan
Came across this article the other day, it's a description of
Microsoft's latest FAT file system driver, meant mainly for use with the
newest generation of bigger thumb drives. It's called exFAT (extended),
and it's the successor to FAT32.
Description of the exFAT file system driver update...
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Mess up copies if use XP application? by
Eddie[_3_]
I use Windows XP and I have these partitions:
C contains the XP system.
D contains data
E is empty
I usually need to copy approx 10GB from D to E. I want the data to
be stored on E as unfragmented as possible.
Would running an application on C at the same time somehow mess up
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November 24th 09 07:07 PM
by kony
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seagate drrive sector issue by
uche
Guys I will obtain one of these drives:
http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/datasheet/disc/ds_barracuda_es.pdf
The spec shuet, under organization. says it is able to run in 520B
sector mode in SAS. Do you know of any controller I can buy that will
run in a mode that is not 512 B sector, 520 or 520 B...
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Seagate FreeAgent Go 500 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard DriveComments? by
Ant[_3_]
Hello!
Does anyone here use this external HDD? If so, then do you like it? It
seems overall ratings and reviews on both Amazon and NewEgg are
positive/decent, but I noticed some negative ones like getting
refurbished ones when RMA'ed (also a pain in the butt to do) under its
five years...
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Hard Drive Geometry 101 by
Al[_4_]
Hi Folks,
I am hoping some kind people on this NG could help me better
understand HDD Geometry. Dont get me wrong I have done some googling,
and read some wiki's - but some parts are still very blurry. I have
also used the man command since most of what I am doing is in linux.
Most of my...
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What's a good external HDD to buy these days? by
Ant[_3_]
Hello.
What's a good external HDD to get these days for Windows (2000 SP4 (9x
might be needed though) to the latest), Mac OS X (10.2+ to latest), and
Linux? It will mainly be for storage/backups and carrying between places
with multiple computers so I'd like it to be light and small. It doesn't...
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Getting a hard drive for a Aptiva? by
PoopskinTheLiar
So, my Personal Trainer's husband (who actually worked at IBM for
about 20 years!) gave me a aptiva he owned as a birthday gift (i love
retrocomputing...okay, calling '95 machines retrocomputers is kind-of
pushing it), but he got rid of the hard drive a while ago. i can't
seem to find out what...
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November 22nd 09 02:51 AM
by cjt
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My 128 GB flash drive is not working by
[email protected]
Hi,
Yesterday I brought up a brand new 128 GB kingston flash drive and at
the shop the shopkeeper shown me the drive working at his machine.
When I came at my home, I tried this drive and after some time it
created some junk folder and I was unable to open any of those
folders. Now when I insert...
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Crashed Maxtor Drive - Ideas? by
mcp6453[_2_]
The 80GB Maxtor drive on my friend's XP SP3 computer crashed. There was
a power flicker, and the power to the machine was interrupted. (It was
at that point he learned that his UPS had died, or either it crashed at
the same time since he regularly tests it.)
1. SpinRite doesn't get past 0%. It...
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"Parity Error Detected" message when running Intel Storage Console. by
Brcobrem
Hi Forum Members,
I have nine new drives to install to an Intel SC5200 server soon. In
preparation for this, I manually ran a "Parity Verify" on the SQL mdb
disk (actually a 4 drive + private hotspare RAID 5 "array" drive). The
"Parity Verify is done via "Intel Storage Console v2.16.6". The...
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How come advanced DLGDiag test passed and S.M.A.R.T. failed by
chermesh
Hi,
I ran DLGDiag on my internal WD2500JB hd. The result aren't learcut.
My disk failed SMART but passed Advanced tests.
What does it mean? Should I keep the hd or get rid of it?
If keep, can anything be done about the failong smart test?
Ran
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Enabling SATA mode on SATA drives in XP by
Yousuf Khan[_2_]
Looks like I'm currently using my SATA drives in IDE emulation mode
through the motherboard. The SATA drives appear under the "IDE ATA/ATAPI
controllers" section of Device Manager. All SATA drives appear to be
running in UDMA Mode 6 (ATA/133) at present. Question is will there be
any noticeable...
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Rounding IDE Cables by
mike
Rounding IDE cables this looks as if it could cause electrical
problems on the PATA cables. Is it really as safe as he suggests it
is?
http://cpu-central.com/Articles.asp?article_id=7249&decor_int=27
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Hitachi RMA response - how fast? by
Andrew Hamilton
In practice, how fast does Hitachi send out a replacement for a drive
returned under RMA?
Their RMA status web page has this message:
Please be aware that you may experience a delay in receiving your
replacement disk drive based on stock availability. If product is
available, your replacement...
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Jmicron eSATA controller by
Al[_4_]
Hi Folks,
I have a JMB36X Jmicron onboard (motherboard) eSATA controller.
I am trying to use it with a Icy Dock MB881US-1S-1 SATA hard drive
dock. This hard drive dock has the option to connect to my motherboard
via eSATA. Kewl I thought.
I firstly changed the bios options to enable eSATA...
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November 9th 09 05:16 PM
by Al[_4_]
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