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"Linea Recta" wrote in message
news . . . I don't want a bigger Windows boot partition because I want to keep the Macrium images in future small. I now have the new 160GB drive divided in two partitions op 80GB. (80GB was also the total drive size) Furthermore the old 160GB IDE drive is still in use (reformatted, after being used as temporarily clone) and now formatted as one large partition. Of course all these drives may be regarded "small" and "slow" measured at today's standards, but my intention is to keep this PC running at low cost. To defer the new C:/ drive running out of space, you may find it useful to put the Windows swap file (PAGEFILE.SYS) onto another drive (done via / Control Panel / System / Advanced / Performance / Advanced / Virtual Memory.) In general, drive C: requires 10 per cent empty space to run as fast as it can. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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"Robert Nichols" schreef in
bericht news On 01/09/2017 02:29 PM, Linea Recta wrote: It seems a linux utility? I don't run or know anything about linux... Running Windows 7. The DOS/Windows utility is called "wdidle3" and can be downloaded from several sources. The Linux utility is called "idle3-tools". The setting it changes in the drive is persistent across power cycles, so you only have to use the utility once in the life of the drive. -- Bob Nichols AT comcast.net I am "RNichols42" Thanks, found the utility. I'll get into the issue asap. -- |\ /| | \/ |@rk \../ \/os |
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"Linea Recta" schreef in bericht
news "Robert Nichols" schreef in bericht news On 01/09/2017 02:29 PM, Linea Recta wrote: It seems a linux utility? I don't run or know anything about linux... Running Windows 7. The DOS/Windows utility is called "wdidle3" and can be downloaded from several sources. The Linux utility is called "idle3-tools". The setting it changes in the drive is persistent across power cycles, so you only have to use the utility once in the life of the drive. -- Bob Nichols AT comcast.net I am "RNichols42" Thanks, found the utility. I'll get into the issue asap. -- |\ /| | \/ |@rk \../ \/os Afraid it is not allowed to run this utility on my drive type (WDC WD1600AVVS-63L2B0) -------------------------------- This utility is designed to upgrade the firmware of the following hard drives: WD1000FYPS-01ZKB0, WD7500AYPS-01ZKB0, WD7501AYPS-01ZKB0. CAUTION: Do not attempt to run this software on any hard drives other than what is listed above. Please make sure that the computer system is not turned off during the firmware upgrade. Doing so may damage the hard drive beyond repair and your data may be lost. https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?p=113 -- |\ /| | \/ |@rk \../ \/os |
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On 01/12/2017 07:57 AM, Linea Recta wrote:
It seems a linux utility? I don't run or know anything about linux... Running Windows 7. The DOS/Windows utility is called "wdidle3" and can be downloaded from several sources. The Linux utility is called "idle3-tools". The setting it changes in the drive is persistent across power cycles, so you only have to use the utility once in the life of the drive. -- Bob Nichols AT comcast.net I am "RNichols42" Thanks, found the utility. I'll get into the issue asap. -- |\ /| | \/ |@rk \../ \/os Afraid it is not allowed to run this utility on my drive type (WDC WD1600AVVS-63L2B0) -------------------------------- This utility is designed to upgrade the firmware of the following hard drives: WD1000FYPS-01ZKB0, WD7500AYPS-01ZKB0, WD7501AYPS-01ZKB0. CAUTION: Do not attempt to run this software on any hard drives other than what is listed above. Please make sure that the computer system is not turned off during the firmware upgrade. Doing so may damage the hard drive beyond repair and your data may be lost. https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?p=113 I don't think the ...AVVS... drives are "green." Perce |
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"Percival P. Cassidy" schreef in bericht
... On 01/12/2017 07:57 AM, Linea Recta wrote: It seems a linux utility? I don't run or know anything about linux... Running Windows 7. The DOS/Windows utility is called "wdidle3" and can be downloaded from several sources. The Linux utility is called "idle3-tools". The setting it changes in the drive is persistent across power cycles, so you only have to use the utility once in the life of the drive. -- Bob Nichols AT comcast.net I am "RNichols42" Thanks, found the utility. I'll get into the issue asap. -- |\ /| | \/ |@rk \../ \/os Afraid it is not allowed to run this utility on my drive type (WDC WD1600AVVS-63L2B0) -------------------------------- This utility is designed to upgrade the firmware of the following hard drives: WD1000FYPS-01ZKB0, WD7500AYPS-01ZKB0, WD7501AYPS-01ZKB0. CAUTION: Do not attempt to run this software on any hard drives other than what is listed above. Please make sure that the computer system is not turned off during the firmware upgrade. Doing so may damage the hard drive beyond repair and your data may be lost. https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?p=113 I don't think the ...AVVS... drives are "green." Perce There was a green label on it. Now, I'm not colour blind :-) Not going to take it out again. How about these: https://www.google.nl/webhp?sourceid...00avvs%20green -- |\ /| | \/ |@rk \../ \/os |
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On 01/12/2017 06:57 AM, Linea Recta wrote:
"Linea Recta" schreef in bericht news "Robert Nichols" schreef in bericht news On 01/09/2017 02:29 PM, Linea Recta wrote: It seems a linux utility? I don't run or know anything about linux... Running Windows 7. The DOS/Windows utility is called "wdidle3" and can be downloaded from several sources. The Linux utility is called "idle3-tools". The setting it changes in the drive is persistent across power cycles, so you only have to use the utility once in the life of the drive. -- Bob Nichols AT comcast.net I am "RNichols42" Thanks, found the utility. I'll get into the issue asap. -- |\ /| | \/ |@rk \../ \/os Afraid it is not allowed to run this utility on my drive type (WDC WD1600AVVS-63L2B0) "Not allowed" is a misstatement. Nothing is preventing you from running that utility on your drive, and it will work just fine. I've used it on several WD "Green" drives, none of which were those obscure types that WD mentions in the warning. Your alternatives are to either accept the shortened life due to the steady stream of head load/unload cycles or use the Linux utility (which will do exactly the same thing as the WDIDLE3 utility does). -- Bob Nichols AT comcast.net I am "RNichols42" |
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