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Has anyone tried to “upgrade” their WD mybook Essential 500GB USB drive? by Gaiko
I want to put something like a 1.5tb Seagate or maybe a 1tb WD into the WD MyBook USB enclosure (WDG1U5000) I have, I know it is not made for this but hey. I have found a few howtos on opening it up various my book models (apparently it is a bit different for each one) but none of the ones I have...
February 2nd 09 03:08 PM
by Gaiko Go to last post
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plugging an HDD into an IDE cable in the wrong direction by yawnmoth
I have a 2.5" ATA HDD that I'm trying to plug into a USB to 2.5" IDE adapter, but, while the HDD is missing the top middle pin, the IDE adapter is not. As such, I'm unsure of which orientation the cable needs to be plugged in with. If I plug it in in the wrong direction (upside down), do I risk...
February 1st 09 04:08 AM
by Rod Speed Go to last post
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scorpio wd hd by Chris[_3_]
I recently got a western digital 500gb scorpio hard drive for my laptop that I've installed bootit ng on. I've found a lot of websites I get timeout errors and have to press F5 to refresh when I'm using internet explore/firefox or google chrome. This is a dell laptop and have run the dell...
January 30th 09 11:12 PM
by Rod Speed Go to last post
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Strange Hard Drive Failure Problem by [email protected]
I built my son a machine about 3 months ago from parts of other machines laying around. His 60 gig hd that had been perfectly fine prior to that point failed immediately. So I replaced it with a 40gig that had been laying around. It worked about a week and failed. So I thought maybe it's a...
January 29th 09 12:28 AM
by Chris[_15_] Go to last post
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Help - Looking to defrag folders under XP by BD
Hi, all. I have 2 different external USB hard disks, one 3.5" under NTFS, and one 2.5" under FAT32. I'm running XP SP2. I really want to be able to occasionally defrag the folders on these disks, to get them all on the same place on the disk. I read a thread in an experts-exchange forum about XP...
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January 28th 09 08:01 PM
by BD Go to last post
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OS on a USB flash drive, or SDHC card? by OhioGuy
With the rapidly decreasing price of SDHC cards and USB Flash drives, I have become interested in trying to set up a PC that boots only from one of these drives, just to experiment with. I started wondering about the possibility of something like this when I bought an Asus M3AH-HDMI...
January 28th 09 01:45 PM
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Dual RAID for system and data drives by [email protected]
I am building a PC and want to use RAID 1 to mirror the system disk and RAID 1 to mirror a data disk. The plan is as follows: System disk: One 300GB SATA HD mirrored to a second 300GB SATA HD using RAID Data disk: One 1.5TB SATA HD mirrored to a second 1.5TB SATA HD using RAID 1 I gather that I...
January 28th 09 04:04 AM
by Arno Wagner Go to last post
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external hard drive w/ error by vin123
when i plug in my external hard drive in pc it shows weird signs(not w/ letter). i click on it and it shows file names and folder names have been changed into some values w/ 0 kb. when i click on it said ERROR: FILE NAME, DIRECTORY NAME, OR VOLUME LABEL SYNTAX IS INCORRECT is there any way to...
January 27th 09 07:19 AM
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Connecting WD My Book through ESATA vs. USB by bbbl67
A friend of mine has a 500GB WD My Book. It's got one wierd issue, and that is that you can't read its SMART info when it's being connected via ESATA, but it works perfectly fine when connected through USB. My assumption was that SMART only works through ESATA not USB, but it seems to be exactly...
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January 27th 09 06:06 AM
by JcRabbit[_4_] Go to last post
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Is my new 500 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 HDD affected? by Ant
Hello! I recently bought a new 500 GB SATA Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3500320AS before Christmas 2008 and started using it on the 27th (work time: 17 days). I am worried if I need to upgrade its firmware or return the drive after reading about high failure rates online. However, those were 1...
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January 25th 09 09:40 PM
by Franc Zabkar Go to last post
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Welland ME-740AN by Heiko Rompel
hello, did anybody knows the NAS-Storage "ME-740AN" from "Welland"? if yes, is it possible to manipulate the Firmware, so that i give users only access to one folder with his name and password? greetings from germany heiko
January 25th 09 06:01 PM
by Heiko Rompel Go to last post
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IDE to USB? by bertieboy
Can anyone recommend an adapter that would allow me to connect a spare IDE drive to a USB connector on my desktop? I want to Acronis image direct to this drive. I'm not familiar with these adapters, as I usually image to a partition, then copy across to a USB drive. I thought it would be easier...
January 24th 09 09:31 PM
by Bob Knowlden Go to last post
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Why is my external nas drive so slow when connected to my router? by Alex[_9_]
Hello, I have a maxtor external portable hard drive of 160GB and when I connect it to my pc via 2 USB2.0 cables (one for power and data and the other for data) data transfer is almost instant. When I connect it to my router to use it as a Network/NAS drive, it takes ages to read/ write data! I...
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January 24th 09 09:24 PM
by Rod Speed Go to last post
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Any other tools around that tell me the firmware of my Seagate HDD? by Andreas Eibach
Hi there, My Win2K box is running on a nForce2-based mainboard (Delta ILSR by MSI) and these boards would support IDE by default, but also provide additional SATA support by a second controller. This seems to be the problem where the Seagate guys did not test thoroughly enough. This tool:
January 24th 09 09:56 AM
by DevilsPGD[_3_] Go to last post
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[fw] Seagate 7200.11 hard disk firmware upgrade by Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k)
Are you affected? Welcome, Seagate hard drive owners. A number of Seagate hard drives from the following families may become inaccessible when the host system is powered on: Barracuda 7200.11 DiamondMax 22 Barracuda ES.2 SATA
January 24th 09 02:07 AM
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Optimum HDD temperature by Franc Zabkar
After unpacking the ISO that Seagate recently provided to address a "bricking" bug in its Barracuda 7200.11 drives, I found the following SD1A firmware image: http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/SD1AMOOS.LOD Peeking inside the code, I found some interesting text strings in two sections : Invalid...
January 23rd 09 01:19 AM
by [email protected] Go to last post
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Is there a way to find out Seagate HDD's P/N without looking at itsphysical drive? by Ant
Like any software tools? Thanks in advance. :) -- "If I find one beer can in that car, it's over!" --Red; "And no donuts either! Ants!" --Kitty from That '70s Show pilot /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged...
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January 21st 09 06:56 AM
by Ant Go to last post
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Old laptop hard drive. Ideas? by Dave[_18_]
I have an old Dell Latitude laptop with a 30 GB hard drive which I only am currently using 8 GB. I cannot afford to have this machine die on me. My business is based on it. I know it's getting to the age when the hard drive will wear out. I'm looking for ideas on how best to avoid or prepare...
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January 21st 09 01:46 AM
by Rod Speed Go to last post
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New scientific data on wiping HDDS by Arno Wagner
There finally is some scientific evidence that one or a very low number of overwrites is enough to wipe a drive in most situations. The paper "Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy" by Craig Wright, Dave Kleiman and Shyaam Sundhar R.S. looks at the issue using magnetic...
January 20th 09 03:20 AM
by Arno Wagner Go to last post
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Solid State disk for a desktop system C drive? by Al Dykes
Is there any reason why I shouldn't use a sold state disk as a C drive on a high performance desktop system? 36GB would make a fine C drive for my work. Newegg has 36GB solid state disks starting at 70 bucks. They feature screaming read rates. The write rates are a little slower but still faster...
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January 19th 09 11:20 PM
by Franc Zabkar Go to last post
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