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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...
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February 2nd 09 02:08 PM
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 07:01 PM
by BD
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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...
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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...
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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...
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January 27th 09 06:19 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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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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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
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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...
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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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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:
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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
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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...
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January 21st 09 05:56 AM
by Ant
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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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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...
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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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