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Difficulty Assigning Drive Letters by
John B. Smith
Last weekend I installed a new boot drive after months of intermittent
problems. I used Macrium Reflect to image my two booting partitions
onto the new drive. I was anticipating a huge fight but it went
amazingly well. I bought a larger drive this time 1T. About half of it
was left after I...
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Logitech trackman by
Flasherly[_2_]
Getting possibly more use out of the last one, going on somewhat past
two years or the lower length of time they seem to wear down for me.
Possibly better built, though I doubt it. Took this one once apart,
where it showed improvement, and again today upon missing switch
responses. The switch...
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Space Company in Wuhan connected to Corona Virus ? by
Bob F
On 10/27/2020 6:55 PM, skybuck2000 wrote:
Did you know there is a "space company" in wuhan ?!
Wow, now with this chinese space race and also spacex the possibility of bringing back a dangerous virus from space attached to some kind of space device is pretty real.
If corona virus did...
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October 29th 20 04:42 AM
by Bob F
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"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2020" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2020"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q3-2020/
"As of September 30, 2020, Backblaze had 153,727 spinning hard drives in
our cloud storage ecosystem spread across four data centers. Of that
number, there were 2,780 boot drives and...
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Why buying laptops is a bad deal long term (dead battery = unable toboot up) by
RayLopez99
Against Paul's reservations a few years ago I bought a cheap i5 laptop (Dell Latitude) used on eBay and it's worked OK, except it powers off (sleep) every so often, randomly.
I bought a new battery and it seemingly got even worse.
I spent an hour or two playing around with settings for sleep and...
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October 8th 20 03:04 PM
by SC Tom
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USB bad formatting error makes it unreadable...forever by
RayLopez99
https://www.stellarinfo.com/blog/fix-usb-drive-not-formatted-error/
I've read the above and similar articles and it does not work to fix my USB (which I pulled out while it was writing data and/or formatting it from FAT32 to NTFS etc etc, and in any event is dead).
I think this USB is shot. My...
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Crucial 128G not software by
Flasherly[_2_]
Marked difference after I tore it up. Only a few times so far used
but the difference looks to be a decisive change in characteristics
for the better.
The model is advertised "Slider", where there's a thick plastic
sleeve integrated to slide over the unit and cover the male connection
point. ...
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Crucial 128G flastick USB problem could be software by
Flasherly[_2_]
Seems it will pick-up its own USB identity, not just sit there for
long periods trying to access itself, (a bright LED lite on it helps
me see when there's that issue), by first sticking in another
flashstick.
Something that looks to affect software resetting or hanging up on a
cache issue after...
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Apparent PSU problem by
Larc[_3_]
I have an older extra PC (ASUS H97M Plus motherboard - i3-4150 CPU - 12GB Kingston
HyperX DDR3-1600 RAM) that I use for Windows 10 Insider Preview beta builds. It has
a PS/2 keyboard that I've been using to start the system (CTRL+ESC). That start
method stopped working a couple of weeks ago and I...
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pr problem by
Yes[_2_]
Within the last few weeks, the screen will go blank literally for a
second or two when I'm using my pc. I'll be at a web site, and all of
a sudden the screen blanks (turns dark), no error messages. A second
or two later, the image reappears as if nothing had happened. AFAICT,
there is no...
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Sentenced to be burnt by USB by
Flasherly[_2_]
Bought a Crucial 128G USB flashdrive, possibly for what a 256G SDD now
costs. Not that old, at least for me, but obviously not new. Four to
five years' of usage is the guess. Now there's intermittent
connection issues, repeatedly re-seating the drive until an access
light goes from long...
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PC erratic behaviour by
Peter Johnson[_5_]
I've been having problems with my homebuilt PC for a couple of weeks.
All the components have been replaced this year. The last to be
changed were the RAM (32Gb Crucial) and the PSU.
The problems seem to coincide with a BIOS update on the Asus Prime
X570 PRO mb. I can't revert to to the earlier...
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September 9th 20 03:57 AM
by Bob F
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Magnetronics by
Flasherly[_2_]
Tore apart a microwave, almost. They don't want you in there, so
there's some nasty screw head shapes and sizes. Some, a few for that
purpose only, and the rest even a assembly line couldn't stomach. Had
to use a small prybar to lift a couple where they weren't so bad
unscrewing with...
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Does anybody have a Helium drive more than 5 years old? by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
On Wednesday, August 19, 2020 at 5:10:16 AM UTC+8, Paul wrote:
The Helium gas is guaranteed to stay inside for 5 years.
Does anybody have a Helium drive more than 5 years old? They arrived
2013 IIRR.
Not yet here. In fact, I am not even sure how tell if a hard drive is
helium filled ?
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"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2020" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2020"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q2-2020/
"As of June 30, 2020, Backblaze had 142,630 spinning hard drives in our
cloud storage ecosystem spread across four data centers. Of that number,
there were 2,271 boot drives and 140,059...
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SMART Sector error reloaction/Seek sector errors by
Flasherly[_2_]
Both SMART values haven't deviated from being reset after a 5-hr.
chkdsk /r /f. Some sort of numeric relative values, possibly endemic
to Samsung's SMART implementation, at a base 100 designee for the seek
errors, and 252 for reallocation counts;- fields repeated twice for
comparative values...
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