This experiment was done under XP Pro on a small 10GB data partition with no other activity going on. It was almost full with just 4 big files at the time. I created a txt file, zero bytes at first. Free space did not change, but what is strange is that free space still didn't change when it...

On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:19:29 -0800 (PST), DJW put finger to keyboard and composed: Is there a windows XP application to find file or folder names that have characters not allowed and either delete those characters or replace them? I have about a thousand files with question...

I seem to be unable to turn off hard disk caching for my USB drives in Windows 7. I used to be able to do this in XP, can't recall if it ever worked in Win 7. Can someone please explain how to get this working? System details: * SONY VAIO EB Series laptop * Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 * Seagate...

Looking for a utility to run disckscan USB external HDD. The WD Lifegauard hdd utility is the only one that I have found that works. The Lifeguard does not showed things were fine, but it did not show how many sectors were bad..? The win7 disk checker does not work either.

DJW wrote: Is there a windows XP application to find file or folder names that have characters not allowed and either delete those characters or replace them? I have about a thousand files with question marks in the file name on my hard drive that were moved over from a...

On 11/01/2013 3:19 PM, DJW wrote: Is there a windows XP application to find file or folder names that have characters not allowed and either delete those characters or replace them? I have about a thousand files with question marks in the file name on my hard drive that were moved over from...

Hi. Something baffles me. Perhaps someone here can explain it. If I go to the properties of my C drive on my laptop, the size reported is smaller than the total size of the files and folders on drive C: http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/2843/dataa.jpg How can the size of all selected files and...

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A friend of mine has a desktop running Windows 7 Ultimate x64. In it, there is a 1TB spanned volume consisting of 3 disks: (1) 200GB, (2) 300GB, & (3) 500GB. The middle disk, disk #2, suffered a temporary communications failure, and disappeared from the volume all of a sudden. After the reboot,...

Some villains broke in through laundry window. House behind has been vacant for 2 weeks, so they wouldn't have been seen. They grabbed my wife's laptop. She backs it up onto a 128GB thumb drive, but that was lying on table, so the scumbags took it too. BTW they also took one of those Paywave...

Hitachi hdd reliability improving since WD acquisition....? Just wondering if anyone has seen much improvement in Hitachi HDD since WD bought them....?

With Seagate's driver, can you use a 3TB secondary data drive with a single partition in XP? -- Reply in group, but if emailing add one more zero, and remove the last word.

The Barracuda XT drives (e.g., ST32000641AS) seem to have gone away. What do people know about the current SATA drives? Do they incorporate technology they acquired by buying Samsung's drive line? Perce

Hello. Will DBan work on these (e.g., very old SD mini and micro types from 16 MB to 2 GB sizes), or do I need to use a special memory card software for them? Thank you in advance. :) -- "Since the world began, we have never exterminated. We probably shall never exterminate as much as one...

Fake Toshiba 500GB external: http://forum.hddguru.com/comment-t24732.html - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

Some HDDs have rather large (1cm) holes covered by plastic and foil stickers. They seem to be positioned for easy access to destroying the platters with a screwdriver or something. Is that what it's for? -- Reply in group, but if emailing add one more zero, and remove the last word.

how to put 135 TB in a single case: http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v2-0revealing-more-secrets/ Lynn

How to put 67 TB in a 4U case: http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/ From my question on how to store 36 hard drives in a Netflix case: https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect/hardware Also, how to get banned from Costco:

After a scandisk scan under Win7 (Properties - Tools - Check now...) of a 2 years old external ST3500418AS (power on: 350 hours), the SMART shows 4079 "unstable sectors" (the scan took 3 days). Can the box adapter cause that kind of problems? I mean no filter, inadequate current, fluctuating...

A SSD in Your Pocket by Jeff Atwood http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/11/a-ssd-in-your-pocket.html USB 3 is fast ! Lynn