Hello What is the best HDD in terms of Reliability/cost?

There appear to be hundreds of software packages out there to restore an NTFS partition with a corrupted MFT. Does anybody know of any reviews with a feature comparison matrix? What utilities do you recommend?

Hello. I think I have a dying external HDD in an Antec enclosure (USB). I haven't used it for months until today when I wanted to do some backups. http://pastie.org/private/kyewx2ur1w74h5pah6lrdw from gsmartctl v0.8.6-2 for Windows after an extended self test (supposed to take almost four...

As far as I found out there two different tools for making an USB stick bootable: "HP Drive Key Boot Utility" and "HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool" What is the difference between them?

Here's how to boot between two Windows XP systems without using any special softwa First, Why? 1) Your system hard drive is getting old, and you want to be prepared for a quick switch-over to a new system hard drive when the old one croaks.

An IBM deskstar DTLA-307060 has just crashed. I pulled it out of the pc and tested it on another. You can feel the disk spin but the drive is not accessible nor is it recognized in the bios. The spinning of the platters seem to indicate that the a component of the electronics board has failed. Is...

Hello. I love my old Seagate's light and small 2.5" Seagate HDD (USB2), but its 500 GB is too small and slow these days. What'a good one like that is faster, bigger storage size, and physically small and light? Also, it doesn't require a separate power connector (should be optional though if...

"Western Digital Changes Its Reported Drive Speeds to Reflect Reality" https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/317327-western-digital-changes-its-reported-drive-speeds-to-reflect-reality "Western Digital has made some changes to how it brands its WD Red Plus hard drive family after taking heat for...

"Sammy D" wrote in message ... I use XP. I want to create a data partition on a new hard drive of approx 50 to 100 GB and I want to store only data in it (jpegs, mpegs, mp3s). Is it better to have it as...

Anyone know of any great web sites or discussions boards for reviving hard drives which have failed fir data retrieval? I have two hard drives which failed within 2 weeks of each other before backups could be made of certain data. I'd like to research the best ways to recover the data. In each...

On 2020-08-04, Lynn McGuire wrote: "After a four day outage, Garmin suddenly announced that they were starting to restore services, and it made us suspect that they paid the ransom to receive a decryptor." "Garmin refused, though, to comment any...

"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-q2-2019/ "As of June 30, 2019, Backblaze had 110,640 spinning hard drives in our ever-expanding cloud storage ecosystem. Of that number, there were 1,980 boot drives and 108,660 data drives. This review...

Hello all. I just got this e-mails and checked the logs this morning on my Linux/Debian machine: Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 07:25:40 -0700 From: root root@MyLinuxBox To: root@MyLinuxBox Subject: SMART error (CurrentPendingSector) detected on host: MyLinuxBox

I have just purchased a Canon digitalcamera. I have an 8GB HP SD High Capacity memory card that I have used but with some problems. Like the 32MB card that came with the camera, the 8 GB memory card is formatted in RAW. When I remove the 8 GB SDHC card from the camera and put it into my 3...

"Seagate Confirms World's Largest Hard Disk Drive on Track for December" https://www.pcmag.com/news/seagate-confirms-worlds-largest-hard-disk-drive-on-track-for-december "Seagate's first HAMR drives will feature a whopping 20TB capacity when they debut later this year." That there is one big...

Hi For about six years, I've been backing up computer data onto CD media. Initially, I wasn't too careful with my backups, making no after-checks and buying cheap media, although I've learnt from my mistakes in modern times. As I'm not keen to lose the data I'm backing, I only buy high-quality...

"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2019" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q3-2019/ "As of September 30, 2019, Backblaze had 115,151 spinning hard drives spread across four data centers on two continents. Of that number, there were 2,098 boot drives and 113,053 data...

I'm a home PC user based in the UK. I run mainly office applications and downloading music. No gaming or power PC stuff. ------ (A) My music is mainly on two or three 160 GB drives. Much of that can be replaced. (B) I have also got XP on a 15 GB system partition.

A friend gave me a 5 1/4 inch floppy that she wants to retrieve some data from. It has a reinforcing ring around the center hole. That means it's low density, right? 360KB per disk, right? Another friend tells me that newer HD drives will not read LD disks**. That I have to find a LD drive. ...

"John L @yahoo.com" john_stlmoremovethis wrote in message ... My external WD hard drive has recently starting 'clicking' on occasion - like resetting itself over and over. Usually it's quiet, works fine, but sometimes it will just start clicking like some...