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Is GoogleGear Good? They have WD1200JB for $106 (free shipping) by
J.Clarke
On 26 Jun 2003 19:34:47 -0700
(John) wrote:
This seems like an awesome deal. Is GoogleGear a good company? Do they
screw their customers?
I've generally had good results with them, however please note that
Newegg.com has them for the same price.
John
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July 4th 03 12:59 AM
by John
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200GB hard drive I cant format under win2k by
PGB
Ok here is the deal. I have a machine with 2 HD, one is a 20GB primary
master, and a 200GB primary slave. When win2k booted up, I got the
found new hardware message and windows seemed to do its own thing.
Then when I try to acces the drive it ask me to format. So I told it
to. But then before it...
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July 4th 03 10:07 AM
by Andy
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Headaches and CRTs/Flat Panels? by
John Smith
Hi,
Is there any evidence that flat panels cut down on headaches that CRT
monitors supposedly create? Or is it just a mixture of marketing and myth?
Thanks,
J.
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LLF/diagnostic for OEM Hitachi drives? by
Gary Tait
Where can I find one? The one at the Hitachi site does not support
drives sold to OEM vendors, and I need one for this drive the Hitachi
utility won't touch.
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Barracuda 7200.7 sata 160gb noise. by
J.Clarke
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 16:35:18 +0100
"Jaime" wrote:
"John Smith" wrote in message
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I did some research online before buying and quite a few people were
saying
the 160GB...
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RAID as a backup system? by
J.Clarke
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 12:11:25 +0200
"SMN" wrote:
I know that a RAID system normally isn't a replacement for a
traditional backup system, and that RAID primarily are used to
increase performance and to protect against hard drive breakdown. So
my question might seem a bit...
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BAFFLING! - False connection on HDs by
Scully
I have a 2 year old Athlon with 2 HDs. Occasionally one of the HDs will get
'disconnected'. The first time it happened it scared the sh*t outta me, I
had gone out & returned to find a black screen with a message saying 'press
any key to reboot'. Having done so the BIOS failed to recognize the...
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harddisk position by
lallous
Hello,
Can someone tell me or point me to a tech. link where I can find an
answer to:
Is connecting and running the harddisk vertically healthy ?
I have unplugged my drive and plugged it into another PC just to share
some data, I placed it vertically and started to copy files.
After 20 minutes...
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July 6th 03 12:55 PM
by Nick
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SMART attribute failure- Maxtor HDD- What is it? by
BP
I recently added a second (slave) drive to my system (DiamondMax Plus 8,
30G) and soon afterward statrted experiencing a boot delay problem
(InitDone=TSRQuery). I downloaded and ran Maxtor PowerMax diagnostic
software on the new drive and it returned a "Drive Installation" failure for
"SMART...
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July 6th 03 01:01 PM
by BP
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HDPARM and Barracuda 7200.7 160gb sata by
Jaime
I finally managed to get linux installed on the sata drive. Red hat 9 is
awsum, I'm seriously tempted to ditch windows xp. I used hdparm and it
seemed to set the amm on the drive, I think it might be quiter although I am
not convinced, its still defently louder than the cuda 4's seeks....
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July 6th 03 07:04 PM
by Jaime
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Professional data recovery recommendation by
Bruce T. Berger
A newly referred customer (as opposed to someone who's been exposed my
repeated exhortations to back up all data religiously) just brought me a
Maxtor Romulus 60 GB drive which has unbacked-up critical data on it. When
I run Powermax it reports a drive recal failure (error UK0E02) & aborts
further...
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USB 2.0 conflict with ADS drive kit and HP external dvd burner by
Phil Tomaskovic
I just purchased an ADS dual link drive kit (usb & firewire connectors). I
have found that I cannot have this drive kit plugged in at the same time as
my hp 300e dvd writer if both are using usb 2.0connections. Doesn't seem to
matter which usb port I use (my Intel MB has 6 ports). If I unplug...
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proper care of external drive - should I keep it powered up? by
Phil Tomaskovic
I have a WD drive in an ADS enclosure. Is it harmful to the hard drive to
shut down and power it back up often (couple times a day) or should I leave
it up and running as long as the PC is up?
The reason I ask is that I tried putting in an older drive into the external
drive case (after it had...
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Could new ATA-133 card mess up sound? by
Rod Speed
Hiawatha Bray wrote in message
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I have one of those motherboards with onboard VIA AC'97 sound. It was
working fine, till I recently installed a new Maxtor hard drive. The drive
has the high-speed ATA-133 bus, and...
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Brands of hard drive enclosures by
RD
What are some brands of recommended external USB hard drive enclosures,
hopefully not too expensive, that have a fan? Thanks.
RD
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July 8th 03 12:20 AM
by RD
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Turning off hard disks when inactive by
RD
My PC running Win XP has an option in power management to turn the hard disks
off after "X" number of minutes of inactivity. Is this a good thing to do or
not. Thanks for any comments.
RD
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firmware revisions by
Edward J. Neth
It may just be a firmware difference, but WD uses the same model number,
sometimes for drives of different physical characteristics (different number
of discs, etc.).
"anon" wrote in message
news:iVENa.47362$G6.18972@lakeread04...
I have a WD 20 GB with data...
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Quiet Drives, Fast Drives - WD, Seagate, Samsung & Hitachi by
J.Clarke
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 19:21:21 +0100
"John Smith" wrote:
Hi,
Whilst I hear the WD 120GB Special Edition drives with 8MB Cache are
super fast I also hear they are super noisy and prone to high pitched
whine.
But, I hear some of the newer Seagates,...
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Ghosting Windows 2000 with VMWare 4.0 using Ghost 7.5 by
Julia Packer
Hi!
I am trying to create a ghost image of a Windows 2000 Profession
edition hardrive containing VMWare software onto a Win2K Server using
remote client install. However, when I try to install the client, it
tells me that it can't install due to the fact that it can't figure
out the number of...
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