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How big is the ocean; how big is my drive? by
mm
Somehow I never get rid of all my problems and questions.
How do I know how big my flashdrive is?
Today I went to use my NIB flashdrive and it says there is no room to
copy AVG11 to it (to install on another computer *before* going on the
net.) PowerDesk shows my drive is only 1.07 gig big. I...
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Changing Harddrives whilst PC includes a RAID Array by
D
I've got a Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI motherboard.
It has two RAID controller chips, of which I use one to controller a RAID 1
array of two Seagate ST3160827AS SATA 7200.8 160GB drives.
The O/S is Win XP SP2.
All was working fine, even after adding my old IDE harddrive from my old PC
(continuing with...
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Ghost 9.0's Copy Drive, Cloning & SP2 by
JP
I'm looking for a reliable "cloning" program. What I want to do is simply
clone (not image) my C: drive to my D: drive, so that in the event of a C:
drive failure I could just unplug the data cable from C:, plug it into D:,
adjust the BIOS, boot and go with a hard drive that would be identical...
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Which external portable HDD to get these days? by
Ant
Hi all.
I am in a need to get another external portal HDD for mostly backups.
It can be a name brand bundled one or enclosure + HDD. However, it has
to be from cdw.com since my boss and employer said so (dumb, I know -- I
guess it is the contracts or discounts?).
Anyways, I need a big HDD that...
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Data Recovery from lost NTFS. Help! by
Gregg OBanion
I need some advice. I was transferring info from a 160 gig IDE Western
Digital hard drive and forgot the drive was in use when I renamed it in
Drive properties. The drive instantly lost its file system asks if I want to
format it when I click on the drive letter.
I've used GetDataBack and...
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IDE RAID- Major problem need to save my data by
MC
I had a motherboard with a built in IDE RAID Promise chipset. I used
two drives for RAID 0 (now I know this was a bad idea). To make a
long story short, the system board is shot and I can't get another
with the same RAID chipset. Even if I throw the computer out, I really
need to save my data. My...
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Chkdsk vs. Chkntfs? by
Yousuf Khan[_2_]
I've been occasionally getting an error message on my Event Viewer,
Event ID 55, source Ntfs, message:
"The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please
run the chkdsk utility on the volume Hit 1000 winboot."
I'm absolutely certain that these are mostly fake messages,...
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Samsung 4k drives and there software for them by
Jim
I've just bought a couple of these F4 2TB drives (the 4k ones), now
given I'm still running XP I had to use there "Acronics Align Tool" so I
downloaded it, installed it and ran it and it done what it needed to do and
came back saying drive was now fine.
Now I took a drive image before I done...
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"Yes, Backblaze Just Ordered 100 Petabytes of Hard Drives" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"Yes, Backblaze Just Ordered 100 Petabytes of Hard Drives"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/400-petabytes-cloud-storage/
Now I know why the 8 TB and 10 TB drives are in short supply. Between
Backblaze and the NSA, not many are left for us common folks.
Lynn
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Universal BIOS Backup ToolKit 2.0.exe by
Linea Recta[_2_]
I have been testing the utility above for making a backup of my CMOS
settings.
I seem to have made a backup to file succesfully:
PhoenixTechnologiesLTD-M2.03A.rom
But now what can I do with it??
They seem to have forgotten to implement an option for restoring the file?
I had a look into the...
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by Paul
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A dying Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500 GB SATA HDD? by
Ant[_3_]
Hi!
I was just watching my recorded television/TV shows and then my video
froze. My old updated Windows XP Pro. SP3's taskbar showed several
balloons showing many write delays ($MFT) on my 500 GB Seagate SATA HDD
on all of its partitions/drives (D:, G:, etc.)! My Windows started
pausing and...
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Single-rail vs. multi-rail power supplies? by
Yousuf Khan[_2_]
I currently have a desktop with a Zalman 600W PS, it was a pretty nice
PS a few years ago when I got it, but now it looks like the system has
been upgraded and grown again, and I'm starting to see signs that it's
not producing enough power for the components anymore. So I'm looking at
the...
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Battery backup: problem with my APC? by
kenk
I was sitting at my desk yesterday during a storm when there was a
split-second power outage. Despite the fact that my battery shows all 5
lights lit, the computer died.
Is there a better brand to use than APC? Can the battery be sub-par
even though the test lights say it is OK? What have...
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Current state of SSD's by
micky
Current state of SSD's
My niece thinks she needs a new laptop. Hers' is all of 4 years old and
she imagines its running slowly. (Or it is but could be fiixed.)
She wasts a solid state drive. Last I heard, you could only write to
them so many times before they started forgetting what they...
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Video: Skybuck's DreamPC from 2006 boots up strangely by
[email protected]
Hello,
This video on youtube shows the strange procedure I have to follow to boot up my computer lately:
https://youtu.be/oglScNl_jjw
This strange problem started occuring after I accidently put the computer into sleep mode, and re-powered the system after the power was cut but the fans had not...
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DVR with ATSC tuner and port for eSATA or USB drive by
Daniel Prince
I would like to buy a DVR with an ATSC tuner and a port an for an
external eSATA or USB drive. Does anyone make such a device?
Multiple tuners would be a big plus. Thank you in advance for all
replies.
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When I am in the kitchen, I often kick one of my cat's balls.
After I kick it, he will...
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User accounts have gone missing! by
Yousuf Khan
I have a perplexing problem here. I went on vacation outside of the
country, and when I got back my Windows 7 desktop lost almost all of its
user login accounts (5 altogether), except for one. The one that isn't
lost, cannot be logged into, as the password doesn't get accepted.
The machine also...
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WD drive causing WinXP lockup by
JPW
Have an ABIT BE6 mb.
Presently I have this IDE/ATA configuration -
IDE3 master(ATA) - 80GB with 2 partitions of 40GB. First is Win98se and second
just for data.(C: & F:)
IDE3 slave (ATA) - 12GB just for data. (D:)
IDE4 master(ATA) - 120GB just for data (E:)
(All FAT32)
IDE1 & 2 - Total of 3 cd/dvd...
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