Data Recovery - why do they let the damaged HD run all night? I talked to a Data recovery house and they told me they sometimes have to let the drive run all night - why is that? Won't that cause more damage? Also, they tell me that it sounds like it might be internal problems (The drive is seen...

I have a friends 80 Gb internal Hard drive which has started to click. Could anyone recommend the best way to get data off of this asap. It was his main HD from his 5 yr old Dell machine. Unfortunately for him, he is also broke (like his HD), so taking it into Best Buy isn't an option. Thanks in...

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Just been round my mates house. He had put the SATA drivers on a removable drive in no folder but setup was detecting no compatible drivers for installed hardware, if you deselected the hide drivers that aren't compatible checkbox it then had a list of drivers on the pendrive some of which I...

Hello all who know Here is a problem with an almost new Seagate HDD. I bought this drive in March this year, Barracuda 7200.10, Model ST380215A, 80GB and it was working very well. I got a Slax (KillBill) Linux CD and ran this from the CD itself and was playing around with it. To ensure that...

I have an Asus P4G8X motherboard with Silicon Image 3112a Controller and I installed a set of new SATA hard drives a few weeks ago as a mirrored pair - everything worked fine. (Only drives in the system.) Yesterday when booting up I got an error, "incomplete raid set" then before I could react...

Can we get information of the Battery attached to a Raid Controller, as we do to the Battery of a Laptop? If we can, how to?

Specifications on Toshiba MK8025GAS 80GB Laptop Hard Drive: http://www.baber.com/drives/internal_hard_drives/laptops/toshiba_mk8025gas_specs.htm On http://www.z-a-recovery.com/man-smart.htm , there is an explanation of the Spin Retry count: "Spin retry event is logged each time the drive was...

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Saw some LG sata dvd burners & wonder if there were much diff between the sata & pata connector types other that satisfying m# desire to get away from "legacy" ide ports. Getting closer to update time for my msi pro2-a; & probably new harddrive & possibly new cd/dvd burner.

i was resizing a parition with partition magic and it was in the 'moving data' process. then my computer crashed. i was able to use file recovery software to retrieve my files from the drive, however some files arent opening. it seems that those files are 'broken' in some way and need to be...

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Hii.. Today out of the blue suddenly all the files on my flash drive is suddenly gone. I was working on a windows xp machine, and the usb had a FAT partition. Although none of the data is visible, the drive still shows that 920 mb of 1 gb is full, which was the same the last time I accessed the...

Hi, ~ I need to store a really large number of texts and I (could) have a number of ATA100 S.M.A.R.T.-compliant hard drives, which I would like to use to somehow build a large and safe (RAID-5?) data store ~ Now I am definitely more of a software person (at least occupationally) and this is what...

To protect my personal data I have the following requirements: 1) Backup must be remote to cover worst case scenarios (fire, water, etc) 2) Data access must be secure 3) Data is automatically encrypted before transfer starts. 4) Ideally, certain data can be encrypted and others can be...

I've heard recently some stating to stay away from DLT, that it is too slow and LTO is much better.. In pure specs DLT is 60 MB/sec and LTO3 at 80 MB/sec, give SATAII drive read speeds I cant see how this could be true. Of course.. the person stating this was an Exabyte rep wanting me to buy a...

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I have a Western Digital WD2500 Caviar SE drive. Every since I updated the bios on my MB(MSI K9n Diamond, bios 1.4), the PC would not boot up or it booted slowly, then it would freeze (Vista 64-bit. I also just swapped my Opteron 1212 for an X2 5600+), then I would have to keep resetting from...

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