I have 9 USB hard drives, used for storing videos and backup of PCs. All of them were rarely used more than twice a week. Recently 2 have failed. A Verbatim showed SMART errors. Fortunately, I was able to copy the data and scrap it. Worse is a WD My ****pot: the USB interface is kaput, so I can't...

Hello. Since I work with very old Windows PCs for testings, I noticed their very old HDDs (FAT32 and NTFS)' detected bad sectors get overwritten when doing Ghost restores. And then my computers struggle with these unmarked bad spots so I have to rerun disk utilities again (e.g., chkdsk.exe) to...

Hello. I have a very old, used ASUS K8V SE Deluxe + single core 754 AMD CPU + 512 MB of RAM + ATI Radeon 9600 Pro AIW + Windows XP Pro. SP2 PC that started corrupting its data and make Windows XP unbootable (blue screens even in its safe mode -- no mountable drive or something) Since December...

Intel 240 GB SSD drives are now $150: http://www.amazon.com/Intel-2-5-Inch-Internal-Reseller-SSDSC2BW240A4K5/dp/B00DTPYT78/ Amazing value! Lynn

ETA was 2 hours, but it has been running for 15 hours. SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offline Self-test routine in progress 90% 3 -

Samsung 1 TB SSD for $490 http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Electronics-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-7TE1T0BW/dp/B00E3W16OU/ Any good? Lynn

I have recorded files from a set-top box to a USB hard disk. I accidentally pressed delete all instead of delete one. I immediately removed the USB drive and plugged it in to a Windows PC and ran an undelete program called Recuva. I have used this successfully before. After it scanned the disk,...

One of the best HD utils out there. http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/hard-disk-sentinel You have to go through a questionnaire to get the serial number posted. Unless you have FaceButt, in which case I think it's just a clickerty-click. Valid for all future upgrades. 's -- Don't be evil -...

I have four Seagate ST32000641AS drives (plus other Seagate drives) in a FreeNAS machine. One (only one) of those drives shows write errors from time to time but no S.M.A.R.T. errors. Now I notice that that one drive is running at 5 to 6 degrees C hotter than the others (35C vs. 29C or...

I will finally be getting an SSD to use as my Boot and Programs drive. I have an Asus Sabertooth X79 mainboard which has a pair of native SATA6 ports at the upper set of ports and an additional Marvel pair of SATA6 ports. The manual isn't very clear about SSD drive use. I will not be setting up...

Any problems that I should know about with these 3TB drives, Seagate ST3000DM001? Yousuf Khan

Anybody have tried any AV-geared SATA drives for use with PVR's? I am finding that one drive I have right now is starting to show signs of skipping a lot. I'm thinking of the WD AV-GP drives, mainly. Possibly in the range from 500GB to higher. Yousuf Khan

Any suggestions for a decent app to recover lost partitions?

Not sure this is the right group but I am trying to recover .jpg files from an android device which has had photos deleted. There is 11 gig of space so I m a bit hopeful that nothing has over-writtten the space yet. The IBM.PC programs like Recuva and Restoration don't seem to recognise an...

Are there any good vendors that make a software RAID 1 package for Windows 7? What I would like to do is essentially the same capability I get with "Dynamic" drives under Windows Server: I want to be able to make a mirror image of a drive while it is actively in use, primarily as a...

Hello. Isn't booting off USB2 flash drive supposed to be a lot faster than an internal optical disc drive? I did a comparison between a bootable media with Windows PE and a few softwares on a 4 GB Kingston USB2 flash stick/drive and a burned CD-R. I don't see any major differences. :( Thank...

*** Incremental backups Recent hard disks of 1To or more are affordable but fallible! They have incited me to regularly make many incremental backups as described below. Thus I am seeking good answers to the following specific question. Which MS Windows backup program should I

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My homebuilt PC has tow Sata internal burners: a Lite-On iHAS524 DVD/RW drive and a Plextor PX-LB950 BD drive. I'm running Windows 7 64-bit and using a Asus Sabertooth X-79 motherboard. In two programs I've been using for long time in the 32-bit days, 'Exact Audio Copy' and a 2003 audio burning...

The results from three years of use were revealing: Western Digital's drives lasted an average of 2.5 years, while Hitachi's and Seagate's lasted 2 and 1.4 years, respectively. Even so, some of the individual Hitachi models topped the reliability charts. "Hitachi does really well. There is an...