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College instructor needs info on hard drives

Some months back, many of you professional IT people waded in on the long term reliability of various hard drives for desk tops and servers. IBM seemed to be a noted recipient of criticism. I would appreciate if you folks would reiterate your experience, good and bad, of the respective...

Tags: hard drive, hard drive reliability, Maxtor Corp., Western Digital Corp., brand, jacksdaddy1@..., hardware

Discussion threads 2006-06-20

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Server Class Disk Drives: How Reliable Are They?

Hard disk drive manufacturers frequently set high expectations for drive reliability from their specifications, test results and "Global returns database". However, field reliability experienced by customers often does not match those expectations. Actual disk drive reliability may differ greatly from the manufacturer's specification and from customer to customer because of...

Tags: Disk, Disk Drive, Server, NetApp

White papers 2003-10-06

New Hard Drive Installation

I am installing a new hard drive in my PC. The old hard drive is partitioned, with "C:" being the Primary and "D" being Secondary. If I setup the old hard drive as the "Slave" can I just transfer the files from the old hard drive to the...

Tags: new Hard Drive, old hard drive, hard drive, gbalonek@..., hardware, Serial ATA

Q&A 2006-03-13

Case Study: TRIZ Solves a Hard Drive Reliability Problem

TRIZ is the Russian acronym for The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving. TRIZ is a unique knowledge-based technology for accelerated development of design concepts. The drive needs to be protected against stronger external force. This could be achieved by replacing the current latch magnet with a stronger one. But the...

Tags: Hard Drive, Magnet, CTQ Media, TRIZ, TRIZ Methodology, Engineering

Case studies

Removed second hard drive now C: drive is F:

I was going to have an internal 2nd hard drive to use for back up storage and decided to use external USB hard drive package instead. After I removed 2nd drive, my should be C: hard drive is now F: Disk Management won't let me change it back, trying to...

Tags: C/C++, hard drive, C

Discussion threads 2008-10-27

Hard Drive detection in System bios Dell Inspiron 8600

I was getting an error message on start up saying my hard drive was not detected. I bought a new hard, same manufacturer, Hitachi. Larger size, 160 GB VS 80 GB. I replaced the hard drive and nowo the systen bios does not see the new Hard...

Tags: leebarroll@..., hard drive

Discussion threads 2007-06-30

DriveWizard 3.15 (Windows)

Easy to install and use, DriveWizard works in Windows environment with a user friendly interface. In just few easy steps, you can upgrade your hard drive to a higher capacity hard drive. DriveWizard creates an exact mirror of your hard drive. DriveWizard copies every single byte of data from...

Tags: Hard Drive, Microsoft Windows, DriveWizard 3.15

Software downloads 2005-06-21

Hard Drive Inspector Professional 2.102 build 486 (Windows)

Hard Drive Inspector Professional is a technology-based program, which allows controlling the state of your hard disk drives. As the access to electronic information becomes more and more vital in business and at home, Hard Drive Inspector allows exceeding the traditional limits of HDDs reliability, thus extending the level of...

Tags: Hard Drive, Microsoft Windows, User Data, AltrixSoft, Hard Drive Inspector Professional, Quik Tech Solutions USB Storage Adapter

Software downloads 2008-10-01

External Hard Drive Problems (Maxtor 3200) 100G

Last night I wanted to use my external hard drive for something and when I powered it up, the light on the hard drive just blinks and i don't hear the hard drive spinning. And of course it doesn't show on the laptop. Someone PLEASE HELP!!! I have vital information...

Tags: cummingseric79@..., hard drive, Maxtor Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-05-26

Hard drive locked

Hi,I have a Wester Digital hard drive that has a hardware lock on it. Most data recovery programs do not even recognize the hard drive but some of them do and request a password to unlock it.Note: The hard drive is not broken and I am not talki

Tags: security, hardware, password protected hard drive, hard drive, support@...

Discussion threads 2007-03-10

New Hard Drive Install...

I installed a new 160 GB hard drive and I the 160GB as the Primary and my old 6GB as the Slave. I cloned my old hard drive, so I have everything that was on my old hard rive on my new one. My problem is, that my...

Tags: old hard drive, hard drive

Discussion threads 2008-02-27

Formatting a Hard Drive and Hard Drive Basics

The hard drive is the workhorse of the computer, but how does it actually work and how does a person maintain it so it will last as long as possible and perform to its peak. This paper presents a basic description of how the hard drive works, and what one...

Tags: Hard Drive, UniRecovery

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The Disk in Drive F is not formmated

i just installed Windows Xp Professional onto a brand new hard drive and after i got it all setup and everything, i turned off the computer to add my Other hard drive i use for storage ONLY [drive f]. it has never had a operating system installed...

Tags: disk, Chkdsk, t.wilford@..., hard drive, extra hard drive

Discussion threads 2007-08-14

How do I... Build and configure an external hard drive enclosure?

Do you have an old hard drive, which still works, lying around and gathering dust that you'd like to put to good use? If you answered yes, then chances are good that you've thought about using your old drive as an external hard drive. Fortunately, building an external hard drive...

Tags: External Hard Drive, Hard Drive, Greg Shultz

Download resources 2008-01-18

backing up a hard drive with a virus

My computer notebook pc has been infected with a virus that wont allow me to boot up. I would like to save at least some if not all of my files stored on my hard drive before reinstalling windows xp. How can i go about doing this?The "best"...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Notebooks, ahwc@..., hard drive, computer, virus

Discussion threads 2007-04-16

Toshiba 2.5 hard drive question

I have a Compaq Presario that has an issue with the power connector and need to send it in for repairs. But first, I want to back the hard drive up.The hard drive is a Toshiba 60g Model #MK6025GAS. I looked at an external hard drive enclosure thinking I...

Tags: alsmith@..., hard drive, Toshiba Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-08-25

formating

I have an old Sony Vaio (PCG-SR17K) with no cd-rom. The hard drive went bad and I need to install a new OS Windows XPon a new hard drive. Can I intall the OS on a hard drive using a hard drive enclosure? If so can someone explain the procedure....

Tags: Santos_Gonzalez@..., hard drive

Discussion threads 2007-05-29

DEKSI SmartCheck 2.0 (Windows)

DEKSI SmartCheck is a unique software program that is designed to provide detailed and comprehensive information about the hard drives on all your network computers and help prevent hard drive failure and loss of important and valuable data. S.M.A.R.T. stands for Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology. It was developed...

Tags: Hard Drive, Microsoft Windows, DEKSI SmartCheck, S.M.A.R.T. Technology

Software downloads 2004-08-06

Apple Drive Setup 1.7.3 (Mac)

Drive Setup installs software called a disk driver that allows your computer to communicate with the hard disk. Use Drive Setup 1.7.3 to update your disk driver or to reinitialize a disk. When you initialize a disk, all of its contents are erased. IMPORTANT Earlier versions of Drive Setup can...

Tags: Hard Drive, Apple Macintosh, Disk, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 1999-06-14

portable hard drives

Hi everyone, I would like some honest feedback about portable hard drives.For my database design subject, it was recommended that a portable hard drive (min 40gb) would be needed to store all my work on. I'm not familiar with portable drives and have been looking around but am unsure...

Tags: hard drive, portable hard drive

Discussion threads 2008-02-12