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StarTech ATA-100 cables any good?
Posted on December 7th, 2008 | 14 Comments

Tony wrote: Round cables are a bad idea. Cables over 18" are also a bad idea. Combine the two, and you're just asking for trouble. -WD

Multi-boot Windows XP without special software
Posted on December 6th, 2008 | 24 Comments

Here's how to boot between two Windows XP systems without using any special software: First, Why? 1) Your system hard drive is getting old, and you want to be prepared for a quick switch-over to a...

How big is a gigabyte in hard drive advertising and packaging?
Posted on July 8th, 2008 | 5 Comments

mm wrote: As others have said, HD vendors use the SI (and NIST) standard definitions, including 1GB = 1,000,000,000B. Yes, formatting consumes capacity. There is confusion in the M$ world because...

Use of 2.5 SATA Drives For Servers
Posted on July 8th, 2008 | 6 Comments

Previously Will <westes-usc@noemail.nospam> wrote: Hmm. If it is not a high-performance application, ordinary notebook drives may actually do fine. They are at the performance level that 3.5" SATA...

Question for seasoned SCSI expert
Posted on July 8th, 2008 | 2 Comments

Why don't you start with the appropriate newsgroup? "Odiferous" <odie_ferrous@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:48729124.743ED5AD@hotmail.com...

How to determine supported MID types
Posted on July 8th, 2008 | 1 Comments

Franc Zabkar wrote: I notice that that page doesn't have my DVR-215D, but I was able to download a media list for it from its own download page. --- Ed Light Better World News TV...

SATA II RAID 0 not reaching 3.0 Gbps
Posted on July 7th, 2008 | 9 Comments

Thanks. -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (Xubuntu 8.04) Linux 2.6.25.10 ^ ^ 12:09:01 up 3 days 15:26 2 users...

restoring system after disaster
Posted on July 4th, 2008 | 1 Comments

Previously skomp@poczta.fm wrote: That is not a question of your backup product, but of the system you are trying to restore. For example my experience with restoring a Linux system to different...

Can hard drives handle floor vibrations?
Posted on July 4th, 2008 | 24 Comments

John Turco <jtur@concentric.net> wrote It is indeed |-)

USB memory stick has 'loader.exe' constantly appearing
Posted on July 3rd, 2008 | 13 Comments

On 3 Jul 2008 00:37:50 GMT, Arno Wagner <me@privacy.net> put finger to keyboard and composed: It's been a feature of Windows since Win95. Just put anything you want to run automatically in an...

Utility to Image Hard Drive to File under Windows
Posted on July 2nd, 2008 | 13 Comments

Will <westes-usc@noemail.nospam> wrote Boot the CD, select Recovery, select the TIB you want to restore, tick Restore Disks or Partions, tick the PARTITION you want to restore, NOT the entire disk,...

LACIE problems
Posted on July 2nd, 2008 | 0 Comments

I bought 2 Lacie external HD (those nice "Porsche design"). One is working allright since 2006, the transformator of the second broke after a few uses and I can't find a replacement here...

Alternate to Nero Disk Quality Test (for DVD-CD)
Posted on July 1st, 2008 | 5 Comments

"Ed Light" <nobody@nobody.there> wrote in message news:v4f7k.2633$rH1.218@newsfe20.lga... Pioneer drives do not support disc quality scanning properly. Any program that does work with them is...

LACIE External Hard Drives
Posted on July 1st, 2008 | 12 Comments

"Yousuf Khan" <bbbl67@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:4866b971$1@news.bnb-lp.com... No, they don't. I have two of the base models, a 320GB and 500GB and the design is very poor for air circulation....

Maxtor NAS Shared Storage II
Posted on July 1st, 2008 | 0 Comments

I'm trying to use a Maxtor NAS Shared Storage II on a network that uses only static IP addresses and whose subnet id is 10.0.0. How can I do this? A printer I have at my place of employment...

Any way to wipe this drive?
Posted on July 1st, 2008 | 80 Comments

Sean.May <Sean.May.3bulgd@no.email.invalid> wrote You need a boot up the arse.

SanDisk Cruzer Micro 2 GB (SDCZ6-2048RB) U3 & Windows 98 SE support?
Posted on June 30th, 2008 | 2 Comments

On 6/30/2008 12:50 AM PT, Franc Zabkar typed: Yeah, U3 is encryption/security stuff that my client uses. :/ -- "Is this stuff any good for ants?" "No, it kills them." --unknown /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ ...

partitioning hard drive from vista to dual boot xp
Posted on June 30th, 2008 | 9 Comments

Arno Wagner wrote: Yeah. I guess BING considers them primaries whether they're in the table or not, and you consider them latent, or waiting to be primaries. --- Ed Light Better World News TV...

Transcend MP3 + FM Player - T.sonic 610 - 1 GB
Posted on June 28th, 2008 | 0 Comments

HOMESHOP18- Features: MP3 Player that supports MP3, WMA and WAV music formats - FM Radio (FM Radio recording and the ability to preset 20 FM radio stations) - Digital Voice Recorder - Karaoke-type...

SATA Connector Question
Posted on June 28th, 2008 | 2 Comments

"mcp6453" <mcp6453@gmail.com> wrote in message news:nQ69k.93008$6q2.33016@fe03.news.easynews.com... The SATA connectors on 2.5" and 3.5" drives are identical. Even the connector spacing from the...