- scary results after running smartmontools on a MAXTOR STM3320620A
- Posted on July 3rd, 2007 | 17 Comments
In article <sqnt73pdb7vcchqgauevcg4iui42s2776d@4ax.com>, kony <spam@spam.com> wrote: That tool just reports what the drive says. If you can't trust that data, then you can't trust the...
- Where are the Terabyte hard drive?
- Posted on July 2nd, 2007 | 14 Comments
Previously Impmon <impmon@digi.mon> wrote: Just saw an ad from Samsung for their own TB drive. They claim 3 platters and low noise and energy consumption (which I believe since Samsung was the best...
- USB flashdrive not drawing power?
- Posted on July 2nd, 2007 | 3 Comments
Previously lucieharris@hotmail.com wrote: THey can very likely help you. In all probability the FLASH chip is fine, since they are pretty rugged. One recovery approach is to unsolder the FLASH chip...
- Partitions --- installing Linux + Vista
- Posted on July 2nd, 2007 | 7 Comments
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:48:53 -0700, Zico <zico@mailinator.com> wrote: I recall people saying early Vista isn't all that concerned with anything but itself. In the monopolistic sort of way. All...
- Worth writing zeros to my used hard drives?
- Posted on July 2nd, 2007 | 18 Comments
On 14 Mar 2007 03:05:11 -0700, "paulmd@efn.org" <paulmd@efn.org> wrote: If you give them a good enough porn collection, they'll forget about your bank account.
- MI5 Persecution: Goldfish and Piranha 29/9/95 (584)
- Posted on July 2nd, 2007 | 1 Comments
Up your meds. Quickly. <MI5Victim@mi5.gov.uk> wrote in message news:m07052301335206@4ax.com...
- Failure of brand new drive... possibly due to staggered spinup?
- Posted on July 1st, 2007 | 32 Comments
Exact same problem: 4xWD3200KS drives gone using staggered spinup on the Highpoint 2320. The disks work as long as they are connected to the 2320 controller and using the controller drivers in XP....
- 120GB Maxtor Data Recovery
- Posted on June 30th, 2007 | 3 Comments
The date of your msg tells me you've probably already gotten your recovery. Or else perhaps added new harddrive and laid remains of previous drive in a box or static bag. VERY familiar with...
- Is Blue-Ray and HD DVD Storage Destined To Failure?
- Posted on June 29th, 2007 | 19 Comments
Previously John Slade <hhitman86@pacbell.net> wrote: Well, my personal experience suggetst it is actually a lot worse. Physical destruction does not count! Break it, scratch it through its hard...
- Question about old HDD
- Posted on June 29th, 2007 | 6 Comments
"Arno Wagner" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message news:5ekjqoF38i38lU6@mid.individual.net Yes it is, clueless Babblebot. See, it is. Cylinders, babblebot, cylinders.
- Samsung SpinPoint T166 SMART attribute 187
- Posted on June 29th, 2007 | 1 Comments
Previously Andre Majorel <cheney@halliburton.com> wrote: Hmm. You have one pending sector (read: likely unreadable, but the disk will continue trying) and a CRC inteface error. The CRC error can...
- Maxtor Diamondmax 8 recovery
- Posted on June 29th, 2007 | 12 Comments
Previously Tom Del Rosso <td_01@att.net.invalid> wrote: I would suspect that it fails its self-test and then goes into a do-nothing mode. Arno
- RAID Controller using memory
- Posted on June 28th, 2007 | 14 Comments
"Just D" <no@spam.please> wrote in message news:y9Agi.392931$ZA5.250990@newsfe15.phx What has that got to do with the "system". That's what you get for snipping comments out of context. I don't...
- HP - xw6400
- Posted on June 27th, 2007 | 8 Comments
In article <4678F729.A01E0D9F@size-nospaam-fitter.com>, johannes <johs@size-nospaam-fitter.com> wrote: ....so why did you just repeat the whole frakking post (including the spamvertised URL) in...
- Quantum SuperLoader3 DLT-S4 vs Exebyte Magnum 224 LTO3 vs Overland Neo 2000 LTO3?
- Posted on June 27th, 2007 | 0 Comments
The data: Our data size is about 800gb per week (weekly full backups, 4 sets of tapes for a month, 3 of the weeks would be held off site at any given time, there would also be 4 quarters from the...
- Is there such a thing as a testing Live CD?
- Posted on June 27th, 2007 | 1 Comments
<lbrtchx@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1182943561.081431.295800@u2g2000hsc.googlegroups.com... Try BartPE and add whatever plugins you want. You could do the same with Knoppix or any other...
- Vista & External Hard Drive - Not Recognized
- Posted on June 27th, 2007 | 16 Comments
Nik / Alexander, Thanks for your comments and help. FYI I took my external hard drive to work and hooked it up to my computer that runs XP and bingo. . . the computer saw and could access all my...
- 2.5"HD Burned (possibly)
- Posted on June 26th, 2007 | 3 Comments
Arno Wagner <me@privacy.net> wrote: Its MUCH more likely to be a dry joint/cracked trace. Wrong again.
- Do you need to 'eject' USB HDD? Do they auto park at power-off?
- Posted on June 26th, 2007 | 11 Comments
Arno Wagner wrote: <edited, for brevity> Hello, Arno: Thanks. See my previous reply (to "bealoid"), for further explanation.
- Seagate eSATA, no power up after power fail!
- Posted on June 25th, 2007 | 6 Comments
Previously James Of Tucson <james0tucson@gmail.com> wrote: Which can be arbitratily bad... Hehe. Without being able to open the package and trying it out? Very hard. More so in the abasence of...

