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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...