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[ATTACH=RIGHT]16858[/ATTACH]You may have noticed that solid-state drives (SSDs), those flash memory-based drives that were touted as an alternative to hard disks, have remained stuck in the 80GB to 160GB size range and the prices are not coming down. There's a good reason for that. Starting in early 2009, the price …

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My music (28 GB) is on thumb drive J and is 90% .wma files This is to SAVE SPACE on my PC (and the safety of "no moving parts" storage) Windows MediaPlayer used to index the music when it was on C: HOW do I get it to index J:? …

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Hello everyone, I have one friend who works in port richey, Florida and he dropped his laptop with Seagate momentus drive, now his drive is not detected, no response, no clicking, it seems completely dead...Who can recommends one good data recovery company there equipped with clean room and good data …

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Hi, i am using a compaq laptop. It is a core2duo with 2gb ram. 2ghz. Now my problem is that sometime ago my hard disk stopped detecting. I was out of my warranty and also out of cash so didn't know wat to do. I knew about the ubuntu live …

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[ATTACH=RIGHT]16999[/ATTACH]Seagate made the switch to serial-attached SCSI (SAS) drives a few years ago, but have only upgraded to the 6 Gb/s standard (SAS 2.0) within the last year. SAS drives require special controllers that are occasionally built into motherboards, but more often, come in the form of a PCI-Express card …

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OK, so here's a simple question (haha famous last words!):;) When replacing a hard drive in a desktop, the original recovery disks should still work, right? That's what I assumed anyway. My plan was to replace the hard drive, load the OS w/the same factory discs it came with, and …

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[ATTACH=LEFT]15910[/ATTACH]Seagate announced their new NAS system, GoFlex Home, today, and it unites the worlds of portable and network storage. Home enables access to the hard drive dock from a wide array of mobile devices, HTPC setups, and networked computers (Windows or OSX). Seagate notes that their propriety software will make …

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Hi, I've looked all over the web for several days and seem to find no answer to this issue. I would appreciate any leads. Thanks in advance for your time! I need to find the underlying disk capacity (total size) of an unmapped network share in windows (Win7, XP, Server …

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I have had to replace the hard drive in a Mac iBook G3 that I was working on, and was trying to reinstall Mac OS X 10.4.6. However, the disk refused to load correctly (possible CD drive error, as I know the Mac disk to be good), and I also …

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Hi, I need to "force" a CD Drive to "read " an empty CD. e.g. make the laser move across the the disc's surface while it is spinning as if it was reading data. Usually when a blank CD is inserted the Drive starts reading but then stop right away …

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Hi All, The other day i was quickly trying to retrieve some info off an old a hard drive in my computer, so being silly and lazy i unclipped the side and plugged it in and switched the computer back on. Now the probelm is i didn't secure it in …

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Hi, I am working on a project, I need to control a CD Drive via the IDE/ATA Interface using a C/C++ program. My goal is to control the Speed of the Drive, and hopefully the radial position of the optical pickup head. I am still fairly new to this field, …

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Hi, first let me stress - I have no real computer knowledge and most of the phrases etc mean nothing to me! I'm a stay at home mum and work from home making stationery etc and my husband bought me an external hard drive to back all my work up …

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Hi guys! I have a 32Gb corsair SSD which i use for only a few programs and windows. I try to keep it as empty as possible but its gone a bit strange since yesterday. When i highlight all the folders and files (with hidden files showing)and look at the …

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I recently purchased a Sony 4 GB micro vault flash drive(model #: USM-4GL) and quickly discovered that it would not connect to my computer. When I plug it in, my computers beeps like it would normally but I cannot find my drive in My Computer. I have managed to open …

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Hi im a first time user of this forum and i have a problem with my drive D it has a red X next to it i used advanced system care pro, un-hack me and hitman pro but none of them got rid of my problem. i can go into …

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I have a Presario V6000 laptop and after driving 600 miles it decided to not boot up. It would get hung up when I tried booting it in any mode. I tried to repair xp with the installation disk, but it said that there was no hard drive detected. I …

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Hi, I have installed XP Pro onto drive C and intend to use drive D for data. Is there a way to hide drive C from users in order to ensure that anything saved is saved to D. Thanks

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Hey, I have four hard drives in my computer; 2 by sata and 2 by ide. The two that are attached by ide are connected using an ide card. However, once I upgraded from Vista to Windows 7, my computer is suddenly unable to find the two hard drives. I …

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I am using [URL=http://www.chinabuye.com]flash drive[/URL]. I have bought it from the shop mentioned in hperlink. Is it possible to detect it on mac operating system.

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This program uses the Python win32 extension module to get information on disk or flash drives for Windows machines. Specify the drive with its letter. If no drive letter is specified, the current drive is applied.

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That should be: "[B]Unable[/B] to modify shared files and folders." I am running Active Directory on a Windows Server 2003 Standard (SP2) machine. I added an external hard drive to hold shared files. I didn't have an problem moving the files from their original location on the server's internal HDD. …

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HELP PLEASE!! I got 2 partitions C and D. C: is my main drive. Both have OS installed. A week ago, C: is not starting up. Since then, I'm using D:. When I was trying to retrieve a file stored in C:, a message appeared saying C is not formatted …

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As stated in the title, my laptop, upon powering on, loads the bios and takes me to a screen saying: "No bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility--Press F5 to run onboard diagnostics." Naturally, I press F5. CPU Time Stamp Calibration Test Passes PM Timer 1 Passes …

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Just wondering microsoft have a simple free product for making an image or cloning your hard drive. Something similar to ghost or clonezilla

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Are you running out of room on that notebook's hard drive? Hitachi Global Storage Technologies have released an 'upgrade kit' that just might be the answer you're looking for. It wouldn't surprise me to see other manufacturer's offer similar kits in future. [img]http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/binary/com.epicentric.contentmanagement.servlet.ContentDeliveryServlet/hgst/products/Retail%2520Products/images/ts_uk_contents_230x160.jpg[/img] The [url=http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/menuitem.6e185ca3ee5b04d2fce80bd5eac4f0a0/]Notebook PC Upgrade Kit[/url] includes a …

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Toshiba announced last week that they are producing a 1.8" hard drive using perpendicular recording to allow hard drive storage capabilities to 40 GB on a single platter. These types of drives are found in small hand-held devices such as Apple's iPod MP3 player. Computers typically use 2.5" hard drives. …

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