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Hard Disk reliability leaderboard
Just a fun topic, if anyone wants to see what kind of life their old hard disks have. After my recent panic of experiencing a disk failure that contained critical data at the office, I had realised...
View ArticleAny Relation Between A USB Stick Being Bootable (Or Not) -and- Fixed (Or Not...
This is with respect to the USB stick controller with a "flippable" bit that can tell OS whether the device is "removable" or "fixed". And with my difficulty in getting removable HDD sticks to be seen...
View ArticleGood SSD Option For The HP Elite 8300? (To Replace The HDD)
my new computer (the hp elite 8300) is on its way and I'm working on buying the upgrades needed to turn it into a cheap gaming pc for vista and was wondering what the best option for an ssd would be?...
View ArticleWhere to send drives for repair?
I have several hd's that I need to get repaired or recover the data. I am in Houston, Tx. Where is the best place to send for repair or recovery?
View ArticleST3750525AS 750gb Barracuda 7200.12 JC4B firmware no response from Terminal.
ST3750525AS 750gb Barracuda 7200.12 JC4B firmware no response from Terminal. Drive spins up. Not recognized in bios. anyone know what to do. What pins to short to get terminal response. I have...
View ArticleRefreshing data on the disk
Read this thread on VOGONS a while ago, also found this article. Now I'm considering running the process on one or two of my disks (HDD) that have the most data that haven't been touched for years....
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SSD CrystalDiskMark results
I had recently upgraded my gaming PC to Windows 10 from Windows 7 in order to maintain Steam compatibility, and at that time I had bought a new SSD. But ever since then, the computer was basically...
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Test USB flash & SSD drives great capacity very cheap up to 128 TB
On pages like Aliexpress or others you can find very low-cost USB Flash drives and SSD drivers. This is surprising with capacities from 2 to 128 TB compared to the capacities of drives from well-known...
View ArticleTOSHIBA HARD DISK: How can I locate and isolate Bad sectors?
Hello,My laptop "TOSHIBA A665-S6094" was working good until it had a bad fall on the floor. Directly after the fall I began to hear a sound coming from the harddisk "tick tick tick tick" in a very...
View ArticleWhy did firms remove their names from CD drives?
Initially most CD drives were branded with recognizable names: Samsung, Teac, Sony, NEC and so on. Then when their price had dropped to a disposable commodity level, the names all disappeared. First...
View ArticleSurprising AHCI vs IDE speed
I have read mixed opinions about the mode of the disk controller. The prevailing thought is it makes no or very little difference in practice outside of synthetic tests. The IDE compatibility mode...
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Questions HDD 2.5" + enclosure case
I use a USB3.0 enclosure case, brand and model Kesu 2530 and Orico 25PW1 black, i use 2.5" HDDs models and brands Seagate ST500LM030 (2016) and Western Digital WDC WD10JPVX-08JC3T5 (2011), HGST APPLE...
View ArticleQuestion hdd buy in Aliexpress
I bought a 2.5" HDD on Aliexpress and it is inside an enclosure case. I know it is used, but most of the 2.5" HDDs sold on Aliexpress are used but show 2 hours of use and good health on...
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question sponge enclosure case
My Orico 25PW1 black USB3.0 enclosure case contains a sponge, I think the material is EVA to stick to the bottom of the enclosure. My question is whether, over time, with the 2.5" Seagate ST500LM030...
View ArticlePlease advice to recover all partition files.
I have an old backup on a 3Tb MBR drive. I used this drive from 2014-2019 with no problems and put it away in a drawer that year. It's a Seagate that some call the sudden death drive I used this drive...
View ArticleCloning hard drives and dealing with IDE/SATA and 137 gb drive size limitations
Here's the situation. I've got a BX-440 Intel P3 motherboard (probably dates to 1995 - 1999 time frame). I believe originally that win-98 was installed on it, then Win-2k was added. When booting,...
View ArticleEMBR partition system
I read in some comments from the forum about an alternative partition system to GPT with the name EMBR that could work with inherited computers and hard disks + 2TB. I am not sure what it is and if...
View ArticleHard disk at the moment of power loss
What are the chances of damaging a hard disk should it happen to lose power during an active writing process? I understand that at that point the heads are retracted in an emergency manner. Would the...
View ArticleNew Patriot 128 gb SSD's not seen by Win-XP (but are seen by Win-10) why?
I've connected a lot of SATA drives to various motherboards over the years and have never seen this behavior before. I recently bought a 10-pack of Patriot 128 gb SSD's and none of them are "visible"...
View ArticleHard Drive repair
Anybody ever swap plattens between drives with any success? I have a hard drive that went bad but need to get something off it. Have already tried 2 recovery places, including Gillware, but they...
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Broken after 5 hours of use Toshiba PC L200 2TB
Second hard disk broken this month. This time it's a brand new 2.5" model, a Toshiba PC L200 with 2Tb capacity. After 5 hours of pasting files onto this hard disk via USB 2.0 bridge it started making...
View ArticlePartition size limit for FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS
I have checked and verified the maximum size limits for FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS partitions based on the cluster size. Physical tests were performed using MiniTool Partition Wizard 10.3 on both Windows...
View ArticleHow to create a partition image to recover files?
I concluded a while ago that to recover files, the ideal solution is to create an image of the partition to be recovered and work on it, saved on another hard disk. Now, trying to put this idea into...
View ArticleProgram to graphically see the partition structure
I would like to find a program that graphically shows the space occupied by the starting sector, the FAT table, the copy of this with the reserved sectors and the location of the data area. With file...
View ArticleStructure MBR hard disks with FAT partitions
For educational purposes, I've been trying to define the structure of an MBR disk with FAT partitions for some time now. I'm finding it increasingly difficult; each offset I note in the structure...
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