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 | For a power workstation, which is better (I'm thinking of doing a RAID 5 configuration). 15K RPM serial-attached SCSI drives, or SATA solid state drives?  |
 | I have been turning my USB thumb drives into fully encrypted data containers for years now, but readily admit that the prospect of rolling up your sleeves and getting down and dirty with encryption software is not as exciting to everyone as it is to me. However, with removable USB … |
| | I had to map a network drive with specific credentials in my PHP script and it kept falling over because I'd already navigated to the drive in windows explorer. This snippet will unmap a network drive using COM regardless of whether or not there is a drive letter associated with … |
 | It's not often I start a new thread, but I've hit a bit of an unusual problem...Admittedly one of my own making... I have a laptop with a completely dead HD, which I've been using for a while with Ubuntu 9.10 installed on a bootable 8Gb USB stick with approx … |
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| | Had a spare bay in my laptop, and put a SATA 160 gig HD in purely for backup. Became apparent that I needed more space, so bought a Seagate 500 gig internal HD as a replacement. First thing I noticed is that the original 160 drive had SATA power, and … |
 | Good day folks. Problem: My program needs to import data from a database and display them in a table then manipulate and display the data in various ways. That bit is solved the next part is where I need help. The program then needs to save locally... 1. the newly … |
| | I bought an OCZ Vector SSD about 6-8 months ago for a new build and currently have Win 7 installed on it. I haven't had any problems yet (touch wood) and it still runs lovely and quick. I installed and ran Astra32 today and it reports my SSD drive health … |
 | I bought a new 3TB Seagate Desktop internal hard drive and wanted to add it to my hard drive that's already installed but my computer won't recognize it. Please help!  |
| | I have a really strange situation with my storage device. I would be really grateful if somebody could guide me through this. System details: Mac mini 2.0 i7 8GB 500GBx2 External storage: My studio Book WD 6TB (inside probably 3TBx2 raid). file format: NTFS Connected to Mac through Firewire. intermediate … |
| | Hi All, I have a 128GB SSD that I use daily for off-site backups from our server. How many times can I expect to insert / remove it from the hot-swap drive bay before the connectors wear out? According to the SATA spec, the expected durability is 50 'matings' for …  |
| | I have a 160Gb Hitachi hard disk. I have tried formatting it from both MyComputer and Device Manager. In both the cases, it goes till 99% and throws error saying that "Windows was unable to complete the format". Can any1 help me with the problem? |
| | I have a very simple question. Can you run games off of an external hard drive. I play World of Warcraft and many other games. My computer, which is a laptop, only has 40gb of space. I don't have anymore room for patches or anything else. So I was wondering … |
| | Hello everyone. I would like to know if there is a factory default configuration for the WD My book world NAS. I am helping a friend that has one of those in their office and the web interface states that the capacity is 1TB but nowhere in the gui did … |
 | Hi, I'm using an ESX Virtual Drive and basically I want to allocate data to a VM Drive from unallocated space within the VM Drive due to lack of space. I've done some research and found this great software: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnpOhiywWJw#at=65 . What do you think? Is there a better and … |
| | hi everyone. i've used the following way to store the uploaded files into D: drive of my windows machine from Tomcat server and it works pretty goood. private final String directoryPath="D:\\uploadedFiles\\"; File f=new File("D:\\uploadedFiles\\"+fileName); InputStream in=file.getInputStream(); OutputStream out=new FileOutputStream(directoryPath+fileName); byte[] buff=new byte[4096]; int count=0; while((count=in.read(buff))!=-1) { out.write(buff, 0, count); } …  |
| | I had an iso image of a game on my computer, but I deleted it like a month or two ago. Ive been trying to recover it, because the backup I made was somehow corrupt. Ive tried several recovery programs, but I have not been able to find the file. … |
| | I had purchased a Netgear Stora for back up and after a year the fan went out so now the device won't start. I took out the HDD (Seagate 1TB 3") and purchased a Dynex enclosure so that I am able to access the disk. Win7 installs the driver and … |
 | my 500gb local disk C can't boot to the desktop, it only boot to starting windows and it can not move further again, i have a very important document i have to copy from it. i slave it to anothe computer to copy my stoff but it ask me to … |
 | Hi, I would like to merge two partition C:\ and D:\ , in drive C:\ there is the OS and drive D:\ is empty. Is it saves to merge those two partition without reinstalling the OS? Thanks, Davy  |
| | I have about 700-800 gb of data and i seem to acquire more every day. I currently use a solution of 2 external hard drives which each hold a complete copy of my data. I use one, regularly accessing the data (playing mp3s and videos mostly) and the other sits … |
 | hard disk not working dead how to repair it plsssss... telll meee......  |
| | I had a massive folder of about 500GB of data that I was organizing and copying over to my NAS for backup. Upon deleting a subfolder, somehow the entire root directory was deleted. Obviously at that size it was not in the recycle bin (I'm using Win7). I used a …  |
 | Hi everyone, I've a big problem. My external storage drive (Maxtor OneTouch II 100GB) is lost. I can't access it anymore. Windows Explorer reports the drive as: "O:\ is not accessible The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable." I've used a disk recovery software called R-Studio and it does … |
 | good day! i am creating dll for burning cds using visual studio 2010 .. i already did it but, i am not suppose to allow to prompt any form creating discname.. the dll should also automatically setting the discname and it will just display a messagebox informing that the cd … |
| | The disk in my laptop has become inaccessible after I changed the cluster size. *The problem* When I try to boot up, I get the laptop's proprietary screen as normal followed by a few seconds of the Windows XP start up screen followed by a brief flash of a blue … |
| | i want to delete the deleted items from hdd permanently. CMD commands if any ?  |
 | Hello, I made an arbitrary precision integer library a few weeks ago. It works well, but is bounded by `256^(8*sizeof(size_t))` because it uses a simple dynamically allocated array to do its work. I want some way to have theoretically unbounded storage. I think that file io is probably best, but … |
| | Hello guys, I need to find out what is my drive's serial number under win XP. I know that there are one serial number from manufacturer (real hard drive) and serial numbers generated by windows. I know that if disk is partitioned into more partitions that each partition will have … |
| | The other day I installed a second internal hard drive so that I can put ubuntu on it. The primary hd has windows 7. Using the Ubuntu windows installer everything installed without a problem. When I rebooted I got a lot of error messages during bootup and finally the boot … |
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