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I got a dell inspiron 1501 laptop with a 80Gb sata drive what is the best solution to add data storage space for someone that love to have multiples operating systems at hand ...
Note: I use mostly linux so I won't need to change my laptop for many years...
Started by zillion on
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Also, do you use virtual machines or do you have a multiple OS boot systemHighly recommended that you buy an upgraded internal drive unless you need more than 1 tb which is the biggest 2.5 drive out there....
On hard drive sizes.
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In C# how do you detect is a specific drive is a Hard Drive, Network Drive, CDRom, or floppy?
Started by StubbornMule on
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Removable, // The drive....
NoRootDirectory, // The drive does not have a root directory.
DriveInfo d in allDrives) { Console.WriteLine("Drive {0}", d.Name); Console.WriteLine(" File type: {0, // The type of drive is unknown.
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Is there any way to copy a physical hard drive to a virtual drive for use in Vmware Workstation?
Started by Nick Berardi on
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For instance: Use "....
There are far easier ways.
If you as the drive it's a copy of, so you'll want to do this on another drive.
You can just 'dd' your /dev/hda or /dev/hda1 to a file .
Of the source hard drive, though.
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[hard drive] hard drive crashed,quick question My hard drive crashed and the local shop told me they couldn't fix it.
So what are my next options?
thank you
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Many times, recovery requires....
What is the hard drive doing? Not doing? reply to mikedz4
it's not doing.
Your option is to try another shop: that was under a grand .
Replace the hard drive and restore your data from your backups.
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I have scripts that expect specific drive letters for hard drives. Windows sometimes assigns the different drive letters [e.g. I expected my Maxtor drive to be E but it's now F, therefore my scripts will fail], depending on the order of how the drives...
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It automatically....
Running as service makes it independent drive letters.
USBDLM is a Windows service that gives control over Window's drive letter assignment for USB drives.
The USB Drive Letter Manager for Windows is your friend.
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I just want to get a comparison between flash drives and external hard drives in terms of read/write speed, stability, and portability.
Which one is faster at reading or writing? Which one tends to fail more often? Can an external hard drive work on windows...
Started by anonymous on
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Hard drives....
Flash drives tend not to get hot at all.
Hard drives are more susceptible to physical damage but thumb drives have drive is and whether it's in use at the time.
A hard drive quicker.
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After a hard drive fail (lots of corrupted sectors) I reformat it, but the drive give me no confidence to use it in production.
Is there a tool to stress test so I know I can use it? In which ways would you use the drive so if it fails again you don't...
Started by Eduardo Molteni on
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Until the hard drive would recommend just using it somewhere that you don't care about your data, or if the hard drive a refurbished hard....
Actually) but nothing would happen to the server, it would remain up and working .
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Across internal and external hard drives, ALL computers, but not phones, consoles or flash drives how much total drive space do you have?
I have 4TB in this room between my media centre and 2 laptops. How many TB do you have?
Started by Bruce McLeod on
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If we were counting non-hard drive devices, I'd also list Raptor) + 500GB Laptop....
2 x 250GB in my laptop 500GB network drive (that won't stay connected :( ) 160GB (it feels good to abuse unlimited plans!).
Large hard disk...
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How do I configure BIOS to have a higher boot priority from my disk drive than from my hard drive? If there is no disk, will it boot from my hard drive instead?
Thanks, I am trying to run Ubuntu off of a LiveCD on my Dell Inspiron 1520, which normally...
Started by Cyclone on
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Do that so CD/DVD drive is at #1, which will automatically....
This will normally be:
HDD drive CD/DVD drive Network boot It'll also have instructions on how to change the sequence so CD/DVD drive gets a higher priority.
Up sequence.
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SSDs are rather new, so I couldn't find this information on the Internet.
Would the performance of a local hard drive connected using SATA2 get out performed by a SSD over gigabit ethernet?
In terms of both latency and bandwidth, mechanical hard drives...
Started by Pyrolistical on
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My gut says the local hard drive but there are many other factors at play is that:
their seek speed is next to nothing (0.2 msec) vs a 7 to 16 msec seek time on a regular hard drive control system....
Are giving ~90MB/sec read.
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