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Suppose I have a hard disk with data I don't want to expose to a third party. The warranty period for that disk still lasts. Now the disk starts malfunctioning.
I can't use a disk wiping program on a malfunctioning disk - it just wouldn't work. If I run...
Started by sharptooth on
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You could spend a lot of time trying to get the disk....
I would ask, what is the value of the data on the disk?
If it's more than the cost of a new disk, then my preference would be to destroy the faulty disk and buy a new one.
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I have an old hard disk (Maxtor 250Gb) from about 3 years ago that started giving errors and now sits in a draw in my desk. It has some confidential data on it but it's unlikely that it can be read because the disk started to go bad. However, before I...
Started by Guy on
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Purge hard disk drives by either purging the hard disk drive in....
Purge :
Purge, San Diego (UCSD) CMRR site.
Incinerate hard disk drives by burning the hard disk drives in a licensed incinerator.
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What lifetime can be expected of the typical hard disk? Or are there big differences between different types? And does it make a difference if it is used heavily instead of never being connected to system (for example serving as a backup medium)?
Started by Dimitri C. on
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disk_failures.pdf
What lifetime can be expected of the typical hard disk?
The correct answer to your question of "What lifetime can be expected of the typical hard disk?" is "Not long enough for you felt the sudden....
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I have 3 disks of the same type model and year of production. All the disks were used part of a generic solution of an IBM server solution.
My problem is that all 3 disks suffered the same malfunction at the same exact time and are now dis-functional....
Started by Shaihi on
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The company that suggests you get them identical....
I find personally used DRC services in the past with a high satisfaction rate and fair price.
The disk to have been manufactured on the same factory despite the part number being the same.
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Shorter version : Hard disk corrupt, vendor claims warranty does not apply since it was "due to a virus" and "problems due to software are not covered under the warranty".
Longer version : My Dell laptop recently refused to boot, and all attempts to '...
Started by sundar on
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They did this my moving wrong inside the BIOS settings of this laptop, thus the BIOS won't recognize the hard disk anymoreIt's impossible....
In the past, there were viruses which could damage a hard disk.
Is partly right.
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I set Windows 7 to turn off hard disks after 20 minutes of nonuse, which it does a really good job at - it seems to turn off individual hard disks that have been idle for 20 minutes exactly. When I access a drive that I haven't used in 20 minutes, I can...
Started by bobobobo on
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However, there are reports that....
Personally I rather have the disk on all time (unlessSpinning down hard disks does help in reducing overall heat and also increasing its life.
Is the worse in exactly your case is hard to say.
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How do I turn my hard disk drive to its state when I first brought it. It has 250 gb unallocated space. But now, because of constant partitioning and experimenting. It has gained lots of unallocated space which cannot be brought back to be a whole unallocated...
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Be helpful, and a description....
All the partitions to the beginning of the hard disk, thus consolidating all the free space zero hard disk"
Get a copy of anything you want to keep safely on another disk, then use DBAN .
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Here's an easy question for you guys: How do I find out what hard drives are attached to a linux box? I'm hoping for a single command that can give me a nice list of all ata/scsi/etc drives.
I've catted /proc/partitions in the past to do this, but I wonder...
Started by Mike Akers on
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Fdisk -l
I like lshw -class disk
sudo lshw -class disk gives you everything but the mount status=nodisc *-disk:0 description: SCSI Disk product: ZIP 100 vendor: IOMEGA physical id: 0.1.0 bus: ansiversion=5 *-medium....
On them.
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After trying Windows 7, I miss the start menu search in my Windows XP. I don't like the Windows XP search because I think it requires much mouse work to get a search done, and it's indexing isn't fast enough. I already tried in the past a Google tool ...
Started by Jader Dias on
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On Windows XP I would....
Your options are:
Google Desktop Search ( features ) Windows Search 4.0 I think, it's a matter of taste .
I personally prefer Google Desktop though.
Microsoft also provides the free tool Windows Search 4.0 , that is actually not bad .
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Hi,
I have a PC with 2 internal SATA 7,200rpm harddisks: one is a 1TB western digital, the other is 750GB. I'm copying data between them - but seems to be very slow: e.g to copy 140GB takes about 5 hours.
Does this seem reasonable?
Thanks
Started by Daniel on
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For backup purposes, it helps to zip or rar with no compression from one hard drivePerhaps a badly fragmented disk, a failing disk, encrypted disk (or folders), or compressed folders you should ....
Are written to disk.
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