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What to Do if You Have a Hard Drive Problem

December 24th, 2009

Russell Phillips asked:
What to do if you have a hard drive problem

If you suffer a hard disc failure it can be a very stressful time. The hard drive failure could mean that you might lose valuable information or work that you have completed. It might have corrupted your files, or worse, destroyed them completely. [...]

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Seagate Hard Drive failure – causes and cures

December 18th, 2009

Simpson Raid asked:
Seagate is a manufacturer of hard drives and storage solutions. This company is based in Scotts Valley, California. Seagate’s hard drives are used in a variety of computers, from servers, desktops, and laptops, to other consumer devices, such as digital video recorders etc.
The files from the Seagate hard disk can get lost [...]

Tags: Digital Video Recorders, Error Messages, Failure Causes, Hard Disk Recovery, Hard Disks, Hard Drive Failure, Hard Drive Recovery, Hrd, Internals, Online Backups, Platters, Recovery Experts, Scotts Valley California, Scratches, Seagate Drive, Seagate Drives, Seagate Hard Disk, Seagate Hard Drive, Storage Media, Storage Solutions
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All you Need to Know About Tape Drives

September 19th, 2009

Alan Amerson asked:
Tape drives are useful backups to store data. The faster variety can transfer 20MB per second. Other tape drives can accommodate kilobytes and gigabytes in the hundreds. These kinds of media, however, are sequential-access devices, meaning you have to read through previous data before you can get to the latest input. You [...]

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Backup Hard Disks With Bad Sectors

September 14th, 2009

Suhaimi Baruddin asked:
What are bad sectors
Heard of bad sectors? Or course you have. It’s commonly referenced as one of the causes of computer slowdown, or hard disk crash.
And rightfully so. A bad sector is a permanent damage to the hard disk platter, which by the way, is where your data is stored. If any [...]

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Jumper Settings When Using a Hard Drive Enclosure

September 11th, 2009

Phil Battison asked:
Hard Drive Enclosures are getting increasingly popular, which, given their cost and ease of use is not surprising. Enclosures are a great way to re-use on old or salvaged hard disk drive from a computer and whilst these older hard drives are always as large as the current models (in terms of [...]

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Create your own Data Back Up solution from any spare Hard Disk Drive with a Hard Drive Enclosure

September 5th, 2009

Phil Battison asked:
USB Cases, USB Caddy or USB Enclosures – create your own back up solution
Its easy to create your own Data Back Up solution from any old or new Hard Disks Drive
There are lots of reason why you might want to create an external back up solution using a Caddy:
Perhaps you want [...]

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Hard Drive Docking Stations – An Alternative to a Hard Drive Enclosure

August 28th, 2009

Phil Battison asked:
If you’ve got a lot of hard disks drives that you use on a regular basis or perhaps you’re an IT or Support Engineer and your job involves testing hard drives then you might want to consider a Hard Drive Docking station rather than a hard drive enclosure.
Whilst Hard Drive Enclosures are [...]

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Hard Drive Corruption: Reasons and Solutions

August 22nd, 2009

Bury Shane asked:
Hard disk drive is the most vital component, where a computer system stores all the data it keeps. Without a hard disk drive, there would be no files, folders, operating system and not even the file system. Thus, it becomes so crucial that you take suitable care of your hard drive to [...]

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Attention please: Hard disks are not fail-proof

August 12th, 2009

Thendral asked:
It’s likely you don’t think much about your computer’s hard drive, but you do care about the valuable data it holds. If you don’t, just close your eyes for a minute, and think what are those valuable data that you have in your hard drive right now – your financial records, health care [...]

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Hard Disk Enclosures – What are they & why would I use one?

August 12th, 2009

Phil Battison asked:
What is a Hard Disk Enclosure and how do I use one?
A hard drive enclosure (sometimes also referred to as a Hard Disk Case or Hard Disk Caddy) is simply an external case that “encloses” a hard disk drive and turns it into an external device that can then be connected to [...]

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What to Do if You Have a Hard Drive Problem

Seagate Hard Drive failure – causes and cures

All you Need to Know About Tape Drives

Backup Hard Disks With Bad Sectors

Jumper Settings When Using a Hard Drive Enclosure

Create your own Data Back Up solution from any spare Hard Disk Drive with a Hard Drive Enclosure

Hard Drive Docking Stations – An Alternative to a Hard Drive Enclosure

Hard Drive Corruption: Reasons and Solutions

Attention please: Hard disks are not fail-proof

Hard Disk Enclosures – What are they & why would I use one?

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