September, 2009 | DataRecoveryUnion.com

Hard drives are highly sensitive precision instruments that read, write, and store information on spinning magnetic disks. Special handling is required to protect hard drives from damage. Hard drives can be damaged by excessive physical force or from Electrostatic Discharge (ESD).…

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Basic Disk VS Dynamic Disk

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM15 years ago3 years ago03 mins

Basic Disks in Windows 2000/XP/Vista: A basic disk uses the normal partition tables found in MS-DOS and Windows. The volumes contained on a basic disk will be basic volumes, such as primary and extended partitions, and logical drives. Basic disks may also contain multi-disk volumes created by Windows NT 4.0 and earlier (volume sets, stripe and mirror sets, and stripe sets with parity).…

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A slave hard drive is not assigned a drive letter in Windows 2000/XP

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Why is my slave drive not assigned a drive letter after either moving it from one system to another system or installing Windows 2000/XP? Problem: A slave drive is recognized in Disk Management, but it is not assigned a drive letter after Windows 2000/XP installation or moving it from one system to another system, with both systems running Windows 2000/XP.…

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Jumper settings for WD 2.5 inch and 3.5 inch EIDE drives

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM15 years ago3 years ago010 mins

Two different protocols can be used for jumpering EIDE devices, including disk drives. One is the master-slave relationship. With this protocol, one device is jumpered as master and the other is jumpered as slave. The second protocol is cable select. With this protocol, both devices are jumpered as cable select and their position on the cable dictates which device is the master and which device is the slave.…

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Hard drives greater than 2 TB do not work on existing operating systems

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM15 years ago3 years ago04 mins

External USB, eSATA, Firewire, and internal hard drives over 2 TB’s cannot be formatted on Windows 32-bit operating systems using the Master Boot Record (MBR) partitioning scheme. As a result, when you connect drives over 2 TB’s, depending on which interface you are using to connect them to the computer, they may not be recognized at all, they may be only partially recognized, or they may be recognized but you can’t access them.…

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Error Messge: "DISK BOOT FAILURE".

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM15 years ago3 years ago22 mins

Problem: Error Messge: “DISK BOOT FAILURE“, while booting the system. Cause: There are several causes for this error message. The boot sequence may not be properly set in the system BIOS. Another cause is the presence of non-bootable media in the floppy or CD-ROM drives.…

Hard Disk Repair

How can I test my hard drive for defects or problems in a Mac?

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM15 years ago3 years ago02 mins

Mac systems have an excellent diagnostic utility included in the operating system called Disk Utility. You can find Disk Utility within the Utilities folder inside the Applications folder on the boot drive. You can also find this utility by booting directly to the operating system installation CD/DVD.…

Data Storage

Seagate And MusicSkins Join Forces To Add Custom Options To External Storage

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM15 years ago3 years ago05 mins

Seagate, the world’s leading provider of hard drives and storage solutions, and MusicSkins LLC, the leader in music and music-related, high-quality, vinyl skin products, today announced a marketing partnership to add personal flair to the FreeAgent Go™ and FreeAgent Go™ for Mac external hard drives.…

September 2009

How to reduce the chance of hard drive damage by ESD