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

Articles / 2009-09-01

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.…

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FAT 32 File System Frequently Asked Questions

Articles / 2009-08-31

Microsoft’s FAT32 File System Windows 95 OSR2 provides an updated version of the File Allocation Table file system called FAT32. This updated file system allows for a default cluster size as small as 4K, as well as support for EIDE hard disc sizes in excess of 2 Gbytes.…

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Do I need to set any jumpers to configure my SATA drive?

Articles / 2009-08-30

No jumpers need to be set to configure a SATA drive. Serial ATA connections take the guess work out of master/slave drive configuration, since the single drive point to point connection has been introduced. The Serial ATA host automatically determines the master and slave hard drive.…

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Jumper Basics

Articles / 2009-08-30

Jumpers are small metallic pins that protrude from the end of a hard disc drive or from its circuit board, as shown below. Jumpers are used to configure the hard disc drive’s options, such as defining master and slave or cable select.…

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What do I do if my hard drive reports bad sectors?

Articles / 2009-08-30

Bad sectors can often be corrected by using a spare sector built into the hard drive. However, any information written to a bad sector is usually lost. There are several methods for finding and correcting bad sectors. 1. Use the Error Checking utility built in to Microsoft Windows.…

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Formatting an Internal or External hard drive using Mac OS

Articles / 2009-08-30

A step-by-step guide to formatting an ATA hard drive with a Macintosh operating system(Mac OS).Mac OS 8.x thru 9.x Mac OS X or 10Formatting an ATA hard drive in Macintosh operating system 8.X thru 9.X Step1. After hooking up the hard drive either boot off the CD or the main Macintosh HD then go to the Apple System Profiler located under the Apple menu.…

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How to Troubleshoot SCSI/ATA hard drive combinations?

Articles / 2009-08-28

When SCSI drives are connected to the SCSI host adapter, with an ATA drive installed, you are unable to boot from the ATA drive. The SCSI host adapter and the ATA port on the motherboard could be set for the same IRQ or address or both.…

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Hard Disk Data Recovery Tips

Articles / 2009-08-27

Before you venture into hard disk data recovery business, it is necessary to know the causes of hard disk failure. The causes can be either logical failture, or electrical failture or mechanical failture.Logical causes include problems with the boot sector of the hard drive which leads to non-booting of Windows.…

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How to Make Custom iPhone Ringtones for Free

Articles / 2009-08-26

You don’t have to pay for your songs twice to get a ringtone. There are many songs in your music library, but no way to make ringtones from any of them. Actually, with a little bit of trickery (nothing illegal) you can create ringtones from any of your non-DRM songs in your iTunes library easily, and for free.…

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How do I know if my PC supports USB?

Articles / 2009-08-25

To help determine your system’s USB capabilities you can download a free USB evaluation utility from the following site: www.usb.org This program will examine your system and inform you of your computer’s USB capabilities. For a general rule, if your PC was manufactured before 1996, it probably does not include USB.…

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