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How to determine the model and capacity of Quantum® hard drive?

Articles / 2009-08-02

To use the table below: The bolded values in the model and capacity code columns are the alpha-numeric characters found on the disk drive’s TLA label. The TLA (Top Level Assembly) number is located on a the bar-code label affixed to either the drive’s top cover or on the drive’s interface connector.…

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WD Ships Industry’s First 1 TB Mobile Hard Drive

Articles / 2009-07-29 / 1 Comment

– New Drives Offer the Highest Capacities to Date For Mobile Storage Applications and Notebooks. WD announced two new mobile hard drives that reach new capacity extremes. The highlight is a one terabyte model – the industry’s highest-capacity 2.5-inch drive available.…

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Error Message: "NTLDR IS MISSING" during Windows boot

Articles / 2009-07-27

Problem: “NTLDR IS MISSING” error message encountered during Windows 2000/XP boot. Cause: The NTLDR is missing error can be caused by many different things. Generally, it is when a Windows 2000 or XP installation either fails or did not properly complete.…

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Windows 2000/XP Restarts Repeatedly After Adding A Drive

Articles / 2009-07-27

Problem: After adding an additional drive to the system, Windows 2000/XP may fail to completely load. The system may end up in a loop in which it restarts repeatedly. Cause: Windows has a setting that dictates what happens when a system failure state occurs.…

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FreeAgent Pro Tools Utilities – Performing Drive Diagnostics

Articles / 2009-07-27

How to check the health of my FreeAgent drive? You should run a diagnostic on your drive regularly as part of general maintenance. A health check determines hard disk integrity and can help troubleshoot potential problems with disk surface, partitioning, and drive recognition.…

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What’s the difference between duplicating, archiving and backing up data?

Articles / 2009-07-27

An introduction to Backups As applications and hardware can still fail no matter how reliable a PC or server is. It’s vital to have a good backup solution. While once costly and complex, they are now inexpensive, simple-to-use and depending on the solution implemented, completely automated.…

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IPod Touch Troubleshooting Assistant

Articles / 2009-07-26

Is your iPod touch frozen or not operating as expected? These tips will help you resolve most common issues. Recharge This screen means to keep iPod touch connected so it continues charging. Note:Use a high-power USB port such as the one on your computer, or use your iPod touch AC adapter.…

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Seagate® Barracuda® 7200.11 Hard Drive

Articles / 2009-07-26

The Seagate® Barracuda® 7200.11 hard drive offers an unmatched combination of reliability, performance and capacity, and is backed by a 5-year limited warranty. The Barracuda 7200.11 drive—the eleventh generation of this award-winning desktop hard drive family—delivers up to 1 TB of reliable digital storage.…

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Jumper settings for Seagate and Maxtor ATA hard drives

Articles / 2009-07-24

Master or single drive. If you are installing your Seagate hard drive as the only drive in the system or if it will be the primary boot drive for the system, the jumper should be set as Cable Select. If you are connecting the drive to an older system that has a pre-UDMA Mode 3 ATA controller, or you are connecting this to a cable with a slave device that doesn’t have a cable select jumper setting, jumper the drive as Master instead by putting a jumper on the first vertical set of pins closest to the data cable.…

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3 Ways To Determine Seagate Hard Disk Model And Serial Number

Articles / 2009-07-23

To identify your seagate hard disk drive, retrieve the model number, serial number and firmware revision without removing your drive. There are 3 methods:Seagate DriveDetect.exe method (recommended)Click here to download Drive DetectWhen running Drive Detect you will see a screen like this. …

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