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Free Hard Disk Drive Diagnostic Utility For Samsung Hard Drive

Articles / 2009-07-14

Note: The following free hard disk drive utilities and diagnostic tools are only for Samsung Hard Disk Drives. Using any of these utilities on a hard disk drive that was not manufactured by Samsung will have adverse effects on that hard disk drive.…

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How To Set The Jumper Setting On Samsung (PATA) Hard Disk Drive?

Articles / 2009-07-13

Setting The Jumper On Your Hard Disk Drive Use the common jumper settings for Samsung hard disk drives that are listed below. Please verify the jumper setting by checking the label on your hard disk drive. Important: If you partitioned and formatted your hard disk drive, with the General or 32 GB pin setting, and now need to use the opposite pin setting; remember to partition and format the drive again after changing the pin settings.…

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How To Upgrade Firmware On Seagate Serial ATA Hard Drive?

Articles / 2009-07-13

FreeDOS Update Procedure This is a walkthrough on how to upgrade the firmware on a Seagate Serial ATA hard drive. (Firmware Update for STM3500320AS, STM3750330AS, STM31000340AS) Note: For best results during system startup, it is recommended to disconnect peripherals such as USB storage devices, printers, scanners, etc.…

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Samsung Introduces High-Capacity 250 Gigabyte 1.8" Hard Drives

Articles / 2009-07-13

Samsung announced its 250 Gigabyte (GB) 1.8 inch hard disk drive, the Spinpoint N3U which incorporates a native USB controller on its printed circuit board. This optimized design results in a smaller foot print, less power consumption and optimized performance, which is ideal for portable external storage devices.…

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Does Your Hard Drive Need A Firmware Update?

Articles / 2009-07-12

Many thousands of hard drives enter the market with any given version of firmware in common. Thousands of drives have the same firmware version when they are sold. External, SATA, and ATA drives that are used in PCs and for personal storage pass through extensive testing before they leave the factory. …

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How to install, partition, format, or reformat a WD external hard drive in Windows XP?

Articles / 2009-07-12

To partition and format the external hard drive with Disk Management, follow these steps:To begin, access Disk Management by right-clicking on My Computer and left-click on Manage. If you don’t have My Computer on your desktop, it should be located in your Start Menu.…

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How To Create A BlackArmor Recovery CD Or ISO Image?

Articles / 2009-07-11

I lost my BlackArmor Recovery CD…is there a quick way to create one? The Seagate BlackArmor Backup software has a utility within it called the Bootable Rescue Media Builder. This utility has the ability to do the following:Create a Seagate BlackArmor Recovery CD.…

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What is Error Recovery Control?

Articles / 2009-07-11

Description: Offered on Barracuda ES and ES.2 family SATA enterprise drives, Error Recovery Control (ERC) is a subset of the Smart Command Transport (SCT) command set, enabling the host to set a soft time limit for specific commands (reads and writes).…

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System Recovery Procedures for NAS 4100

Articles / 2009-07-11

Overview: The NAS 4100 comes with 4 separate hard drives. In the event of a hard drive failure you will be notified via an Email alert and/or Web UI. RAID regeneration can take up to 30 minutes depending on which drive has failed.…

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The Easiest Way To Erase A Maxtor OneTouch III HardDrive

Articles / 2009-07-11

If you have forgotten your password, you can attempt to reenter it or to recover it, by answering a question that you setup originally when you created your password. You are allowed 5 attempts before you must turn off your drive and turn it back on, to try again at which point you can try an additional 5 times.…

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