October, 2012 | DataRecoveryUnion.com

A hard drive (3.0 Gb/s) I have recently bought just came, without a SATA cable. I have a 6.0 Gb/s capable SATA cable sitting around. Are these 6.0 Gb/s cables backwards compatible? If I use it, would I have to plug it into the 6.0 enabled port on the mobo or can I just use the normal SATA ports?…

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Replace Primary Master Hard Disk with Primary Slave

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM12 years ago11 years ago02 mins

I have a desktop computer with following specs : 2.93 gigahertz Intel Core2 Duo Board: ASUSTeK P5QPL-AM Rev X.0x 266 megahertz BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 0408 Intel(R) ICH7 Family Ultra ATA Storage Controllers – 27DF Intel(R) N10/ICH7 Family Serial ATA Storage Controller – 27C0 Primary IDE Channel [Controller] (2x) Secondary IDE Channel [Controller] (2x) I recently purchased a 160 gig HD and used it as the Slave disk.…

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Change From RAID 0 to RAID 1

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM12 years ago3 years ago01 mins

I am puchacing a new computer that is configured for raid 0. I would like to reconfigure it for raid 1. I prefer to reinstall win 7 to get rid of the junk new machines are shipped with so OS reinstallation is not a problem.…

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Use External Hard Drive as an Internal Hard Drive

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM12 years ago3 years ago08 mins

Hi guys. Hard drive prices as you all know have been hiked up terribly. Here in South Africa, internal hard drives 1Tb was R600 = $75. The world shortage caused the hard drives to skyrocket in price from R600 to R1800.…

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Unable to Access System Disc When Hard Drive is Connected

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM12 years ago11 years ago03 mins

First, I got a BSOD that initiated the problem. After I restarted my computer, I got a message that said Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk and Press Enter. I put in the system disc in the disc drive and pressed enter.…

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RAID 1 Disadvantages

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM12 years ago3 years ago08 mins

I am in the process of building a new PC and since my data is important. I am considering using RAID. I currently have an external HD which is being backed up using Norton Ghost, but I would feel much more comfortable with real-time protection I’ve read that with on-board RAID controllers, the performance hit for RAID 5 is enormous, so I’m leaning towards RAID 1.…

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Cannot Access Old Hard Drive Documents

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM12 years ago11 years ago01 mins

I recently transferred my old hard rive to my new computer. The hard-drive picks up and I can access the the hard-drive until I click on documents< owner. It says access denied. I go to the security tab and all I see is “you do not have permission to view or edit this objects permission settings“.…

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HDD Prices

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM12 years ago11 years ago03 mins

When do you think the prices of HDD’s will go back down from the floods? Different analysts are making different predictions. Hard Drive Prices to Remain Inflated Throughout 2012(Tomshareware.com) In Q4 2011, HDD shipments dropped by 26 percent over the same period in the previous year.…

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How to Wipe A Harddrive?

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM12 years ago3 years ago02 mins

I want to totally wipe my harddrive completeley and erase everything to basically make it like when I got it new. I’m not getting rid of the harddrive, I just screwed some stuff up installing the components of my new hard drive and want to start over.…

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Seagate HDD Warranty Status

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM12 years ago3 years ago08 mins

I want my hard disk warranty status: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1000 Gbytes S/N : 9VPE4W6V ST31000524AS P/N : 9YP154-021 FIRMWARE : HP63 DATE CODE : 12133 Go here and enter the requested data: Check Seagate Warranty Status Seagate Drives Warranty & Replacements FAQs: 1.…

October 2012

SATA Cables

Replace Primary Master Hard Disk with Primary Slave

Change From RAID 0 to RAID 1

Use External Hard Drive as an Internal Hard Drive

Unable to Access System Disc When Hard Drive is Connected

RAID 1 Disadvantages

Cannot Access Old Hard Drive Documents

HDD Prices

How to Wipe A Harddrive?

Seagate HDD Warranty Status