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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.…

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HDD Makes Random Clicks When Windows is Booting

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM12 years ago11 years ago02 mins

When I boot my computer up in the morning, my hard drive(Maxtor 500 GB) makes random clicks as it loads windows. I never seem to notice it making those sounds once windows is booted up or if I restart the computer after it has been running for a while.…

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Primary/Secondary IDE Master

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM12 years ago11 years ago02 mins

With a SATA DVD burner and 2 IDE drives, can I run primary/secondary masters? if so would it be more efficient than primary master/slave that I run now. setup: SAmsung SATA burner, WD Cavier 120gb 7200rpm (OS) Seagate Barracuda 7200(storage) Abit NF-95 MB I know that running a sata HD would be the best idea, but funds haven’t been made available for it yet. …

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New Secondary SATA Hard Drive not Recognised

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM12 years ago11 years ago011 mins

I have installed a second HDD in Win7 – a WD caviar green. I couldn’t see it at all but have sorted it via diskmgmt.msc and can see it there. When I go into ‘Computer’ it’s not there. I can list the directory using command prompt and can even see it if I go into start:search and usr its drive letter (R.…