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    Password protecting an external drive?

    Hi guys Recently I've been using WD external drives, and they have a nice setup where the drive and it's contents remain hidden when connected until you go into it's second partition and run the unlock program that is stored there. It's a real simple deal, just run the program, enter the...
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    Migrating Installation to Advanced Format Drive Methods?

    I can report back with success. Downloaded and installed latest RST driver in safe mode (not on my laptop right now but it was at least v10). Also downloaded RST F6 AHCI drivers and placed them on a USB stick Made a new drive image and recovery disk (in case there were any changes or...
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    Migrating Installation to Advanced Format Drive Methods?

    Thanks, in that case then if Windows 7 formatted drives are AF compatible then the Windows 7 restore utility should work, since it formats the drive prior to restoring the data. Also the backups created by Windows 7 don't appear to be 100% copies, for instance I had all my Windows updates...
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    Migrating Installation to Advanced Format Drive Methods?

    Nobody has any idea? Would this be more suited in the OS section of the forum?
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    Migrating Installation to Advanced Format Drive Methods?

    Hi guys I've decided to upgrade the HDD in my laptop for something a little faster and higher capacity, and I've run into this thing called Advanced Format. Before I get into my concerns, here's my current config: Vaio VPCF12M0E Win 7 Home Premium SP1 Intel 5 series chipset with RST...
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    HQ Laptop/Headphone Audio - What are the Options?

    Hi guys. I recently invested in some high quality headphones, they are AKG K701 and specs can be found here. They are generally well regarded, but noted as being a bit stubborn or difficult to drive, and an amp of some sort is strongly recommended. Now the soundcard on my laptop is garbage...
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    DFI Lanparty UT nF4 SLI-DR Expert max CPU?

    Hi guys, just a quick one. Got a PC that has been out of action for years, it has a DFI Lanparty UT nF4 SLI-DR Expert (S939) board and an A64 4800x2 CPU. I need to get a new PSU and move all the stuff to a new motherboard tray (old one was weird with the PCI slots), so I thought that while...
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    How to stop Vista bugging my media server?

    Hi guys. Long story short, I have an old Mini-ITX system running Windows XP for the purpose of sharing media to my mobile phone, Xbox360 or my PS3. Windows Media Player 11 is acting as the server. Now the PS3 was the most recent addition, so I had to get into the Mini-ITX and make sure...
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    school me on HDDs

    Nice catch. At least I can firmly write off that particular idea.
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    school me on HDDs

    Don't take too much notice of that, that is simply the Bluray drive being slow. Stuff that loads from HDD is noticably faster.
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    school me on HDDs

    Wouldn't mind a VR for my PS3/laptop, but I notice it specifcally says not for laptop use even though it's a rather tempting 2.5" form factor. Is this damage control for WD if something does go wrong, or is there a genuine reason why these drives cannot be used in laptops or consoles? Thanks.
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    What makes a good HDD for gaming?

    Hmm. I'm being tempted by the 500GB Seagate despite my original thoughts. Looking at the benchmarks, it is as good as, if not better than the WD in most areas except for the video editing benchmark. Which sounds good, but then again video editing tends to be a mix of high speed reads and...
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    What makes a good HDD for gaming?

    Thanks. I was just wondering what might have been more beneficial to the type of access patterns the HDD would have. For example the 500GB Momentus has a higher read rate but the access times aren't as low. I have this gut feeling that access times could play a major part in the performance...
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    What makes a good HDD for gaming?

    Hi guys This actually pertains to the Playstation 3, but I guess it's relevant for any HDD based game system, or PC. I'm looking to upgrade the HDD, for no other reason than I want more speed, and I love to mess around with things. I've got a shortlist of two 2.5" HDDs that are good all round...
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    Expanding a network with limited access

    Thanks for your help. Shortly after that I decided to go for 192.168.1.X, so the terminal at 128.0.0.120 would then become 192.168.1.120. The intention was to cut out some of the work having to update the printer management, but I realised I'd need to do it anyway, so I may as well go for the...
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