Recent content by gojirasan

I refer to my car and my house as "operating systems" too because they are systems and they operate. I also like to be addressed as "operating system". After all that is what I am. By your definition I am trying to think of anything that could not be referred to as an operating system. Maybe an...

I currently have 14 hard drives. 2 x 1 TB, 3 x 1.5 TB, 7 x 2 TB, and 2 x 3 TB for a total of 26.5 TB. My case is pretty much the largest standard one available (although you can't buy it anymore). An original CMstacker. With 4-in-3 modules and a little rearranging it will support up to 16...

By "OS drive" do you mean that you are not installing any programs in "program files"? Are you only using the drive for your OS? If so, 32 GB should be more than enough. My win7 x64 install takes up only 4.13 GB and that includes all versions of dotnet, full directx, IE8, aero themese, and some...

I tried the easus data recovery program and it acted like it recovered the data, but most of it was garbled. I think the easus program is the worst recovery program I have ever used. I think getdataback is a much better program. It just saved my bacon again yesterday. You could also try active@...

Samsung for sure.

That's a good point about the random writes. All the Intel SSDs seem to do quite badly at that. I wonder why. It's questionable how that will translate into real world performance though. There are very few "real world" benchmarks to go by. Anand has one and in that the 510 does quite well. It...

I think it somewhat depends on how much writing you plan to do to the drive, but the suggestions I would start with are: 1) Intel 510 240 GB. Faster than a Vertex 3 on compressed or random data and pretty much the same speed on compressible data. A very nice drive. Just a bit overpriced at...

I don't think ddrescue is necessary in this case. Since it's not a bad drive that is going to get worse, and you don't have bad sectors. Just don't write to the partition obviously. Most recovery software should be adequate for an accidental quick format. I'm not sure if quick format also...

Western Digital seems to have a problem with bad sectors. I just developed a bunch of them myself on my Caviar Black and my drive is sitting next to me waiting to be sent out. GNU ddrescue (not to be confused with dd_rescue) is not a bad option if you are technically adept enough. I believe it...

I am considering the use of the Variable Sector Size (VSS) feature of Highpoint's RAID cards to allow me to run my new 3 TB drive in 32 bit XP while recognizing its full size. Instead of 512 byte sectors Highpoint's software allows the use of 1k, 2k, or 4k sectors so that larger drive sizes can...

My second GDB scan on the HDD regenerated drive has started throwing read errors again [picardfacepalm]. You might want to wait on buying that program. I'm not sure exactly what it did but there are still unreadable sectors on the drive. It is looking like the unmaintained, overpriced Spinrite...

Did GetDataBack have read errors while trying to recover the data? That's what happened to me recently. I tried reading the sectors again to no avail. So I just told it to auto-ignore all such errors after which it was able to complete the scan. The problem is that I can't trust the integrity of...

OP claimed to have reliability problems with robocopy and was looking for alternatives. Not for faster/better copying. I've never compared teracopy to richcopy. Is richcopy recent? Does it work on xp? I have compared it to robocopy though and I definitely prefer teracopy. I find teracopy to be...

http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php

Or they will do like I did and just download a torrent rather than pay for a piece of software which they cannot fully test. Paying $40 for software which may not work is bad enough. But paying $80 is an insane act of desperation. As I said, GetDataBack has a solution to your catch-22 scenario...