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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...

http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm http://www.dposoft.net/hdd.html Those are the programs to use if you have lots of bad sectors. EasyRecovery is an excellent recovery program. If that doesn't help you the data is probably not recoverable, but it might be worth trying some other recovery...

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TPB has several versions, but I assume you don't believe in that. So basically you are looking for a free recovery program. How about testdisk and photorec? I just used testdisk to restore an NTFS master file table from the mirror. I don't know of any other program that can do that. Well, aside...

As I expected, the suppliers are pocketing the money. I don't understand why people thought they would pass the cost savings onto the end user. SSDs are selling just fine at current price ponts. 25nm is win-win for the manufacturers who not only get cheaper manufacturing costs but also get to...

1. Boot times are not the main point of an SSD. 2. You should be using a separate partition just for your OS anyway. Antivirus scans are *much* faster. If you need to reformat the OS partition it is much faster. Defragging your OS partition will be much faster. Etc. I admit it can be a bit of...

Like others here I used to be a total Seagate fan before the 7200.11 scandal. It was more or less the only brand I bought. I bought a whole bunch of 7200.11s and got burned badly. I think I had like 6 out of 9 of them go bad on me within the first 6 months with a complete loss of data on several...

Someday in the distant future when we have Blade-Runner-esque flying cars and replicants, HAL9000 computers, interstellar warp drives, holodecks, and computer interfaces that skip the external senses entirely and plug directly into our brains some genius will discover the idea of saving the...

I'm not sure which game has more accurate physics. They are both pretty unrealistic. You can't cut down a tree so easily with a regular assault rifle or machine pistol or light machine gun. You need more like a mini-gun like they had on Mythbusters. The Crysis 2 bullet holes in the tree is much...

Yeah. It makes me wonder if it was removed out of sheer spite or as a big F U to pc gamers. Cevat Yerli seems to be one of those guys who goes completely nuts about piracy. I think he takes it personally.

So are the aliens actually harder than in Crysis 1? That combined with no saves makes me cringe. I'm probably going to have to fire up the leaked version for its quicksaves in order to make it further into the game. I find repetition too annoying, and I hate having to be overly cautious due to...

You mean the Crysis 1 KPA were more durable, right? One headshot amazingly didn't always kill them. It depended on the weapon and whether it was silenced. With a silenced pistol I think it sometimes took several close up head shots. It kind of bothers me that you don't seem to need headshots to...

Nice. Has this link been posted yet? This was posted in January: And here is more evidence that Crytek now sees itself primarily as a console developer. I don't hate Crytek for selling out and becoming a console-whore. I hate them for getting my hopes up for a game with graphics at least...

Yes. That would be because the game is ridiculously easy. At least against human opponents. I haven't fought any aliens yet. Anyone have any idea why it is so much easier to kill the enemy soldiers than in Crysis? I don't get it.

I am very picky about shooting games. I just don't play them much in general. In fact the only shooting games I have ever played and liked are Castle Wolfenstein, Wolfenstein3D, Doom II, Far Cry 2, and Crysis. I have tried a lot of FPS games, but I just find them boring. I think between Wolf3D...

Are you kidding? I went over to that forum to check it out and I have never seen an internet forum like that. It is an internet forum where sharing information is practically verboten. I don't understand the point of that? Why bother with a forum at all? I thought the whole point was to share...

Ah the infamous Deathgate click of death. It's not bad luck. It's normal for these 7200.11 drives to fail. I should know. I have 8 7200.11 drives in various stages of failure. Well actually 7 now. I just sold one. It's just something you have to accept when you buy Seagate drives nowadays...

Can anyone confirm that these do *not* work in Windows XP x86? I have read the whole thread and it seems not a single person has even tried? In fact it looks like no one has even tried to use it in XP x64 which is basically just Windows 2003. It probably would work with XP x64 even if it is...

Windows XP x64 is an interesting case because it does have backward compatibility with more than 90% of apps written for XP x86 (and some windows 2000 apps as well) due to its 32 bit compatibility mode. A dual boot XP x64 and Windows 7 system will be interesting. That is exactly what I plan to...

Actually it *is* a single 3TB drive. Since Seagate isn't known to have 5 platter tech, it probably means 750 gig platters. And I don't think that is correct about the SATA controllers. I haven't heard that. And 16 bits seems unlikely. 32 bits gives you the 2TB limit. Not 16 bits. Of course the...

Actually that's a myth. That's exactly what Seagate wants you to think though. Firmware was and still is only a tiny part of Seagate's problem. Just like everyone else their problem is hardware, not software. I wonder if it has something to do with the Suzhou Maxtor factory they took over in...

How do you know this? Do you have insider knowledge? Seagate has never done 5 platters before. AFAIK, no one except IBM/Hitachi has ever done 5 platters. That alone would make me very leery of this drive. We were expecting a 3TB, but not till around Christmas. I assumed we would be seeing...

As for the fish thing, you guys have absolutely no sense of humor. My tongue was in my cheek. As for returning the CPU because it didn't have the stepping I want, Newegg customer support didn't seem to have a problem with it (I was honest as to the reason), so I don't know why you should. The...

I just received an E8500 from the Newegg NJ warehouse and it is NOT an E0. So it is still a luck of the draw situation for the E8500 just like anywhere else. There are a couple of places which supposedly have guaranteed E0 E8400s, but there doesn't seem to be anywhere you can buy guaranteed E0...

The P5E-VM HDMI can also do 485Mhz FSB. So I don't really see the advantage. The question is whether the new DFI board unseats both of these Asus uATX overclockers.

So SFR would eliminate this? What about that "supertiling" mode that CF was supposed to support? It looks like the problem is not multi-GPU per se but AFR-only rendering. This could be eliminated in drivers. I'm hoping that 4870x2 will not have this problem, but even if it doesn't (due to some...