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Hi all, I'm trying to recover a Mac external drive HFS+ that was plugged into a Windows 7 computer, and now just shows up on a Mac as a New Volume. What tools should I look at that might be able to recover the data? Mac based, Linux based or Windows. Free is best, but paid if necessary? On a...

Does anyone have any recommendations for (preferably) a SFF A4/foolscap multifunction device (printer/scanner)? The people in question are ditching their desktop in place of a laptop as they've moved into an apartment.

Has anybody used, or any experience with SSHD? I need to update a couple of computers and moving to a SSD + hard drive might be a little bit of a chore. But I also need capacity, so a single hybrid drive might be easier. This will be paired with an update to Windows 8.1.

Want a Windows 8/8.1 style task manager in your old skool "pry XP out of my cold dead hands" OS? http://www.neowin.net/news/use-windows-7-but-want-the-windows-8-task-manager-here-is-your-download Scroll to the bottom. Looks pretty good so far.

OK brains trust, how would I do this? I have three desktops (could end up four) and two laptops. And it's getting to the stage where one or two of the desktops are occupied all the time. What I want to be able to do, is logon to any of the machines and see all my files (i.e. centralised...

Hi all, long time since posting, but haven't had much to contribute. I have been lurking though. I have a question about Windows server. In Solaris, you can protect applications in a shared environment with projects. The projects command can limit the amount of memory an application can use...

Hi peeps, I need a recommendation for a mouse (or other pointing device) to use with a laptop. I've been using the notebook a lot lately browsing or reading e-books in bed (using a book as a tray to keep the vents clear). Let me just state that trackpads are a medieval torture device. I...

PM830 will supersede the 470 (PM810 SKU), but OEM only at the moment. 500MB/s read, 350MB/s writes. http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/newsView.do?news_id=1252

As the title says, I'm seeing this error in the Event Log. But for the life of me, I can't seem to work out which drive this refers to. Does anyone know how to map the name to a physical device? Is it hard drive, DVD or an SD card?

Got a Samsung F3 or F3EG HDD? Hear it "clicking" after connecting to the latest Intel or AMD chipsets? In my case. it was a slow (every second) click like a full seek. Eventually the drive disappears from your OS. Warning! If you leave a drive unpatched and connected to a chipset that causes...

Hi all, I've got a bit of a strange one. My main PC (Win 7 x64) can no longer see my Freenas/SMB shares. It can see XP/Win7 shares on other machines. All other machines can see the Freenas/SMB shares. Nor can this machine log on to the Freenas Admin page via browser. All other machines...

My Maxtor Atlas II 15K SCSI drive finally bit the dust (I think). Yesterday, I got a lot of write errors while running. When I attempted to reboot, I got a BSOD Stop Error 0x00000024. Nothing seems to fix this. This happens attempting to boot Windows XP in normal and safe mode. If you...

via IPO. http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/display/20101107132159.html Wonder how this will affect their R&D, like microwave assisted magnetic recording...

I can't get to www.autosport.com from my home network. "... The following error was encountered: Connection to 195.225.217.194 Failed The system returned: (110) Connection timed out"... I know it's alive, because I can get to it from work. It's been happening for a few days...

Is anybody using NAS at home? It used to be that my main rig was powered on all the time. So storing files on one of its local drives meant they were available to all other machines. A few weeks ago, I decided to enable sleep & hibernate, but if the machine is in hibernate mode, it disappears...

I used to use Nero SoundTrax from Nero 6 on XP as my audio mixer and Nero Wave Editor as well. But the move to Windows 7 has me stumped. Nero 6 (well SoundTrax and Wave Editor) won't run on Windows 7, and frankly, the idea od shelling out $100 to "upgrade" to the bloatware that is Nero 9...

You've got to go to a compromised site and open a malicious PDF ..."Adobe has admitted that it is aware of reports of a potential vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1.2 and Adobe Flash Player 9 and 10. It is planning an update soon, it said."...

..."Despite its fatter pipe, SATA 6Gbps will use the same connectors as the existing Serial ATA standard. The spec includes new goodness beyond a higher throughput peak, too, but AMD and Seagate are only talking data rates for now."... http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/16544

Staying out of the 4 platter drive business http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/display/20090306134151_Samsung_Begins_Shipments_of_1_5TB_Hard_Disk_Drives.html

In the news today, it is reported that GM has said that they don't have a viable business model going forward. Is this true, or are they drumming up leverage for more federal money? I certainly hope it isn't true, more for the workers sake, but if it isn't, then it's a pretty callous tactic.

The 7200.12 put through it's paces. 2 plater 1 TB. http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/16472 Hit or miss...

Would you trust these guys? The Inquirer is alleging that Kaspersky.com has been hacked. ..."ANTI-VIRUS firm Kaspersky Labs has had its US website violated by an anonymous hacker who claims to have gained access to the company's customer database"... ..."The hacker's discretion may be a very...

AMD launches K10 dual core--say hello to the Athlon 7750 and brethren http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/athlon-x2-7750.html http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/12/15/amd-athlon-x2-7750-7550-cpus-review/1 http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=16614 Sometimes better...

What I want to do is use an LCD TV as a monitor. I already use my 37" Samsung as a monitor and it works like a charm. I'm thinking of replacing my 19" 5:4 910T with a TV Why? Glad you asked. More screen real estate. My eyesight isn't what it used to be, so a 1900x1200 22" isn't a great...

Just in case you missed it http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2quad-q9400.html And unless you're running the latest and greatest, selected software, the Q6600 still looks awesome performance wise...

Have at it http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/15730/1 Some good, some bad

A comparison: http://www.linux.com/feature/140734

Does anyone have any good new to relate using draft n wireless technology? I've got a couple of G nodes, but I want more speed

I'm am sorry about this as this post will be partly a call for help and partly an interesting find in my search for an answer to said help cry. Firstly, has anybody come across this issue. At work, our disks are partitioned into three—system, util/recovery (tiny) and data. Here's the slightly...

Man, Mercutio will be annoyed. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/400gb-raid0510-2.html Mind you, he would probably sniff at a mere 400GB

I thought today's UserFriendly was poignant and pertinent: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080623 :)

Vista really ins't my area of expertise so I'm after some suggestions. The laptop belongs to my son's pre-school and the teacher there asked if there was any way to make it faster. It's a Dell Inspiron e6400 with (I think) a 1.7/1.8GHz processor, 512MB RAM (less what's used for graphics) &...

Has any had any experience with using the RAID 1+0 capabilities of the Intel southbridge? I want to set up a Solaris/Oracle box for home and play with Oracles storage sub system. What I want to set up is RAID 1+0 with four Samsung SP2504C sata drives (recommendations??) and need either a...

A 2.5" 10K SATA drive in a 3.5" heatsink :eekers: http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/14583 ..."The VelociRaptor offers excellent performance across a wide range of applications, but its most spectacular showing was easily with IOMeter's multi-user workloads. These workloads don't simulate...

Hi all, I've a question about notebook drives. At the moment, my NB has a 120GB 5400 rpm (SATA) drive from Mercs favourite company. Boot and load times are slow (as to be expected). Will I get much added oomph from a 7200 rpm jobbie? If it's any help, I had a 15K Atlas II in my main drive...

Not the furry kind, the computing kind. What I have been using, a Microsoft USB optical wheel mouse. I need to change this because the skates on the bottom have worn out need cleaning every day or it won't track properly. Also, it is a bit small—I have narrow/long palm/fingers. Don't like...

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/06/seagate-snubs-linux ..."The problem is to do with the power-saving systems on Seagate's latest range of drives and the fact that it is shipped already formatted to NTFS. The NTFS is only a slight hurdle to Linux users who have a kernel...

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/30-250-hdd-roundup.html There's life in ATA yet.

Read it quick in case AnandTech was premature, I didn't think that the NDA lifted until Monday http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3151 Back in the game by the look

..."Well, ONFI is more than that - it is a part of an initiative to optimise the flash memory integration and performance in the PCs, starting with NVMHCI "Non Volatile Mem Host Controller Interface" akin to SATA AHCI."... http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/13/speeding-flash-flash

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=42472 more connectors: slim-line, micro and multi-lane. NCQ prioritisation and NCQ unload—The idiot has dropped the laptop so flush the caches before we hit the ground and everything is toast—umm, before the drive heads park.

Resolves to www.microsoft.com :) Saw this on the UF boards (user friendly). Apparently, some MS minion has a sense of humour. linux% host thesource.ofallevil.com thesource.ofallevil.com is an alias for www.microsoft.com. www.microsoft.com is an alias for toggle.www.ms.akadns.net...

128 GB SSD review on Tech Report. Only $4 600. :puke-r: http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/13163

The conclusion should be obvious http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/seagate-vs-corsair.html

http://www.techreport.com/onearticle.x/12695 Basically a slowed down 15K-5. Uses 15K-5 internals. 4 platters. Supposedly faster than the 10K-7 ..."The NS's unrecoverable error rate is apparently ten times better than that of the 10K-RPM Cheetah, and its annualized failure rate is supposedly...

A friend has posed an interesting question. They have downsized their accommodation and want to use a laptop and 1 PC. They think that a standard ATX case is too large. They like to PC form factor for some limited upgrade capability. They like the Mac mini. Is their a "standard" case out...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1902199.htm Police puzzled by crew's disappearance from yacht. "What they found was a bit strange in that everything was normal, there was just no sign of the crew," he said. Mr Hall says there was food on the table, a laptop was running and...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Click on more to read more about todays featured article (on The KLF) The article expansion (now fixed in 2 minutes) read Lets have a sex party!

Samsung claims it is selling 2.5" hybrid (flash) hard drives http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38053 ..."The MH80 series comes in 80GB, 120GB and 180GB sizes. The 2.5-inch drive has 128 or 256MB of flash memory and combines mangetic optical characteristics."...

Does anybody know of a tool/utility that reports the PCI/AGP bus speeds. CPU-Z reports the FSB speed, but not the PCI/AGP.