Copying a hard drive
This weekend I upgraded my 250GB hard drive to a 500GB hard drive in my main computer. I've done this countless times with little effort but this experience was anything but pleasant.
Category Technology
Seagate lowers warranty on bare drives to 3 years
Just received this in my email; another victim of the current financial market, support. For products purchased on or after January 3, 2009, the limited warranty period for consumer electronics, notebook and personal storage bare drives sold to Seagate Authorized…
Amazon Email Blunder
I love Amazon: they carry most of the books, music and movies I want at a decent discount. I don’t enjoy their sales emails so I logged into my account and checked a box labeled “Receive no e-mail (Excluding transactional…
PC Magazine stops print edition
The last print edition of PC Magazine will be the January 2009 issue. All subscribers will be moved to the digital edition. I’ve been a subscriber for the last decade and have watched them make several changes in the last…
iPhone 3G call issues
I’ve had my iPhone 3G for about six weeks now and since the latest firmware update 2.1 I have a strange call issue. The phone will ring, I’ll answer and the call will last about ten seconds before disconnecting. It…
WHS Add-In: ClientInfo
I just finished setting up my second Windows Home Server (more on that later) and went through my favourite add-ins. This led me back to Client Info, which displays all the WMI information collected from the computer. Unfortunately in the…
Bad advice in PC Mag’s Ultimate PC Upgrade Guide
Reading the October 2008 issue of PC Magazine and got angry at some crappy advice in their upgrade guide. First issue is they call it the “ultimate” guide on the cover but open the magazine and it’s now called “PC…
External Hard Drive Handling
There are two basic types of external hard drives for sale: those that use 3.5″ hard drives and those that use 2.5″ hard drives. The 3.5″ units typically have an external power supply, multiple connection types (USB, eSATA, Firewire) and…
Atola Technology
I was browsing last week when I came across Partition Find and Mount from Atola Technology: it’s a utility to mount a lost partition as a drive. Nice for botched formats, failed boot sectors and the like. This led me…