Tag hard drive

Disk Space Fan

Eventually every PC user comes to the point when they try to save something on their PC and there isn’t enough space.  We all react the same way: what’s filled my hard drive?  It seemed for a while gargantuan hard…

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.

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…

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…