www.grc.com have some good utilities that may be of use, someday
Jeffrey Keller wrote:
> When I first installed a large hard drive about a month ago it worked fine
> for about a week then windoze refused to boot. Reformated the drive with
> about the same results. The third time I formated the drive using the
> Western Digital utility rather than windoze XP pro. It's been running a
> little over a week. Also some people told me some Roxio software had built
> in bugs/virus that could be a problem so I haven't installed it this time
> even though the computer came with it originally installed from Dell. I've
> got my fingers crossed
>
> Has anyone seen problems with XP Pro and large hard drives? Any problems
> with Roxio Easy CD Creator (downloaded latest free upgrade from their web
> site).
>
> TIA,
> -jeff
>
>
>
>>From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Subject: [OM] Re: OT Storage bargain
>>Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 13:16:10 -0700
>>
>>
>>I did something similar a few months ago and I am really pleased with
>>the "Caviar" drive. It is so much quicker and quieter than my original
>>drive I have transferred my operating system to it and use my original
>>for back up storage. It also has that(I forget what it is called)
>>system that can warn you of problems with the drive before it fails and
>>it interfaces with my operating system disk utility.
>>
>>
>>
>>Winsor
>>Long Beach, California
>>USA
>>On Sep 10, 2004, at 12:35 PM, Moose wrote:
>>
>>
>>>So I went crazy and bought 2 pieces of hardware. It's too late to get
>>>on the HD bandwagon, as I just caught it on the last day of the
>>>rebate. I bought and have now received and installed, a WD Caviar
>>>ata100 200gb drive for $130 with $40 rebate. $0.45 per gb sounds good
>>>to me. And the OEM packaging just meant less to throw away.
>>
>
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