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Over the past week my hard drive has started making a noise when it's accessed, i.e. it makes a small noise with the green light flickers indicating that it's reading/writing data to the disk.
I checked to see if it needed defragmented. It did, so I defragmented it. Unfortunately, that hasn't stopped the noise. Googling indicates that this is a bad sign; the drive may be about to fail. That's a drag as it's only about a year old.
Not wanting to lose any data, should I play it safe and just buy a new drive? If so, what's a relatively painless way to copy all of the data from my current drive to a new one?
In the past when installing a new drive, I would keep the old drive in the computer and simply read from it as needed. But if this drive is about to go bad, I'd like to copy everything to a new one. And I'd rather not go through the trouble of reinstalling all of my software.
Thanks for any help.
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I would use the corporate version of Ghost and make a sector by sector copy to the new drive.
There are several free programs out there that's doing the same thing. But I haven't tried them though.
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Thanks, Jörgen. I'm currently trying DriveImage XML, but I will check out Ghost.
I just purchased an external 500 GB HD. It has more memory than my current internal HD. So here's a followup question:
Are external USB hard drives suitable for running the OS off of?
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Leslie Sanford wrote: Are external USB hard drives suitable for running the OS off of?
Not an OS from Microsoft. The <edit>cache pagefile<edit> gets problems with the "random" response times from any USB connection.
Any OS that can be run from a CD will be fine though.
modified on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 4:54 AM
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Windows won't allow it due to the possibility of the device being removed while the OS is running. Windows is demand-paged and aggressive at trimming working sets, including that of the kernel; the default for Windows is that all code and data is pageable and you must mark those sections that are not pageable.
Understandably, it causes problems when the page of system code is demanded, the OS tries to read it in, and the disk containing the code is no longer there.
DoEvents: Generating unexpected recursion since 1991
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Yah i dual boot ubuntu off my external and windows off my internal
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I use DriveImage too , may be external HD are not a good options for running OS . What I do is use my old drive for OS related work and a
external for data storage , note i regularly make image os my old drive
and keep it as a backup , but the image can only help if you have a similar hard-drive
Vikas Amin
My First Article on CP" Virtual Serial Port "[^]
modified on Thursday, July 24, 2008 5:33 PM
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You could just buy a small internal hard drive (20-40 GB or so) and use that as your OS disk and then use the external HD for all your data.
Regards,
--Perspx
"The Blue Screen of Death, also known as The Blue Screen of Doom, the "Blue Screen of Fun", "Phatul Exception: The WRECKening" and "Windows Vista", is a multi award-winning game first developed in 1995 by Microsoft" - Uncyclopedia
Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript
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Hello guys,.....
I need the UA prof for the latest phone in market ie: Apple iPhone 3G.
Ua prof = User agent profile.
I need it to configure this phone in my system.
If any one finds it kindly send it to me as an attachment on
" ishcse@yahoo.com".
I have got a lot of help from here regarding this topic in the past and hope the same help this time..
Thanks...
Ish Kumar Kapila
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Here you go:
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_0_1 like Mac OS X; en-us)
AppleWebKit/525.18.1
(KHTML, like Gecko)
Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5B108
Safari/525.20
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
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Thanks for ur help.
but what is the link to download the ua prof in xml format.
I had alredy found out what u have provided but do not know how to use it...
kindly help
Thanks...
Ish Kumar Kapila
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Take it elsewhere, this is not the place for programming related questions.
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It is not for programming at all.
I would require the ua prof for knowing the screen size , media type , media format it supports and not for programming.
It is just for general use...
if u could arrange me the xml file I would be really thankfull
Thanks...
Ish Kumar Kapila
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Ish Kapila wrote: It is not for programming at all.
In the context of this site it is. See if you can find the answer on a non-programming message board. That proves the OP is programming related.
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leppie wrote: Take it elsewhere, this is not the place for programming related questions.
It was just the other week that you were asking regex questions here... But then again, some animals are more equal than others. 
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blackjack2150 wrote: It was just the other week that you were asking regex questions here..
Mine was a quiz, I didnt look for an answer I already had a solution for.
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Like leppie said, programming related now really, also I have no idea. Before it was just a bit of useful info that I could easily provide.
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
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Phannon wrote: Before it was just a bit of useful info that I could easily provide.
If it only was that little bit of info, now he demands XML, and that's clearly a programming language
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Damn, can't find the Sarcasm Smiley!
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"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" - Bob Monkhouse
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Yea I get that, that's what I meant 
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
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What's the format of the XML file?
Chuck Norris has the greatest Poker-Face of all time. He won the 1983 World Series of Poker, despite holding only a Joker, a Get out of Jail Free Monopoloy card, a 2 of clubs, 7 of spades and a green #4 card from the game UNO.
In the movie "The Matrix", Chuck Norris is the Matrix. If you pay close attention in the green "falling code" scenes, you can make out the faint texture of his beard.
Chuck Norris actually owns IBM. It was an extremely hostile takeover.
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are you serious ?
Christian Graus
No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.
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http://www.apple.com/mms/uaprof.rdf
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Hi, i am studing Device Programming.
i am reading that book.
The book have many sample.
and chapter2 have STUPID.
but i don't know how to run this example.
can you tell me how am run this example? and can you tell me how can i use FastInst?
Thank you for reading, and have a nice day~
firstly, i am sorry, i am from korea.
and i am not good in wriitting english so please understand~
Thank you everyone~
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my laptop suddenly crashed for some unknown reason and i was told i have a raid 0 system. please please pleeeeeeeeaaaaaaaase someone help me in getting the pics i have stored on there of the birth of my baby recovered...i have a friend who, if instructed, is at least knowledgeable enough to do as told to recover them. please even if there is software i can buy let me know what it is and where to find it.
you will be my hero forever and ever if you can possibly help me.
thank you very much.
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