Posts Tagged ‘ drive ’

what is the difference between external hard drives and portable hard drive?

June 21, 2010
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I know that they are both USB storage devices outside the computer but why are some reffered to as external and others portable, i mean aernt they both portable?

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Will a computer repair place sell my hard drive without erasing it?

June 21, 2010
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The motherboard of the computer broke, so we took it to the computer repair place in town. They said they were going to use the computer for parts. The problem is I forgot to get my hard drive back. Will the computer place sell my hard drive without wiping/erasing my hard drive? I had...

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What limits hard drive and CPU capacity?

June 21, 2010
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I’m wondering. We went from hard drives that could only hold megabytes, then we went to gigabytes, now we’re moving towards terabytes and soon enough something that starts with a z. So what limits harddrive capacity, why can’t it hold like trillions and trillions of gigabytes for example? Same thing about CPU, what limits...

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Is access of a pen drive depends on the hardware of a computer ?

June 20, 2010
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I want to buy a pen drive with 8gb of memory.does a computer’s hardware configuration depend on accessing it.Actually I have heard that low configuration computer can’t communicate with a high memory pen drive. Is it true or false ?Please help me.

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Why are 2 gig flash drives priced at $70 when you can buy a 60 gig external hard drive at the same price?

June 20, 2010
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I figured maybe it’s because of the size, but they make external hard drives that can fit in your palm. It really baffles me that a 2 gig flash drives cost $70 when you could buy a 60 gigabyte external hardrive for the same price or less.

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Does external hard drives uses flash memory or discs similar to internal hard drive?

June 20, 2010
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I just brought a 1TB iomgea external hard drive and it looks pretty long. Wonder whats inside…

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I am really confused about hard drive solid state drives and SAS (Serial Attached SCSI)?

June 20, 2010
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1.This is what i don’t get about solid state drives,you buy a solid state drive and 1 or 2 extra harddrives you hook them up but do you install all the programs os and component drives ONTO THE SOLID STATE DRIVE NOT THE HARDDRIVE then when you want to save a file you save...

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Is there a way to unplug a sandisk cruzer flash drive without using the safely remove hardware wizard?

June 20, 2010
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Is there a way to set it up so I can remove it and it won’t corrupt all of my files? I don’t want to just remove it when i’m supposed to use the safely remove hardware feature.

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Can I use a solid state drive with Windows xp?

June 20, 2010
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My laptop hard drive died recently due to I am guessing due to vibration I know you can use solid state drives with Windows 7 which I do have on my desktop and love it and my laptop doesn’t have the guts to run it with the graphics card I have. But will XP...

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How do computer repair shops/people reformatt a hard drive with wndows? (more in details)?

June 20, 2010
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How do computer repair shops/people reformatt a hard drive with wndows without purchasing a new license. Like say you brought them a computer to fix cause your harddrive crashed and you dont have your CD Key, how do they reformat it without buying a new CD KEY?

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