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| 04-16-18 11:44am - 2442 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Thomas20 (0)
Active User Posts: 60 Registered: Dec 27, '09 Location: England |
Dear All, I ordered two matching 4TB drives to use as raid1. I inserted them into a new raid caddy. They did not show up in the windows directories (which I established was down to them not being initialized and no volume yet created). I then found the drives using the disk management button (windows 10). After a couple of dead ends trying to initialize them with both in the caddy I decided to initialize them one at a time. So I took one out and got on with it and it seems to have worked. It shows the correct storage size and I have initialized it and formatted it successfully. I have loaded a test file onto it and all is fine. The second drive when inserted on its own is showing in disk management as as 7451GB (i.e. double what it should). It then gives an I/O device error when I press the initialize button. I have looked up what I/O device error means but these seem to suggest faulty cables or sockets but clearly the raid caddy is fine as one has worked ok. The other solutions were far too complicated to understand and seemed design to solve other I/O problems anyway - not one where the disk shows as double capacity. Any ideas folks ? TIA. T. | |
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| 01-26-15 12:38pm - 3618 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Thomas20 (0)
Active User Posts: 60 Registered: Dec 27, '09 Location: England |
I fantasised a while ago about making one of them raid things where you dump a bunch of drives into a case, with one on off switch and the data duplicates itself as a mirror automatically. But my computer knowledge, and time available to work it all, out meant that each time I just to the easy option and each time added another external 2TB drive ona usb lead. So I am now on three 2 TB drives, replicated for back up on another three 2 TB drives plus a couple of 1 TBs plugged onto the motherboard flopping about inside the pc case. It is a pain to duplicate everything and I have run out of usb ports to plug them all in at once as it is and I need another 2TB of space at least. So that means another x2 2TB drives. Plus there are power leads everywhere. I gather there are ways to make XP work with 3TB and 4 TB drives but again I am not sure I can be arsed because it seems looking at it today that you can get a pc base running windows 8 with a decent spec for 400 GBP that will read 4 tb drives. 4tb drives cost about 20GBP more to buy than a 2tb i.e. negligible so I figure what I save on the first set of drives will contribute 100GBP or thereabouts towards the new machine plus I won't have to upgrade XP seperately (not that I ever actually would have done I suppose). So apart from the obvious issue of losing a whopping 4tb of data when a drive goes down (which really is no different to losing a 2tb drive if it is backed up), are there any obvious flaws in this plan and the bigger drives ?!! Edited on Jan 26, 2015, 12:42pm | |
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| 08-30-12 11:40am - 4497 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Thomas20 (0)
Active User Posts: 60 Registered: Dec 27, '09 Location: England |
I found this before but not now. It's the official guide to how the site review scores are meant to be done. Thanks. | |
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| 04-11-12 11:31am - 4638 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Thomas20 (0)
Active User Posts: 60 Registered: Dec 27, '09 Location: England |
Can anyone advise please : I have an external drive that I want to add to the inside of my pc. It is a 1.5TB external drive that has failed. I am suspicious it is just the pcb that controls the power to the drive and that the drive is ok. I could simply buy a standalone kit that you can use to convert a naked drive to usb and if my suspicion that the drive is still good is right then I am back to where I started. However, my main aim is not really to salvage the data on the drive (everything is duplicated onto TWO externals  ). Instead, if the drive is still good, I want to reuse it in the neatest way, hence my question below. My PC has 4 sata ports on the motherboard. The two hard drives it was shipped with occupy two of ports such that there are two physical hard drives but they both make up the c drive that is visible in the list of drives. So far so normal. I thought you could add an extra drive, either (1) so that it appears as part of the overall c drive or (2) so that the third drive is a stand alone drive simply plugged into one of the spare ports on the motherboard so it shows up as it's own drive letter in the menu (so that if the whole machine fails I can just lift the drive out and plug it in somewhere else). I have taken the hard drive out the external case and connected it to a spare power cable in the pc. The good news is that the subject drive is spinning which it did not do before so my feeling is that the drive is still good. However, I have connected it via the sata cable to one of the spare ports but when I look in the windows start 'explore' button to see what drives there are it does not appear. I have tried the system properties 'find hardware' etc. and buttons on windows control panel but suspect something more technical is needed and that, whilst I cannot see any obvious way of doing it, it can be done. Can anyone help please ? | |
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| 03-12-10 11:29am - 5399 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Thomas20 (0)
Active User Posts: 60 Registered: Dec 27, '09 Location: England |
Well here's a spin on the recent poll about anti-porn candidates lol. http://www.anorak.co.uk/242044/politicia...ndiate-for-kent.html Haven't seen any of the films though. From the website they look just like everyone elses. T20. | |
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| 02-01-10 12:03pm - 5438 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Thomas20 (0)
Active User Posts: 60 Registered: Dec 27, '09 Location: England |
Hello everyone, I wonder if some one can give me some advice on this picture viewing question. Sorry the explanation is a bit long. Trimmed it as much as I could. My preferred picture viewer is the slide show you get if you pick "my documents" off the windows start menu. This brings up a blue bar on the left side of the screen. If I then pick my pictures it brings up an option of slide show in the blue bar. I like this viewer because when I pick a picture directory it brings up thumbnails almost immediately so I can see what's on offer and it is very easy to navigate. The problem is that when I pick the slide show it only displays the pictures in one fixed size. So, if the pictures are big they fill the screen :). If they are small (say 800 x 533 like Reality Kings) all I get is a box in the middle of the screen with a big black border. This is a waste on a 24" wide screen monitor. I cannot find any way whatsoever to boost the size to fill the screen. So I tried Media Centre. In media centre the pictures are all brought up to full screen size. So far so good. The problem with media centre is that I use two monitors (videos on one, pictures on the other etc.) but when media centre is maximized to one screen it won't let the mouse curser move on to the second screen. This is a pain because I can't navigate around my pictures or other videos on the second monitor ! Media centre is also very clumsy to use because, if there's lots of pictures, it takes forever to scroll down them to see what's on offer. In Windows Media and Fax viewer the pictures can be zoomed but it is not possible to cycle through the photos in slideshow mode so that software is not any good on any front. Can anyone help me solve the problems with these viewers I mentioned or suggest a different viewer that would give me everything I want ? Full screen pictures and let me use the second screen too. Also can I say that its good to read the contributions on the site generally and credit to all contributors for what looks most of the time looks like sane and sensible posts not abusive intemperate rubbish that litters lots of sites. Thanks for reading :). T Edited on Feb 02, 2010, 10:57am Edited by Staff on Feb 01, 2010, 12:22pm | |
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