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Adding two jumpers to limit capacity and resolve bad cyliner/head
Thank you very much for your input. That is exactly what I have done. I got the drive in Mexico from a marketing firm that was going out, so I figured third party guarantees are no good. When I get home Im ready to run the full suite of mfr utilities. But now that were on the subject? As far...- covellite
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Adding two jumpers to limit capacity and resolve bad cyliner/head
Hello, I have an 80 GB drive that has a limiting capacity "feature" for 30 GB by putting on two jumpers. I am considering doing this as the drive itself has , according to Norton, a bad file system (for other drives it reported them as FAT and NTFS accurately). Running check disk...- covellite
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
