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hard drive disappears then appears
Dreamland, I'm running a WD 80 gig 7200 rpm with the 8 meg cahce I didn't do anything to enable S.M.A.R.T. I have 3 partitions on this drive: 1. a 7 gig system partition 2. a 5 gig partition for the swap file 3. the rest for data. Please note that the first freeze occured when I only had 2...- delaluz
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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hard drive disappears then appears
I just set the W2K power management to "never". I don't think it's a driver because it worked perfect for 2 months. Something either changed or is starting to break.- delaluz
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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hard drive disappears then appears
Hi, I'm running w2000 on a Asus P4Pe. This rig has been running fine for 6 weeks. I installed Diskeeper defrag utility 9 days ago and defragged my c drive. I also ran it from a boot disk and de-fragged my boot sectors. This displayed a message saying that it ran successfully. I leave this PC on...- delaluz
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