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Western Digital HDD gone noisy...
>The read head in the drive started playing up and missing, and the drive was replaced under warranty. >With my replacement drive in, after a month, it is now starting to be a lot noiser and has a static sound when booting up. I would seriously suggest you contact your supplier and get them to...- davewall
- Post #2
- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Master or Slave
I don't think Raid 0 worries about the actual sizes of the drives needing to be the same as it adds the two together. Raid 1 however does worry - you would need to put the 60Gb as the primary drive and the 80Gb as it's mirror in that situation - 80 into 60 don't go [:-)]- davewall
- Post #5
- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Network Neighborhood strange delay ???
it sounds to me like the 'slow' computers may have got mapped drive letters to now 'non-existant' other computers. On one of the 'slow' computers - double-click My Computer - it may take a while to finally come up, now check if there are any drives sitting there with red crosses on them - they...- davewall
- Post #5
- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
