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    How to back up your data with Windows 7 - Feature (EARTHtimes.org)

    Washington - Windows 7 provides more ways to keep your data safe than any previous version of Windows. And that's good news. For despite the claimed reliability of hard disks and solid state drives, data loss due to drive failure is still an all-too-... Link Removed - Invalid URL
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    Windows 7 HELP! dvd-rom drive failure

    I installed Windows 7 on my PC and now my DVD-ROM drive doesnt work. It shows up in My Computer, device manager says it's working properly, everything seems normal until I put in a disk, then it locks up My Computer and it's impossible to access any files from it. Every time you try to open...
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    Windows 7 Bad sectors?

    Take a look at the screenshot below. You'll see that it's of my RAID 0 set-up and was benched tonight (Saturday). The problem is that they won't complete a full chkdsk and always gets stuck on 50%. Now obviously I'm thinking one of the drives is about to give up although the benches show that...
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    Windows 7 Issue with SAS drives + Win7 2 drives dead in 1 week

    So i was all happy with the first beta of Windows 7 worked perfectly for months then i said what the heck lets try the RC candidate and check the improovements. Then all of the sudden in 1 week i lots 2 of my SAS drives, both times while i was away so i have no idea how they died on me. I was...
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    Windows 7 Windows detected a hard drive problem

    I have been using Windows 7 build 7000 for a long while without any drive issues. Today i did a clean install of build 7127, and now i randomly get this message: "Windows detected a hard drive problem" It shows the details as H:/, witch is one partition, on one of my drives. If there is a...
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    Windows 7 Seagate Barracuda SATA drives 7200.10 - looking for firmware update

    I had a SG Barracuda 500gb SATA drive I just picked up about two months ago. About a month ago, I started getting SMART notices that the drive may soon fail. It finally did yesterday and kinda screwed up my RAID array as well. Seagate's support totally sucks with this issue, look at their...
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