Recent content by Amad102

I just recently replaced my HDD with an SSD and disabled system restore. I enabled windows backup and scheduled it to run every Sunday and save image+documents to my old HDD. Turns out I needed to do a restore and ran into quite a few problems with Windows Backup and was wondering what some...

take the battery out and try running just on the charger, if that doesn't work you know it's the charger instead(or I guess the outlet is a possiblity but I doubt it) if so just replace the charger? If you have to mess with the cord something is wrong.

yeah you should be fine to have it charging all of the time, newer batteries are made much better than older ones

I have an old HDD that I'm trying to get data off of. I have it connected straight to my PC with SATA wires. When I boot my primary HDD I can see my old one and open; it is kind of loud but not really clicking just sounds like it's searching for something but when I try to navigate through the...

After a little research the freezer trick seems to have a pretty high success rate for one last attempt on getting data back. Very interesting.

I have an old HDD I want to transfer data from to my new HDD for my friend; both are SATA drives. It clicks a little when turned on so I'm not sure if it's dead yet. What I tried to do so far is unplug my new HDD and install the old one into it's spot( I don't believe I have any SATA connectors)...

Thanks for your help!

I'll have to check when I get home to let you know for sure but I believe there were only 7 relocated ones but it did say "Warning" next to them. When you say I can put in an optical drive myself, I still need to buy the "component" for the HDD to go in right? I saw a guide here and that alone...

I recently installed an SSD into my laptop and use the old HDD as an external for downloads, music, programs I don't use often, games, backups, etc.. HDtune shows it has "reallocated sector count" as 7(warning) and from what I've researched people are saying that means it is dying? What is the...

Cheaper one if you're not worried about 3 second difference on reboot and half a second opening programs :p

reinstalling windows will mostly likely leave your data non recoverable. at least from my personal experience.

Yep will work perfectly fine. They are backwards compatible