Recent content by drb01

I reinstalled a windows image from 1 Jan 2017 and the problem seems to have gone. I am running build 1607. Will try upgrading now to the latest winver...

I bought a new toshiba drive, and used the old problematic western digital drive as a backup drive. Now I have the problem with the new Toshiba drive, and the old WD drive is absolutely fine! I have tried a new mobo, new cables. So this points the problem at Windows. I have used Windows 10...

A couple of months ago when my Windows 10 desktop resumes from sleep my 2TB WDC drive would no longer be there. I also have a 1TB WDC drive and a 256GB SSD, and they are both there as expected. If I reboot then the 2TB drive returns. This just started happening a few months ago. A couple of...

I have a Samsung 840 EVO 256GB 2.5" SS, bought Feb 2014, which I believe has FDE (full disk encryption) built in. But I could never get it to work with the Gigabyte GA-H77M motherboard. I am about to buy a new mobo/cpu. How do I get the FDE to work? I have FDE on my laptop where it works very...

After months of trying to fix this I finally found the culprit. It seems to be the iDrive backup system. Disabling the Continuous Data Protection has stopped the sound problem altogether. Makes me wonder what other side effects there are ...

I have had the above problem with Win 7 64 bit ever since changing the mobo to a Gigabyte GA-H77m-d3h and re-installing from scratch. Using the onboard sound I get buzzing sounds that last for about 1sec every couple of minutes. So I tried a cheap USB sound card and I get something similar...

Using the Encrypted Drive option in Samsung Magician seems to require an OS with encryption support which Win 7 Home Premium doesn't seem to have, not to mention a clean install. Not sure about the "professional encryption programs". Presumably you mean something like TrueCrypt? To be honest I...

I click on "How to enable" below "Class 0" and is says "Class 0 can be detected by setting a security password in BIOS. It may not be supported depending on the system or BIOS" I guess the BIOS doesn't support it which is very disappointing!

Ah - well that settles that one! Is there something out there that is similar? Am a little worried about giving some random program access to my gmail account! So I guess an open source program would be a good starting point ..

Tried that, and if I click "How to enable" it says "Class 0 can be detected by setting a security password in BIOS. It may not be supported depending on the system or BIOS". I guess I have a rubbish BIOS. Sees a bit odd that this currently available mobo (and a Gigabyte one, who I thought were...

This ap seems to have been stopped by google in favour of alerts via their website which I find much less convenient. Does anyone know a download location for their orignal gmail notifier?

Thanks, but I think bitlocker is software based encryption, that is unfortunately not available in Win7 Home Premium. I am looking for hardware encryption supported by the SSD itself ..

Hi - am using the above SSD on a Gigabyte H77m-drh mobo, with the latest BIOS (F14), and Win7 Home Premium 64bit newly installed. Does anyone know how to enable the hardware full disk encryption? This SSD, AFAIK, supports encryption, but in the BIOS all I can see are Admin and User passwords. I...