Recent content by Fred Ghaffari

There r some uncertainties on the link, I won’t risk cos I haven’t learnt about Microsoft\Protect yet… I’ve studied 2 pages of Google Search for ‘lsass.exe lan encrypted’, the only appropriate info was that link… there r huge amount of info about ‘lsass.exe high CPU/HDD activity’ on the net...

Hallo hang-the-9, You are using an old laptop for backups but don't want to use a USB drive? My critical data is saved on 8 HDDs, this old PC is one of them. Some of the backups 1 km away for the security reasons. Still need xtra backups on the internet, banks & even in foreign countries but I...

Alabalcho, 391 solutions, 2570 answers… wowee! I’ve been always thinking about the motivation behind replying to people like me… perhaps u’re heading towards being a Microsoft certified man, being paid by the ads/MS, reputation or doing charities… dunno… even u replied in an hour… I was...

On XP Pro SP2, I’ve copied a large [say 10GB] encrypted data from elsewhere via workgroup. Since the data was pasted decrypted, I encrypted them. On the next logons, lsass.exe causes high CPU/HDD activity. On a Pentium 2, it could last hrs… If I log on to another user account [admin or limited...

The following response sent to ‘fzabkar’ 39 hrs ago, but it still doesn’t appear publicly: Hallo fzabkar, A year ago, I spent almost a month on Seagate website, & of course used the warranty validator. The WV shows ‘unknown’ for the combination of serial number & ST3500833A. But the...

My Eng doesn’t allow summarising this long story… Seagate doesn’t support due to the sanctions imposed against this country. Purchased a Seagate 3.5” 500GB PATA HDD in late 2011. It was difficult to distinguish a new HDD since many stores blow second-hand HDDs & put them in unlabelled...

The manufacturer hasn’t explicitly confirmed that the board’s HDD controller supports 48-bit LBA. Anyhow, with reference to ‘Seagate Windows 137GB Capacity Barrier Ver 1.0’, Motherboards and hard drive controller cards that have system BIOS released prior to ATA-6 may have the same fundamental...

Although not interested to reply to my own thread for another time, here is a new enquiry sent to Gigabyte® Technology: 5/21/2014 1:28 AM Hallo, This issue has been discussed yesterday over a phone call to GBT Taipei. The previous tickets are 1366482 05/06/2013 & 1368121 10/06/2013. Does the...

As far as I know, all the answers r wrong… Re Win 7, if Commit (MB) ≥ Total, u need more RAM firstly to extend the life of ur storage then to improve performance. XP still shines, as it shows the ‘Commit Charge (K) Peak’. By using a virtual machine, u can easily suck 16GB+ Disabling page file...

Noticed something new… SeaTools for DOS showed ‘Device is 48 Bit Addressed’. --------------- SeaTools for DOS v2.23 --------------- Device 0 is Seagate Device ST3500833A ¦SNIPPED¦ On Generic PCI ATA Max Native Address 976773167 Device is 48 Bit Addressed - Number of LBAs 976773167 (...

More communications with the manufacturer: Answer - 1368121 Answer : Dear Fred – Farzad Ghaffari, For your information, this motherboard BIOS supports for 48-bit LBA. If there is still have problem, we suggest you test with another HDD or you may refer to Microsoft HERE for more information...

For anyone interested, here is the answer from the Gigabyte® Technology: Dear Fred, Thank you for your kindly mail and inquiry. Firstly, according to the BIOS version, it could support 500GB HDD without problem. We are not certain if you mean there will be a problem when you store DATA more...

Many asked about that for different MBs… How to check a mobo supports 48-bit LBA for BIOS & HDD controller? Nothing is mentioned in the specs nor in the BIOS update history… The BOIS is 6.00 PG 29/08/2002. The latest BIOS version released just 1.5 months after the initial version & has no...