Hard Drives

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Forcing Windows 7 Adoption

Submitted by Mike on Tue, 02/03/2009 - 21:01

image I downloaded the Windows 7 beta pretty shortly after it was available. I quickly took advantage of some free disk space on my drive, shrunk my partition, and set up dual boot with Windows Vista.

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How to Resize (Shrink) your Partition in Vista

Submitted by Mike on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 17:52

Let me guess, you’ve downloaded your copy of Windows 7, and you want to dual boot. Maybe you’ve heard that you can re-claim unused space on your hard drive, and you want to know how. Heck, maybe you want to see what the big deal is with Windows 64 bit.Well never fear, here’s a quick guide on how to reclaim some unused space to use for a shiny new partition.

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Don't scream at your hard drives...

Submitted by Art on Fri, 01/02/2009 - 12:15

…you might frighten them.

 

 

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What is eSATA?

Submitted by Mike on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 12:57

eSATA is a External Serial ATA interface. Serial ATA (SATA) is a commonly used interface for internal Hard Drives, and eSATA is an extension of that specification to be used with external devices.

If you're using a USB or Firewire external drive, what you're really using is a ATA or Serial ATA hard drive, and an external enclosure. The enclosure has a controller in it which translates the ATA or SATA protocol to USB or Firewire.

This translation causes some delay and there is also some overhead involved in the translations.

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