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Version 7 can rebuild the MBT of Windows 7, but with Windows 7 you also have to insert an Install DVD and run “startup repair” - It’s worked for me like this 100% of the time. It’s that 100 MB partition.Ī good tool that works great, is Partition Wizard, but you need version 7. In Vista, Grub was Visible, they’ve hidden it in Win 7. I keep Hiren’s 13 on my flash drives, bootable, only because it was the last Hiren’s that included the XP and Windows Vista/7 Bootloader, which I can use to force a boot when the Windows 7 Grub partition gets scrubbed. I’ve customised my version to include all the tools I use. I have this disk ona level surface while I am using it.Īnytime I start transferring, thats when it all locks up and laughs at me ~.~
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Mine is one of the Portable ones, but Its been sitting on my desk, hasnt been jarred or anything… Kinda wishing I would have gotten a Desk one now…Might be sturdier than something that looks like you could sneeze at it and it would break. It froze up after a bit and completely came to a dead stand still…Īnd today, I tried using it…Same thing but this time I can not even acess the drive… ANytime I plug it in, it makes the sound clicks, I heard the discs spinning up, then I get a beep and the Disks just stop and wont spin up onc eI tyr to start transferring something. I coudl still acess the drive but transferring was still the same. I plug it back in same beepign following by a Very loud clicking like somethign was smacking the disk. Next day I restarted my laptop, let it sit off and my HDD unplugged. It didnt even transfer past the first file.Went from 30MB to stuck on around 67KBps in my USB 3.0 port… Then the Drive stopped responding, it froze up WIndows Explorer.
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It worked for a bit then it just utlimately stopped transferring data with I was just back up driver programs and stuff for my HD Wipe. But yes the busses will affect it, did not think of that.Īs for the beeping… It started beeping when I first upacked it from its box. It just erks me to see it go that speed…Still for something that will tak emore than 2 days ot back up is…blah. I dont know squat about this Toshiba Mobo. The Book drives are NOT resistant to impact.
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Is this the first time it has done this? Also, is the Passport a laptop sized backup or full sized “Book” box? The Book boxes are meant to stay in one place, only the small ones you can move from place to place, and are resistant to impact. I have one Data set that contains 999 nested folders all labelled 0 to 9 within 9 seperate folders, so it always takes much longer to move those.īut the error beeping, may or may not be related to what you were doing. Especially in nested directory structures. Has it always moved the content at the same speed previously? It all depends on your drives themselves, their speed, and your system Busses.Īnd even if your backup program makes ONE large compressed backup - It STILL contains thouse thousands of tiny files, so when transferring, it will still respond as if reading them individually. Because it is an OS backup, there are thousands of tiny OS files that are being read and transferred, so that is normal- Especially in “Different Devices” mode (I use Teracopy to transfer that’s one of the transfer modes, your program will have something like it in it’s programming). It is normal when making a backup, to see transfer speeds fluctuate from 100kbps to 30 and above MBps. The Hard drive just makes a loud clicking sound. Trying not to be livid… Its just frustrating for me.Īctually, now I can not even acces my drive, In any of the USB port 3.0 or othewise. Is that a sign the Hard Drive is on the fritz ~.~ And Is there possibly a issue with my USB 3.0?
Once i hear that beep, I can not even acess the hard drive unless I unplug it and plug it back in. Now, my second concern is, While Transferring I hear rapid clicking which is probably the hard drive spinning, but sometimes there is a distinct click as well as a few beeps on occasions then the Hard drive stops spinning. Mind you I have tried different versions of my USB 3.0 drives and The speed still is the same. Now, I understand I will probably never get even 70MB/s even under best conditions… But when I set the image to transferring… It started out at around 35MB but trudged all the way down to 107Kbps… ANd I let this thing run for a day and a half and it still was not done backing up… I was using Macrium Reflect to make a exact image of it for when I do my Monthly HD wipe and restore I would use the Ex HDD.
Its about in Total of my programs, was aroudn 79 gigabytes. Now, Right now I am making a exact image of my Operating system just the way I want it. I have a concern that said External Backup source may be faulty, but I am not expert in this department so I might be crazy. I recently bought a 1 terabyte Western Digital My Passport external hard drive.