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Yes, I meant 2 TB ,..... I actually had (2) spare HD's
but had to use one of them to replace the 780 backup HD that crashed. So I have the one spare HD left which is formatted for the 8500 OS. As I said, I plan to buy additional HD's, PSU's etc Robert |
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So do I have to replace the 780 HD?
If so, then you have to explain how to format the spare HD with the 8500 OS on it. Then I'll have to restore a Mrimg for it. correct? Robert |
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Mark Twain wrote:
So do I have to replace the 780 HD? If so, then you have to explain how to format the spare HD with the 8500 OS on it. Then I'll have to restore a Mrimg for it. correct? Robert I recommend booting the 780 with at least the network cable disconnected, wait a bit, and rerun the HDTune test. You notice in my example pictures, that when the OS is busy, it makes a mess of the transfer curve. And when you arrange to make it so the disk is not being used, the HDTune results look a lot nicer. I placed two disks in the PC for my test. I booted my Win8.1 drive to host HDTune. The Win7 disk was then a "data disk". I could then run HDTune with minimal intrusion on the Win7 drive and then I got a clean curve. ******* For the current 780 setup with the 750GB drive, you would need to clone that over to some other drive. 750GB == Macrium == 2TB spare Hitachi "Clone" function hard drive Once the clone is finished, shut down the PC, remove the 750GB Hitachi and let the system boot from the 2TB one. The operation would go its fastest, if you placed both hard drives inside the 780. If you use an external USB2 enclosure to host the 2TB during the transfer, it's going to take 3x longer to do. But that's your choice. You probably have copies of the clone filmstrip already on disk somewhere. You've done enough of these, you probably don't need the filmstrips any more. https://postimg.cc/image/f664kgrzh/ Macrium6_Backup.gif https://postimg.cc/image/soq5qlgrx/ Clone_Disk.gif https://postimg.cc/image/458x0anpn/ Macrium_Restore_CD.gif You still have plenty of redundancy in your computer setup. You likely have a backup of the 750GB hard drive somewhere, which is better than nothing as insurance at the moment. And you can adjust your purchase according to your intention. The existing drive is 750GB, and the smallest popular size today is 1TB. That's normally as small as they make them. A 500GB drive today, is just one surface of one platter of the 1TB model. The 500GB model doesn't even use the capacity of the platter inside it. You could pick up a 1TB drive in your shopping trip. 1TB drive $46 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...82E16822236339 2TB drive $60 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...82E16822178993 Paul |
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Lets see if the 780 HD is bad first before we go futher.
As I said, I have one 2TB Seagate HD but it's set-up as a replacement drive for the 8500 so wouldn't there be a be a conflict if I placed it inside the 780? I do have the filmstrips,... As far as buying,.. I prefer the 2TB Seagates,, but as I live from month to month I have to prioritize my purchases and as I said I have been hit with one thing after another which has prevented me from buying. However, I should be able to after December. Robert |
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I followed your recommendation and
disconnected the Network connection and then waited for 30 minutes and then ran another HDTune scan: http://i67.tinypic.com/ra5406.jpg Robert |
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Mark Twain wrote:
I followed your recommendation and disconnected the Network connection and then waited for 30 minutes and then ran another HDTune scan: http://i67.tinypic.com/ra5406.jpg Robert It's looking better. You can see the nice clean zoned-recording steps in the curve and everything. Paul |
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I wasn't thinking,... 'if' I need to replace
the 780 HD (hopefully I won't need to) I just clone the 780 to the 2TB drive to write over the 8500 setup. Robert |
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So is the 780 OK ?
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Mark Twain wrote:
I wasn't thinking,... 'if' I need to replace the 780 HD (hopefully I won't need to) I just clone the 780 to the 2TB drive to write over the 8500 setup. Robert Of course, you can pave flat any disk drive you want to repurpose. The clone operation will warn that you're deleting/overwriting existing partitions, but that's just a friendly warning of what the operation is about to do. Paul |
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Mark Twain wrote:
So is the 780 OK ? Robert I still haven't seen the Health tab for that disk, but the benchmark looks pretty good. Paul |
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I ran another HDTune scan:
https://i.postimg.cc/4dgLCsrr/25-HDTune-no-internet.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/59P3gB2c/25a-HD...o-internet.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/PJ2Tp6W5/25b-HD...o-internet.jpg Why does it keep showing nothing on the health tab? Is that an indication it's bad? Robert |
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There's another thing I wanted to ask you; when
I was using Kapersky 10 it said that the databases were obsolete but when I tried to update it, it said they were corrupted. So I rolled back the update. Could you please give me a link so that I can create a new Kapersky 10 CD that is up to date? Thanks, Robert |
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Mark Twain wrote:
There's another thing I wanted to ask you; when I was using Kapersky 10 it said that the databases were obsolete but when I tried to update it, it said they were corrupted. So I rolled back the update. Could you please give me a link so that I can create a new Kapersky 10 CD that is up to date? Thanks, Robert You're referring to the offline scanning CD. The scanning CD comes with a database, which rapidly becomes out of date (of course). When you run the CD, it copies the CD database here. C:\Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10.0 Then, after that, every time you boot the Kav CD, it consults that folder as its "baseline". It downloads files and adds them to the directory. By keeping a cache, the amount necessary to download is reduced. If your CD is really out of date, and you've never used it before, the downloads in that case are around 100MB or so. ******* To start over again, you can delete that folder under C: and everything in it. I've had to do that a few times. Delete this one, or something similarly named. C:\Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10.0 Then the CD, when it updates the database, will make a new folder of that name, copy the CD files over first, then download around another 100MB of files. ******* If the scanning software changes (and the database format changes too), you'd get that by acquiring another copy of the CD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antivi...#cite_note-163 Cite #163 "Disinfect the operating system". Kaspersky Lab. Retrieved June 1, 2018. https://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/krd18 === Download page So the disk is now "version 18", which then is presumably a "year number". The CD is 561MB (587,917,312 bytes). A significant increase over the 300-350MB or so that it used to be. Kaspersky Rescue Disk 18.0.11.0(a) (built at 2018.05.29 12:17:59) That download page has a pretty good transfer rate. Compared to the servers which serve up the "update" files, which are quite slow by comparison. Have fun, Paul |
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Mark Twain wrote:
I ran another HDTune scan: https://i.postimg.cc/4dgLCsrr/25-HDTune-no-internet.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/59P3gB2c/25a-HD...o-internet.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/PJ2Tp6W5/25b-HD...o-internet.jpg Why does it keep showing nothing on the health tab? Is that an indication it's bad? Robert I checked the datasheet, and it does have S.M.A.R.T. https://web.archive.org/web/20160203.../7k1000_sp.pdf I have had trouble from time to time with something "stealing" SMART. Win10 has caused problems before (currently everything works as it should). Win7 never causes that sort of problem. Normally, a BIOS "SMART" setting only refers to the BIOS checking the SMART table itself and "warning" the user there is trouble. Although I've had "SMART" enabled in the BIOS, I've never experienced a BIOS warning yet that anything is amiss. The BIOS behavior should have no effect on how the disk works with the OS itself. If a drive is in an enclosure, the protocol may not support SMART and then you can't read it. However, your 750GB drive is plugged directly into the 780 SATA Port so that's not the problem. When this happens, I either change my boot OS (when Windows 10 is acting up), or I use another machine and bring the drive over, and do my work on the other machine. Between the two machines, I usually get the info I need. (If you decide to move the 780 drive to the 8500, use the Popup Boot key or use the BIOS boot order, to *make sure* the 8500 disk boots the computer. I haven't been in a rush to explain this, as I don't want to take a chance on the Win7 disk of the 780, trying to boot in the 8500. Since your disks are different sizes, in the popup boot menu it should be easy to tell which disk is which.) And while Hitachi has Drive Fitness Test, I'm not sure I want to mess around with that. It's the lack of instructions... It looks like it might work while you're in Windows, but I really can't be sure. However, you might want to download this, label it as "Drive Fitness Test for Hitachi" and put it in your junk program folder for a later time. Apparently the Quick Test is supposed to be safe, but I'd really rather have a manual... I'm funny that way. https://web.archive.org/web/20150107.../WinDFT095.zip ******* I've been holding off on trying more complicated tests, but your machine is sure making this hard :-/ Computers, eh? Paul |
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I started to burn the CD on the 8500 then realized
I forgot to check verify disc after burning. So I cancelled it and re-started the procedure then it gave me this: https://i.postimg.cc/4NPXfC9c/60-Kapersky.jpg I was using the same CD-=RW disc that had the old Kapersky10 on it but erased it and started to burn until I stopped it. Now it's asking for DVD-R format. I had one left so inserted that and I still get the error. What's going on ? Robert |
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