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DVD burner vanished
"Paul" schreef in bericht ... Linea Recta wrote: "Paul" schreef in bericht P4B266 Yes 1007 OK, I have bios version 1010. This is the latest version exept for one, which is branded as "beta". Furtermore, according to this reply: http://support.asus.com/faq/detail.a...2-112D10B69093 the P4B266 is able to work with 200 GB drives. So I could consider getting this drive: http://www.informatique.nl/110610/we...tal-160gb.html Although the price is high per MB base... The ones still available here, are a little expensive too. ******* One thing that's nice about the smaller drives, is they won't have the 4KB sectors on them. I was cursing the two drives I got here, with the 4KB sectors and "512e" emulation, because they're so slow when dealing with small files. Took twice as long as usual to do a backup. They claim you can align partitions on 4KB boundaries, and that is supposed to help, but I have multiple partitions under WinXP, and I don't think there is any fix for that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Format#512e There's nothing "Advanced" about that format. It's just a nuisance. I managed to order a Seagate 160GB IDE 2MB ST3160215ACE on line for 49 Euros. Today I received the drive and I have built it into the PC. It was detected by the BIOS properly. I did have a few surprises though... The drive seemed already formatted. Pagefile.sys was back on D: even before I put it back there manually. I ran Hard Disk Sentinel test program, which also reads SMART data. Performance and Health are excellent, but it also displays "Power on time 913 days"(!) I got no information from the web shop that the drive was second hand... -- regards, |\ /| | \/ |@rk \../ \/os |
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