Can badblocks change the size of a hard drive?

I have a 160GB parallel ATA hard drive that is looking very poorly. I ran badblocks on it, with the destructive write -w option, and there were no messages about bad blocks after it was running for about 6 hours, so I ^C'd badblocks. After a bit ...

Message posted on the March 29th, 2013 - 7:41 PM ET

G-Technology™ Delivers Solid State Drive-Like Sustained Performance in a Compact External Hard Drive Solution

Bringing Professional Tools to the Masses, G-Technology's New G-DRIVE® PRO with Thunderbolt® Portable External Hard Drive Enables 2K and 4K Digital Cinema, 2K DLSR/ Photography and Other Digital Content Creation Workflows.

Press published on the April 8th, 2013 - 6:30 PM ET

Gantter, FREE Web-Based Project Management Tool, Integrates With Google Drive

Gantter today announced the integration between Gantter and the newly released Google Drive™, Google’s cloud storage and collaboration service. “With the integration between Gantter and Google Drive, we’re ...

Press published on the April 24th, 2012 - 2:53 PM ET

DocuSign Integrates With Google Drive™

DocuSign eSignature Helps Google Drive Users Securely Complete and Sign Documents Faster.

Press published on the April 24th, 2012 - 11:31 AM ET

nivio Shows Some Love to the Microsoft Office Files in Your Google Drive; Enables Users to Open and Edit Them Directly From Any HTML5 Browser

nivio today announced the launch of the nivio for Google Drive app that integrates seamlessly with the newly released Google Drive(TM), Google's cloud storage and collaboration service. The app allows users to open ...

Press published on the April 24th, 2012 - 10:57 AM ET

Seagate Reaches 1 Terabit Per Square Inch Milestone in Hard Drive Storage with New Technology Demonstration

Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) has become the first hard drive maker to achieve the milestone storage density of 1 terabit (1 trillion bits) per square inch, producing a demonstration of the technology that promises to double ...

Press published on the March 19th, 2012 - 10:00 AM ET

Seagate Soups Up Laptop PC Performance With Fast, Second-Generation Solid State Hybrid Drive

Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) is now shipping the second generation of Momentus® XT, its groundbreaking solid state hybrid drive for consumer and commercial laptops and the company’s fastest drive ever for personal ...

Press published on the November 28th, 2011 - 11:01 PM ET

Seagate Ships World’s Slimmest, Portable, External Hard Drive

New Razor-thin, 2.5-inch GoFlex® Slim Drive is the Ideal External Storage Solution for Netbooks and Ultra-thin Laptops.

Press published on the April 5th, 2011 - 5:59 AM ET

Mdadm drive fail power cord issue.

one of our server's drive failed due to power cord issue. however i plug it back and due to less experience with "parted" i messed the whole thing. i have 2tbx2 RAID 1 mirror and have 4x500GB partitions. even i selected the right drive ...

Message posted on the June 14th, 2013 - 3:10 AM ET

usb 3.0 hard drive doesn't work

hi, i have a usb 3.0 hard drive and a laptop with usb 3.0 port. when the hard drive is connected to the usb 3.0 port, the drive could not be found. the dmesg output is listed below. additinal info: 1) the usb 3.0 hard drive can be found when ...

Message posted on the October 7th, 2012 - 4:50 AM ET

Confusion about MBR depending if USB drive is connected

I'm not so sure I have a master boot record virus. I discovered that I'm getting different results from my MBR and rootkit malware scanners depending on whether the USB drive is plugged into the computer and turned on. The output doesn't make any ...

Message posted on the January 16th, 2012 - 10:07 PM ET

Hybrid Drive not working in my Toshiba Saetlite Laptop Running Win 7

Seagate Momentus XT ST95005620AS 500GB 7200RPM 2.5" Hybrid Hard Drive Just purchased a Seagate Hybrid drive on eBay and find that my Toshiba laptop does not see/recognize the drive, (In the Bios or Win 7 itself)? The drive is also not ...

Message posted on the June 6th, 2013 - 9:40 PM ET

USB hard drive enclosure, Windows vs Ubuntu

A month or so ago I bought a netbook that had a 250GB hard drive running Windows-7 Starter. I replaced Windows with Ubuntu 11.10, upgraded the memory to the 2G max supported by the hardware, replaced the 250GB hard drive with a 60GB SSD, and bought ...

Message posted on the January 28th, 2012 - 6:53 AM ET

Trying to copy an old PATA IDE Conner 240MB 2.5" hard drive

I am trying to view and copy everything off of an old PATA 2.5" Conner 240MB hard drive. It is a hard drive from 1993. It has Windows Pen v1.0 which is really MS-DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.1 with pen support. I tried two different PATA to USB ...

Message posted on the May 18th, 2013 - 2:14 PM ET