Hard drive file recovery from bootable USB memory stick

I created a 2.2 gigabyte partition on a USB memory stick and installed Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit in this partition. It boots as expected and I am able to see the hard drive directory structure. My objective is to be able to use this to recover files from ...

Message posted on the July 15th, 2012 - 12:49 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

POSSIBLE and Fox Digital Entertainment Debut DIE HARD Mobile Game for iOS, Android and Kindle Fire Platforms

Hit the Streets of Moscow as CIA Opp Jack McClane in An Original Game Based On Twentieth Century Fox’s Upcoming Feature A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD.

Press published on the February 14th, 2013 - 9:14 AM ET

G-Technology External Drives Feature Two New Hitachi GST Hard Drives

G-Technology™ G-DRIVE™ Mobile Family Now Features New 1TB, 2.5-inch Travelstar™ 5K1000 Hard Drives; G-Technology G-DRIVE and G-RAID™ to be Upgraded with New 4TB, 3.5-inch 7,200 RPM Deskstar™ 7K4000 High Performance ...

Press published on the January 4th, 2012 - 2:01 AM ET

New Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12 – The Most Essential Tool for PC Users Who Value Their Data and PC Efficiency!

P2P and P2V Adjust OS functionality for system recovery on different types of hardware. Paragon’s exclusive Connect VD technology. Redesigned partitioning engine compatible with all modern hard drives achieves the highest ...

Press published on the March 1st, 2012 - 7:35 AM ET

Hitachi GST Ships Record 25 Million 7mm 2.5-Inch Hard Drives; Launches Industry-Leading, Second-Generation 7,200 RPM, 7mm Drive Family

Maturity, Breadth and Success of Hitachi GST’s 2.5-inch, 7mm 7,200 and 5,400 RPM Product Portfolio Enables Growth and Opportunity in the Slim and Ultra-portable Laptop, Ultrabook™, Ultra-compact CE and Industrial Markets ...

Press published on the February 22nd, 2012 - 2:01 AM ET

HGST Launches the Highest Capacity Hard Drive for the Mainstream Mobile Market

With the Highest Storage Density of Any Hard Drive Today, HGST Delivers 1.5TB Capacity in a Standard 2.5-inch 9.5mm Form Factor, Targeting Notebooks, External Hard Drives, Gaming Consoles and All-in-one Desktop PCs.

Press published on the May 20th, 2013 - 10:00 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

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

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

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

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

[PATCH v2] hardlockup: detect hard lockups without NMIs using secondary cpus

Emulate NMIs on systems where they are not available by using timer interrupts on other cpus. Each cpu will use its softlockup hrtimer to check that the next cpu is processing hrtimer interrupts by verifying that a counter is increasing. This ...

Message posted on the January 11th, 2013 - 5:00 PM ET

[PATCH] hardlockup: detect hard lockups without NMIs using secondary cpus

Emulate NMIs on systems where they are not available by using timer interrupts on other cpus. Each cpu will use its softlockup hrtimer to check that the next cpu is processing hrtimer interrupts by verifying that a counter is increasing. This ...

Message posted on the January 9th, 2013 - 9:10 PM ET