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Old 06-06-2016, 07:07 AM
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Originally Posted by OICURMT View Post
If you originally formatted it under Windows XP then yes.
It came from shop already formatted (Officeworks, WD 2TB).

Normally an average user would think, disk is either good or bad, right?
Not quite so.
I am wondering now, what if w'7 (or whatever) fails again to access it again in the future?.. I will definitely keep XP on my desktop, or install Linux on at least one of my machines.

BTW, I was thinking about getting some sort of storage controller, perhaps a box with couple of HD’s that are accessible via LAN.
My ADSL modem has USB, where I am having 1TB HD for exactly that purpose. The issue is the speed, data transfer seems to be too slow, so I am not using it very often (BTW, this drive has the same issue with w’7, can’t be accessed from USB port directly).
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