need suggestions on new hardisk

linnemeyerhere · 23 Feb 2012

No the Carbonite is a annual fee based cloud service, but it's not expensive for the ultimate piece of mind. But the first download will take a long time but after that it only looks for incremental additions.

eviliony · 24 Feb 2012

profdlp said:

Check the power settings on the hard drive. I've had some that take a few seconds to spring back to life after they've spun down to idle. :)

how do i check that? but at the moment its working well tho after following what writhziden has suggested :)

profdlp · 24 Feb 2012

If it's working then this probably wasn't the problem. (Hats off to writhziden!)

eviliony said:

profdlp said:

Check the power settings on the hard drive. I've had some that take a few seconds to spring back to life after they've spun down to idle. :)

how do i check that? but at the moment its working well tho after following what writhziden has suggested :)

If you want to check it, go to Control Panel>>Power Options>>Advanced.

My hard Disk Power settings look like this:

writhziden · 17 Mar 2012

Is everything still running smoothly loading your directories? If so, you are welcome to mark the thread solved. :)

eviliony · 17 Mar 2012

so far so good i guess :) thanks for everything for the helps!!

writhziden · 17 Mar 2012

You're very welcome.