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    Windows 10 Recovery USB Drive Partitioning?

    So I have a windows tablet, and I recently got a 128GB USB flash drive. I then went into Windows 10 Recovery, and created a Recovery Drive and no problems there. However the process creates a FAT32 partition for the recovery, which only has a 32GB partition, while the other 80+GB is unallocated...
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    Not sure if anything is wrong with my a new 2TB WD green drive?

    So today I installed a new 2TB WD green drive into my computer, plugged it in and went into Disk Management and I had to initialize it first. Okay then I went to create a new volume, left everything at the default and the partition size as the full size of the drive. I didn't tick the quick...
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    Seagate Certified Repaired Unit?

    So after my Seagate hard drive failed, my local computer firm said they can get me a certified repaired unit from Seagate, I'm just wondering what this actually mean? Is it the exactly same drive that you send off but repaired? What happens to the warranty? Does Seagate do this sort of service...
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    Who do you recommend getting new computer parts from?

    I'm aware of 2 main suppliers in the UK- Scan computers Overclockers UK There's also amazon. However due to recent RMA issues with Scan, I won't be going back to them, plus forums are full of bad RMAs with them. I've only ever purchased a screen cleaner from Overclockers but that...
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    Does torrenting wear out HDDs?

    So in the past I've had HDDs fail on me due to bad sectors, I'm wondering if this has anything to torrenting and wearing out the drives through read/writes? Just by going off my recent activity, I'd say I've downloaded about 2GB of data a week. This is conservative as I think, I may do 4GB...
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    Can you recover data from a S.M.A.R.T error HDD?

    Basically I'm having a local computer engineer put together a system for me and I wanted them to reuse a hard drive for the new system but when they tested it, they found S.m.a.r.t errors on the drive, it was a seagate 1tb Barracuda. They said they will try to recover the data from it but have...
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    120mm Case Fan which is better?

    I'm looking for a really good 120mm case fan. I have narrowed it down to either the Noctua NF-F12 PWM or be quiet! Shadow Wings 120mm Mid Speed, which do you think is better? The Noctua is £15.79 but the be quiet! is only £10.94. Plus the noctua has a 6 year warranty while the be quiet only 3...
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