Re: Advanced Format Drives 512e

2011-07-29 Thread William Robbins
That's good info on the ESE brain cramps. I'm sure that'll rear it's head as these drives become more prevalent. - WJR On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:16, Ben Scott wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Mike Gill > wrote: > > Don’t know anything about this yet, but couldn’t you just wipe it

Re: Advanced Format Drives 512e

2011-07-29 Thread William Robbins
Bad Internet, bad! - WJR On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:17, Ben Scott wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Jimmy Tran wrote: > >> If not, then as far as I know, it doesn't apply. It appears nobody is > >> implementing 4 KiB sectors except on drives that big. > > > > The drive is a 250GB 7

Re: Advanced Format Drives 512e

2011-07-29 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Jimmy Tran wrote: >> If not, then as far as I know, it doesn't apply. It appears nobody is >> implementing 4 KiB sectors except on drives that big. > > The drive is a 250GB 7200K drive.  I'm fairly certain this is using 4KiB > sectors. So much for that theory

Re: Advanced Format Drives 512e

2011-07-29 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Mike Gill wrote: > Don’t know anything about this yet, but couldn’t you just wipe it and > install Win7 fresh or from a prepared image? Or is this a hardware issue? It's a little of both. From what I've read: PC hard disks have used 512 byte blocks since th

RE: Advanced Format Drives 512e

2011-07-29 Thread Jimmy Tran
PossibleI'll check the bios settings. From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 9:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Advanced Format Drives 512e I was thinking more like hardware encryption from the laptop On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:

Re: Advanced Format Drives 512e

2011-07-29 Thread Erik Goldoff
T System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Advanced Format Drives 512e > > ** ** > > any chance the laptop is using encryption ? > > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Jimmy Tran wrote:** > ** > > The drive is a 250GB 7200K drive. I'm fairly certain this is usi

RE: Advanced Format Drives 512e

2011-07-29 Thread Jimmy Tran
Nope, is is Win7 Pro so no bitlocker. From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 9:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Advanced Format Drives 512e any chance the laptop is using encryption ? On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Jimmy Tran wrote

Re: Advanced Format Drives 512e

2011-07-29 Thread Erik Goldoff
mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 6:13 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Advanced Format Drives 512e > > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Jimmy Tran wrote: > > So I just purchased a Dell Latitude E6520 laptop. In the package I found > a

RE: Advanced Format Drives 512e

2011-07-29 Thread Jimmy Tran
this drive outside of that laptop. I docked it in my W7 box and it still shows it as an unknown/raw partition. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 6:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Advanced Format Drives 512e On Thu

RE: Advanced Format Drives 512e

2011-07-28 Thread Mike Gill
ey [mailto:jtin...@lastar.com] Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 11:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Advanced Format Drives 512e Are you running SP1 on the system you're talking about? I'm not familiar with this type of format but perhaps the improvements in SP1 for this may b

Re: Advanced Format Drives 512e

2011-07-28 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Jimmy Tran wrote: > So I just purchased a Dell Latitude E6520 laptop.  In the package I found a > yellow notice about 512e drives.  So I read about this and it looks like the > partitioning of the drive is different. Do you have a hard disk larger 1 terabyte or

RE: Advanced Format Drives 512e

2011-07-28 Thread Jimmy Tran
rsday, July 28, 2011 11:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Advanced Format Drives 512e Are you running SP1 on the system you're talking about? I'm not familiar with this type of format but perhaps the improvements in SP1 for this may be what you need. http://download.microso

RE: Advanced Format Drives 512e

2011-07-28 Thread Joe Tinney
%207%20and%20Windows%20Server%202008%20R2%20Service%20Pack%201.doc Good luck, Joe From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:jt...@teachtci.com] Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 1:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Advanced Format Drives 512e Yes, I did read through that doc. Maybe I missed something but lets

Re: Advanced Format Drives 512e

2011-07-28 Thread Steven Peck
orld do I do it if my W7 box shows the disk partition as raw? > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* William Robbins [mailto:dangerw...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, July 28, 2011 9:54 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Advanced Format Drives 512e >

RE: Advanced Format Drives 512e

2011-07-28 Thread Jimmy Tran
Awesome. You have a good eye! From: William Robbins [mailto:dangerw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Advanced Format Drives 512e Ooo...in that case I'd go with a USB thumbdrive that boots to Ubuntu. (Or whatever flavor you

Re: Advanced Format Drives 512e

2011-07-28 Thread William Robbins
gt; > *From:* William Robbins [mailto:dangerw...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, July 28, 2011 9:54 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Advanced Format Drives 512e > > ** ** > > According to Dell Win7 is *supposed* to be able to read it. > > There are some too

RE: Advanced Format Drives 512e

2011-07-28 Thread Jimmy Tran
, 2011 9:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Advanced Format Drives 512e According to Dell Win7 is *supposed* to be able to read it. There are some tools and steps for formatting here: http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/kcs/document? docid=408172 - WJR On Thu

Re: Advanced Format Drives 512e

2011-07-28 Thread William Robbins
According to Dell Win7 is *supposed* to be able to read it. There are some tools and steps for formatting here: http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/kcs/document?docid=408172 - WJR On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:43, Jimmy Tran wrote: > So I just purchased a Dell Latitude