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    Storage Solutions 1 WEEK OLD 1.5TB WD EARS gone for a toss

    HD Tune didn't show bad sectors with quick scan on my HDD, only normal scan detected the bad sectors.
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    Storage Solutions 1 WEEK OLD 1.5TB WD EARS gone for a toss

    When i feel that something is wrong with my pc, i usually check event viewer. If there are bad blocks it will show which HDD has it. After that i scan with HD Tune to confirm it.
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    Storage Solutions 1 WEEK OLD 1.5TB WD EARS gone for a toss

    Usually what happens is that when you remove the cable from the HDD, boot device priority changes in BIOS. Check if it's set to the HDD where your OS is installed. As for WD failures, i recently bought WD Caviar Blue 500GB which developed bad sectors after 2 weeks. Really shakes your confidence...
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    Storage Solutions Bad Sectors on HDD

    No crashes, windows freezes when i access files in the first partition of the WD drive, but resumes after few seconds. So i'm assuming the bad sector to be on this partition. I've no problem accessing files in other partitions. BTW my OS is installed in the 80GB IDE drive.
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    Storage Solutions Bad Sectors on HDD

    Recently my 3 yrs old Seagate SATA 200GB drive developed bad sectors so i removed it and bought a new WD Caviar Blue 500GB on 2nd of March. I also have a Seagate 80 GB IDE drive (approx 3yrs) which is working fine. Today my windows froze as i was transferring some files from the IDE drive to the...
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    Fonts appearing very small in win7

    Is this a login page from a web page? If so, have u tried opening it in a different browser? If the font remains the same with other browsers, most probably it's how it was programmed to appear.
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    Airtel & MTNL Broadband double speeds @ Delhi

    Nope, it's in today's Times of India.
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    MTNL new cheap unlimited plans

    Even my cousin's getting double speed on 599 plan since yesterday. Can anyone else from Delhi confirm this?
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    MTNL new cheap unlimited plans

    @harryneopotter Yup, still getting double speed.
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    utorrent 2.0 causes internet to disconnect randomly

    I'm not sure this will help but u might try lowering the "Global maximum number of connections" to around 100 or 150, and "Maximum number of connected peers per torrent" to 50.
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    MTNL new cheap unlimited plans

    I don't know if this will be permanent but my speed doubled since yesterday around 6pm. I'm in the 599 plan as well and download speed is now around 55kBps. Hope they are implementing the plan in delhi as well.
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    Anime Torrent Site !

    Means the original audio plus english.
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    Anime Torrent Site !

    Yup, forgot about that, thanks for the correction.
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    Anime Torrent Site !

    BakaBt They don't have english dubs but all releases come with english subs.
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    PC Peripherals PC won't boot

    BIOS reset doesn't work. Also, don't have another SMPS. I guess i'll go to the repair guys, thanks for your suggestions disiibond.
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    PC Peripherals PC won't boot

    Here are the pics (I know i could have done better with cable management :blushing:)
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    PC Peripherals PC won't boot

    A few days ago my graphic card went kaput, now i'm back to the onboard display. My PC worked for a few days but now it refuses to boot, not even to the BIOS stage. There is power in the monitor, motherboard and the CPU fan is also working. Below is my config: Asus M2A-VM HDMI AMD X2 3600+...
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    Sony HAndycam

    By media i'm assuming u mean the video. For this i've been using pinnacle studio for a long time. There's also ulead video studio, give both of them a try n use the one u like. As for more advanced users there's Adobe Premiere Pro.
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    MTNL Triband + WiFi users ... please respond

    Yup, cos all devices would be sharing the connection n won't cost the ISP anything extra.
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    MTNL Triband + WiFi users ... please respond

    Few things i know: >>Yes u can access the net simultaneously with more than one device. >>MTNL provides wireless modem with extra charge(or u may use yours) >>Static or dynamic depending on the plan, check their tariff page. Btw i'm from Delhi.