Comments on: DC4420

By: hd recovery

hd recovery — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 04:45:36 +0000

I have windows 7 64-bit on a HP laptop and a WD Elements HDD (model number: WD10000EB035-01) I have had this HDD for over a year now and it has always worked on all XP, Vista and 7 machines I’ve connected it with. Yesterday it still worked fine, pc was shut down without any problems but then last night when I tried to connect him again, my system had difficulty recognizing him. He made the “found hardware”-sound, but didn’t show the autostart window (or what’s its name again), and it wasn’t displayed in windows explorer. It does show up in device manager and safely remove hardware list. This morning I tried a few things (reinstalling the driver, safe mode,…) and when I reconnected it, I got the message “You need to format this drive before using it”. It was also in windows explorer (called Local Disk (G:) instead of Elements (G:) ) but when I tried to open it, explorer stopped running. I tried reconnecting it a few more times but sometimes it did show, sometimes it didn’t. I have also tried a system recovery but no result. I have formatted it a few weeks ago because sometimes my system wouldn’t recognize it as Elements (it also said “Local Disk”), but reconnecting was the trick back then. After the format, I’ve never had any problems with it…I’m starting to think it’s broken, or is there a solution? If not, is there any possibility of recovering my files? I have about 500GB of files on it and I really would hate to lose them of course..

By: Vladimir Katalov

Vladimir Katalov — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:54:35 +0000

Thanks! Yes, we'll definitely support Linux -- at least in EDPR.

By: Robert Lee

Robert Lee — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:20:37 +0000

Hi, Now Vladimir I know what you look like after several years of emails! Really like getting your emails and the good info and links. I cut my teeth on machine code and really liked the nuts and bolts of making a computer work for us. Took a different path and got a way for it and now am so far behind I will never catch up. So enjoy the picture of where things are in your emails. Still wish you all would make your good programs work on a good platform of Linux.

Keep up the good work and in touch. Robert

By: Olga Koksharova

Olga Koksharova — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:12:26 +0000

In fact, it’s a common tendency to use a word “hacker” in all possible meanings (either positive or negative), so usually one can distinguish between bad-hacker-meaning and good-hacker-meaning only by context. That is why some people specify the term by adding adjectives like “ethical”, “evel”, or “malicious”.

There was a nice article about it, called ‘Hacker vs. cracker’ (http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=1400). So in the end, meaning of a word practically depends on what speaker wants to say.

By: Vladimir Katalov

Vladimir Katalov — Wed, 13 May 2009 07:04:24 +0000

Depends on what do you mean by “hacker”

For me, the “hacker” is a sinynym of “geek”, as well as “very good developer”. The one who has a VERY DEEP technical knowledge of computers (both software and hardware), and learned assembler language earlier his native one (English, Russian, or whatever).

Some people think that “hackers” are the persons who create botnets, write viruses, make DDoS attacks, steal credit card numbers and passwords etc. Actually, these are either criminals or script kiddies. Real hackers work for companies like ElcomSoft

By: KARPOLAN

KARPOLAN — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:00:28 +0000

Are they real hackers?