Windows 7 Will Consume Less Disk Space than Vista
Microsoft promises to optimize the amount of disk space that Windows 7 will consume in comparison to Windows Vista.
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20.11.2008 How To: Reduce Disk Space Used By Windows Vista System Restore
So you just bought a new notebook with Windows Vista and a roomy 120GB hard drive. But after using it for just a couple of days, you notice that youve only got about 90GB free.
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24.4.2007 Improved Disk Defragmenter in Windows 7 with Status Report and Free Space & Parallel Concurrent Defrag Support
Windows operating system comes with a built-in basic Disk Defragmenter, that can perform disk defragmentation process properly, which is performed to increase read and write access speed by rearranging files stored on a disk to occupy contiguous storage locations, minimizing disk read travel time and maximizing transfer rate.
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2.8.2009 How to install Windows 7 on a virtual hard disk - VHD
If You want to test Windows 7, without impacting your current installation of Windows XP or Vista on your desktop? A possible solution is: Boot from VHD.
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19.6.2009 Windows Live Onecare beta ate my hard disk
A BRIT who downloaded Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare beta is claiming it ate his hard disk. The beta expired and he couldn't buy a licence.
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4.12.2006 Hard disk test 'surprises' Google
The impact of heavy use and high temperatures on hard disk drive failure may be overstated, says a report by three Google engineers.
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19.2.2007 Hitachi Ships 1TB Hard Disk Drive
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) has started to ship its 1TB hard disk drives (HDDs) introduced early this year commercially. But the hard drive that represents a milestone in desktop data storage costs a little less than two times higher compared to slightly less capacious one, which makes it not very affordable.
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6.4.2007 How can I install Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 to a virtual hard disk (VHD) file?
Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 add the ability for an OS to be installed onto a virtual hard disk (VHD) file to boot physical hardware. To do this, perform the following steps.
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17.2.2009 Windows Vista Testing: The School of Hard Knocks
Some time this month, if Microsoft sticks to schedule, the company will deliver its latest test build of Windows Vista to hundreds of thousands of testers. Seems like a perfect time to contemplate how well Microsoft's Vista beta/Community Technology Preview (CTP) program is going.
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4.4.2006 Bill Gates wants to go to space
The world's richest man Bill Gates is considering a possible flight into space, a Russian cosmonaut said from International Space Station Wednesday, citing Gates' colleague, current space tourist Charles Simonyi.
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15.4.2007 1000GB of space for Email at mailnation.net
MailNation Solutions developed after years of exhaustive competition in the Emailing industry. Small email companies have come and go, while large email companies such as Gmail (R), Hotmail (R), and Yahoo! Mail (R) have dominated. Privacy policies with major companies are weak, reliability remains questioned, and features are lacking.
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Bill Gates Headed For Space, Says Cosmonaut
Rumor revealed during live interview on Russian TV, based on a report from a former Microsoft engineer aboard the International Space Station.
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12.4.2007 Kernel Memory Space Analyzer Version 8.1 and guide
Microsoft Support Professionals Toolkit for Windows. The Kernel Memory Space Analyzer is a tool to help expert debugging engineers analyze Windows crash dump files.
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31.8.2006 Mobile Vista will need hybrid hard drives
Microsoft has confirmed that its mobile version of Vista it will need a hybrid hard drive to run, when it hits the shops.
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15.6.2006 More hard dates on Vista, Office 12, and AntiSpyware
Here's the latest on Windows Vista, Office 12 Beta, and Antispyware Beta 2:
Windows Vista
Rumors are abound that the RTM date has officially been set for ..
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Steve Ballmer Vista gave Microsoft some hard lessons
Steve Ballmer, the chief executive of Microsoft, has his hands full. The next version of the Windows operating system, Vista, is about to arrive, years late and clouded by doubts that it might violate antitrust rules in Europe.
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17.10.2006 How to archive on disk drives
Archiving on hard drives? Now that disk drives are cheaper per gigabyte than tape cartridges, you might be tempted to archive data on disk drives and stick them on a shelf.
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10.9.2008 Auslogics Disk Defrag 1.1.4.217
Auslogics Disk Defrag is a compact, manual defragmentation tool that supports FAT 16, FAT 32, and NTFS (with compressed and encrypted files).
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13.5.2007 Free Hard Drive Virtualization for Windows - SteadyState 2.5
Whether you manage computers in a school computer lab or an Internet cafe, a library, or even in your home, Windows SteadyState helps make it easy for you to keep your computers running the way you want them to, no matter who uses them.
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13.6.2008 How to REALLY erase a hard drive
You may already know that deleting a file does nothing of the sort. But did you know that your disk drive has a built-in system for the secure erasure of data? No? Then read on.
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4.5.2007 How to REALLY erase a hard drive
You may already know that deleting a file does nothing of the sort. But did you know that your disk drive has a built-in system for the secure erasure of data? No? Then read on.
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18.6.2007 How to REALLY erase a hard drive 2
A new version of HDerase.exe has been released Go direct to
UCSD’s Center for Magnetic Recording Research website to download version 3.2.
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19.6.2007 Download Hard Drive Powerwash to Remove Unused Clutter Files in Windows System
Previously we mentioned about BitFinder that can scan for duplicated files to conserve your hard disk space, but if you are looking for some freeware that can do more than that, then this tiny utility may fit your need.
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29.9.2009 Hard drive price war coming
According to reports, we may witness a price war in the hard drive business industry. At least this is what Seagate Technology CEO Bill Watkins said on Wednesday. Seagate is currently the world's largest hard drive manufacturer and competes with such companies as Western Digital, Hitachi, Samsung and Toshiba.
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13.8.2006 Seagate Confirms 1TB Hard Drive
Seagate has confirmed to the folks over at DailyTech, that they plan to launch a 1TB (Terabyte) hard drive sometime in the first half of 2007.
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5.1.2007 Mobile Hard Drives Hit 500GB
New Hitachi drive represents a giant leap forward in notebook storage.
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3.1.2008 Hitachi aiming for 5TB hard drive by 2010
Solid-state disks may be eating into the territory of traditional hard drives, particularly in laptops, but that doesn't mean spinning platters are on their last legs particularly not at Hitachi.
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3.7.2008 Free Gadget: Hard Drive Diagnosis Software
Is there any funny sound generated when your hard drive is in operation? Here I am introducing a free application that can be used to diagnose your hard drive problem.
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27.7.2008 Microsoft eases hard drive capacity restriction for netbooks
Microsoft has officially eased the restriction of the standard specification for netbooks using the Windows XP operation system by increasing the allowable hard drive capacity from 80GB to 160GB, according to sources in the channel.
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3.9.2008Engineering Windows 7 : Disk Space
Windows disk space consumption has trended larger over time. While not desirable, the degree to which it's been allowed is due in large part to
ever-increasing hard drive capacity, combined with a customer need and engineering focus that focused heavily on recover ability, data protection,
increasing breadth of device support, and demand for innovative new features. However, the proliferation of Solid State Drives (SSDs) has challenged
this trend, and is pushing Windows 7 to consider disk "footprint" in a much more thoughtful way and take that into account for Windows 7.
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21.11.2008Western Digital announces 1TB 2.5" Hard-drive
Earlier today, Western Digital announced two additions to their hard-drive range, including a 1 terabyte (1024 Gigabytes) 2.5" Laptop Hard-disk drive
and a 750 GB 2.5" Laptop Hard-disk drive. Western digital was able to expand mobile hard disk space to 1 TB and 750 GB by "A slight increase in
overall drive height has driven storage capacity for 2.5-inch form factor drives upwards to a realm once thought to be impossible. " The hard disks
are also claimed to be "whisper silent", and to run very quietly, even during heavy operations.
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28.07.2009Hidden Vista tools
If Sven Hallauer ever has a moment to reflect in his Redmond office, he can feel quietly pleased with himself.
As the release
manager for Vista, he had overall responsibility during the development period for the success of the Most Secure Windows Ever project.
For Hallauer, however, the flexibility of the new operating system is just as important as the security features. In particular, Vista is
equipped with far better admin tools than previous versions. Previously, administrators were forced to add tools from Resource Kits, but now Vista
comes with a lot of tools already on board, as well explain later.
You can tell just by looking at the increased minimum hardware
requirements that theres a lot more in the new version of Windows. It used to be possible to keep an installation of Windows 95 under 200MB, but Vista
requires 40 times more hard disk space. Even in comparison to Windows XP, Vista needs five times more space.
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27.09.2007Engineering Windows 7: Disk Space
Steven Sinofsky: This post is about disk space and the disk space consumed by Windows 7. Disk space is the sort of thing where everyone wants to use
less, but the cost of using a bit more relative to the benefits has generally been a posiitve tradeoff. Things have changed recently with the
availability of solid-state drives in capacities significantly smaller than the trend in spinning drives. Traditionally most all software, including
Windows, would not hesitate to consume a 100MB on a specific (justified) need when looking at a 60GB (or 1,500GB ) drive; with desirable machines
shipping with 16GB of solid-state storage, we are looking carefully at the disk space used by Windowsboth at setup time and also as a PC ages. We
also had a specific
session at WinHEC on solid-state
drives that might be interesting to folks. This post is authored by Michael Beck, a program manager in the core OS deployment feature team.
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20.11.2008Seagate release their first 2TB SATA 3.0 hard disk
Seagate have introduced their first hard drive which supports the new SATA 3.0 specification. The Barracuda XT is the Seagate's first drive to use
the new interface, which has a theoretical bandwidth of 6GB/s - double that of the SATA 2.0 (3GB/s) specification. The drive offers 2TB of storage
space, using four platters, according to Seagate (via Techspot). The 7200RPM drive has a sustained data rate of 138MB/s – the fastest speed
achieved by a 7200RPM drive, Seagate claims. The 64MB cache provides "screaming burst rate speeds and improve
overall performance," according to
their website.
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neowin.net - 22.09.2009
Seagate Debuts Perpendicular
Drives
Seagate on Tuesday announced
its first 3.5-inch hard disk
drives to use perpendicular
storage technology. The new
offerings join the company's
preexisting line of Cheetah
drives that sport some of the
fastest data transfer rates of
any hard disk available...
betanews.com - 19.04.2006
Reclaim Your Hard Drive Space the Easy Way
How many times have you run out of space on your C: drive and wondered… where did all my free space go? If you are tech savvy you'll probably
open up your CCleaner shortcut and
clean out the temp files, but where has the rest gone?
The answer is a great little freeware utility called DriveSpacio that
helps you find out where all that free space has gone, similar to the more well known WinDirStat utility. The
benefit of using this one is that it integrates directly into the Explorer shell and has a lot more reports.
winbeta.org - 10.09.2008
Tip: make your PDC 2008 USB hard drive a bootable Windows 7 install disk
Long Zheng: If you're one of eight thousand people lucky enough to attend PDC 2008 last week and receive
the ultra-cool 160GB portable hard drive with "the goods" then I have some
extra good news for you, your hard drive can also become a bootable Windows 7 install disk. The best part is that you don't even have to delete any
of the existing files on the drive since there's about 90GB free of the 160GB drive.
winbeta.org - 03.11.2008
Home media server runs embedded Vista
Crestron has announced a digital media server that runs an embedded version of Windows Vista. The ADMS (Adagio Digital Music System) includes a DVD or
Blu-ray disk drive, up to 1TB of RAID hard disk storage, Internet Explorer, plus HDMI, S/PDIF, and component outputs, says Crestron.
winbeta.org - 19.09.2008
Best Practices for
Partitioning a Hard Disk
Columnist Mitch Tulloch
explains how to choose a disk
partitioning scheme that helps
you be better organized, more
productive, and helps ensure
the integrity of your data...
WindowsXP/expertzone - 04.01.2006
Toshiba to Deliver 200GB
Laptop Drive
Toshiba has announced a new
2.5-inch hard drive for
notebook computers that boasts
200GB of storage space on only
two disk platters thanks to
new perpendicular recording
technology. The company
expects to begin mass
producing the Serial ATA
drive, which spins at 4,200
RPM, in August...
betanews.com - 06.06.2006
Windows Vista available on Volume Licensing
Thanks Tom Warren and
Bink for
this information that was
relayed to me yesterday
(shortly before my power
outage), but better late than
never! We can reveal that
Windows Vista is available for
Volume License users, shortly
ahead of the scheduled Nov.
17th release to MSDN
subscribers.
The
following flavours were
released:- Windows Vista
Business 32-bit English Disk
Kit MVL DVD
English
- Windows Vista
Business 32-bit English Disk
Kit MVL DVD
UPG
- Windows Vista
Business 64-bit English Disk
Kit MVL DVD English
- SA Win Vista
Enterprise 32-bit English Disk
Kit MVL DVD English
- SA Win Vista
Enterprise 32-bit English Disk
Kit MVL DVD UPG
English
- SA Win Vista
Enterprise 32-bit English Disk
Kit MVL MVLS Only DVD Language
Packs
- SA Win Vista
Enterprise 64-bit English Disk
Kit MVL DVD English
- SA Win Vista
Enterprise 64-bit English Disk
Kit MVL MVLS Only DVD Language
Packs
The site
appears to be non-responsive,
it's probably being
hammered!
neowin.net - 16.11.2006
Lighting a Fire Under Hard Drives
Researchers at Radboud
University Nijmegen in the
Netherlands believe that
lasers will one day take over
conventional magnetic data
writers in hard disk drives.
In laboratory experiments,
they used laser light to write
data to a magnetic hard drive
at very high speeds. The
technique works because the
photons transmitted by the
laser actually carry angular
momentum, allowing them to
interact with the hard drive.
Also, each laser pulse heats a
tiny space on the disk just
enough to make changing its
polarity a little easier.
Reversing the polarity of the
laser pulses is effectively
the equivalent of either a 1
or a 0 of binary code on the
disk storage medium.
The researchers managed to
transfer data at intervals of
about 40 femtoseconds
(quadrillionths of a second),
about 100 times faster than
conventional magnetic
transfers. One drawback is
that the footprint of the
laser pulse on the disk is
about 5 microns wide, which is
considerably larger than the
footprint produced by existing
data-transfer systems. But
physics doctoral candidate and
co-author Daniel Stanciu says
the team is working on
improvements in the technology
that should reduce the
footprint's size to about 10
nanometers, and he expects to
see a working prototype within
a decade.
neowin.net - 03.07.2007
Windows Live Safety Center Now
Online
As one of the new Windows Live
services, Microsoft has
brought online a beta version
of its "Safety Center"
that does Web based scans of a
PC. The Safety Center utilizes
an Active X control to check
for and removes viruses, clean
up the "junk" on a
hard disk, and even schedule a
disk defragmentation if
needed...
betanews.com - 02.11.2005
2007 Office System Demo and HOL Images Kit Available; 50GB Hard Disk Space Required
This virtual machine demonstration environment contains almost 50 Hands-On-Labs, 25 demos, and more than 10 software packages.
System Requirements
Operating System: Microsoft Windows® XP Professional SP2, Microsoft Windows Vista, or Microsoft Windows Server
2003
Drive Formatting: NTFS
Processor: Pentium 4 or M class - 2 GHz or faster or AMD equivalent
RAM: 2 GB or more (3 GB
or more recommended for Vista)
Hard disk space required for install: 50 GB
winbeta.org - 12.12.2007
Microsoft Vista Undelete
Sparks More Facts
The Inquirer's recent
examination of the
'undelete' technology in
Windows Vista has become more
important since Apple formally
announced 'Time Machine' in
Leopard, the next iteration of
OSX.
Unfortunately Apple's Time
Machine requires a separate
disk, dedicated to the
backing-up of data on your
primary drive. Useful in the
case of a hard-disk failure,
but not exactly the cheapest
option. It also seems to have
an esoteric GUI, which may or
may not work well in real-word
usage.
Windows
Vista's alternative backup
application is very similar,
albeit without the
over-the-top interface, and
also comes with a Shadow Copy
feature that's integrated
into the normal file/folder
menus, and has some
interesting attributes of its
own.
Click on "Read
More" to view the rest of
this article
jcxp.net - 17.08.2006
SSD, i-RAM and Traditional Hard Disk Drives
In this article we are going to introduce to you two solid state drives from Samsung and a unique data storage solution from Gigabyte aka i-RAM. Let
check out their performance compared to that of conventional hard disk drives.
winbeta.org - 24.04.2008
DirectX 10 Support to Become Compulsory for "Vista Premium"
In June 2008, Microsoft
Corporation plans to make
DirectX 10-compliant graphics
cores compulsory for personal
computers carrying the
"Windows Vista Premium"
logo. The software giant hopes
to boost popularity of its new
operating system among gamers
and a new application
programming interface among
game developers. That means,
if Microsoft gets its way,
DirectX 9-compliant graphics
cores will only be found
inside low-cost "Windows
Vista Capable" systems.
Currently, a "Windows
Vista Capable" PC should
include at least a 800MHz CPU,
512MB of system memory as well
as a DirectX 9-compliant
graphics processor. At the
same time, "Windows Vista
Premium" PC should feature at
least a 1.0GHz microprocessor,
1GB of memory, a DirectX
9.0-compliant graphics adapter
that supports pixel shader 2.0
with 32-bit precision and
equipped 128MB of memory, 40GB
hard disk drive with 15GB free
space, DVD-ROM drive, audio
output and Internet access
capability.
neowin.net - 30.05.2007
Disk technology takes Nobel Prize
French scientist Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg of Germany have won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics after discovering the phenomenon of "giant
magnetoresistance" (GMR), in which weak magnetic changes give rise to big differences in electrical resistance. The knowledge has allowed the
development of sensitive reading tools to pull data off hard drives in computers and portable digital devices. GMR, which involves structures
consisting of very thin layers of different magnetic materials, has made it possible to radically miniaturise hard disks in recent years.
For this reason it can also be considered " one of the first real applications of the promising field of nanotechnology. Applications of this
phenomenon have revolutionised techniques for retrieving data from hard disks. The discovery also plays a major role in various magnetic sensors as
well as for the development of a new generation of electronics ," according to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. A hard disk stores data
in the form of microscopic areas that are magnetised in different directions. The information is retrieved by a read-out head that scans the disk and
registers the magnetic changes. The smaller and more compact the hard disk, the smaller and weaker the individual magnetic areas - more sensitive
read-out heads are therefore needed when more information is crammed on to a hard disk.
neowin.net - 09.10.2007
Microsoft readies hard drive only Xbox 360 games
Microsoft announced yesterday
that it would soon allow MMO
developers to require hard
drive space when playing games
on Xbox 360 despite the
console maker's previous
denial of such claims.
"Feel free
to require 30GB for your game
- that's just going to
make your potential audience a
lot smaller," a Microsoft
representative told a group
of developers while
speaking at GameFest in
Seattle this week.
Effective
immediately, Microsoft will
not restrict the amount of
hard drive space MMO game
developers can use. It is
unclear if non-MMO games will
be allowed to require hard
drives when playing future
games on 360.
An estimated 20% of 360
owners don't own a hard
drive, which is optional for
those only wanting to purchase
the Core model...
winbeta.org - 15.08.2007
