should a hard drive face up or down?
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You should install a hard drive with the chips down. Most cases are keyed to a degree to position a hard drive in this way.\n\nTechnically mounting in either direction should have no effect and of course there are vertical mounts however most HD makers state to mount with chips down. Vertical mounting does place more load on the bearings but if that really makes a long term difference will probably not matter as the head will probably die long before the bearings.g\n\nWith the chips down you are protecting them from dust which as it accumulates it will cause cooling problems for the chips.
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Well depends on the os you're running. So in general go to your desktop preferences and set up the way you want your programs to run (normal, max, min or other).
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It depends on the size of the magnet and its strength.  Putting an average strength magnet the size of a quarter next to a hard drive kills it.  However, in your laptop the hard drive has additional plastic shielding, but be warned, any magnet over the size of s nickel with one inch of your hard drive will fry it.  Remember that magnets go through plastic, cloth and other metals.
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Essentially drive bays come in two sizes for different types of equipment. The other factor to be considered is if the drive bay is accessable from the outside which of course is needed for removable media.
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lay your monitor on its side or flip it over as the case may be...
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Place data in a specific place on the hard disc or in the work memory temporally\n\nTh
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No; A CD uses physical grooves on the disk to store information and a hard drive uses magnetism. Worse, I believe that after you take the disk out of a hard drive you can no longer ever use it because you can't line it up perfectly the way it was before, so you cannot simply put it back in.
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ALT+CNTRL+USE THE ARROW BUTTONS TO WHICH DIRECTION U WANT THE WINDOWS TO FACE. ALL WINDOWS XP HAVE THIS FEATURE. I WOULD PRANK MY FRIENDS AND PRESS ALT CNTRL UP TO MAKE ALL THEIR STUFF UPSIDE DOWN
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when you say 'upside down' - is the whole screen upside down, or is the taskbar at the top?
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Nope its doesnt. Although a bigger hard drive does use more power than a smaller one, this power is provided to the drive directly from ur computers power supply and not from the motherboard connection to it. \n\nIf u pop ur cabinet open u can see the 2 wires plugged into ur drive. One coming from the mobo and the other from the power supply. The mobo to drive connection is just for data transfer and signalling.\n\nIn addition, most power supplies isolate devices connected to them thus providing additonal protection. So dont worry.
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Some hard drives are just loud, and there is always something for hard drives to do even when you think it shouldn't be writing.  However a loud hard drive often has a short life ahead; keep your valuable files backed up, be careful.
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do not cover the drive or obstruct air flow when it is in use.\n\nwhen not in use, the only problem i would have with covering it in plastic is that the plastic may carry a static charge.  while unlikely that a static charge would make it through the case, I still wouldnt chance losing my data to somthing as silly as that.  I would reccomend spending 5 bucks on a static free bag (your drive probably came inside one) to put it in.  if you dont have one or dont want to pay stop in at a best buy, circuit city, or any place with a PC tech department and ask nicely if they have an extra one they will give you.  they are super cheap and pretty easy to get, a tech department should have plenty of all sizes lying around.
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We need a little more information, does your computer see the hard drive?
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A hard drive back up stores the same information but on another location. So if your main hard drive gets ruined, you dont have to lose your data.
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horizontal is left to right \nvertical is up and down
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You have to format your hard-drive.
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Partition your HD and keep back up there...