HD's overlay program

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How unreliable of the hd's overlay program?

Suggested by people I should avoid using it unless I have no choice.

I am having a system that don't support HD above 32gb (need to install a
80gb hd)
The motherboard's company has gone and no available bios updates.
No available empty PCI slot for IDE controller ...
 
How unreliable of the hd's overlay program?
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They are not,"Unrelaibel".
Suggested by people I should avoid using it unless I have no choice.
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Usually yes because they can interfere with some basic window's
programs like,"Scandisk/Defrag"
I am having a system that don't support HD above 32gb (need to install a
80gb hd)
The motherboard's company has gone and no available bios updates.
No available empty PCI slot for IDE controller ...
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Don't worry too much.If you need to use the software then do so.Any
problem you encounter can be fixed but,"Never" trust any critical data
to a hard drive no matter what you use e.g hardware or software.Burn
to a Cd/DVD.

HTH :)



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How unreliable of the hd's overlay program?

Suggested by people I should avoid using it unless I have no choice.

I am having a system that don't support HD above 32gb (need to install a
80gb hd)
The motherboard's company has gone and no available bios updates.
No available empty PCI slot for IDE controller ...
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They are very reliable, however be warned that many hd utilities such as
image backups, etc. will not work. I know that in the case of some Western
Digital drives, if you are using the overlay (Drive Manager) you cannot do
a soft re-boot & must power down completely to reboot so the overlay loads.

Unfortunately in your situation your only alternative to using an overlay
is to buy an add-on drive controller card.

Tom
 
hi,
i have been using ddo software for my 120gb drive for 3 months with no
problems . i used wd data lifeguard to partition , format and copy
the contents of my old drive to the new . worked perfectly . seagate
and maxtor also have utilities available for download .
hope this helps,
terry

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