Can someone explain what the clear disk is supposed to do? Why not just a tip?
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it is like the tip of your finger; your finger is not a fine point. I don't profess to know the science behind it, but I know that all styli have wider surfaces. Probably because the touch screens are programmed to respond to surface areas the size of fingers. Also, not sure if this is valid, but this prevents scratching I assume. I wondered the same thing, but bought it anyways. Rest assured, you can write very precisely with this! There is a tip covered by the disc, but your tablet/phone should always use the center of the disc (i.e.: where the tip of the pen is) to see where you're writing, so it works out.
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Yes, there must be something wrong, or a few of the disk drives are loose. I would check/reseat the disk drives with the unit powered off. If this does not fix your issue, then I would return it, or get a replacement unit.
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I copied the disk contents on a USB stick from a work system. You may want to do the same.
618573
No, there's no trick. It must be a manufacturing defect. I've bought these before and never had a problem. The last one I got had the same problem you have. So what I did was filed down the plastic at the right and left ends of the end cap (the end opposite the USB connections) to make more room for the hard drive. I did this a little at a time so as not to go too far. That worked for me.
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Buy an extra colar and sync to same disk. You can also have more than one disk to protect additional areas.
1000696
Sounds to me like it's coming from the RAID software and not the HDD....sorry I couldn't be of more help
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I would recommend removing the old one. Though it's never happened to me, I've heard stories of extra weight/thickness causing problems with the disc drive.
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Well, when you spin it the slots on the side of the performance tip stick out and let it spin on regular material for performance tips. Then once the speed lessens the slots go back in and the performance tip goes in and it goes into final drive mode. I didn't believe it would do that with a performance tip but it does, it's awesome.
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no it's a piece of junk send it back. I tried it in 3 different computers with 4 different drives emailed to me from the company and never got it to work. All I got for the seller was a sorry and to send it back to some place in China at my own expense. also they have poor tech support not really knowing their product.
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There is not any disk exposed. It's a regular SATA hard drive, which I am using right now. Probably you are having an optical illusion :)
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Just to throw in my 2 cents here, the Disk Utility reformat mentioned above in Andrew's post is spot-on. The drive so far as been great to use. However, I'm running Mac 10.5.6 and it was immediately recognized when I first plugged it in: it mounted and Time Machine asked if I wanted to use it for backups...I did the reformatting anyway as the apps on board are no use to a Mac owner.BTW, the $99 price was unbelievable!Fingers crossed on reliability,Yikesboy
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thanx for posting this.. i have no idea why, and I just bought one.. so I'm going to check my dvd/cd drive too! Also, is your drive partitioned correctly? My D drive had more gigs than C..
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I should have posted this earlier. It appears to be an error message related to the disk. Could be disk stuck or disk drive dead (the latter in my case). I took Toshiba up on the replacement. It was something in the range of $80-$90 and the replacement unit actually appears to be new rather than refurb. I had enough of an investment in disks that it was worth it if I could get another couple of years' service.If you do go the replacement route, make sure to get a receipt notice from the post office. Toshiba actually lost our unit in receiving and it took a bit of yelling to get it straightened out.I'll eventually go Blu-Ray when the players are as good and the disks are as cheap as HD-DVD was two years ago. I should have posted this earlier. It appears to be an error message related to the disk. Could be disk stuck or disk drive dead (the latter in my case). I took Toshiba up on the replacement. It was something in the range of $80-$90 and the replacement unit actually appears to be new rather than refurb. I had enough of an investment in disks that it was worth it if I could get another couple of years' service.If you do go the replacement route, make sure to get a receipt notice from the post office. Toshiba actually lost our unit in receiving and it took a bit of yelling to get... » Read More I should have posted this earlier. It appears to be an error message related to the disk. Could be disk stuck or disk drive dead (the latter in my case). I took Toshiba up on the replacement. It was something in the range of $80-$90 and the replacement unit actually appears to be new rather than refurb. I had enough of an investment in disks that it was worth it if I could get another couple of years' service.If you do go the replacement route, make sure to get a receipt notice from the post office. Toshiba actually lost our unit in receiving and it took a bit of yelling to get it straightened out.I'll eventually go Blu-Ray when the players are as good and the disks are as cheap as HD-DVD was two years ago. « Show Less
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It just copies what ever you have on the disk, no editing or saving data. I only use it for making copies of my kids stuff, dvd's. I have not used it for music or data yet. My understanding it should copy what ever is on the main disk. Works great for me so far, saves alot of time.
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Hey there, I used it and it worked great! I had a bunch of different error messages, and it would take sometimes 30-60 minutes to get a game to read beforehand. I used the disk cleaner and it worked perfectly. I let it do it's process a few times just to be sure, and was SO happy when I realized it fixed the issue. Hope this helps!
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Mine does not seem to disk over write once full. I recently had to erase all to free space as it appeared to have stopped recording. Since then I´ve been careful to erase once in a while and haven't let it go to full again so I don´t know if it was an isolated incident or if not over writing is the rule. For the rest, it works very well.
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Strange. When it came in, I found the drive as being alone and empty. I partitionned it in three separate parts for work purposes, but it's supposed to be here! You should contact MSI!