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Hard drive protection

Posted Oct 13, 2005 16:52 UTC (Thu) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
In reply to: Hard drive protection by jwb
Parent article: Hard drive protection

Why is this level of software support needed?
This is needed by the windows driver, it has to displays a popup:

             Falling laptop wizard

      Exclusive "hard drive active protection system" technology
      is detecting that your laptop is falling.

    Do you want Windows stop the hard disks ?
       [YES]       [NO]          [HELP]

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Posted Oct 21, 2005 11:44 UTC (Fri) by tushar@mwti.net (guest, #30914) [Link]

So u expect to press yes when it falls from table? If u can press yes that why not to hold it properly.

Hard drive protection

Posted Oct 28, 2005 6:10 UTC (Fri) by turpie (guest, #5219) [Link]

If you're confused as to how that popup dialog operates try reading this article for more information.