[dba-Tech] Determine the hard drive type without opening the box

Bill,

The site is www.gtopala.com.  You have an extra "r" in there.

Tina

Bill Patten wrote:
> Arthur,
>
> Download a free program called SIW from www.gtropala.com or Google SIW. Run 
> the program and then on the left tree click on Hardware/storage devices. 
> Then highlight the hard drive on the top of the right hand window and you 
> will find more information about the hard drive than you can ever want to 
> know in the lower pane.
>
> You will then find that SIW will give you all kinds of data about your 
> computer including some passwords, license codes and on and on.
>
> If you are using Vista you will get can't load a dll but most things work 
> anyway if you keep on going.
>
>
> HTH
>
> Bill
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" 
> <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 11:41 AM
> Subject: [dba-Tech] Determine the hard drive type without opening the box
>
>
> A while back I started a thread about determining the CPU type without
> opening the box, and received several good answers. Now I'm wondering
> whether I can determine the type of hard drive(s) installed -- maker, size,
> rpm, IDE or SCSI or SATA, etc.
>
> Anyone know?
>
> TIA,
> Arthur
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