Finally, after 25 years or so of establishing the Gulf Cooperation Council, citizens of both Bahrain and Saudi will soon be able to visit each other’s country by just using their identity card rather than a passport. This will take effect in 30 days due to an agreement signed at the Interior Ministers’s meeting in …
Remember that crappy WD Passport 160GB that dropped about a foot and died on me completely? Well, you will be glad to know that the data within the drive has been almost completely recovered. 120GB of it, by a company I dealt with in the States: First Advantage Data Recovery to the tune of US$1,400! …
WD’s guts, originally uploaded by malyousif. So far a recovery program is reporting every single sector it comes across as bad. I didn’t believe that a little drop would affect a supposed “portable” drive that much… I have revised my estimation of this thing, it is a piece of crap.