Hard Drive Forum Frequently Asked Questions and Answers

Here is a brief explanation of some of the questions you may have about the Hard Drive Forum.

What is the purpose of the Hard Drive Forum?
What are the rules?
Can I use html tags anywhere in my posts?
Why are there colons in the message section when I try post a reply?
Why didn't my post show up?

What is the purpose of the Hard Drive Forum?

The Hard Drive Forum was designed to allow users to communicate with each other to tryand find answers to questions, discuss problems, and try to find information about storagedevices.

What are the rules?

There are only a few basic rules to assure that everyone will profit from the Hard Drive Forum:

Do not use any references that someone may not appreciate (swearing, racial-slurs etc.).
No commerial advertising or SPAM-like messages.
Post each message once, no one wants to read through ten copies of the same text.
This forum is monitored, and posts that do not follow these guidelines will be removed, and the "post-er" will be banned from the site.

Can I put html tags anywhere in my posts?

No. You can not use HTML tags in any field except body of the message. If allowed, your html markup will appear in the posting. It can't hurt to try.

Why are there colons in the message when I try to post a reply?

Colons appear in the message dialog box when you try to reply to a message to indicate that those lines are quoting the previous document.

Why didn't my post show up?

Your post most likely did not show up, because your browser did not reload the page, it simply pulled it out of cache. Please reload your browser and it should then appear.