The Hard Disk is a high capacity storage system, which is not volatile, is intended for storing files and programs. Although not at first seem, HD is one of the components that make up a PC, which involves more technology. All programs and files are stored on your hard disk, also known as HD (Hard ...
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Can WD3200AZRX SATA-3 hard drive work on SATA-2?
I know this question is already been asked a lot of times.
I am buying new hard drive today, but I am worrying that it wont work on my motherboard Gigabyte GA-945PL-S3.
I want to buy this hard ...
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Video and audio files stored on a Kingston 32GB pendrive are not playable? [closed]
I have a Kingston 32GB pendrive. I stored some video and audio files in it. These files are not playable. It works for other data files. My operating system is Vista.
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Home Network Storage Solution [closed]
I am wanting to install a home network hard drive solution. I am looking for about two GB of space, the ability for it to be connected directly to my home network via an Ethernet cable, Raid 1, ...
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Is there an alternative to Ghost peer to peer disk cloning?
I am looking for a way to replace ghost peer-to-peer (slave/master) disk cloning over network.
but after searching, I couldn't find a good software replacement.
would anyone please suggest some?
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Does Torrent programs damage hard disk
As it's clear from the title.
Someone told me that torrent programs keep reading and writing to HDD for long time and that will slow down this HDD and may cause damage to it.
Is that true ??
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How small can/should I make my partitions?
My machine is currently split into 3 user partitions (plus however many Windows and Linux have decided to slyly create) Which are C: Windows 7, D: Data, and E(?): Ubuntu. I'm considering wiping my ...
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What happens if an external hard drive that is part of a set of spanned discs in windows is powered off?
Does anyone know what would happen if an external hard drive that was part of a set of spanned discs was powered off whilst the computer was running? Also what would happen if it was turned off before ...
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Occasional HDD Related Hangs
I have an issue that seems to be disk related. Occasionally my system will block for 30 or so seconds and is mostly unresponsive. Those things already in memory requiring no disk access continue to ...
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Kubuntu 11.10: Random IO errors on HDD in RAID1 array. RMA time?
I'm pretty sure I have a failing HDD here, but just want to make sure it's not some software error before I do the whole RMA song and dance routine with Western Digital.
Bascially, I have a <6 ...
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Is it possible to make raid 0 from 2 ssd drives?
Like in the title, is it possible. I was thinking about that last year but everybody told me that it's not possible due to controller issues. Today I revisited that idea after seeing awesome vids on ...
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Is it better to turn off computer or power continuously to keep ancient 1990 harddrive alive (MSDOS 6.22 )
I want to extend the life of this harddrive as much as possible because I found it nearly impossible to clone.
It is running MSDOS 6.22. 110mb harddrive from 1990.
The computer is only utilized 1 ...
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QNAP NAS 509 (LINUX) - how to unmout busy volume and find physical disk?
On my NAS QNAP TS 509 I do have a technical issue. I need to run e2fsck. This works fine for me on md0 (see below), but how can I unmount the busy devices md9 and sda4 in order to do the same. ...
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Will zero writing a hard drive stop any recovery? [closed]
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If I write all zeroes or ones to a hard disk, does that effectively and securely wipe it?
I have a old drive I want to give away or dispose of. It's a Western Digital, ...
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How to troubleshoot problems with a hard disk encrypted with FileVault 2?
One of my mac started becoming intermittently unresponsive, so much so that I couldn't even manage to get it to restart regularly. After a hard reset, the pre-boot authentication screen of filevault 2 ...
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Add more drive capacity to MacBook Pro an optimize for performance
I have a MacBook Pro (MacBookPro6,1) that came with a 500GB Seagate 7200rpm disk (ST9500420ASG)
Having already maxed out the RAM to 8GB now I want to:
optimize drives for performance
add more ...
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Can not boot Windows from the main hard disk after formatting drive C in Ubuntu
I had another Windows on drive C. Now I have Windows 7 on drive D. I tried to delete all files and folders or format drive C, but my Windows 7 didn't let me. So I inserted booted in the Ubuntu ...
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Howto interpret SMART-Attributes?
I want to estimate the health and the remaining lifetime of my hard drive using SMART (in my case gsmartcontrol for linux). However I don't know how to interpret the attributes. More specifically:
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Hard drive not recognized
I'm dealing with an issue with my7 wife's computer. It goes through not seeing a hard drive that is connected. I've tried different SATA cables and several SATA ports on her motherboard, nothing seems ...
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Uninstall drivers on an orphaned hard drive
Basically, I need a hard drive (originally from a computer I no longer have) to work on new machine.
What I need from the drive is the configuration of the software installed, not the data.
It has ...
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External 3TB hard drive shows only 746GB
I'm having problems using an external 3TB hard drive. I've tried using both MBR and GPT, and in both cases my computer only sees 746GB. However, I have another 3TB hard drive (also Western Digital, ...
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Zerofree never ends. Is it doing anything?
I have been trying to use zerofree to reduce the size of my VM.
It worked fine for one filesystem, but the other was mounted on / so it wouldn't let me.
Then I figured I could use the 'recovery ...
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Replace 60GB solid state drive with a higher capacity one [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Move smaller hard drive to partition on a larger hard drive
restore a smaller hard drive 320GB image to a larger harddrive 1TB
I have a 60 GB solid state hard drive on ...
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How to see contents of hard drive that Windows 7 thinks is blank?
I have a Windows 7 PC (call it New7) that I built about a year and a half ago. Initially, I moved the hard drive from my wife's old PC (call it XP32) into New7 as a second drive. I also had a new ...
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After hard drive died, DVD drive isn't recognized anymore
My computer was running Vista until my hard drive crashed, so I bought a new 2TB internal SATA HDD.
And now my DVD drive isn't being recongized by my BIOS, but my new 2TB HDD is. I think it has to do ...
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Does anyone know of an antivirus that can scan multiple hard drives simultaneously?
I have 5 hard drives and am so very sick of waiting for 3 hours for the virus scanner to scan each drive one at a time. I see absolutely no reason that a virus scanner can't be threaded to scan each ...
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Adding new hard drives to debian linux
So am total noob at linux and I am trying to setup a debian home server,
Ive added 2x 2tb hard drives and unlike windows where I would see a C:/ D:/ etc.. I see nothing
So my question is how can I ...
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Move boot partition from TrueCrypt to new drive?
I have a laptop with a 500 GB HDD. The C partition takes up almost all the drive. Have 2-3 other small partitions for manufacturer recovery software or system stuff; these came with the laptop.
The C ...
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How to remove bad sectors information from cloned partition?
When some bad sectors ( literally 5 ) appeared on my previous HDD, I decided to replace it. I decided to clone whole drive using dd (run from GPartEd) in do-not-stop-on-read-error mode. That is:
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Speedfan not showing all harddrives' smart data
I installed speedfan and used it to look at my HDDs' smart data. All 5 of my drives appeared without issue. However, I have now added an additional 2 SATA HDDs to my existing (already in use) SATA ...
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How to connect my External SATA Hard Drive Case to the network ( / to the router )
I have some External SATA Hard Drive Case ( with some Hard disk inside ) and i want to make this Hard disk to be shared in all my network.
So, i want to make some connection between the External ...
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Will moving a computer's hard drive move the entire operating system as well?
My laptop caught a virus. So I tried to reinstall the whole OS. But it keeps failing, says Windows cannot copy files and the installation is cancelled.
Now I can't even boot the computer. It keeps ...
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Removing a spare HDD from Windows XP causes User Profile to reset
I have 5 internal HDD's installed;
HDD 1 IDE partitioned into C (OS) [Pri], I [Logic]
HDD 2 IDE partitioned into F (Programs) Pri, G (Games) [Logic]
HDD 3 SATA partition H (Empty) [Pri]
HDD 4 SATA ...
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Linux: Which physical disk is /dev/sdd?
Really the title says it all, but with more detail:
I have a RAID 10 box set up, and one of my drives has failed (/dev/sdd). I have hot swapping enabled, so I'd like to pop the failed drive out and ...
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Could HDD recovery require more than one donor drive?
When my HDD started corrupting data I took it to professional drive recovery service. I was told that it was hardware failure and donor drive is required. Donor drive would be used for parts to ...
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HDD is very slow after voltage drop
The HDD is Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 160 Gbytes
Model ST3160023A. Of course it is not SATA.
I once connected it to the USB via special adapter IDE-to-USB, and a separate power unit. The voltage drop ...
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USB 500 GB Drive now says its full w/ only 260 GB of data?
I just purchased a 500 GB Toshiba Canvio 3.0 USB Drive (one of those usb-powered portable 2.5" drives). Initially, Windows reported its size as 465 GB, with about 458 free.
My primary hard drive is ...
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Two harddrives, Win7 on one and WinXP on the other
I currently have a PC with a single drive, with WinXP installed. I will soon be adding in another drive to this PC, which had Win7 installed on it (while it was in another machine).
When the PC ...
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VMware virtual HD performance with Truecrypt on the host - Use 2 GB chunks?
Configuration:
I am using VMware on a laptop computer, which is truecrypted as a theft precaution.
The VHDs are ceated as single growable files (i.e. not split in 2 GB chunks, no preallocation of ...
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Is it possible to detect the previous byte position on a hard drive after it has been overwritten?
I keep hearing about these statements that "a hard drive is like a cassette tape because it is a magnetic medium". That got me thinking...
Back in the day when I used to play DJ as a young lad, I ...
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Does Intel Smart Response Technology benefits from a main SSD hard disk?
I've been trying to understand what Intel's SRT does. As far as I know, it uses an SSD to create some sort of RAID with the main hard disk (which may be a mechanical drive) and uses it to cache ...
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Dropped my HD, how to retrieve data
My external hard disk sadly dropped on the floor. It is not completely broken. I connected to the pc and I can see the directory tree, but trying to open a directory takes a lot of time. Is there any ...
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Hard drive shuts down after accessing a particular sector
My Windows has been freezing and bluescreening after startup recently. After trying to copy out the data I determined the problem -- the hard drive seems to shut down after accessing a particular ...
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How do I recover files from a RAW-formatted external HDD? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
RAW to NTFS (Data already recovered so not important)
My external HDD suddenly changed to RAW format so i can't access it anymore. Is formatting the disk to NTFS and ...
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Can't install any OS after replacing hard drive
I recently upgraded my computer's HDD from 320 GB to 500 GB. It's a Toshiba L650.
I tried to install Windows 7 on it but due to some file error I wasn't able to install it successfully. While ...
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set boot drive manually
I would like to specify the bootdrive of my computer manually (using a switch or microcontroller), because I have currently 3 hard drives in my computer: a Data drive, a hdd with mac osx and a hdd ...
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Calculate disk i/o of the disk on my laptop [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to measure disk performance?
How do I calculate the maximum disk i/o for my windows 7 laptop?
Similar, how do I calculate the maximum disk i/o for my external ...
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how to prepare a harddisk for another computer
My old laptop died lately and I want to have it fixed by a repair-shop.
Now first I want to clean the hard disk (via an external 2,5 inch casing).
I managed to connect the drive via USB in order to ...
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HDD Disappears after sleep mode
I recently purchased a HDD and it works fine except if I go into sleep mode. Every time my computers comes out of sleep mode the HDD disappears completely. I have literally tried EVERYTHING to fix ...
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How can I copy my Windows installation to a smaller HDD?
I'm almost certain my "new" hard drive I bought last August is the cause of constant BSODs. I've re installed Windows and they keep happening, so...
I have a smaller hard drive (320gb vs the "new" ...
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Reading SMART Data - possible drive failure?
First time trying to make heads and tails out of this. I just wonder if the drive is bad on this server? Just things seem so slow when compiling and running simple tasks(things hang). Like the load ...
