A hard disk drive (or HDD) is a non-volatile, random access device for storing digital data.
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Linux won't boot
I just installed my new SSD, and I put Windows 8 on it. Previously I had a hard drive with both Windows and Linux partitions. After finishing the installation of Windows 8 on the SSD I formatted the ...
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Windows 8 Storage Space Recovery
the problem start like this.
I add a 2-way mirror storage pool in my Windows 8. (consist of 2 x 500gb harddisk) I assume it can be read by any OS. So, I proceed to hackintosh my computer.
After ...
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Linux boots when I click “Windows 7” in boot manager
I've been trying to dual boot, which has pretty much been successful. I have Linux installed on an external Hard Drive. In the boot manager when I click on Windows 7:
(with the hard drive plugged ...
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How picky are RAID controllers when replacing a drive?
I had a drive fail in a RAID5 array and I'm working on finding a replacement. It's an older drive that's fairly hard to find, and most of them out there are used. How close of a drive do I need to the ...
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Moving Windows\winsxs\Backup to another drive
I've installed an SSD and for a number of big directories (e.g. Users\me\Downloads), I've been able to use the Sysinternals "junction" command to create a hard link on C: that references a copy of the ...
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CFQ hard drive scheduling algorithm
The CFQ algorithm uses an ordered set of queues based on the I/O priority of the processes that made the requests. That means there's a queue for process of priority, let say, 1, another one for ...
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MBR viruses: Is that really possible? What do I have to do to prevent?
I'm going through a real mystery right now.
My friend has a Sony Vaio VPCEG notebook and recently it keeps showing the following message:
S.M.A.R.T Hard Drive detects Error.
Please consider ...
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If I replace the hard drive, do I lose my Windows license?
I dropped my laptop and destroyed my hard drive. I have ordered a new hard drive to replace it and so obviously need to reinstall the operating system. The recovery information was in the hard drive ...
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ExFat partition not mounting - No main bitmap was found
Had 2tb hard drive for about a year.
Was plugged into windows pc, actively using Exfat partitions 'iTunes' and 'windows'.
The power cord for the hard drive was pulled out, reconnected in both the ...
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Laptop hard drive replacement: losing Windows recovery?
I might soon have to change my hard drive for a new one
as it is starting to show signs of ceasing to work properly.
I am running Windows 7 and have a recovery partition on the
current hard drive from ...
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Calculating hard disk block model reading time
My professor posted a slide on how to calculate the data retrieval from hard disk using the block model. The specs were:
7200 RPM
5ms SEEK
80MB/s TRANSFER RATE
BLOCK MODEL : Block size 4KB
I ...
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Creating symbolic link between mapped network drive and file:// url
I have a link on a shared website that points to a location on a Samba server as such:
file://my.samba.server/directory/foo.txt
On my local machine, I have the Samba server mapped to my m: drive. ...
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Being Careful with my new Hard Drive Docking Station
I feel weird with plug-and-play HDD's. It just seems unnatural to be turning the thing on and off, switching the USB over, etc.
I'm using it in a fairly variable environment - it will be connecting ...
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How can I increase disk space allocated to my VirtualBox VM?
The basics:
I'm running windows and have a VritualBox VM running Ubuntu 12.04 on top of that. I need to increase the disk space allocated from 8 GB to 12 GB. I'm trying to follow along with these ...
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“Recovering” disk from a Windows Home Server
I had a Windows Home Server machine which died on me. Now I wanted to "salvage" at least the disks in it.
But it seems those are somehow oddly formatted - each of the three disks has two partitions, ...
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Partitioning best-practices for SSD+regular HDD with multi-boot
I have a (couple of) regular HDDs on my machine , and I'm about to buy an SSD, probably 128GB, for it.
I would like the machine to be a Dual-Boot Linux (3.x kernel) + Windows 7. My question has two ...
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Checking hdd by its smart [closed]
I want to buy used HDD 1tb, and the seller gave me smart. For first look it seems not bad, however im still not sure.
Here is smart: http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/1754/1304131ia.png
Is it worth ...
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Windows 8 working with hard disk at idle time
I have Windows 8 installed on PC, and another Windows 8 installed inside virtual computer. On virtual computer - without antivirus. In both cases, I see that OS intensively works with the hard disk at ...
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I'm getting a popping noise and read errors from the hard drive during a partitioning work with GParted
I'm trying to move a partition from a GParted live disk, but two things started happening:
The disk is making a popping/cracking noise, almost like a Geiger counter.
GParted says Read error on ...
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Disk not found after running badblocks -vws
Ok so I have this one disk that is about 5 years old, Seagate.
Prior to running badblocks it was it was in a striped raid array with an identical disk that apparently died.
I kept this one disk ...
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Going from two hdd to one hdd cannot boot
I've had two HDD both with Vista installed on them. This is because the old Hitachi HDD failed previous and I added a Seagate HDD and just loaded Vista onto one of its two partitions. Normally when I ...
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OSX ghosting - need to reformat HDD
I have an OSX partition that does not take up the whole drive. Somehow, I managed to damage the unallocated space in a way that disk utility does not let me use it even though it is labeled "free ...
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How to format unrecognized USB drive?
I have used Unetbootin on one of my USB drive, and it seems to have partitioned it some way that it's no longer recognized by any OS. It's not even listed when I turn on my computer and press F12 to ...
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Formatting and Partitioning 1TB external hard drive [duplicate]
I just bought a 1TB external hard drive from Western Digital - My Passport.
I am planning to use it for couple of things;
Store my music
Store my videos
Store my pictures
Store my designs
Work as a ...
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Having installed fedora, I have lost capacity to boot into any OSs via BIOS or UEFI
(Running on Asus TaiChi)
When I try to boot without USB, I get sent straight to setup screen. If I press esc prior to setup screen, I enter the Please select boot device boot dialog. However, my only ...
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Bad sectors in external HDD
I've had this external HDD for around 3 years give or take 6 months. For the last month or so, it was pretty slow but it worked. A few files couldn't be copied onto my system but files could be ...
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How to connect Linux to a HDD that has been “security locked”
In the process of playing around with several hard-drives, and hdparm's --security-set-pass and --security-erase options, I have a pile of HDDs that are in a "locked" state and I cannot unlock them.
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Bootmgr is missing
I have seen many posts about this issue but none of them helped me solve my problem. I just installed a new SSD on my laptop. On the old HDD I have two partitions (Windows and Linux). I cloned the ...
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How do I restore windows 8 / hard drive after hard drive overwrite?
So I have been a bit of an idiot... I was installing fedora and I clicked through the partitioning without much attention assuming that fedora would be installed in dual boot. It seems to have ...
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Hard drive missing from boot sequence
I have a laptop with Windows 8. I decided to install Ubuntu. It didn't offer me to install it with Win8, though according to the docs it should have, or at least if I had win7. I clicked Something ...
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On Toshiba Satellite L650, is it possible to move from a 32 bit to a 64 bit using recovery media creator?
Purchased a Toshiba satellite L650 sometime in November 2009. It came with 4 GB RAM (not enough key bounce while I posted first, oops :-( ), 284 GB HDD, DVD drive and 2 USB ports, 1 sATA/USB port and ...
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TrueCrypt system encrypted drive fails to load Windows
I have full system encryption on my Win 7 Pro/64 hdd. I boot the machine and enter the TrueCrypt password, and Windows starts to load but fails with the error message "The boot selection failed ...
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Defragmentation stops and does not reduce below 52%
In one of my PC a single drive is not defragmenting. When i do it using windows defragmentation option the fragmentation does not reduce below 52%. I tried so many times and facing same problem. Then ...
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lost space on the HDD after reinstalling windows
I have a 200 Gbs HDD with vista and I decided to install Ubuntu 12.10 over it, but I found that it erased all the partitions and data and showed the file system as 198 GBs, so I tried to reinstall the ...
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Windows 7 laptop keeps restarting if external hard drive isn't connected
My laptop restarts whenever I try to start Windows without my external HDD connected - after I log in an error message pops up (one of those 0x... errors) but it reboots before I can read what it ...
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One unknown drive in previously operational RAID5 array
I have a RAID5 array on my computer, 3X 200GB sata drives. Everything has worked great forever but all of a sudden when I turn it on the BIOS shows that only two of the three drives are functioning. ...
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What is my missing SSD drive used for?
My new asus laptop came with an ssd drive and a normal drive. I was expecting to see the c drive as the ssd but it doesnt even have a drive letter. I assume that its not actually big enough to have ...
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Why SMART is passing while it indicates failure for RAW read error rate?
I have an external USB disk (WD Elements Caviar Green 2 To, WD20EADS-00W4B0) that started to fail (slow reads). My system logs didn't show anything unusual, this definitely indicates some supposedly ...
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Can you defrag an encrypted file system
I just encrypted my entire hard drive with truecrypt and was wondering can I still defrag it?
Or will that not work anymore or break something.
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Hitachi hard drive with apple firmware - possible to install Windows on?
My friend gave me a spare harddrive he had, a 320GB Hitachi HTS545032B9A302. I was hoping I could use this in place of my 70GB internal drive at home. However it says on the label that it has Apple ...
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Hard Drive Encryption
I have a new HP laptop 2540p and was wondering how hard is it to encrypt the whole hard drive?
Does it slow boot time? Does it make loading programs take longer?
You have to enter a password at boot ...
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does encryption and disk wiping, using gutmann or dod, produce the same measure of entropy?
does using aes 256 or some other crypto algorithm produce the same degree of randomness as that when using an erasing algorithm like gutmann or dod?
i mean is it possible to look at a "RAW" hdd and ...
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Unable to open a dmg file error “file too large”
I created a dmg file of a 16 gb USB flashdrive a few weeks ago that was formatted fat32 and I am now unable to open the file. The file is only 804mb, but when I try and open it, I get an error window ...
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Reading files from external HDD is very slow
I have here an external HDD (closed cage). Now the drive or the controller seems to have a problem. If I connect the drive via eSata the hard disk indicator (LED) is lighting up all the time. Normally ...
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Recovering files from a Windows account on an internal drive
I was wondering would there be problems if I tried to recover my files from my Windows 7 account on an internal drive that I took out of my laptop and then hooked up to my other laptop?
Will I have ...
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External HDD partitioning - Mac OS X
I'm a Mac OS 10.8 user and I have a 1TB USB HDD partitioned before from my Mac in 3 parts. Now, I want to add another back-up partition but I'm not able to do it : I can't do anything on the HDD, not ...
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Swapping.. OS Partitions?
Occasionally I get tasked with literally swapping the installation locations of Windows/Ubuntu. We build PCs for developers and by default they come with a 120GB SSD and a 2TB 5400 split into two ...
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“Accidentally” destroy hard drive [closed]
Someone I know needs to get a new PC, and on his old system is compromising data.
What he now needs is a way to basically destroy any data on that system, without making it look too suspicious.
The ...
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Transferring multiple files from local HDD to network file share
I regularly have to transfer many large files from my local hard disk (non-SSD) to a network file share drive (presumed non-SSD).
I am copying from the same source folder to the same destination ...
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Will the recovery/OEM partitions work after copying data to a larger hard drive using 'dd' and moving those partitions to the end of the new drive?
I'm thinking about getting a larger, faster hybrid hard drive. I expect to use dd to copy the data to the new drive block-for-block so that I can guarantee that no data are lost, but the partitioning ...
