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Sector-precise partition editor with resize NTFS?
Is there a sector-precise partition manager that can resize an NTFS partition? Accepting Windows software and Live CDs.
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Is it possible to create a software Raid 1 with different sector sizes?
For some reason I decided to spontaneously buy a new hard drive that is not of the same model of the main drive and so I mirrored it. Unfortunately the following error message came up in the Windows 7 ...
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Reallocated bad sectors cause my HDD to slow down?
I've just used several utilities to check whether my HDD drive is really failing - I've come to a conclusion that it's the hard disk drive that causes unusual slow downs as my system almost freezes ...
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Number of sectors per track in hard drive?
Is the number of sectors fixed for each track in a hard drive? I am wondering about this because most hard drive specifications give an accurate value for sectors/track rate. I am confused because I ...
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moving from a 512 to a 4K byte/sector hard drive [closed]
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suggestions for migrating a windows 7 install to a new 4K sector disk
I have a windows 7 desktop with a 512 bytes/sector main drive. I bought a backup drive that is 4K ...
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When referring to filesystems and disks, are “disk sectors”, “disk blocks”, “chunk size”, and “disk records” the same thing?
I'm pretty sure that a sector is basically a block, but I was moreso confused about chunk sizes and especially records. Some system calls require that your area in memory that buffers data from disk ...
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Western Digital Green drive from 512 byte sectors (jumpered) to 4k byte sectors (removal of jumper)
I was using a WD20EARS drive with pins 7 and 8 jumpered in order to use it on an OS that doesn't support 4k sectors. But now, I want to transfer that hard drive over to an OS that has 4k sector ...
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Boot Sector Missing in External hard drive
Yesterday I needed to copy some data from my girlfriend's laptop to mine. To do so I just copied my whole data from my external hard drive to my PC and used the hard drive for data exchange. After ...
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How to get a file's sector location/number?
I want to know the sector location of a particular file on my hard drive.
Can I get that by any means?
I am running Mac OS X (Intel) with a Hitachi HDD.
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NTFS; marking sectors bad using Linux
I have a massive ZFS array on my fileserver. Whenever a disk reports bad sectors to smartmon, I order a replacement, and I shelve the failing one.
And by "shelving the failing one", I mean that I ...
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4k Sectors: Which Drives Don't Lie About Having 512b Sectors and Correctly Report 4k Sectors?
I recently returned a Western Digital WD20EARS drive with 4k sectors (Western Digital refers to this as "advanced format"), because I found out that it lies and reports 512b sectors to the OS, and ...
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Determine which sectors of a hard disk a given file occupies?
Is there a way I can see which sectors of the hard disk a given file occupies?
The filesystem is ext3 or ext4 on Linux.
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suggestions for migrating a windows 7 install to a new 4K sector disk
I'm looking to upgrade the disk on a windows 7 box to a new larger drive.
In the past for such migrations I'd just hook both drives up and use a linux boot disk and use dd to copy from one disk to ...
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4K sectors transition: Why are hard drives moving to 4096 byte sectors, vs. 512 byte sectors?
I've noticed that some Western Digital hard drives are now sporting 4K sectors, that is, the sectors are larger: 4096 bytes vs. the long-standing standard of 512 bytes. So:
What's the big deal with ...
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Tool to Save a Range of Disk Clusters to a File
Yesterday I deleted a (fragmented) archive file only to find that it did not extract correctly, so I was left stranded. Fortunately there was not much space free on the drive, so most of the space ...
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hard drive pending sector count
For some reason, my pending sector count to be remapped is unbelievably high (2163 currently). I've seen it go up 20 in one week. But no sectors have been remapped. Dell's computer diagnostics utility ...
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Fixboot won't stay fixed
On a Windows XP Home system that wouldn't boot and gave an error that said "Error loading operating system", I ran fixboot from the XP install disk. It seemed to successfully fix the boot sector after ...
