Questions tagged [sectors]
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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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What are disk sectors for?
I started to get confused on how the hard disk operates, particularly in writing and reading data into its platters.
According to this article:
http://www.tech-faq.com/how-data-is-stored-in-your-...
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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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Can prematurely powering down a computer cause bad sectors in a hard drive?
Q1: Can forcibly powering off a PC without using the built-in shutdown/reboot functions, cause a HDD to accumulate bad sectors? Whether it be the result of BSODs, lockups, crashes, etc.
Q2: If so, ...
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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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What is the difference between a disk block and a sector?
I know that a sector is the unit in which a track is splitted, but I had this doubt since I was looking for information about the maximum number of pointers that an inode can support. I found that ...
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Is it possible to create a software RAID 1 with different sector sizes?
I bought a hard drive of a different model to my main drive and tried to mirrored them, but the following error message came up in Windows 7 Virtual Disk Manager:
All disks holding extends for a ...
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How to read MFT on USB Hard Drive (NTFS, 1TB)?
I'm looking for a high-level method to read the MFT entries on an NTFS file system for a Seagate 1TB internal hard drive. The platform is Windows 7.
I need to fetch the filename, block size and ...
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Determine sector-size of a drive
I know usually the sector size is 512 B but some drives use 4 KiB (advanced format).
How can I check which one is used by a drive? Is the sector size somewhere stored on the drive - e.g. in the MBR ...
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Could there be data loss on hard drive due to reallocated sectors?
The SMART data for one of my hard drives indicates that it has some reallocated sectors. I've read that a bad sector will only be reallocated on a write operation (meaning the original data is being ...
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How do I determine what is the best block size for a 960 PRO M.2?
I have a Samsung NVMe SSD 960 PRO M.2.
I was in the process of installing Gentoo on it. gparted notified me that the physical block size, is different than what the kernel reports. I thought the ...
