PC Won’t Boot Unless I Manually Select Boot Drive – “New CPU Detected”/BIOS Reset Occurred Randomly
Question: So, my PC is in an odd state right now. I’ll try to outline the order of events that led me here: I updated Windows 10 x64 to the…
Enterprise Hard Drives work on Desktop Computers? Should.
Question: Been looking at buying a Hard Drive recently for a while and researched a lot. It seemed all the enterprise ones should work with desktop computers too as long…
Western Digital WD25EZRX
WD25EZRX Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2.5TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD25EZRX Western Digital Caviar Green Desktop WD25EZRX 2.50 TB 3.5 Internal Hard Drive…
Running Windows disk defragmentation on boot in Windows 10
Question: My PC shows that the system reserved and the windows partitions are fragmented above 10%. I kept the defrag option running within Windows but there is no impact on…
External hard drive not recognised
Question: I have a Western Digital Elements WDBAAU0010HBK External Hard Drive. I’ve not used it for a year or so, but connected it and powered it up today with the…
Western Digital WD25EZRS
WD25EZRS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2.5GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD25EZRS-11J99B0 Western Digital 2TB 5400RPM SATA 3Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about…
Interpreting the Spin Retry Count S.M.A.R.T. attribute value for hard drives
Question: I’m confused about the Spin Retry Count S.M.A.R.T. attribute value. On one particular hard drive, I see a raw value of 0, which the popular CrystalDiskInfo v7.0.5 interprets as…
Can someone explain this
Question: Ok so im going to use my old hard drive as a game drive because I just ordered a 240GB SSD (with d-ram i might add) but when doing…
Western Digital WD10PURZ
WD10PURZ Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD10PURZ Western Digital Surveillance Purple 1TB 5400RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard…
Diskpart assign letter to partition that is not associated with a volume (windows 10)
Question: I used to have 3 volumes on my disk before something happened to the MBR that messed up my boot. Now i’m trying to rebuild the boot environment to…