Bad sector on my HDD
Question: Hi so im using my old hdd. And i just found out that it has 2 bad sector? Do i need to change it immediately? Or i can use…
Western Digital WD7500AYYS
WD7500AYYS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 750GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD7500AYYS-01RCA0 Western Digital RE2 750GB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Disk…
windows 7 enterprise : ‘net use’ fails with ‘system error 50 has occurred’
Question: Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 x64 I was having problems mapping a local drive to a network shared folder, so I opened cmd.exe and ran : > net use> System…
Is my HDD dead?
Question: Hey everyone. So I already suspect that the HDD is basically dead, but I wanted to get some second opinions. I have this old PC that I used as…
Western Digital WD7500AAVS
WD7500AAVS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 750GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD7500AAVS Western Digital Caviar Green 750GB 5400RPM SATA 3Gb/s 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard…
Win8x64, after format/upgrade from Win7x86, “GPT Protective Partition” on secondary drive
Question: I backed up all important data prior to formatting the C: drive, but I cannot read the backup drive after reinstalling Windows. More details provided after the screenshots. Additionally…
Low ?HDD “Minimum transfer rate”
Question: Recently i used HDTune app to measure my HDD info. I’ve noticed i get a huge drop and i’m having low amount of “minimum HDD transfer”. Is it normal?…
Western Digital WD7500AARX
WD7500AARX Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 750GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD7500AARX Western Digital Caviar Green Desktop WD7500AARX 750 GB 3.5 Internal Hard Drive…
Hard drive had reallocated sectors…but now it magically doesn’t! Can I trust it?
Question: Last week my SMART diagnostics utility, CrystalDiskInfo, reported that the external hard drive that I was saving my backups to had suddenly reported 900+ reallocated sectors. ?I double-checked to…
Can I transfer files to an External HDD BEFORE I schuck it & install it elsewhere?
Question: Can I transfer files to an External HDD BEFORE I schuck it & install it elsewhere? Hi gang, I have a new 12TB WD Easystore external. I want to…