How to return hard disk to its original state?
Question: How do I turn my hard disk drive to its state when I first brought it. It has 250 gb unallocated space. But now, because of constant partitioning and…
HDD momentarily detected, then mostly not
Question: Windows 10 Pro, Asus B85M-E Rev 2 MB, Seagate ST2000dm001 2TB HD with pcb 100587658 Rev C. Drive worked fine, never an error even though set in BIOS to…
Western Digital WD6402AAEX
WD6402AAEX Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 640GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD6402AAEX Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s Internal 64MB Cache 3.5-inch…
SSD displaying incorrect size, despite having no unallocated space
Question: I have a 120GB SSD that I recently copied to a 250GB SSD via a device-device clone on Clonezilla, the clone worked without issue and all of my previous…
Brand new 512 SSD or Used 3TB HDD
Question: Hey all !! I’m on a tight budget right now and I need to decide carefully from these two .I wonder if I should buy a Brand new SSD…
Western Digital WD6401AALS
WD6401AALS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 640GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD6401AALS Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gbps 32MB Cache 3.5-inch Internal…
How to update samsung’s SSD firmware?
Question: I’m having problems with my SSD (samsung 850 PRO) on linux so I wanted to update the firmware. I reinstalled windows and downloaded the magician software. It recognizes my…
Know if external hard drive dead?
Question: I’m an assistant editor and today one of our 10 TB G-Drives stopped working. Light turns on but disk does not spin, not readable by computers. I happened to…
Western Digital WD6400AAVS
WD6400AAVS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 640GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD6400AAVS Western Digital Caviar Green 640GB 5400RPM (intellipower) 8MB Cache 3.5-inch SATA 3GB/s…
Unallocated space at the end of HDDs
Question: Why Windows leaves some unused space at the end of some drives when creating partitions? Those drives are MBR, not GPT. Their purpose is to store user data, not…