Is there anyway to move Windows 10 from HDD to new SSD?
Question: Hello. I have Windows 10 and Linux Mint 19.3 installed on my HDD. I recently bought an SSD but I’ll only have enough space for Windows. I’m planning on…
Seagate ST3200822A
ST3200822A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 200GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST3200822AS Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 200GB 7200RPM SATA 1.5Gbps 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All…
How can I shrink a Logical Volume, and re-allocate the freed space into a new partition on the same drive?
Question: I have a drive, sda. It has two partitions: sda1: /bootsda2: LVM managed in Volume Group volgrp01 volgrp01 contains the following Logical Volumes: lv_root (30 GB)lv_swap (8 GB)lv_scratch (430…
HDD failure
Question: So i was at my pc, but then it just froze, i restarted my pc, and got Reboot and Select proper Boot device or insert boot device and press…
Seagate ST3200820A
ST3200820A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 200GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST3200820A Seagate Barracuda 200GB 7200RPM Ultra IDE / ATA-100 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.…
Are there any disadvantages of having a “free fall sensor” on a hard disk drive?
Question: This is a general question that came out of a specific comparison between the Western Digital Scorpio WD3200BEKT and Western Digital Scorpio WD3200BJKT (which is the same as the…
Transferring Old HDD with Windows to New Build
Question: Hi, I’m currently planning a new build for my roommate. He found his old PC from like 2005, and would like to get the files from the HDD onto…
Seagate ST3200021A
ST3200021A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 200GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST3200021A Maxtor 200GB 7200RPM ATA-100 2MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about the…
Why doesn’t installing GRUB on MBR destroy the partition table?
Question: I have read that my partition table is stored in the MBR. And write operations are performed sector-wise i.e, even if you want to change just a few bytes…
Can’t assign new disk, stuck in RAW
Question: I recently built a new pc. Installed windows on an ssd. All good. Went to disk manger, tried creating a new simple volume on the hdd and disk manager…