Will reformatting my hard drive fix bad sectors on it?
Question: Assuming I’m not concerned with the data on it. Answer: It wont “fix” bad sectors, but it should mark them as bad (unusable) and therefore no data would be…
Seagate ST920217AS
ST920217AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 20GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST920217AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
change directory to network drive in Cygwin
Question: I have a new wireless router in my home and have a 3 TB drive hooked up to it. I would like to write a backup script in cygwin…
Seagate ST9200827AS
ST9200827AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 200GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST9200827AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
Force cloned hard-disk image upon a smaller hard-disk
Question: I have a image which was taken with Clonezilla as SAVEDISK on a 160GB harddrive.Now a newer version of the PC released with a 120GB harddrive, the space in…
Seagate ST9200423ASG
ST9200423ASG Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 200GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST9200423ASG hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
What is causing hard drive grinding?
Question: My windows (XP) hard drive grinds a lot and it negatively affects the performance of other applications. I have plenty of RAM and have already verified that this hard…
Seagate ST9200420AS
ST9200420AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 200GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST9200420AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
Why can’t RAID 0 utilise all disk space on two different sized disks?
Question: To quote the Wikipedia article on RAID: ? A RAID 0 can be created with disks of differing sizes, but the storage space added to the array by each…
Seagate ST31000528AS
ST31000528AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST31000528AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…