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. ST920217AS Seagate LD25 20 GB 2.5 Internal Hard Drive SATA/150 5400 rpm 2 MB…
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. ST9200827AS Seagate Momentus 200GB 5400RPM SATA 3GB/s NCQ 2.5-inch 8MB Cache Internal Hard DISK…
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Question: I have a image which was taken with Clonezilla as SAVEDISK on a 160GB harddrive.Now a newer version of the PC released with a 120GB harddrive, the space in…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. ST9200423ASG Seagate Momentus 7200.3 200GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 16MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive. All…
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. ST9200420AS Seagate Momentus 200GB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s Internal Hard Drive for Laptop. 16MB Cache…
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. ST31000528AS Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 32MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All…