Category: FAQs

Question: In Windows you have a C-drive. Everything labeled beyond that is with the following letter. So your second drive is D, your DVD is E and if you put…

Question: When I search a file on my HD in Windows 7 or Windows XP it takes some minutes to finish the process. If I fill in a search term…

Question: For anyone who’s serious about storage performance, SSDs are always the fastest solution. However, WD still makes their 10,000 RPM VelociRaptor hard drives, and a few enthusiasts even use…

Question: On many hard drives, there’s a text warning to “not cover this hole”, sometimes adding that doing so will void the warranty.What is the purpose of this hole and…

Question:Closed 8 years ago. ? Can anyone recommend a cheap/free utility that can do this without very much effort? My preference is that it would be really easy. Boot into…

Question: How can I read the ?S.M.A.R.T. state of my HDDs while using Windows 7, either automatically or manually? Answer: HDTune works on Windows 7 too. A blog-post reference.

Question: I have a fast computer (quad-core i7, 3.5 Ghz, 24 GB of RAM, Windows 8.1) and I installed a new hard drive less than a year ago that was…

Question: My SATA drive started clicking and I was unable to access the data. It was not clicking loudly though, like a drive that has already gone bad. After tightening…

Question: Why does a hard drive which is known to have bad blocks (verified in HDTune and HDDScan), freezes down my entire system? It is not the OS drive; it…

Question: Two days ago I had a full C: drive, after which I deleted 8 GB of data. The next day the hard drive was full again, so I continued…