Transferrring SSD and Hard Drives to a new Motherboard
Question: So I have a new PC build that I’m close to putting together but I would like to transfer all my hard drives from the old one to the…
How can a hard drive be “optimized for surveillance storage”?
Question: Some internal hard drives are advertised as “optimized for surveillance storage” (and similarly, “optimized for gaming”). What makes these types of drives special or different from “standard” hard drives?…
Boot took 30 minute and windows is not responding.
Question: Hi, so i started my pc this morning and suddenly boot is super slow and windows not responding.I need to wait for at least 30 min for it to…
What is the fastest way to force hdd to reallocate bad sectors and discard the data?
Question: I either own or am in charge of (at work) a lot of HDDs that are either part of raid arrays, or there are backups of the data elsewhere.…
Hard Drive showing up in BIOS, but not in Windows
Question: A bit of background info, we were recently hit with a storm and it flooded through my window and onto my PC, but it seemed as through everything was…
Linux – new hard drive, bad magic number in superblock
Question: SOLUTION: For all of the things that were right, making the volume with fsck and making the filesystem with mkfs are two separate operations. Thanks for giving me nice,…
Hard drive not formatting
Question: i have built a computer recently and i was upgrading the storage when i ran into an issue. the specs are: Intel i5 3470 CPU, gigabyte ga-z68p-ds3 Motherboard, AMD…
What might cause an increase in offline uncorrectable and pending sectors counts on an *idle* drive?
Question: I have a Western Digital Elements Desktop USB-connected hard drive. Basically, it’s a glorified package for a WD30EZRX drive. I use it to hold system backups (old now, at…
Cloud Backup service with hard copy option.
Question: Hello, Is there any cloud service that has hard copy service ? that is on demand they send you your drive by mail in a harddisk for a price?…
How to change logical partition into primary one?
Question: Currently I have both Windows XP and Windows 7 installed as dual-boot.I’ve been wanting to remove my XP installation for a long time (was waiting to buy an external…