Category: FAQs

Question: I would like to run a full, sector-by-sector, physical check on some external hard drives. As far as I know,chkdsk does not supply this option. Is there a workaround…

Question: I’m trying to find out the total size of my hard drive using df -h, but it prints the size of each partition and requires sudo. Is there any…

Question: How can I check whether there are any bad sectors on an externally connected USB hard disk drive? Answer: Related questions Fix bad blocks on Mac hard disk �C…

Question: I know I can use a 3Gb/s SATA hard drive with a 6Gb/s SATA port, but can I use a 6Gb/s SATA hard drive with a 3Gb/s SATA port?…

Question: When running SMART-Tests using smartmontools, they NEVER finish. I always get “Interrupted (host reset.)” on various different systems and disks, including Debian in x86 and ARM, OS X on…

Question: I’m in a process of doing a fresh Linux install and before I went to do that I thought that it is a good time to verify HDD health…

Question: I just got a new box. It has an SSD for the primary drive and a 1TB SATA hard disk for the secondary drive. ? I’m going to run…

Question: I’ve bought a new hard drive for my system, and my motherboard (an ASUS M2A VM HDMI) appears to have two black and two red SATA ports, with the…

Question: My internal drives are showing for some reason as removable in windows (one is SSD and the other is an HDD) in Windows 10 Pro. I read somewhere this…

Question: Under Windows 7 (64 bit), I’m reading through 9000 moderately sized files. ?In total, there is more than 200 MB of data. ?Using Java (JDK 1.6.21) I’m iterating over…