USB drive is not opening
Question: I don’t know why I cannot open the contents of my flash drive. When I plugged it into my laptop, Windows 7 did not recognize it. In My Computer,…
Thinking about getting an SSD… need suggestions!
Question: Hello all, I have had my build for a couple of years now, and because i only have a normal, cheap seagate hdd, I experience very slow boot up…
Internal HDD is not recognised by Windows on my new PC
Question: I’ve just built myself a new PC and am finding that 2 of the internal SATA hard disk drives from my old PC are no longer properly recognised by…
How can I restore backup to a new SSD when the drive with my OS died?
Question: I had a question posted here about ways to save my SSD that stopped showing up in the BIOS. I tried everything recommended, including power cycling to no avail.…
Damaged HDD recovery woes
Question: I’ve got a dying disk, it’s an emotional time, but I’ve managed to either recover or retrieve backups for most of the data. I’ve got a few questions though.…
Hard drive noise and freezing on boot
Question: On boot, my hard drive makes an audible humming noise and all processes freeze. The best way I can describe the noise is almost like a low pitched fan…
Do ntfsresize and gparted work on a disk image mounted through the loop device?
Question: I need to resize an NTFS partition on a disk for which I have an image (dumped with dd). I mounted it through the loop device on Linux: #…
Old HDD in new computer?
Question: Hi, I was just wondering if I could use my old hard drive from another computer and put it into my new computer. I would like to have the…
Is there a way to prevent Windows from taking control of a hard drive?
Question: I own a copy of SpinRite, a hard drive recovery and maintenance utility, that can’t run under Windows because it requires such low-level access to the drive. ?Typically, you…
5400 Hard Drive
Question: I plan to use a 2 TB WD Blue 5400 rpm hard drive to store all of my files that don t have to do with my OS or…