Category: FAQs

Question: I have a Seagate Backup Plus 4TB external drive that recently stopped working. A lot of solutions online suggest that it could be a problem with the USB controller.…

Question: I had Windows 10 on my client machine and just made a fresh new installation. The server is a Linux machine where I did not change anything. Since I…

Question: Hello. I wanted to install windows 10 on my laptop and I needed to change my drive from MBT to GPT. So I did that by connecting my H.D.D…

Question: tl;dr On my new PC (with windows 8.1 x64) some files on local SATA-HDD are getting corrupted without visible reason (after some IDLE). Not a virus/malware! (did test with…

Question: Today I installed a new ssd for my computer but now all the hard drive storage is not showing up. To install my ssd, I unhooked the connection for…

Question: Are there performance gains to be had by secure-erasing an SSD? (the secure-erase function, not securely zero’ing out data) I’m using an Intel 320 SSD 160GB as my main…

Question: I have a Seagate 5TB external hard drive that I plug in every few months as a backup. I plugged it yesterday and it doesn’t power up at all.…

Question: I originally suspected malware, because my pointer skips and my system gets slower and slower by day. I recently had a reg entry get messed up for no reason.…

Question: I just installed a PCIEx sata 6 expansion card along with a 4tb platter drive. To get windows to use the entire drive I had to use a different…

Question: Something very funny is going on with my External Hard drive Caddy. ?I am running Linux Mint 14. I had a laptop breakdown just before Christmas, removed the drive…