Category: FAQs

Question: I have hard drive filled with zeroes. How to check if all bits on hard drive are zeros using bash? Answer: od will replace runs of the same thing…

Question: I have a 500 GB hard drive. The laptop came with Windows 7 preinstalled. Now as I am installing Windows 8, I have deleted the C drive. So I…

Question: We have a RAID 5 array using Intel Matrix Storage (i.e. a motherboard based RAID). One of the hard drives has started to make a grinding noise, and the…

Question: To get large file from one place to another what is faster cutting or copying a file ? What factors can influence the result? I’ve heard it matters if…

Question: I have 3 hard drives in my computer and I can not figure out how to distinguish which physical hard drive in my computer represents the drive letter. When…

Question: I had a Windows 8 installation on an HDD, using UEFI as boot. The HDD has the following GPT table: DISKPART> list partitionPartizione ### ?Tipo ?Dim. ?Offset————— ?—————- ?——-…

Question: I just got a new Lenovo Laptop which has been installed with Windows 7 and is supposed to have 250 GB hard disk. Windows 7 reports that the hard…

Question:How to measure disk-performance under Windows? ?? ??(9 answers) ?? ???Closed 6 years ago. ? A friend has asked me to perform maintenance oh his computer. The described symptoms point…

Question: I would like to encrypt my hard drive so that it requires a password to access it. However features like BitLocker in Windows will only work under Windows, and…

Question: Experienced a weird issue with my Windows 8 system where it hangs and it is very unresponsive at random intervals of time (in fact, the first clue that I…