What is the difference between a disk block and a sector?
Question: I know that a sector is the unit in which a track is splitted, but I had this doubt since I was looking for information about the maximum number…
Moving hard drive to new pc
Question: Hi, on my hard drive currently I have a massive database with data stretching back about 5 years through an app called proform. I am installing win10 onto a…
Virus hides files, shrinks total capacity
Question: A virus infected my hard drive. The drive’s capacity is 1 TB and has different type of files on it, 400 GB+ in total. Suddenly all the files disappear,…
Hard Drive has Died
Question: Hi. Just recently my hard drive has died. It’s an HDD i use for my steam games. I noticed Steam wasn’t responding and I tried to exit by right…
Secondary Internal HDD Vanishes/Reappears Randomly In Windows 8.1
Question: To clarify, I’m referring to entire disks disappearing, not just partitions. The PC in question is an HP Pavilion 2325DX. Both drives are variants of HGST. One is in…
File Explorer Does Not Say that Hard Drive is Filling Up
Question: Hello, I just installed a new Seagate Barracuda 2TB hard drive in my PC about an hour ago and it seems to be working fine. I can put files…
How do heads find the data stored on a hard disk drive?
Question: I heard that to read or write data on a hard disk drive, we need the cylinder id and the sector ?id. First move the hdd’s r/w heads to…
Clicking hard drive
Question: hey .I bought a asus m570dd laptop 1 week ago.a clicking sound I hearing every time I am digging in my hard drive ..the sound is exactly like when…
Cannot delete partition in diskpart – invalid argument?
Question: I’m trying to delete a partition on a UFD using Diskpart. I am running it through an elevated CMD prompt. But the problem is it reports that I am…
Seagate External hard drive not working
Question: My Seagate 2tb hard drive suddenly stopped working, the motor is working but the led is not blinking. It’s not even showing any trace on disk management or in…