How much space to leave free on HDD or SSD?
Question: In the informal (i.e. journalistic) technology press, and in online technology blogs and discussion forums, one commonly encounters anecdotal advice to leave some amount of space free on hard…
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Question: In the informal (i.e. journalistic) technology press, and in online technology blogs and discussion forums, one commonly encounters anecdotal advice to leave some amount of space free on hard…
Question: I would like to know exact instructions for moving the page file from 1 disk location to another disk in Windows 7. I.e. from an SSD to a non-SSD…
Question: I just installed several new HDDs in a machine and I happened to notice one of them had two errors reported, so I ran smartctl -x on it and…
Question: I use a big single partition on a 1TB platter drive with Windows 10. ?I would like to shrink the partition down so that I can mirror the drive…
Question: Using Virtual Box, how can I install an OS to a secondary, physical disk, and boot it in both (at separate times) Virtual Box, and as a typical secondary…
Question: The hard drive of my laptop died, the manufacturer wants me to send it so that they can investigate, but I’m concerned that the drive might contain sensitive information.…
Question: I was reading about magical Chinese drives. How would this be done? The post talks about a ‘looped mode’ and comments suggest having a different controller to lie to…
Question: I have an old CRT connected to laptop as a secondary display. As you know, when CRT turns on it degausses itself; remember that sound when you turn it…
Question: I use HD Tune to measure performance of the hard drive. ?The tests typically take 2-3 minutes and the transfer rate of a regular hard drive decreases dramatically as…
Question: I’ve noticed on many small PC cases that the hard drives are installed vertically. In midi cases, towers and others of a larger housing, they are in the horizontal…