Category: FAQs

Question: Final update: I already knew what I needed to do to fix this problem; I just didn’t know how to do it. I was hoping there would be some…

Question: First of all, I think everyone knows that hard drives fail a lot more than the manufacturers would like to admit. Google did a study that indicates that certain…

Question: Can anyone tell me what the main differences between i.e. MBR vs GPT or any other partition scheme are? Why would one choose one over the other? I am…

Question: I’m using VirtualBox hosted on Windows 7 and the physical hard drive that one of my VM’s VDI file was on got completely borked and no longer exists. ?…

Question: I’m reinstalling Windows 7 64 bit, and I encountered an issue I’ve never seen before. I have a legit copy of Win 64 Professional, and I’ve installed it probably…

Question: I have a SATA hard drive that says it supports hot-plugging. Does that mean I can actually connect it to power and a SATA plug while my computer is…

Question: When I redirect a command’s output to a file (e.g., echo Hello > file) will that file be guaranteed to have such data right after the command exits? Or…

Question: After reading the quote below on the Casey Anthony trial (CNN) ,I am curious about where deleted files actually go on a hard drive, how they can be seen…

Question: Sometimes when I boot my laptop the hard drive makes a clicking sound (every time 16 times), ?Windows does not start and I am stuck on the boot screen…

Question: I want an SSD SATAIII because to me it represents the best combination of quietest & fastest. But there doesn’t seem to be much choice relative to 2.5″ variants…