Category: FAQs

Question: I bought a new laptop without windows. Now i want to install windows 8. I formated entire harddisk(file format = NTFS) and then tried to install windows 8. When…

Question: I have a 2 TB drive which was filled to >99%. I ve delete the partitions with fidsk and formatted them with mkfs.ext4. So as far as I know,…

Question: I’ve got a new hard disk. On the label there is a description of the jumper settings: One of them is: ? Jumpered pins 5 and 6 enables 1.5GB…

Question: The light blinks faintly about once a second. It is slowly driving me insane. How do I find out which program is causing this, so I can disable it?…

Question:How do heads find the data stored on a hard disk drive? ?? ??(1 answer) ?? ???Closed 3 years ago. ? I was always wondering how a hard drive finds…

Question: Let’s say I have two 2TB HDDs and I want to start my first ZFS zpool. Is it possible to create a RAIDZ with just those two discs, giving…

Question: I have a 2TB internal hard drive that might be failing. It spends several minutes at 100% usage when I first turn it on since I installed Windows 10,…

Question: From the Wikipedia page of TRIM I get the impression that TRIM was introduced to lower the writes to a SSD, but letter the file system taking case of…

Question: I’m not a linux pro, and maybe I have overlooked something in the docs, but: df -ah, for instance, returns automatically largest unit: M / G / T. simply…

Question: I am trying to create a hardlink on my C drive that points to a file on my D drive. I open up a terminal with Administrator privileges and…