Does or will exFAT support symlinks?
Question: I’ve just acquired a brand new laptop. Did split my ssd in 3 partitions, one for win7, one for macOSX and one shared data partition. I chose exFAT for…
Does the order of partitions matter?
Question: I see that most people tend to make /boot, swap, Windows System partition, etc first. And some say that it’ll be faster to do so, while others say ‘outer…
Can you clone a larger drive onto a smaller drive (used space fits on the smaller)
Question: I have a 500GB drive which is about 50GB full. I got a 80GB SSD, which has 74.5GB of available space. I want to clone the system drive onto…
Cannot access external drive in Windows 10 Linux Subsystem bash
Question: I’m using Ubuntu 16.04 over the Windows 10 Linux subsystem. When I plug in an NTFS external hard drive (D:) I cannot access it over the bash, when I…
See if HDD is in Sleep Mode for Windows
Question: Is there a way for me to see if my hard drive is actually spinning or in sleep mode under Windows 7?I am looking for answers for both internal…
Disk operations freeze Debian
Question: I have just installed Debian testing on my new desktop and I am not very happy with performance – when I perform a disk intensive operation, e.g. upgrade packages…
What does “Write cache buffer flushing” mean
Question: As in the Windows 7 Disk Policy Options: Enable Write Caching on the device Turn off Windows write-cache buffer flushing on the device Is the first the cache on…
How should I understand “Current Pending Sector Count” in CrystalDiskInfo reports?
Question: My USB disks keeps showing (after each Check Disk pass) keeps informing me about new clusters added to Bad Clusters File: but it does not list them as “damaged…
How to do a hexdump of first track of HDD?
Question: How would i do a hexdump in Ubuntu for the first track of a HDD? I am looking for a winhex-esque output if that makes sense. The first track…
Why are 4k reads in hdd/ssd benchmarks slower than writes?
Question: There are several benchmark tools available to test the speed of a pc drive. Here is an benchmark example of a SATA SSD: Sequential Read : 718.498 MB/s Sequential…