Can a short-circuit damage a hard disk drive?
Question: Everything was working fine until one day the computer would shutdown a split second after the power button was pressed. All the fans would start spinning and lights would…
Does computer weight increase as I add data to my Hard disk?
Question:How much does a gigabyte worth of data physically weigh on a hard disk? ?? ??(7 answers) ?? ???Closed 7 years ago. ? I recently purchased a new Dell laptop.…
What is “cloning a hard drive” and how does one go about doing it?
Question: What does cloning a hard drive mean? Is it just simply copying over all the “CONTENT” of the hard drive EXCLUDING the operating system, drivers, all the installed programs?…
Mac OS X This Disk doesn’t use the GUID partition Scheme when upgrading to Mac OS Sierra
Question: I want to do the update to the latest version of Mac OS X Sierra.When I launch the update I get following error message: This Disk doesn’t use the…
How do computers know which operating system to boot?
Question: When I turn on my computer, what is the software that selects which operating system to boot, and how does it decide when given multiple options? More specifically, what…
is it possible to estimate the death time of a hdd?
Question: is it possible to test a hard disk and predict when it will die on you (roughly)? Answer: While @Alex Howansky’s answer made me chuckle endlessly, I think what…
Windows USB Tool and Unetbootin never detects external hard drive
Question: I like to try out different Linux distro’s and I don’t like partitioning my main drive. I have plenty of actual hard drives that I can use for that…
How is the extra mSATA SSD disk used/configured in a Dell XPS laptop?
Question: Some machines in the new XPS laptop range from Dell come with a regular, large (500GB+) HDD and an additional 32GB m-SATA SSD. The only detail I can find…
Is BIOS considered an OS?
Question:Closed 8 years ago. ? This question comes to mind when dealing with RAID arrays, but is not necessarily applicable to the subject. ? How is that the BIOS is…
Wide SATA? connector with no break in the middle
Question: I need to connect my hard drive from my Lenovo T470p to my desktop, but it uses this wierd connector. ?It looks like the standard wide SATA, but there’s…