Everything about the HDD!
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?…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Question: I understand that there is such a thing as a disk controller which contains a buffer, but was wondering if the CPU reads directly from this buffer, or whether…
Question: Companies try to zero-fill their hard drives several times when they decommission them, why? Surely one pass of zero-fill would do the job exactly as they need. I understand…