Imaging new hard drive in Windows 7 laptop?
Question: I’m upgrading my Windows 7 laptop to a new hard drive. How can I clone or image the old hard drive over to the new hard drive, so that…
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Question: I’m upgrading my Windows 7 laptop to a new hard drive. How can I clone or image the old hard drive over to the new hard drive, so that…
Question: Im gettings strange error messages in the terminal. This is the output of dmesg: ata4.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x78 SErr 0x400000 action 0x6 frozen ata4.00: irq_stat 0x08000000, interface…
Question: I just bought a new external hard drive (WD Elements – 1 TB). In a PC with Windows 7, I formatted it by Right-clicking the drive > Format (Quick…
Question: I heard it’s not recommended because of all the writing on the drive? (My friend wants to know) Answer: You don’t download bittorrent data at SSD speeds (usually). ?Why…
Question: I have remote access (including root access) to a Ubuntu 9 server, but can’t inspect it physically or reboot it. I want to find out the manufacturer and model…
Question: I am looking for a new internal hard drive for laptop and found the terms like Bare drive and OEM drive. I searched the net and found that bare…
Question: It seems that there are many tools out there for Mac OS X that test a hard drive for bad blocks by doing a Read/Verify pass. That is, they…
Question: Does LBA always specify sectors as 512?bytes even if the drive is formatted with 4K?sectors? Because I read that you should format the partition boundaries so that the 4K?clusters…
Question: I just finished cloning my 120 Gb solid state drive to a 2Tb HDD using the linux dd utility. ?Windows seems to think the new HDD is a solid…
Question: Frequently my bios for some reason tries to boot to my old HDD instead of my new SSD. This is starting to get very annoying have to switch HDD…