Category: FAQs

Question: I have an Icy Dock 3.5″ external enclosure with USB 2.0 and eSATA. ?I have an Intel DG45ID motherboard with USB 2.0 and eSATA ports. ?In the past I…

Question: I was examining a new hard drive when I noticed something peculiar: It’s a 1 TB HDD from Seagate, and CrystalDiskInfo shows that it supports TRIM! AFAIK, TRIM is…

Question: Somewhere on the internets I read that gddrescue is superior to dd at least in terms of being able to distinguish between the amount of disk reads performed on…

Question: I’m trying, under Windows 7, to run a virtual machine with VMWare Player from an OS installed on a physical partition. However, when I boot the virtual machine, VMWare…

Question: There are 3 terms used in the Windows defrager. Relocated, consolidated and defragmented. Can someone give me some clarification of them? Answer: The only explanation I have found is…

Question: I have a 1 TB AgentGoFlex Seagate external HDD. Lately it was causing some issues like a few folders which had data were not showing any files.? A?few folders…

Question: Defragmenting an SSD drive is a bad idea and Windows 7 is (should be?) smart enough not to schedule defragmentation on such drives. However, I’ve opened up Disk Defragmenter…

Question: When I tried mounting an external hard drive connected via usb I got the error quoted below. So far I’ve tried using ntfsfix and chkdsk. My operating system is…

Question: I have Windows 8, and none of the metro UI apps were working, so I downloaded a registry fix from Microsoft. I ran it, and during that time I…

Question: I’m just about to set up my hard drives with RAID 0. ?Is it really as risky as people say it is? Answer: RAID 0 doubles your chance of…