Category: FAQs

Question: I have a Linux box with five disk drives, one of which I want to replace. ?The offending drive is /dev/sdc, but that doesn’t tell me how to distinguish…

Question: Is there any way I can view contents of hard drive in hex or binary? I’m currently using debian Answer: Yes, you can open any block device as a…

Question: I have a FlexBook13 with two physical drives: My problem is that there is not enough space on Disk 1 (28GB) to install all Windows 10 updates. I’ve tried…

Question: For external hard drives in this question, I’m referring to traditional HDDs; the kind with spinning metal inside of them (no RAM or flash-based super-high-performance hardware): Is there a…

Question: I have an internal hard drive that I use as storage where I dump the stuff I need backed up. I want to format it to exFAT instead of…

Question:How Many times can we low level format a disk drive without damaging it? ?? ??(2 answers) ?? ???Closed 6 years ago. ? Is there a limit to the number…

Question: My laptop is almost dead, so I wanted to reuse every piece possible. I have connected my Hitachi 2?” laptop hard drive in my PC, and I am currently…

Question: Here is a screenshot in Windows Disk Management showing the partition layout on my disk: I wish to expand the Windows partition (C: drive, “Boot”) into the 16 GB…

Question: ?????? ??Want to improve this question? Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations by editing this post. ? ?? Closed 6 years ago. ????…

Question: Mean Time to Failure (MTTF) is usually given in terms of hours, and by doing some calculations, it seems that a disk should fail only after a good number…