Will reformatting my hard drive fix bad sectors on it?
Question: Assuming I’m not concerned with the data on it. Answer: It wont “fix” bad sectors, but it should mark them as bad (unusable) and therefore no data would be…
change directory to network drive in Cygwin
Question: I have a new wireless router in my home and have a 3 TB drive hooked up to it. I would like to write a backup script in cygwin…
Force cloned hard-disk image upon a smaller hard-disk
Question: I have a image which was taken with Clonezilla as SAVEDISK on a 160GB harddrive.Now a newer version of the PC released with a 120GB harddrive, the space in…
What is causing hard drive grinding?
Question: My windows (XP) hard drive grinds a lot and it negatively affects the performance of other applications. I have plenty of RAM and have already verified that this hard…
Why can’t RAID 0 utilise all disk space on two different sized disks?
Question: To quote the Wikipedia article on RAID: ? A RAID 0 can be created with disks of differing sizes, but the storage space added to the array by each…
Where is the software RAID information actually written?
Question: Like title says, where is the actual information which specifies which disks are being used, what order, etc…? I noticed while installing a linux distro that it was detecting…
Can’t extend C partition. How to make unallocated space “adjacent”
Question: How do I extend my C drive? From: Extend a Basic Volume ? You can add more space to existing primary partitions and logical ?drives by extending them into…
Mapping ata device number to logical device name
Question: I’m getting kernel messages about ‘ata3’. ?How do I figure out what device (/dev/sd_) that corresponds to? Answer: From http://www.phuket-data-wizards.com/blog/2011/07/16/matching-linux-ata-numbers-to-the-device-names/:The command grep ‘’ /sys/class/scsi_host/host{0..9}/unique_idwill provide output like/sys/class/scsi_host/host0/unique_id:1/sys/class/scsi_host/host1/unique_id:2/sys/class/scsi_host/host2/unique_id:0/sys/class/scsi_host/host3/unique_id:0/sys/class/scsi_host/host4/unique_id:3/sys/class/scsi_host/host5/unique_id:4/sys/class/scsi_host/host6/unique_id:5/sys/class/scsi_host/host7/unique_id:6so we can…
Can storing my HDDs airtight damage them in anyway?
Question: I have lost many electronics that I keep unused for a long time before due to the near sea (high humidity area) area that I live in. I learned…
Can’t change drive letter to previously used drive
Question: I recently upgraded my D: data drive to a larger one, like so: installed the new drive as E: copied all the files from D: to E: using robocopy…