Category: FAQs

Question: My Seagate Momentus XT hybrid hard drive is corrupting files on Linux. I would appreciate help from anyone, but I’d particularly like to know if other Momentus XT users…

Question: I want to move a specific file (for example a binary .exe) that occupies a specific low offset (physical position) on my HDD to a lower offset (external edge…

Question: I’m rather short on space in my system drive, and was wondering if there’s a way to move MSOCache to another drive manually, or with a tool so I…

Question: I have a Windows 7 x64 machine, which has 4 drives in it. ?One of the drives disappears when the computer resumes from sleep. ?It is consistently the same…

Question: In the days of old, I remember getting drive errors, but it seems that modern drives never report errors, but instead make a best effort to return you something.…

Question: If a quick format just marks bits as writable, and a normal format writes 0s to the entire disk, why do people bother with DBAN, and why are multiple…

Question: How to copy files while not modifying the file creation times at all? Just like the cut and paste works: it doesn’t modify the file creation times at all.…

Question: Running Windows 8.0 Pro, chkdsk has a /scan option that Runs a online scan on the volume (sic). What is an online scan? My guess is that it runs…

Question: I have a drive that is reporting that the current pending sectors is “45”. I have used badblocks to identify the sectors and I have been trying to write…

Question: Is there any way to avoid specific HDDs from spinning up at boot time? There are 3 HDDs in my HTPC (Ubuntu 12.10) and 1 SSD (boot drive). I…