Category: FAQs

Question: I have an older computer with a SATA-I connection. ?My hard drive crashed and I need to buy a new hard drive. ?Will I run into problems if I…

Question: A friend asked me if I could fix his laptop, with the description “black screen on boot”. Having tried using his laptop I immediately noticed that the laptop’s BIOS…

Question: Is it worth to spend money on a small capacity HDD (~5-20 GB, very cheap though) to use it as swapping area for the OS? I do believe it…

Question: The limited writings and capacityprice of the SSD are known drawbacks as the sensitivity to shocks of the HDD. The hybrid SSHD (standard HDD+SSD cache) have a classic HD…

Question: I am running out of disk space on C:-drive. We see many (millions of) files in C:ProgramDataMicrosoftCryptoRSAMachineKeys What are these files ? Why are so many files created? How…

Question: One of Seagate s recently popular hard drive models at the consumer and enterprise level is the ST3000DM001 3TB hard drive. It seems that many users in different usage…

Question: I have the same problem most people have: how to create a reliable personal storage solution with the fact that: Hard drives fail with alarming regularity. ?Losing files is…

Question: I’m on Windows 7 from boot to VHD. I got a lot of RAM and my pagefile is disabled. This OS can be up for days, even up to…

Question: I have a very old(1989?) 80286 computer. I can tell it was a very good machine in it’s day. It has a harddrive installed. I finally got a PS/2…

Question: I have an external hard drive that I only use for storage, I almost never write data to it but it can be useful if I want to access…