What “TYPE” of harddrive is in my old 286
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…
Windows Defender Waking Up Hard Drive
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…
My C drive is 20GB large and almost full, how do I ?regain space?
Question: I have Windows 7 Ultimate installed on my PC. The C drive has a capacity of 20 GB and I have only a few applications installed. Still, the drive…
What is the fastest way to securely overwrite an old hard drive?
Question:Closed 9 years ago. ? Possible Duplicate: ?Securely erasing all data from a hard drive ? I’m going to give my HDD away, so I’m writing it full of crap…
What’s a fast way to copy a lot of files from an internal hard-drive to external (USB) storage?
Question: I have a large amount of data – about 500 GB – on the internal hard drive of a desktop PC. This includes music, videos, PDFs… you name it.…
How can I recover a crashed hard drive?
Question: My hard drive from my MacBook crashed and died hard last week. I replaced the drive with a new one, and installed 10.6/Snow Leopard on it. The old drive…
Is a home NAS reliable to keep your data on (no other backups)?
Question: The question came up while I was thinking to move some data (e.g.) pictures, old but important other data solely to the NAS (private use, no business level). My…
What’s the difference between “shutting down the computer” vs “shutting down the hard disk”?
Question: I was wondering: What’s the difference between shutting down the computer and shutting down the hard disk? Aren’t they the same thing? That is: I can’t use the computer…
How often should I run CHKDSK?
Question:Closed 8 years ago. ? For as long as I remember, I’ve been running CHKDSK once a month. However, with the advent of the “modern” operating system (i.e., Windows 7),…
Linux: Copy DVD ISO to empty hard disk / partition and boot as if it is a DVD?
Question: I have a broken DVD drive and no others available right now to burn a DVD iso to so I’d like to use a empty hard disk instead. I’ve…