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…
Can someone explain RAID-0 in plain English?
Question: I’ve heard about and read about RAID throughout the years and understand it theoretically as a way to help e.g. server PCs reduce the chance of data loss, but…
Disk 0 (C:) missing from Task Manager Performance Tab in Windows 10
Question: In both Windows 10 and Windows Server 2012R2, I am missing my C: drive (which is Hard Drive 0 or Disk 0) from the Performance tab in Task Manager.…