Category: FAQs

Question: Today I was working when all of a sudden a power loss (in the entire house) occurs. I tried to reboot the machine but it states that there’s an…

Question: I have a motherboard with just few SATA slots but have to put quite few hard disks in the box, so naturally I easily ran out of free slots.…

Question: Shorter version: Hard disk corrupt, vendor claims warranty does not apply since it was “due to a virus” and “problems due to software are not covered under the warranty”.…

Question: Hi I am very new to Raspberry Pi environment, so looking for a bit of help to format a usb ?hard disk drive. I ran lsblk and got sda…

Question: So I’m looking into the world of external Hard Drives bigger than I can easily comprehend (1-2TB sort of sizes. A few years ago I thought 100GB was big.…

Question: My hard drive became full. I am looking for ways to locate the things that use most of my disk space. I played with cron once so it may…

Question:Closed 8 years ago. ? Why is it so that 32 bit is limited to 4 GB RAM but it can easily support 1 TB HDDs? How does the binary…

Question: I’m trying to recover files on a dying hard drive, using GNU’s ddrescue. The drive is rather large (1TB), and all I have to store the image is another…

Question: So, let’s say you have a notebook, and you encrypt the entire hard drive. Whenever you boot it’s gonna ask for a password, meaning nobody can access your data…

Question: How can I determine if a PC s hard drive is SATA or IDE, and also if it s a 3.5 one or 2.5 one. Answer: It would have…