Can I change from BIOS IDE mode to AHCI mode at any time?
Question:How can I enable AHCI on a SATA drive after installing Windows? ?? ??(1 answer) ?? ???Closed 7 years ago. ? Currently my Windows 7 computer is crashing during startup,…
Booting from new harddrive, however new drive doesn’t become (C:)
Question: Alright so recently I decided to upgrade my laptop storage from a HDD with 150-ish GB of storage, to a 500GB SSD. To my surprise, when opening up the…
S.M.A.R.T. Hard drive failure test?
Question: I’m working on my mom’s computer and she freaked because it told her “There was an imminent hard drive failure about to occurr.” ?I did some digging and found…
External HDD disconnect suddenly
Question: I have a 2 tb laptop HDD. I used a case to use it on my pc. Recently it started disconnecting and reconnecting suddenly. Which causes apps and games…
hard drive sectors vs. tracks
Question: In one rotation, how many sectors are passed over and how many tracks are passed over? If you know the average value of sectors per track for a hard…
HDD Not Initiated
Question: I just got a new 4TB WD RED NAS HDD and when I plugged it in, the drive can be seen in BIOS. However, whenever I try to format…
I emptied my hard drive, but it still has 9GB on it
Question: I have a secondary disk drive 465GB as reported by Windows explorer. I’m going to install a secondary O/S on it, so I moved EVERYTHING on it to another…
Is it worth it to install hdd with sata1 cable in laptop?
Question: I have a notebook which comes with sata 3 hdd and sata1 DVD-ROM. I want to replace hdd with ssd and with the help of caddy want to install…
Does Windows (or NTFS) support placeholder files with fake sizes?
Question: Every time I start Photoshop, it immediately creates a 2GB temporary file on the hard drive where the cache is located. It’s a platter drive, and I don’t hear…
Is there anyway to move Windows 10 from HDD to new SSD?
Question: Hello. I have Windows 10 and Linux Mint 19.3 installed on my HDD. I recently bought an SSD but I’ll only have enough space for Windows. I’m planning on…