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…
How can I shrink a Logical Volume, and re-allocate the freed space into a new partition on the same drive?
Question: I have a drive, sda. It has two partitions: sda1: /bootsda2: LVM managed in Volume Group volgrp01 volgrp01 contains the following Logical Volumes: lv_root (30 GB)lv_swap (8 GB)lv_scratch (430…
HDD failure
Question: So i was at my pc, but then it just froze, i restarted my pc, and got Reboot and Select proper Boot device or insert boot device and press…
Transferring Old HDD with Windows to New Build
Question: Hi, I’m currently planning a new build for my roommate. He found his old PC from like 2005, and would like to get the files from the HDD onto…
Are there any disadvantages of having a “free fall sensor” on a hard disk drive?
Question: This is a general question that came out of a specific comparison between the Western Digital Scorpio WD3200BEKT and Western Digital Scorpio WD3200BJKT (which is the same as the…
Can’t assign new disk, stuck in RAW
Question: I recently built a new pc. Installed windows on an ssd. All good. Went to disk manger, tried creating a new simple volume on the hdd and disk manager…
Why doesn’t installing GRUB on MBR destroy the partition table?
Question: I have read that my partition table is stored in the MBR. And write operations are performed sector-wise i.e, even if you want to change just a few bytes…
Is my hard drive dying?
Question: Hello everyone, Recently I started having problems with games and textures loading for a looong time, with huge chunks of texture missing (for example in Forza Horizon 4 there…
Advanced Format HDDs, USB enclosures and Windows / Linux compatibility
Question: The environment I just bought a 1 TB Seagate Barracuda ST1000LM048 HDD. It’s an Advanced Format drive, with 4096-byte sectors. I planned using it with my cheap-but-trusted (and I…