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…
Seagate ST320011A
ST320011A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 20GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST320011A Seagate Barracuda 20GB 7200RPM EIDE 2MB Cache 3.5-inch Low Profile (1.0 inch) Hard…
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…
Seagate ST92011A
ST92011A Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 20GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST92011A Seagate 20GB 5400RPM IDE/EIDE Laptop 2MB Cache DMA/ATA-100 (ULTRA) 2.5-inch Hard Drive. All…
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…
Seagate ST3200827A
ST3200827A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 200GB and featuring a IDE interface. PCB-ST3200827AS Seagate 200GB St3200827as 3.ahh 100387566 N SATA 3.5 PCb. All information about the…
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…