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ST3200826A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 200GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST3200826AS Seagate Barracuda 200GB 7200RPM SATA-I 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Low Profile (1.0 inch) Hard…

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…

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Seagate ST3200822A

ST3200822A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 200GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST3200822AS Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 200GB 7200RPM SATA 1.5Gbps 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All…

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…

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Seagate ST3200820A

ST3200820A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 200GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST3200820A Seagate Barracuda 200GB 7200RPM Ultra IDE / ATA-100 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.…

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…

Transferring Old HDD with Windows to New Build