How to wipe a USB hard drive
Question: I have a USB hard drive that I’m planning on donating. ?Before I donate it, however, I want to be sure that it has been completely and unrecoverably wiped…
Can GPT format system recognised another MBR format drive ? Can two HDD one GPT(os) and another MBR (backup) be used together in one system?
Question: Can GPT format system recognised another MBR format drive ? Can two HDD one GPT(os) and another MBR (backup) be used together in one system? My Question is:- In…
Seagate ST3160815A
ST3160815A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST3160815AS Seagate Barracuda 160GB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s 3.5-inch 8MB Cache Internal H. All information…
Does a new hard drive contain random noise or all zeroed-out bits?
Question: My Google-fu has been useless here, and my knowledge of low-level storage details is terrible. Does a brand-new, right-off-the-shelf hard drive contain all random noise, or do they come…
Noisy but working HDD with pretty much all bad sectors?
Question: What title says, the only problem my drive ever had since day 1 is being noisy, you can hear sort of a “blrblrlbrlblrblr” everytime the HDD has to write…
Seagate ST3160812A
ST3160812A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST3160812AS Seagate Barracuda 160GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information…
Windows chkdsk replaced bad cluster – are files now corrupted?
Question: I ran chkdsk on a drive and when it got to stage 4 (verifying file data), this message appeared for some files: Windows replaced bad clusters in file ######of…
Upgrading to PCIe SSD – Should I clone my boot drive (SATA SSD) or my main storage (HDD)?
Question: I currently have a 240 GB SSD as a boot drive and a 1TB HDD for storage. I’m upgrading this with a 2 TB M.2 SSD. The new SSD…
Seagate ST3160215A
ST3160215A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST3160215AS Seagate Barracuda 160GB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s 2MB Cache 3.5-inch Internal H. All information…
How do I extend the size of an NTFS partition?
Question: I’m absolutely blown away by how impossible this task appearing to be. I’ve been through probably a hundred separate Google search results, every single one explaining how to “right…