Does cloning a hard drive also copy over errors like bad sectors?
Question: For example, I have Windows 7 on a hard drive where SMART reports “many bad sectors”. If I buy a new hard drive, and attempt to clone over Windows…
Can you recover data from an SSD without power?
Question: The SATA power connector on my SSD is burnt. The SATA data connector is fine. Is there a way to recover any data? I’m looking for a DIY solution…
Western Digital WD7500BPKX
WD7500BPKX Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 750GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD7500BPKX Western Digital Black 750GB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 16MB Cache 2.5-inch Internal Hard…
Windows 7 does not recognize a Linux formatted hard drive
Question: I’ve got a problem with a couple hard drives, I recently switched from a Debian Linux install to Windows 7, installation went without problems but now I find that…
FOUR of my 8TB Western Digital HDs just had their PCBs fry!
Question: I am sick to my stomach over this. I was just building a new Windows 10 PC with a ton of hard drives for the sole reason of not…
Western Digital WD7500BPKT
WD7500BPKT Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 750GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD7500BPKT-75PK4T0 Western Digital Scorpio Black 750GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 16MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard…
Is there a performance penalty in using a mapped share from the same machine instead of the local filesystem?
Question: I have a machine setup to share c:apps. I then map the share to drive letter Z: on the same machine. ?Would an application running from the Z: drive…
Hard Drives Not Showing Up In Windows, Disk Manager or BIOS
Question: Hi there,I have a few HDD’s from my old PC (a 1tb boot disk and a 2tb storage disk). Something in my old PC finally failed (it was a…
Western Digital WD740ADFD
WD740ADFD Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 74GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD740ADFD Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10000RPM SATA 7-Pin Internal 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Low…
How information is stored?
Question: In the old times 8 bit information and 8 bit computers got along well There was an ASCII of 8 bits so a single byte is a single charand…