Western Digital Green drive from 512 byte sectors (jumpered) to 4k byte sectors (removal of jumper)
Question: I was using a WD20EARS drive with pins 7 and 8 jumpered in order to use it on an OS that doesn’t support 4k sectors. ?But now, I want…
Seagate ST250LT003
ST250LT003 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST250LT003 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Will reformatting my hard drive fix bad sectors on it?
Question: Assuming I’m not concerned with the data on it. Answer: It wont “fix” bad sectors, but it should mark them as bad (unusable) and therefore no data would be…
Seagate ST920217AS
ST920217AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 20GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST920217AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
change directory to network drive in Cygwin
Question: I have a new wireless router in my home and have a 3 TB drive hooked up to it. I would like to write a backup script in cygwin…
Seagate ST9200827AS
ST9200827AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 200GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST9200827AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Force cloned hard-disk image upon a smaller hard-disk
Question: I have a image which was taken with Clonezilla as SAVEDISK on a 160GB harddrive.Now a newer version of the PC released with a 120GB harddrive, the space in…
Seagate ST9200423ASG
ST9200423ASG Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 200GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST9200423ASG hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
What is causing hard drive grinding?
Question: My windows (XP) hard drive grinds a lot and it negatively affects the performance of other applications. I have plenty of RAM and have already verified that this hard…
Seagate ST9200420AS
ST9200420AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 200GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST9200420AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…