Do hard drives lie?
Question: In the days of old, I remember getting drive errors, but it seems that modern drives never report errors, but instead make a best effort to return you something.…
Seagate ST31000340AS
ST31000340AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST31000340AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Why can data be recovered after formatting?
Question: If a quick format just marks bits as writable, and a normal format writes 0s to the entire disk, why do people bother with DBAN, and why are multiple…
Seagate ST31000333AS
ST31000333AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST31000333AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
How to copy files while not modifying the file creation times at all?
Question: How to copy files while not modifying the file creation times at all? Just like the cut and paste works: it doesn’t modify the file creation times at all.…
Seagate ST31000322CS
ST31000322CS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST31000322CS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
In chkdsk, what is an online scan?
Question: Running Windows 8.0 Pro, chkdsk has a /scan option that Runs a online scan on the volume (sic). What is an online scan? My guess is that it runs…
Seagate ST1000VX003
ST1000VX003 Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST1000VX003 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Unable to Write Zeros to Bad Sectors/Hard Disk Not Counting Reallocated Sectors
Question: I have a drive that is reporting that the current pending sectors is “45”. I have used badblocks to identify the sectors and I have been trying to write…
Seagate ST1000VX001
ST1000VX001 Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST1000VX001 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…