HD failure questions
Question: I recently had one of my home PC hard drives fail. ?It was in a striped raid, so I had to rebuild the raid (no data lost, only the…
Drive still showing in file explorer after unplugging.
Question: I hooked up a hard drive to my computer to format it, did that, turned my computer off, unplugged the hard drive, and when I came back to file…
Western Digital WD20EACS
WD20EACS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD20EACS Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB 5400RPM SATA 3GB/s 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard…
differences between disk clone and disk image in Macrium Reflect
Question: I am reading the Macrium Reflect doc: A Disk Image stores the information required to completely restore disks (or their individual partitions) exactly as they were when the image…
Converting old IDE Hard Drive to SATA (questions about adapters)
Question: Hi, I have old IDE Hard Drive that I want to put in a “newer” PC that only supports SATA.I plan to buy this one: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32804801616.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.4c5a6127mX6jtE Answer:I would get…
Western Digital WD2009FYPX
WD2009FYPX Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD2009FYPX Western Digital RE4-GP 2TB 5400RPM SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache 3.5-inch Internal Hard…
Why are some hard disk enclosures limited in hard drive capacity?
Question: Why are these hard drive enclosures advertised as having 160 GB maximum capacity? http://amazon.co.uk/dp/B008MRBMPA ? USB 2.0 interface (Compatible with USB 1.1), Up to 480 Mbps data ?transfer rates,…
Old hard drive and a brand new pc
Question: So if i bought a new pc and i want to put my old hard drive into my new pc .will it have all my stuff or will it…
Western Digital WD2005FBYZ
WD2005FBYZ Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD2005FBYZ-01YCBB2 Western Digital 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about…
Can’t attach VMDK to Virtual Machine (Thumb Drive mounted as Raw Disk)?
Question: I’m trying to boot from a thumb drive in VirtualBox on Windows. The thumb drive has a copy of Windows 7, and its bootable. I created a VMDK using…