How to update samsung’s SSD firmware?
Question: I’m having problems with my SSD (samsung 850 PRO) on linux so I wanted to update the firmware. I reinstalled windows and downloaded the magician software. It recognizes my…
Know if external hard drive dead?
Question: I’m an assistant editor and today one of our 10 TB G-Drives stopped working. Light turns on but disk does not spin, not readable by computers. I happened to…
Western Digital WD6400AAVS
WD6400AAVS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 640GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Western Digital WD6400AAVS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure…
Unallocated space at the end of HDDs
Question: Why Windows leaves some unused space at the end of some drives when creating partitions? Those drives are MBR, not GPT. Their purpose is to store user data, not…
Dying Seagate 3TB HDD
Question: So like 4 days ago my HDD wasn’t showing up in Windows one time when I turned it on, so I shutdown, checked the cables and turned it on…
Western Digital WD6400AAKS
WD6400AAKS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 640GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Western Digital WD6400AAKS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure…
Reallocate bad sector [Linux]
Question: I try to reallocate a bad sector. After reading this Question my understanding is, that the hard-drive tries to reallocate automatically. To trigger the process I tried to write…
Recovering data from RAW Harddrive
Question: I’m currently having a real hard time with a client’s external hard drive. From years of unplugging it without safe removal corrupted the drive. Usually Exploring the drive via…
Western Digital WD6400AADS
WD6400AADS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 640GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Western Digital WD6400AADS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure…
Find hard drive volume number in Windows 7
Question: Read carefully: I need to identify the volume number not the serial of D:. This does not provide the volume number… vol D: The volume number for C: is……