Windows 7 – “A disk read error occured. Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart”
Question: Problem: When I switch on my PC, after BIOS POST, a cursor is blinking for about 5 seconds and then I am getting this error message: A disk read…
Windows 10 not detecting HDD, but BIOS does
Question: Hi, I managed to get everything set up but I’m noticing that the HDD doesn’t seem to be in windows at all. It doesn’t appear in device manager, but…
Seagate ST317221A
ST317221A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 17.2GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Seagate ST317221A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
How to wipe a USB hard drive
Question: I have a USB hard drive that I’m planning on donating. ?Before I donate it, however, I want to be sure that it has been completely and unrecoverably wiped…
Can GPT format system recognised another MBR format drive ? Can two HDD one GPT(os) and another MBR (backup) be used together in one system?
Question: Can GPT format system recognised another MBR format drive ? Can two HDD one GPT(os) and another MBR (backup) be used together in one system? My Question is:- In…
Seagate ST3160815A
ST3160815A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Seagate ST3160815A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Does a new hard drive contain random noise or all zeroed-out bits?
Question: My Google-fu has been useless here, and my knowledge of low-level storage details is terrible. Does a brand-new, right-off-the-shelf hard drive contain all random noise, or do they come…
Noisy but working HDD with pretty much all bad sectors?
Question: What title says, the only problem my drive ever had since day 1 is being noisy, you can hear sort of a “blrblrlbrlblrblr” everytime the HDD has to write…
Seagate ST3160812A
ST3160812A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Seagate ST3160812A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Windows chkdsk replaced bad cluster – are files now corrupted?
Question: I ran chkdsk on a drive and when it got to stage 4 (verifying file data), this message appeared for some files: Windows replaced bad clusters in file ######of…