HDD FAQs

ST3160022ACE Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Seagate ST3160022ACE hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…

System went read-only suddenly

Question: My web server (Linux, Debian Wheezy) has suddenly gone read-only, MySQL have crashed (but Apache didn’t) – giving errors when pressing tab to complete file name as: ? bash:…

Secondary HDD preventing windows from booting

Question: Hey everyone. Recently i had a problem with my pc where it got a BCD error. For some reason it didnt let me fix via bootrec So i formatted…

HDDs

Seagate ST3160021A

ST3160021A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Seagate ST3160021A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…

Why doesn’t Windows 7 always create 100MB partition?

Question: I have two 500GB hard drives in my laptop. I have formatted both so they contain nothing. When I’m installing Windows 7, depending on the drive I choose to…

Write speed of my HDD is extremely slow

Question: I bought a 3TB HDD (ST3000DM007) 5400rpm about a year ago and I think ever since I got the HDD it wouldn’t work as I wished, so I just…

HDDs

Seagate ST9160821A

ST9160821A Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Seagate ST9160821A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…

How to discover true identity of hard disk used in counterfeit external hard disk?

Question: I have 2 fake external hard drives that claim to have a storage capacity of 2TB. I pulled the enclosure apart and the hard drives seems to be refurbished…

Help me on how to remove WD HDD password (don’t know it though yikes)