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……
Why does my SSD prevent my computer from booting?
Question: I have gone through 3 different WD Blue “3D NAND” SSDs. I have returned the first two because I thought they were defective. When the SSD is plugged in,…
Western Digital WD6400AACS
WD6400AACS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 640GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Western Digital WD6400AACS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure…
Hard drive has this tendency to just shut off
Question: I have this ‘new’ Dell work laptop for less than a month now. Something happened today that happened once on this laptop just recently before and also rarely on…