What is the difference between a disk block and a sector?
Question: I know that a sector is the unit in which a track is splitted, but I had this doubt since I was looking for information about the maximum number…
Moving hard drive to new pc
Question: Hi, on my hard drive currently I have a massive database with data stretching back about 5 years through an app called proform. I am installing win10 onto a…
Western Digital WD2500JS
WD2500JS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Western Digital WD2500JS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure…
Virus hides files, shrinks total capacity
Question: A virus infected my hard drive. The drive’s capacity is 1 TB and has different type of files on it, 400 GB+ in total. Suddenly all the files disappear,…
Hard Drive has Died
Question: Hi. Just recently my hard drive has died. It’s an HDD i use for my steam games. I noticed Steam wasn’t responding and I tried to exit by right…
Western Digital WD2500JD
WD2500JD Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Western Digital WD2500JD hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure…
Secondary Internal HDD Vanishes/Reappears Randomly In Windows 8.1
Question: To clarify, I’m referring to entire disks disappearing, not just partitions. The PC in question is an HP Pavilion 2325DX. Both drives are variants of HGST. One is in…
File Explorer Does Not Say that Hard Drive is Filling Up
Question: Hello, I just installed a new Seagate Barracuda 2TB hard drive in my PC about an hour ago and it seems to be working fine. I can put files…
Western Digital WD2500BS
WD2500BS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Western Digital WD2500BS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure…
How do heads find the data stored on a hard disk drive?
Question: I heard that to read or write data on a hard disk drive, we need the cylinder id and the sector ?id. First move the hdd’s r/w heads to…