Moving Raid 0 disks to a new PC
Question: Hi everyone, I have an old XPS 8100 which I changed approximately upgraded most of it over years and now it is the time to upgrade the motherboard and…
Will my RAID0 stay intact when I move it to a new computer?
Question: My primary drive is a 250GB WD SATA drive. So, I added 2x 500GB 7,200 RPM WD SATA drives into my Windows Vista box and created a 1TB RAID0.…
My Internal HDD keeps disconnecting and reconnecting after a few seconds.
Question: My internal Hard Disk Drive disconnects at times, and reconnects after a few seconds. I don’t know why this is happening. HDD’s health is still at 100%. I’m using…
Is partitioning hard drives on Mac OS X recommended or advisable?
Question: I’m using Mac OS X more and more, having come from Windows XP. ?Since Win9x I’ve been partitioning my drives into C and D partitions. ?C is the Systems/Programs…
Can I view contents of dynamic disk with a virtual OS?
Question: I just discovered a hard drive I was using for extraneous storage was somehow, on my part, accidentally converted to a “dynamic disk”. I always wondered what that meant…
SMART User Capacity and fdisk -l size value differ. Why? Security issue?
Question: I’m just wondering why the size of my drive that smartctl (“User Capacity”) shows differ from the value that fdisk -l, dmesg, hdparm shows and differ from the drive…
Archival Dvds
Question: I’m archiving my music, older and current windows isos and some offline games and programs , and gpu drivers on DVDs. I use verbatim m-discs, verbatim gold archival dvds,…
How to track which program causes my harddrive to spin up
Question: I have a strange problem: Every half hour one of my hard disks gets powered on again. I recognize this by the sound of a hard disk spinning up.…
Question about external hard drive
Question: I bought a external hard drive for backing up data I care about and I was wondering is there any form of a catch or anything I need to…
Hard drive not working after some partitioning
Question: I guess I know the ultimate answer already but there’s too many variables that don’t line up for me to be satisfied with it. Last night and this morning…