Category: Questions

Question: I use USB/IDE/SATA converters a lot and on the two that I have now, I sometimes get errors copying files to drives. It only happens when I’m copying big…

Question: Hi guys. My laptop (Dell XPS 13) won’t boot – stop code critical process died. I didn’t get a chance to back up and it wouldn’t let me enter…

Question: I have a Dish Satellite Hopper 3. It has an option for an external hard drive. I went to plug into it a Western Digital 8TB external hard drive…

Question: Will a single USB 3.0 port have sufficient power (via a non-powered hub) to run two external 2.5″ platter hard drives (the type that don’t require an AC power…

Question: Been looking at buying a Hard Drive recently for a while and researched a lot. It seemed all the enterprise ones should work with desktop computers too as long…

Question: So, my PC is in an odd state right now. I’ll try to outline the order of events that led me here: I updated Windows 10 x64 to the…

Question: I have a Western Digital Elements WDBAAU0010HBK External Hard Drive. I’ve not used it for a year or so, but connected it and powered it up today with the…

Question: My PC shows that the system reserved and the windows partitions are fragmented above 10%. I kept the defrag option running within Windows but there is no impact on…

Question: Ok so im going to use my old hard drive as a game drive because I just ordered a 240GB SSD (with d-ram i might add) but when doing…

Question: I’m confused about the Spin Retry Count S.M.A.R.T. attribute value. On one particular hard drive, I see a raw value of 0, which the popular CrystalDiskInfo v7.0.5 interprets as…