How can I find out what is using the hard disk?
Question:Closed 9 years ago. ? Possible Duplicates: ?hard drive activity by program? ?What is causing hard drive grinding? ? Once or twice a day my computer starts writing significantly hard…
Just received a quote to repair an HDD that went bad on my old laptop 5-6 years ago. Was quoted ~$1750 to retrieve data, really? Is this a rip off?
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What do you call the area on a hard disk smaller than a sector?
Question: So I know about tracks and sectors, but what do you call the “area” on a hard disk that makes up the sector? I’m talking about the spot that…
When to partition the hard drive?
Question: Are there any special hardware wise advantages of partitioning a hard drive before OS installation compared to doing it after OS installation? (Here by advantages, I mean physical effects…
Faster recovery from a disk with bad sectors
Question: Recently I tried to dd from an unhealthy HDD to a file. I used dd if=/dev/sdb of=somefile bs=4096 conv=noerror,sync. My problem was that dd wasted a lot of time…
Dynamic vs Basic Disk – Hard Drives
Question: I have bought a removable hard drive enclosure and a 1TB hard drive to fit in it. ?Its pretty cool; it has a little handle at the front of…
What is the safe temperature limit for a consumer SATA hard drive?
Question: Background My personal desktop system at home has 5 SATA drives racked up inside. Recently my system started failing in odd ways like random kernel panics and I eventually…
Parted has no ‘resize’ command available
Question: I’m trying to resize a partition using parted, but it has no the ‘resize’ command available gchain@archbogchain@archbook:~$ sudo parted /dev/sdb GNU Parted 3.1Using /dev/sdbWelcome to GNU Parted! Type ‘help’…
Why is my Windows 7 recovery folder 53% of my disk
Question: Windows 7 Pro – 64 bit OS – 340gb SSD drive I’m down to 9% available disk space and looking to stop the bleed and cure the affliction. I’ve…
Using External Harddisk as an internal desktop SATA Harddisk
Question: I have a 2TB Western Digital MyBook Essential External Hard-disk. I wanted to use the Hard-disk as an internal hard-drive for my PC running Linux Mint. So, I dis-assembled…