Everything about the HDD!
Got a question about hard drives? You’ve come to the right place. This category is dedicated to answering the most common (and complex) queries about HDD technology.
Question:What can I do if my USB flash drive is write-protected or read-only? ?? ??(3 answers) ?? ????Cannot format USB flash drive, everything claims it’s write protected ?? ??(7 answers)…
Question: There is considerable interest in shingled drives. These put data tracks so close together that you can’t write to one track without clobbering the next. This may increase capacity…
Question: I have 3 physical drives in my Mac Pro with Mac OS X 10.6.4. Occasionally after rebooting the machine, the disk numbering changes such that the /dev/disk# does not…
Question: I have a 4 TB hard disk that has 4k physical sector size (Advanced Format) and I attached it to two SATA host controllers (one internal and one in…
Question: After changing one HDD I accidentally connected my hard drives in reverse order, so non-system HDD became master and SSD with the system became slave. The interesting thing is,…
Question:Closed 11 years ago. ? Possible Duplicate: ?Best program to visualize file system usage on Windows? ? Hi, I have about 2 terabytes of total space spread over several drives..…
Question: I’ve done some quick Googling but didn’t find an answer. I’ve put an SSD in my MacBook, and at the same time moved the original hard drive to the…
Question: I have to recover my 1TB USB HD. I’m using ddrescue to accomplish this. ?Is there a way that I can resume ddrescue once I start it? I’m using…
Question: I have an out of warranty laptop that has an hdd with bad sectors. I say that because ?chkdsk /r got stuck for over 24 hours at certain %.…
Question: I was taking a look at a HDD and I found a document (from Toshiba, link: 2.5-Inch SATA HDD mq01abdxxx) that says: ? Drive interface: Serial ATA, Revision 2.6…