Category: Questions

Question: My computer is suffering of slow-downs and I’m not surprised (it’s around 6years old). Here’s what I’ve verified: They are not very frequent (only a couple of times a…

Question: I am looking for a way to clone single disk drive to more than one disk drive at the same time. I have prepared system images on 1TB disks,…

Question: I have a problem with my computer: I’m using Windows 7 x64, and when I try to acces the Downloads folder, it takes a long time. After waiting for…

Question: I have Windows 7 x64 and a brand new USB external 2 TB hard drive. I formatted it and I confirm it’s empty. I enabled BitLocker, and two things…

Question: I run check disk pretty regularly on my hard drive, and lately it’s been saying that I have some bad sectores (66, to be exact). I’ve run smartctl and…

Question: Would this make the term ‘disk drive’ a slight misnomer? Also, I thought RAM was equivalent to the term ‘volatile’ memory, but apprently ‘hard disk drives’ are also RAM…

Question: In order to do disk rotation in a server, I need to know the current running time (online) time of a disk on a Linux CentOS release 6.3 (Final)…

Question:Fixing bad sectors ?? ??(5 answers) ?? ???Closed 7 years ago. ? If I know that a hard disk has bad sectors, how can I “mark” them so that Windows…

Question: I have a Dell Latitude E6400 and I would like to know how secure setting a BIOS HDD Password is? Does this apply some form of encryption to the…

Question: I’m using S.M.A.R.T. to check my hard drives, I recently purchased a used WD Caviar Blue 2.5″ and I’ve noticed that the Load_Cycle_Count has already exceeded the 300k mark,…