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: I recently purchased an SSD and was wondering if there was an Operating System that allows you to swap between two different machines essentially sharing one partition? Perhaps multiple…
Question: Everything was working fine until one day the computer would shutdown a split second after the power button was pressed. All the fans would start spinning and lights would…
Question:How much does a gigabyte worth of data physically weigh on a hard disk? ?? ??(7 answers) ?? ???Closed 7 years ago. ? I recently purchased a new Dell laptop.…
Question: What does cloning a hard drive mean? Is it just simply copying over all the “CONTENT” of the hard drive EXCLUDING the operating system, drivers, all the installed programs?…
Question: I want to do the update to the latest version of Mac OS X Sierra.When I launch the update I get following error message: This Disk doesn’t use the…
Question: When I turn on my computer, what is the software that selects which operating system to boot, and how does it decide when given multiple options? More specifically, what…
Question: is it possible to test a hard disk and predict when it will die on you (roughly)? Answer: While @Alex Howansky’s answer made me chuckle endlessly, I think what…
Question: I like to try out different Linux distro’s and I don’t like partitioning my main drive. I have plenty of actual hard drives that I can use for that…
Question: Some machines in the new XPS laptop range from Dell come with a regular, large (500GB+) HDD and an additional 32GB m-SATA SSD. The only detail I can find…
Question:Closed 8 years ago. ? This question comes to mind when dealing with RAID arrays, but is not necessarily applicable to the subject. ? How is that the BIOS is…