Do S.M.A.R.T. requests wear off the harddrive?
Question: In a german ubuntu guide for the hddtemp program is claimed that every S.M.A.R.T. request wakes up the drive although no data is read. Because some harddrives that can…
2.2 TB limit applies even to eSATA drives? 3TB appears as 746 GB
Question: I have an Icy Dock 3.5″ external enclosure with USB 2.0 and eSATA. ?I have an Intel DG45ID motherboard with USB 2.0 and eSATA ports. ?In the past I…
What does TRIM on an HDD mean?
Question: I was examining a new hard drive when I noticed something peculiar: It’s a 1 TB HDD from Seagate, and CrystalDiskInfo shows that it supports TRIM! AFAIK, TRIM is…
Rescuing a hdd with bad sectors: dd vs gddrescue
Question: Somewhere on the internets I read that gddrescue is superior to dd at least in terms of being able to distinguish between the amount of disk reads performed on…
Is there a clean way to obtain exclusive access to a physical partition under Windows?
Question: I’m trying, under Windows 7, to run a virtual machine with VMWare Player from an OS installed on a physical partition. However, when I boot the virtual machine, VMWare…
Defrag Terms Description
Question: There are 3 terms used in the Windows defrager. Relocated, consolidated and defragmented. Can someone give me some clarification of them? Answer: The only explanation I have found is…
External Hard Disk is not accessible. “The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable”
Question: I have a 1 TB AgentGoFlex Seagate external HDD. Lately it was causing some issues like a few folders which had data were not showing any files.? A?few folders…
Does Windows 7 actually defragment an SSD drive if you tell it to?
Question: Defragmenting an SSD drive is a bad idea and Windows 7 is (should be?) smart enough not to schedule defragmentation on such drives. However, I’ve opened up Disk Defragmenter…
Error mounting external hard drive
Question: When I tried mounting an external hard drive connected via usb I got the error quoted below. So far I’ve tried using ntfsfix and chkdsk. My operating system is…
How to unlock a Hard Drive and Refresh PC
Question: I have Windows 8, and none of the metro UI apps were working, so I downloaded a registry fix from Microsoft. I ran it, and during that time I…