Category: Questions

Question: I know people who reformat their hard drives once a month. This seems like a terrible idea to me. I’ve done some preliminary research and it seems like you…

Question: I have just a short question about LVM. A physical volume is a Partition or a whole Disk. A volume group is a container for a least one physical…

Question: Apparently you can kill a USB hard drive by moving it from a cold to warm environment and powering it up. The killer being internal condensation. Q1: How real…

Question: I recently purchased a 4TB hard drive. This is my first time working with disks larger than 1TB. From what I discovered through googling, I found that I have…

Question: I recently did the Optibay mod on my 13″ Macbook Pro, the stock magnetic drives now lives where the optical drive used to be. And an SSD has taken…

Question: Someone told me that torrent programs keep reading and writing to HDD for long periods and that will slow down the HDD and may cause damage to it. Is…

Question: I’m currently facing a hardware HD problem. One of my HDs has semi-died. It works, kind of; data is being read, but once in awhile now and then, it…

Question: So… Apparently no one cares about settings, it’s all about the files. I’ve been searching for hours and I can’t find any solution. I just want to transfer my…

Question: I have an HPdv6t quad notebook with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.04 dual booted, both OSes installed on a partitioned Crucial 128 GB SSD. ?I replaced my optical drive…

Question: My laptop harddisk is now giving status of warning suddenly and also creates some noise sometimes.I went through speccy and HWinfo, and came to know that “Reallocated Sectors Count…