Category: Questions

Question: My friend’s laptop motherboard died and he needs his Windows 7 product key from the hard drive (which is still working). I connected the old drive as a secondary…

Question: I have a 3TB Seagate Backup Plus Desktop USB 3.0 drive, which works fine when in its enclosure, but when I get it off its enclosure and directly plug…

Question: Obviously there are power management settings which Windows uses to determine when to power a hard drive off, and when to power it back on again. Powered down I…

Question: Okay, maybe this is me worrying about nothing, but… I have a 500 Gb. external drive where I want to create a second partition. I plug it into my…

Question: I am using Windows XP and am looking for a utility that can tell me the percentage of hard drive activity a program is using. ? Basically, I’m looking…

Question: Even though I only have 4GB of RAM, I have a 12GB pagefile.sys. From what I’ve read about the topic, this is bigger than the x1.5 rule-of-thumb and it’s…

Question: In practically every computer I’ve had, there’s always been a light to display hard drive activity. What’s its origin and original use? Answer: Well, I can say, as an…

Question: Once again, here I am trying to wrap my head around some HDD and filesystem concepts. When Windows displays a drive as having “unallocated space” and prompts for the…

Question: Why is it that I see an A: drive and a C: drive but not a B: drive? Is there a reason why the disk partitions start at C?…

Question: First, I am assuming that drives and/or partitions have a linear address from start to finish. This must be the case, or else programs like dd would not be…