16th November 2009
In Linux and other Unix-like operating system, you can detect and repair hard drive errors using fsck command. This command runs in 5 phases. In the first phase, it checks data blocks and their size while in second phase file and directory pathnames are c...
16th November 2009
In Microsoft Windows, sometimes all of your hard drive partitions, files and folders become unreadable or inaccessible. When you try to access the partition or files form your Windows hard drive, you encounter an error message that all the files are unrea...
16th November 2009
In order to increase the performance of your system, Microsoft Windows allows you to enable disk write caching. With no write-caching enabled, every write to hard drive includes a performance hit while system waits for hard drive to access correct locatio...
10th November 2009
For integrity and safety of your data on external/removable hard drive, you should remove the hard drive properly. If you do “hot detach” of a removable hard drive from MS Windows Vista computer, the drive may not work properly next time when you try ...
10th November 2009
In Linux operating system, file system stores all of the critical information about files located on the hard drive. Without file system, operating system can not locate files stored on hard drive and thus they can not be accessed. This is the top priorit...
06th November 2009
A USB drive that transfers data through USB Bulk (Bulk Endpoint) transfer type may lose stored data due to buffer overflow problems on the drive. It might take place when drive contains data, which has to be transferred to host computer in timely manner a...
04th November 2009
Today, USB flash drives are getting very popular. They are quite reliable for data backup and data transfer as they do not contain any moving components in them. But logical errors and problems are still possible in such drives. When you plug-in a flash d...
30th October 2009
Computer hard disk drive, a reliable and non-volatile data storage media, is equipped with your computer cabinet. It serves the most important purpose of storing data and software. You can store all types of files on your hard drive and modern hard drives...
30th October 2009
When your business or personal computer suddenly become unbootable, stops responding or hard disk drive simply gets crashed, all of your missing critical and valuable data become inaccessible. This is quite easy to make your system usable, by replacing th...
27th October 2009
In Linux operating system, you should arrange to mount root file system as read-only to start with at boot time. If required then remount the file system in read/write mode. Most of the Linux distributions follow this process. If your operating system doe...
27th October 2009
In Linux operating system, fsck is a useful utility that helps you to check file system integrity and fix the errors. It is helpful particularly in case of file system corruption, dirty system shutdown and operating system related issues. When improper sy...
27th October 2009
In a computer system, hard drive is the most important, non-volatile and primary storage media. It can store all types of data and has high storage capacity. But in some situations like dead logic board, read/write head crash, disk controller failure, pla...
23rd October 2009
The hard drive, most popular and widely used data storage media, is extremely prone to failure. Major reasons of hard drive failure are overheating, mechanical failure and electrical failure. The internal components of hard drive are pretty fragile and ma...
19th October 2009
In Linux operating system, you can re-size the hard drive volumes with preservation of your critical data stored on the volume, using Gparted utility. It can also be used for creating, moving and removing hard drive volumes. In some situations, resizing t...
19th October 2009
The modern computer hard drives are available in different data storage capacity. But in some situations, when you try to access data from or store data to a Windows hard drive, the drive does not show or format to the full capacity. In these cases the dr...
