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DBAN lets you securely wipe your Hard Drive
DBAN, or Darik’s Boot and Nuke is a utility that lets you wipe your hard drive. If you are planning to sell dispose off your old computer, or just the hard-drive, it is in your best interest that you...
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What is a Hybrid Drive? Are they better than HDD, SSD?
This post talks about Hybrid Hard Drives, how they work and what are the benefits, their features to see if you would want one. Now we know that a cache in a system is generally placed between RAM and...
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Hybrid Drive vs SSD vs HDD: A comparison
With Flash storage devices picking up, you would want to know which type of storage device to buy for yourself. Solid State Disk or SSDs are faster than conventional Hard Disk Drives or HDDs, but a lot...
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What are 4K sector hard drives? What is Windows Support Policy?
As technology advances, we’ll soon see more 4K sector hard drives in future. The data storage industry will be transitioning the physical format of hard disk drives from 512-byte sectors to 4,096-byte...
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Do you really need an SSD or Solid State Drive?
The SSD or Solid State Drive isn’t exactly a new term. SSDs have been on the market for quite a few years now, but not a lot of people know what they do. Essentially, SSDs are an upgrade over the [...]...
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How to combine two Hard Drives into one on Windows PC
In earlier days, having 512GB of internal storage was more than enough to store document, music, video, etc. However, now even 2TB of internal storage becomes insufficient for some people, who work as...
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Windows 10 does not recognize second Hard Drive
Earlier one Hard Drive would be good enough to store your data, files, songs, videos, etc. – but now with the increase in downloading activity and the tendency to save photographs and home videos on...
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How to create Mirrored Volume for Instant Hard Drive Backup in Windows 10
In an Enterprise environment, hard drive failure can affect several users simultaneously who are trying to access their files on the drive and this can be a big blow for the entire stream of operation...
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File record segment is unreadable Disk error in Windows 10
There could be nothing worse than a failing hard disk with the risk of losing all your crucial data in one go. While in many cases, it might not carry a warning, some users have reported getting errors...
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External Hard Drive not showing up or detected in Windows
Sometimes our PC fails or just refuses to recognize the External Hard Drive even after confirming the successful connection. The problem occurs mostly when the device driver is either corrupted or...
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Check Hard Drive for bad sectors with Hard Disk Validator
Your hard disk drive will not last forever, and this is truer if your computer is used on a regular basis. One day you’ll fire up your PC and find that things are not running as they should, and then...
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Hard Drive keeps filling up by itself automatically for no reason on Windows 10
There might be certain times when a logical partition of your hard disk could start filling up and running out of space rapidly. There can be a number of reasons for this. However, there is no...
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How to mirror Boot Hard Drive for UEFI on Windows 10
This guide walks you through steps which will help you mirror Boot Hard drive on Windows (Legacy or UEFI). It is useful when the primary hard drive fails and will help you boot from the secondary...
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How to format a drive in exFAT so it works on both Windows and Mac
There are many file formats that Windows 10 can read and exFat is one of them. So if you are wondering if Windows 10 can read exFAT, the answer is Yes! But why does it matter? The point is that [...]...
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Windows was unable to repair the drive – USB, SD Card or Hard Disk
If you connect a USB, SD Card or Hard Disk to your Windows 10 PC and you see, and error box – Windows was unable to repair the drive, then it means that the file system on the drive has [...] This post...
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How to tell if the Hard Drive is SSD or HDD in Windows 10
You may have recently bought a hard drive, but then you are not confused if the hard drive is SSD or HDD. While the later is known for its longevity, SSDs are known for its speed. On a Windows...
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Drive letter missing in Windows File Explorer
On rare occasions, you may find that the Drive letter is missing from File Explorer following the installation of an Update . If you have experienced this issue, here’s a way to get past the problem. A...
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There is insufficient disk space to complete operation on Windows 10
Error Copying File or Folder – There is insufficient disk space to complete operation is caused due to factors like lack of disk space, disk corruption, etc. This message usually pops up when a user is...
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IsMyHdOK is a free software for checking your Hard Drive for issues
Is your hard disk drive health OK? This is an important question to answer because as time goes by, hard disk drives lose their quality, therefore, having the right tools on-hand could give you an idea...
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Hybrid Drive vs SSD vs HDD: A comparison
With Flash storage devices picking up, you would want to know which type of storage device to buy for yourself. Solid State Disk or SSDs are faster than conventional Hard Disk Drives or HDDs, but a lot...
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