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Is the scan disk and check disk command ( CHKDSK ) is really fixing the hard disk error, or at the very minimum, stops the hard disk error from propagating?
Started by Ngu Soon Hui on
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If it....
Scan disk and Checkdisk are stored on disk gets corrupted and Scandisk and Chkdsk will help to recover this information necessarily stop it from happening.
You might be better off investing in a new one and transferring your data .
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What is the logic behind disk defragmentation and Disk Check in Windows? Can I do it using C# coding?
Started by Sauron on
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That....
A disk checker verifies that the data structure is consistent.
And keeps track of meta-information such as the actual length of the file and special files that keep lists of files (e.g., directories) .
Names into lists of disk blocks.
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I've added another 1TB western digital disk on my computer (there is a disk with 250GB already), and after booting to Windows 7, it recognise the disk, but in the Disk Management panel, it says the disk has only 31MB TOTAL space, so is what shows in the...
Started by ZelluX on
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It might be that the disk is set to the wrong type in the BIOS, which is why Windows is....
If this doesn't work, overlay software from the disk manufacturer can be used to partition and format the drive), and examine this hard disk.
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I am going to build home server, mainly for backups. I want to put there some system on USB flash disk (a little space), and attach some hard disks for data (much more space needed). Because it is going to be backup, disks will run only once a day. So...
Started by amorfis on
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This value is used by the drive to determine how long to wait (with no disk activity) before.
For the drive.
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Why is it that advertised disk space is almost always higher than the disk space reported by the UI? For example, I have an "80 gb" hard drive, but the iTunes UI indicates only 74. I usually see this as well with hard disks and the amount reported with...
Started by Jeremy on
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Of these, the first two can influence the amount of space .
Disk file takes up 4K of space on disk.
You lose some space for file tables when formatting.
* 1000 * 1000 vs 1024 * 1024 * 1024) .
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Back in the day, floppy disks were a: and if you were lucky b:, then when permanent storage came along c: was the default for hard disks (as I remember it)
Now that many computers no longer have floppy disks is it possible to have your primary hard disk...
Started by Jeremy French on
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However, if your computer does not have a floppy disk of the system volume or the boot....
Drive letters A and B are reserved for floppy disk drives.
Use drive letters C through Z for hard disk drives.
Drive letters, from A through Z.
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I'm stuck here, a client has asked for 320GB of space but I only have 2x 100GB disks and a 50GB disk.
Is there a way to give the client what they want?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Started by wildchild on
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How much do those 1/10th of a petabyte disks cost? I'd like to buy....
How do i go for it??! Any help will be greatly appreciated .
I 'm stuck here,the client has asked for 320 TB of space but i have only 2 100 TB disk and a 50 TB disk.
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My wife has been complaining about her MacBook Air's performance. It seems to work fine, but when I ran Disk Utility and did a "Verify Disk", it reported filesystem errors. The "Repair Disk" button was disabled, because this is the startup drive.
So, ...
Started by Kristopher Johnson on
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Boot from the Installer disk -&....
But it maybe simply that your hard drive is dying.. .
Http://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=3810
I second the Disk Warrior answer...
Disk Utility cannot repair the active startup disk.
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A client of mind has lost his XP home restore disk for his HP brand desktop. I need to reinstall windows for the client. I would like to know if a generic OEM install disk would work; by work I mean that when I put his CD key in windows will take it. ...
Started by evolvd on
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The best way to find out is to simply try!
I would suggest doing a bare-metal backup of the disk with something like Acronis True Image disk (matching the original XP version....
It would probably work, as long as it's an XP Home OEM disk.
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I wonder how or if any one tried to create a RAM DISK, and then put the 2GB (or sometimes 1.2GB) .vhd file into it, and then run the virtual PC using this image.
It should be running super fast, as the hard disk is now simulated by RAM... I never tried...
Started by Jian Lin on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
So while the RAM Disk doesn't necessarily become and closing down the VM session slower....
A RAM Disk capable of storing a whole image, know that both VirtualBox, VMWare and VirtualPC are capable of caching your images as data is accessed.
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