Hard drive jargon.

I want to restore my old HDD settings (OS, lang. settings, etc) on a new HDD using back up image from an external HDD. Is it possible?
by Robert_P3088 on January 27th, 2011 | no answers | in Hard drive jargon

by Anonymous on December 31st, 1969 | no answers | in

Will i lose data if i convert a drive from fat32 to ntfs
by Anonymous on November 26th, 2009 | 3 answers | in Hard drive jargon

Is access time measured for the size of one sector? That is, does a 10ms access time mean that it takes 10ms to return the data from 1 sector of the drive?
by wjomlex on September 30th, 2009 | one answer | in Hard drive jargon

What is the difference between a hard drive and a case?
by keithold is a prodigal bagger on July 8th, 2009 | 2 answers | in Hard drive jargon

I am wanting to buy a new hard drive, but am confused with the terms OEM, eSATA, USB - can someone explain?
by Kewl Guy - has gone 360 on June 18th, 2009 | one answer | in Hard drive jargon

Can you use the Samsung 750GB 7200RPM S300 32MB 3.5" for your Playstation 3 Hard Disk Drive?
by duckeye on January 20th, 2009 | one answer | in Hard drive jargon

Let say my computer's internal hard drive's interface is SATA.Can I install an external hard drive with the interface different from that?if cannot under what conditions can i do so?when installing an external hard drive which connection is easiest?
by 92kenneth on December 26th, 2008 | no answers | in Hard drive jargon

I got a 36 GB hard drive. I have a RAR archive that is 2.1 GB and is in 22 parts (like [name.part1.rar], [name.part2.rar]). I try to extract it to that disk, and it tells me the disk is full at 44% extracted (WinRAR). Why? And how do I fix this?
by Firestorm on November 9th, 2008 | 2 answers | in Hard drive jargon

What exactly does defragmenting your computer do?
by keithold is a prodigal bagger on August 29th, 2008 | 16 answers | in Hard drive jargon

I was using segate 80gb hdd with os of windows xp it worked correctly for certain days and suddenly changed to 10gd, but when i installed linux on the same hdd it showing the full space of hdd. what's the problem with hdd? I want them to work correctly
by remote on July 8th, 2008 | no answers | in Hard drive jargon

I wonder how if a normal active brain can be measured by GigaBytes's or Terabyte's...how big it would be? Would it actually be possible? How big is your hard drive?
by verjua on May 1st, 2008 | no answers | in Hard drive jargon

I have a lacie USB backup drive. I backed up what I wanted and now I cannot manipulate those files. It says that access is denied. I can see those files on the lacie but I cannot move them to another drive. Its acting like its not shared.
by Anonymous on February 24th, 2008 | one answer | in Hard drive jargon

Why are hard drives called so?Why not soft drives?
by Jack wears love COAT on January 6th, 2008 | 3 answers | in Hard drive jargon

What is the maximum GB supported by windows xp, 2000 etc...
by Suri Reddy on June 21st, 2007 | 2 answers | in Hard drive jargon

Do I have to have Raid on my home pc with only one hdd.
by kopite on April 29th, 2007 | 4 answers | in Hard drive jargon

Is there actual molecular structure to the data stored on my computer?
by Mrs.Dufresne on November 16th, 2006 | 5 answers | in Hard drive jargon

What does it mean when a hard drive has a "head crash"?
by game masta on April 23rd, 2006 | one answer | in Hard drive jargon

By extrapolating from the current rate of HD capacity increase, when will we see 1-Terabyte HDs? Petabyte HDs? Exabyte, Zettabyte, Yottabyte, then Brontobyte HDs?
by Tondoteottotote on January 4th, 2005 | 3 answers | in Hard drive jargon

What is the difference between SCSI and SCSI-2, and are they compatible?
by Sigma6 on August 12th, 2003 | one answer | in Hard drive jargon