Posts under Hard Disk tag.

How to Convert MBR to GPT Disk in Windows 8 | 7

The GUID Partition Table (GPT) was introduced as a part of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). GPT provides more options than the traditional MBR partitioning method that is common in PCs. If you have a large-sized Hard Drive, then you could want [...]

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AOMEI Partition Assistant Home Edition Review & Free Download

For many, operations related to disks and partitions seem to put off some people as they appear to be difficult to be carried out on the other hand. While the built-in Windows Disk Manager solves this problem to a large [...]

Check up Hard Disk Health natively in Windows 7 | 8

While it is always a good idea to regularly check your Hard Disk Health for Errors & Bad Sectors, it is equally important to monitor the Hard Disk regularly, if you don’t want to be caught unawares by a hard disk failure for [...]

Enable, Disable Disk Write Caching in Windows 7 | 8

Disk Write Caching is a feature that improves system performance by enabling write caching on the device. It is a feature, which is available on almost all disk drives these days. The benefit of Disk Write Caching is that it allows [...]

How to convert a hard disk or a partition to NTFS format in Windows 7

Have you ever run into a problem while trying to select a destination to save your backup? If yes, the problem might have persisted due to one of the following reasons: The destination is the drive itself that you are [...]

How To Dispose Off Old Computers Safely – Securely Delete All Your Files

Over time, you store plenty of data on your computers. If you wish to sell them, you should never sell them as such. There are dangers of data theft and misuse. At least, you will have people know about you [...]

Disk Error Checking in Windows 8

Users of Windows 8 may have noticed that Disk Error Checking is a bit different from the earlier versions of Windows. Checking your hard disk, every once in a while for errors - usually caused due to improper or sudden shutdowns, [...]

Freeware to Monitor Hard Disk for Potential Failure

All electronic devices have a limited life span after which their life begins to shorten. The same thing applies to computers too. If you find that your computer hangs or freezes often, behaves erratically or crashes with Stop Errors too often [...]

The Improved Disk Defragmentor and Storage Optimizer in Windows 8

In Windows 8, the humble defragmentation tool has evolved to carry on other roles, apart from its disk defragmentation role. While in Windows 7 and Windows Vista, the disk defragmentation tool did improve, it still continued to only defragment the [...]

Free Partition Manager Software For Windows

Planning to shrink a 120 GB Windows OS partition to 80 GB, but find it hard to remember any good, reliable Partition Managers names? Do not worry, we have, in this post highlighted names of some of the best free Partition Manager [...]

What is file fragmentation and how does it occur in Windows

Windows has its own defragmenting tool and you might have used it already. When it comes to Windows file storing algorithms, the operating system makes a case for excess fragmentation through its temporary files. And probably that is the reason why [...]

Turn off Hard Disk after a particular period of idle time to save power

We have seen how we can use PowerCFG tool to find out the health and status of a laptop’s battery. In its Error Report, you may see many causes of errors, some of which can be easily rectified by you, [...]

Windows Surface Scanner – Scan and Fix Hard Drive Bad Sectors

I often used to help people in forums, where they mentioned that their hard drive had crashed and that they had lost all their data, just because they did not check the health of their hard drive – and nor did they have any backups. [...]

Top 5 Free Defragmentation Software for Windows 7

Microsoft has substantially improved the native Defragmenting Utility in Windows, with the release of Windows Vista, and further improved upon it in Windows 7. The defrag engine and the manageability of fragmentation is much better than what existed in Windows XP. [...]

Seagate SeaTools: A Hard Disk Diagnostic Tool for Windows

SeaTools is a powerful diagnostic application that helps you to quickly determine the condition of the disk drive and Hard Disk health of an external hard drive and computer (Windows desktop or laptop). Segate’s Seatools for Windows is really easy to use. [...]

HD Tune, a hard disk performance, benchmarking, information tool for Windows

HD Tune is a hard disk utility and a freeware tool for Windows OS, which by means of a set of simple steps checks the status of hard drives (internal, external or extractable). Apart from checking the status, the application is measures the drive’s [...]

What are Advanced Format Disks & how to improve compatibility in Windows 7 | 8

Hard Disks are based on 512 byte sectors and access to it is addressed based on this unit. However, these days, hard disk manufacturers have started manufacturing hard disks having a sector size of 4096 bytes. These are called Advanced [...]

What is a Solid State Drive and what are its advantages over Hard Disk Drive

Heard a lot about a Solid State Drives but want to know what it is and how it differs from a Hard Disk drive? Then this post is specially for you. A Solid State Drive is an array of flash [...]

Why did my hard drive disk fail so fast and for no apparent reason?

It is estimated that over 90% of all new information produced in the world is being stored on magnetic media, most of it on hard disk drives. Despite their importance, there is relatively little published work on the failure patterns [...]

Parted Magic – A Super Grub Disk package which allows you to partition hard disks

Parted Magic 5.9 is a business-card operating system based on Slackware Linux, with programs that allow you to partition hard disks with ease.

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