How to boot a faulty hard disk. I have two hard disks. one crashed a few months back. In the other HDD I have my OS. when i connect the crashed HDD it is recognised in the BIOS. while windows (XP) boot the load screen appears and just before i reach the...

Two hard disks in a laptop. In a desktop PC we can have two hard disks. Is it possible to have two hard disks in a laptop? Very often if a fault arises and there is a hard disk failure it results in loss of everything. If important data or backup clones...

Hard Disk Cache. Hi friends,I need to know the relevance of hard disk cache size.How does the cache size affect performance of a hard disk?Is higher cache size recommended for gaming?Basically,does hard disks provide significant gaming performance?. I also...

my hard disks on my old PC without no freezings. Hard Disk with informations I want is installed Vista 64 Bit edition. Maybe this is problem? Maybe there is hard disk check I can disable so it does not try to boot Vista from hard disk? Maybe a special software...

how about mean time to failure rates? @student_sol, I'm actually trying to compare all hard disks in general. Come to think of it though, there should be two categories, "internal hard disks" and "external hard disks", right? Or should I just use "none specified"...

Checking a hard disk.... I have a few drives that I have sitting around and was wondering what is the best way to thoroughly check the disks for errors, bad sectors, etc? Could someone recommend a good program for doing this? I want to make sure it does...

in torrents. Well I just tested my hard disk speed and am deciding how to partition it and where to put the torrent downloading and unzipping partitions. Does a hard disk's access time, transfer rate or burst rate limit the speed at which a 5gb torrent...

could poll your subscribers. RAID 1 is a good solution. Also backup is very important. SSDs are more durable than mechanical hard disks. Slower moving disks tend to last longer. It is hard to assess reliability, due to differences in use among users, differences...

Mounting a Hard Disk Upside Down. Is there any reason why a Hard Drive should not be mounted upside down (label side facing down)? I have 2 WD 74GB Raptors if that matters. Thanks in advance.. Is there any reason why a Hard Drive should not be mounted upside...

Two hard disks in a laptop. I am starting with my 2 disk HP laptop dv8-1080 today 21.11.09. How shall I organise the two disks, anyone? My idea is to keep Win 7 Ult, Office and My Docs alone on C: and install my photo, audio and video programs and data on...