Tag Archives: hard drive

What is the difference between a primary and extended hard drive partition in Windows

Posted on June 17, 2010 by HuffFran

A hard drive can be divided into primary and extended partitions. Partitions function as physically separate storage units Continue reading →

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The difference between WD Desktop edition and RAID (Enterprise) edition hard drives

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Geenahj

Western Digital manufactures desktop edition hard drives and RAID Edition hard drives. Each type of hard drive is designed to work specifically as a stand-alone drive, or in a multi-drive RAID environment. Continue reading →

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Why is Drive Translation necessary?

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Abramov

DOS and DOS based programs like Windows 3.x and Windows 95 cannot access drives over 1024 cylinders on their own, but require third party assistance to use large hard drives. SCSI drives handle this with drivers built in to the SCSI controller, so we will limit this discussion to ATA hard drives. There are several methods used to overcome the cylinder limitation, and all of them involve translation Continue reading →

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System BIOS and Hard Drive Related FAQs (Part II)

Posted on June 8, 2010 by sufyanbutt786

5. Why use software for translation Continue reading →

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Hard Drive Errors

Posted on June 3, 2010 by stream

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Posted in Data Recovery Articles | Tagged bootable, drive, find-the-same, hard disk repair, hard drive, identical-model, no rom basic, primary, raid controller, replace a failed drive, system-reports, the-bootable, usually-occurs, your-system | Leave a comment

No drive letter assigned after installing a new hard drive

Posted on May 25, 2010 by csodar

Why is my new drive recognized in the system BIOS but has no drive letter assigned to it in Windows? Before the operating system can recognize the drive and assign it a drive letter, you must partition and format the drive Continue reading →

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How to Restore Factory Capacity of Hard Drive?

Posted on May 22, 2010 by Geenahj

This post is a complete guide on recovering your hard drive’s factory capacity. Reasons why hard drive might lose some megabytes or even gigabytes: Your Operating System does not support LBA48 addressing mode You are mixing binary and decimal gigabytes Your motherboard has created a hidden area on your hard drive to store a backup of the BIOS binaries Your PC/Laptop manufacturer has created a hidden area on your hard drive to store a backup of the Operating System installation files (needed for automatic restore functionality) You have used some software that sets HPA … Continue reading →

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BIOS Limitation/BIOS Capacity Barrier

Posted on May 18, 2010 by mooby

The BIOS limitation or BIOS capacity barrier is the computer’s inability to recognize hard drive capacities larger than allowed by the hard-coded programming contained in your system BIOS. For example, your system BIOS might only be capable of understanding a hard drive capacity of up to 32 GB. Continue reading →

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WD VelociRaptor – The Only 10,000 RPM SATA Hard Drive On The Market

Posted on April 8, 2010 by IvanAbramov

WD ® announced that it is now shipping WD VelociRaptor ® 450 GB and 600 GB hard drives, the next generation of its 10,000 RPM SATA family of hard drives. The new WD VelociRaptor hard drive is designed for blade servers, high-performance PCs, Mac® computers, professional workstations, as well as 1U and 2U rack servers that require a balance of high performance and capacity Continue reading →

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File Recovery From Windows 2003 Quorum Disk

Posted on April 3, 2010 by RoyceLopez

In Microsoft Windows 2003 Server MSCS (Microsoft Cluster Service) environment, MSCS service attempts to retrieve the quorum disk when MSCS folder in quorum disk can not be accessed or it doesn't exist. Continue reading →

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