Questions tagged [sectors]
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Is there any way to simulate a larger sector size on Windows 11?
I am looking into some issues that have been reported when installing software to Windows 11 running on a laptop with 16k-sector drive. As my laptop's drive has 4k sectors, I am wondering if there is ...
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'Sector Cannot be Read' after cloning with EASEUS Disk Copy Pro
I would like to ask for some help relating to a cloning issue, which is doing my head in!
But first, some short background here: I have a 12-year old Dell OptiPlex 990 SFF, purchased in 2011. Apart ...
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HDD showing up in Windows via USB, but not via SATA
Possible sector size issue? Leftover QNAP/EXT4 format weirdness?
I have been migrating drives from a QNAP NAS to a new Windows 11 Pro based server. The two drives giving me problems are the 10TB ...
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How can I check the cluster size (allocation unit size) of an exFat partition on Windows?
I want to reformat an exFAT USB drive with the same allocation size as the current factory exFAT partition, so when it ask me for allocation size, I don't know what to answer:
Thus the question: How ...
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What is the difference between allocation unit size and sector size?
I have been given the following disk recommendation:
The disk drives should have standard native sector sizes of 512
bytes and 4 KB. Hard disks with sector sizes larger than 4 KB may
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Searching for strings in a dd image, extracting data from it
I am trying to recover the contents of a text file that became corrupt following a power outage. The file size is still correct (14 MB), but the text in the lower half of it has been replaced by ...
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Request to allow restoration of HDD sectors image
I took apart my Creative Nomad Zen Xtra and opened the HDD up in HXD.exe then saved all the sectors to my d: drive so I could use the HDD for something else temporarily but then I realized I need ...
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Why is my physical sector size is different than the logical sector size? [duplicate]
I used fsutil in windows to find out the sector info about my volumes. I have two hard disk one is SSD while the other one is typical magnetic tape hard disk.
The SSD drive volume C have both logical ...
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Is it possible to EDIT/REMOVE the first sectors of a SDD/HDD?
Read This for the full story:
BitLocker Recovery Key Isn't working ( Corrupted Maybe ? )
the drive isn't encrypted yet
I mentioned that in my older post, and it appears to be correct the drive isn't ...
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Aligning partitions to 4k boundaries results in 512b free space at beginning of drive
I'm partitioning a disk for FreeBSD installation.
I create my partitions/slices:
gpart create -s mbr ada0
gpart add -t freebsd -s 1G ada0
gpart add -t freebsd ada0
gpart create -s bsd ada0s1
Now I ...
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How to convert the Western Digital "Ultrastar® DC HC530 14TB HDD" from 512e to 4Kn sector size? (In Windows 10)
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The Western Digital "Ultrastar® DC HC530 14TB HDD" (Model number: WUH721414ALE6L4)(SATA Interface) comes only in a 512e sector size by default.
According to the 2 Western Digital ...
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What's the difference between sector interleave and sector skew, and are both ever used on the same disk?
In reading about the geometries and layouts of different disks and filesystems in various OSes, or at least floppies from the late '70s through the mid '90s where I was focusing, I noticed the terms &...
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Is a sector number determined forever?
If 'alpha' was a physical place on HDD occupying 1000th sector once,
is 'alpha' a place on HDD occupyig 1000th sector forever?
Forever means regardless of 'got bad sectors, low format, reset S.M.A....
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Why the term 'bad bit' not used?
Since a sector is composed of some (512 or 4096) byets, it looks natural to consider the term 'bad bit' rather than 'bad sector'. But the term is not used. There are plenty of HDD error checking ...
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Signal of HDD platter to controller [closed]
HDD heads read the surface of HDD, giving a signal to the controller:
For a single signal, is it about one bit, one sector, or something else?
If it is one bit, how many kinds of signals are there? ...
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