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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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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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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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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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I Think I'm Due For A New HD (reallocated sectors)
My computer has been running crazy slow for quite awhile..I've done all the normal fixes I could dig up and even did a complete factory reset of the computer
Things were running better and now they ...
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Is it possible to remove sectors from a disk?
My question is a simple one, I think, but I could not find an answer on the internet (2h search time...): I want to remove to concept of sectors from one of my hdds?
If you think, this question is ...
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Determine sector-size of a drive
I know usually the sector size is 512 B but some drives use 4 KiB (advanced format).
How can I check which one is used by a drive? Is the sector size somewhere stored on the drive - e.g. in the MBR ...
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What is the "write page" size of a WDS200T2B0A/WDS200T2B0B?
Does anyone know the write page¹ size of a Western Digital Blue SATA SSD (model numbers WDS200T2B0A or WDS200T2B0B)?
I contacted WD support and they're claiming it is 512B, but most information I've ...
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Why the different arc length sector have the same size data capacity?
The sector-A and sector-B, the arc length are different, but they representing data capacity are same, such as 512KB.
you see, whether the different cylinder sector's density is different?
and if we ...
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