Questions tagged [sectors]
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Is it possible that an SD card has 100% bad sectors?
I have an SD card that has been used in a photo camera for some months, and it's been working perfectly fine until today. It failed when we were just browsing pictures in the camera screen (so it wasn'...
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Is it possible to make certain disk sectors readonly
Is it by anyway possible to make certain disk sectors read-only? (The disk being specifically a USB Flash drive). Also the possibility of repartitioning the drive and making one partition read-only ...
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System randomly freezes yet mouse still moves, SSD out of reallocatable sectors, should I replace it? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it really possible to repair bad sectors?
This problem has lasted for the past 48 hours. The first time it happened, a program I was running stopped responding, so I tried ...
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Why would the last sector be unused?
I was bored and decided to open up my hard drive in HxD (a free hex editor) and wanted to see what the REAL size of my disk is. So I did and scrolled to the bottom and discovered that the last sector ...
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Clone a 2TB WD Green internal drive with bad sectors to a 3TB partitioned external
I have a 2TB WD Black drive and would like to simply do a straight clone from a failing 3TB drive to it. Both are SATA. Will I be able to just install the new drive alongside the faulty one and then ...
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GRUB: ELF sectors outside core
I just recently installed Xubuntu 12.04. Instantly after installing it I updated all my packages, however one package, grub-pc, failed to install. I'm not sure what caused it to fail, but here is the ...
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Realocated Sector Count showing weird number
As can be seen on the screenshot below one of my hard drives is showing a weird count for sectors. Should I be worried about the disk dying? It's been running like this for four years. Could this be ...
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What are disk sectors for?
I started to get confused on how the hard disk operates, particularly in writing and reading data into its platters.
According to this article:
http://www.tech-faq.com/how-data-is-stored-in-your-...
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Is it possible to detect the previous byte position on a hard drive after it has been overwritten?
I keep hearing about these statements that "a hard drive is like a cassette tape because it is a magnetic medium". That got me thinking...
Back in the day when I used to play DJ as a young lad, I ...
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How to check if a particular disk sector contains data?
Kangaru USB mass storage device duplicator
In the product description, one of the features it boasts is "Brief Mode", wherein it only copies those sectors that contain data. My question is, how does ...
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Find out what sectors are a file on a hard drive?
How would I go about finding what sectors a file's data is on so i would be able to delete the file via bootable assembly code.
Eg:
File: C:\system.sys
Location: sector 1837,1739,2736 etc
Or some ...
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Migrate Win7 upgrade from 63 sector to 4096 sector advanced format disk
If I use the Windows 7 backup on a system that has the 63 sector starting location and restore it to an advanced format 4096 sector system, will the restore create the starting sector at 63 or 4096?
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Mismatch between CxHxS and "total number of sectors"
Model: ATA ST320LT007-9ZV14 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 38913,80,62
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
BIOS cylinder,head,sector geometry: 38913,255,63. Each cylinder is 8225kB.
Partition Table: ...
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Sector-precise partition editor with resize NTFS?
Is there a sector-precise partition manager that can resize an NTFS partition? Accepting Windows software and Live CDs.
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Is it possible to create a software RAID 1 with different sector sizes?
I bought a hard drive of a different model to my main drive and tried to mirrored them, but the following error message came up in Windows 7 Virtual Disk Manager:
All disks holding extends for a ...
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