Questions tagged [hard-disk]
Software that interacts with a physical disk on a computer.
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UGreen NAS operating system recommendation
I just received my Ugreen NAS. It has an Intel CPU. I'm looking for an alternative operating system for it. I've seen thing with FreeNAS and others. Here's what I'm looking for:
Complete hardware ...
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Windows mass data migration utility
I am looking for a utility in Windows that will transfer a massive amount of data between volumes (40+ TB, 15 million files). I ideally want something that I can set and forget for a few weeks, and ...
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S.M.A.R.T. tool displaying SDD/HDD health status in system tray
Please recommend a Windows tool capable of the following:
monitoring and displaying the S.M.A.R.T. values of internal disk drives (SDD/HDD)
displaying the overall health status as an icon in the ...
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Gratis Windows 11 software to create a Disk.img file from a disk
What well-reviewed Windows 11 software successfully creates a .img file from a disk for no cost? I already have many softwares that create their own proprietary image files in Windows, but not a Disk....
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Automatically deleting files older than a certain age according to configured glob patterns
I would like to automatically delete old files from my production apps in order to clear up space on my organization's shared network filesystem. I imagine a good way to do this would be to create a ...
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Program to check SSD health performance
I need an advice about what program should I use to check health and performance of SSD Drive. I bought some SSD Drives on outlet in a cheap price and now I would like to check them technically.
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A new tool for structure recovaribility of disks in linux - what is missing?
I have disks that after power breaks may structurally fail. Any back up tools fail to "save" or "restore" the previous good structure. I think the reason for that is that some ...
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Software to test external hard disk sensors
I need some software to test external hard disk sensors. My harddrive sometimes is detected when inserting in USB 3.0, sometimes its not detected in PC (light is off, fan runs).
I reached out to local ...
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Software to read S.M.A.R.T. (SMART) values from USB hard disk drives (Windows)
Please recommend Windows software that can read S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology; often written as SMART) values from hard disk drives (HDDs) that are connected via USB.
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Folder analyzer that shows duration of audio/video files
I have a folder with a bunch of subfolders. Each of these subfolders contains either some audio (mp3) or video (mkv) files. I would like to know the total duration of audio and video files per each ...
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Suggestions for data recovery software that is bootable and works at sector level
One of my hard disks is failing and I need to recover some data from it (mostly photos). It's not the boot disk, which is an SSD. But as long as the failing hdd is connected, the system hangs on boot (...
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Data recovery software to rescue data from a corrupted harddisk
My external HDD (1TB) is corrupted and showing the below error in Windows. The disk icon shown in My Computer and in system tray.
Location is not accessible
G:\ is not accessible
The parameter is ...
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About the proper data recovery software for deleted partitions ( merged partitions after installing windows)
One of my friend and has tried to install the new windows and merged all the computer partitions and deleted important data from its hard drive, so we are trying to help him to recover its data.
I ...
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What is a Library that will let me Create/Emulate a Virtual Disk Drive in Windows using C#/.NET?
I want to use C# and .NET 5 to create a 'virtual' disk drive in Windows. This drive would show as a drive letter (M: etc) in e.g. windows file explorer and command prompt.
The actual handlers for ...
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Data privacy on shared external HDD
I have a shared external HDD with my family and want to encrypt/secure my data. Now we already have a software that password protects the overall hard drive but once the HDD is accessed, all folders ...
