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HDD freezes Windows 10 when reading
My external hard drive (MAXTOR M3) run into issues lately.
At first I thought the MFT or boot sector got damaged somehow. Because the drive didn't show up at all, not even in the disk management. The ...
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How can I calculate CHS from the LBA?
I'm writing a bootsector, and for it I want to access a particular logical block address on a floppy disk. I have all the parameters of the disk, such as total sectors, sectors per track, head count, ...
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Is the boot sector really just the beginning of a drive?
First, I am assuming that drives and/or partitions have a linear address from start to finish. This must be the case, or else programs like dd would not be able to function as a copying mechanism.
Is ...
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How would I know if a hard drive was jeopardized by a power surge?
I have a hard drive, from which I have rebuilt the MBR and Boot Sector. I was able to recover the data. My client's computer and data were easily visible prior to a power surge in the home. She would ...
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HDD Stopped Responding
I have an external 500GB hard drive containing a WD Scorpio Black, used all as one partition, encrypted with BitLocker and runs very well.
This morning I connected it to my PC, it asked for BitLocker ...
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How can I access the data on this Seagate dying HDD?
It seems my main disk was dying and eventually, Windows displayed a message to immediately reboot into recovery, make a full backup and replace the HDD.
I turned the computer off and plugged the HDD ...
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How can I zero out the boot code of a MBR?
I have two drives in my Windows system:
Drive 1, System and Boot.
Drive 2, data storage.
Some time previously, I had Windows installed on the second drive. Now that I have the current setup, I would ...
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Cannot access disk, partition table broken
I was so dumb, to turn of the power on my Readynas Ultra 4 when it was installing the disk (3TB WD Green), I had no time to wait for it as I was going to return it (It was to damn noisy) The disk ...
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Is it safe to overwrite LBA 2-2047
So back when I used WUBI before settling on using a VM, GRUB was installed (but I messed it up and had to reinstall everything (luckily I backed up)). That was back when I used Vista which starts at ...
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