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A hard disk drive (or HDD) is a non-volatile, random access device for storing digital data.

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How do I install an HDD caddy in the optical bay of a Dell Studio 1745?

Yes, I had one on a different laptop, but it's the same concept. Here is how you do it: Install the hard drive into the device by screwing it into the caddy. Remove the optical drive (CD/DVD drive) …
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Does a greater number of hard drive platter increase the risk of failure?

For example, if you have a 4TB hard drive with one solid 4TB disk (which I do not believe exists yet but that is besides the point), and you have another 4TB hard drive with 4 discs, does the one with …
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Second HDD not seen by Windows 7 on Dell Xps l501x

It is usually casued because either the hard drive is broken, or because the hard drive is unformatted. Boot the laptop into Gparted Live (CD) with the non-appearing hard drive installed. If the driv …
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I broke the USB port on my external HDD. What do I do?

This board is effectively done for. You could try to get it resoldered to the board by taking it to a computer repair shop, but there is no guarantee it will work. Your best bet is probably to buy a …
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Shrinking partitions with Windows Disk Management

I highly recommend, if possible, to backup all the data elsewhere, wipe the drive, removing all the unnecessary partitions like Dell utilities partition, and then reinstalling Windows on the newly bla …
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How can I create a recovery drive for Windows 8.1?

I'm assuming you are trying to create a USB recovery drive. According to the microsoft site here: Warning Creating a recovery drive will erase anything already stored on your USB flash dri …
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Can't install Windows 7 on Samsung SM961 M2 NVMe drive but CAN use the drive after installin...

Install Window 7 on the normal drive and install all drivers. Install the NVMe drivers first if possible (may not work since the normal drive isn't NVMe). Clone the drive from the normal drive onto t …
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