Tipps: Hard_Drive

NTLDR is Missing
If the message NTLDR is missing appears when starting Windows XP, it may be due to a very simple reason. The system may be trying to start from a non-bootable diskette or CD. The solution: just remove the diskette or CD from the drive and re-start. Other causes for this error are: - Incorrect BIOS settings for the hard disks. In this case, make sure [...]
[ 15.01.2006 | 2 Comments | 45851 Hits ]

Windows XP: Defragmenting from the Command Line Interface
In Windows XP, you can manually defragment your hard disk quite easily. Open the command line interface and type defrag c:, for example, to defragment the C: drive. More information is available under defrag /?. [...]
[ 05.01.2006 | 0 Comments | 4747 Hits ]

Formatting your Hard Drive with FAT32
In some cases, it might make sense to format a hard drive in Windows XP with the file system FAT-32. For example, any time when an external hard drive is being used, that will also be connected to other systems, such as an Apple Mac or when you want to install a partition for data transfer with a Linux operating system that is simultaneously installed. [...]
[ 05.01.2006 | 2 Comments | 58351 Hits ]

What is RAID
No, not the insect spray. The RAID we're talking about means Redundant Array of Independent Disks. The two most popular setups are RAID 0 and RAID 1. Both forms use two hard drives but in very different ways. RAID 0 incorporates something called "striping" in which the two identical drives read and write data in parallel. Striped arrays can double [...]
[ 19.09.2005 | 0 Comments | 3146 Hits ]

Moving a Hard Drive to a New PC
Let's say you've got Windows XP configured just the way you want it. You've got tons of applications on your computer and each of them has been tweaked to suit your needs. You spent hours and hours getting everything fine tuned just for you. Later on, you built a new PC and moved your existing hard drive into that super fast computer. You screwed [...]
[ 19.09.2005 | 0 Comments | 15883 Hits ]

Buy and install a hard drive
Hard drives are available in three basic designs. Parallel ATA, Serial ATA, and SCSI. The SCSI (small computer system interface) drives are more commonly found in network servers where speed and reliability are crucial. SCSI drives may also be found in some high end graphic and CAD (computer aided drafting) workstations. They require a special (SCSI) [...]
[ 16.09.2005 | 0 Comments | 7706 Hits ]

Repair and Restore Master Boot Record (MBR)
Some operations with a hard disk, such as an error when installing an additional operating system, can damage the boot sector of the disk, thus preventing it from booting. Follow these instructions to restore the MBR: Insert the XP or Windows 2000 installation CD in the CD-ROM drive and reboot the computer. If the computer does not boot with the CD, [...]
[ 27.08.2005 | 3 Comments | 109020 Hits ]

Formatting your Hard Drive with FAT32
In some cases, it might make sense to format a hard drive in Windows XP with the file system FAT-32. For example, any time when an external hard drive is being used, that will also be connected to other systems, such as an Apple Mac or when you want to install a partition for data transfer with a Linux operating system that is simultaneously installed. [...]
[ 27.08.2005 | 2 Comments | 66245 Hits ]

Buy Computer: Buyers Guide to PCs
Before you buy a new computer, you should ask yourself a few questions: why am I buying the PC, where will I use it, what do I want to do with it? Only after you have prepared yourself thoroughly can you be sure to avoid purchasing the wrong PC. Where should you buy the PC?If you are familiar with computers, then you can purchase your PC comfortably [...]
[ 16.07.2005 | 0 Comments | 2090 Hits ]

Hard Disk Defective: recognizing defects beforehand with SMART
Modern hard disk drives are relatively intelligent devices: they know their current temperature, know various parameters such as operational time and the number of start-up procedures and remember errors that have occurred. With the SMART standard, there is a method of obtaining a read-out of this data even across manufacturing platforms. However, [...]
[ 16.07.2005 | 1 Comments | 4542 Hits ]

PC locks up at "Verifying DMI Pool Data..."
When the PC locks up upon booting and only the message Verifying DMI Pool Data... can be seen, your Master Boot Record is probably damaged or the PC cannot boot from the hard drive due to other reasons. In such cases, a floppy disk that lets you boot under DOS and write a new Master Boot Record with fdisk /mbr can help. You may also have use sys c: [...]
[ 16.07.2005 | 1 Comments | 43948 Hits ]

Hard disk full: discovering space eaters quickly and easily
No matter how many gigabytes a hard drive has: at some point it will simply be full. Lost image files copied from DVD’s or old videos can quickly gobble up your last megabyte. Standard Windows tools are not exactly ideal for determining the largest files. The more subdirectories the hard drive has, the more difficult the search. The freeware tool Sequoia [...]
[ 16.07.2005 | 0 Comments | 10225 Hits ]

Buy a Hard Drive: Buyer’s Guide to external Hard Drives
This is about how to buy an external hard drive for your PC or Mac. Find out which criteria are relevant to buy a hard drive and what it requires to attach an external hard drive to your pc.Want to back up data and take it with you? No problem with an external hard drive. They are available in plenty of varieties. Simple models with a capacity of 80 [...]
[ 29.06.2005 | 0 Comments | 9208 Hits ]

Erase file: Delete and wipe files safely and securely from disk
If you delete a file from your hard disk it will remain readable until the physical sectors on the disk are overwritten.This might turn out as security hole. Anyone who has access to your disc can recover the data you deleted before.To erase a file permanently and safely you have to overwrite the content with random patterns before deleting it. To do [...]
[ 01.02.2005 | 0 Comments | 9431 Hits ]

Format hard disk partition in Windows XP
To format your hard drive in Windows XP click on start. After that right click on My Computer and choose Manage.Next click on Disk Management and you will see all hard disks and other drives mounted on your system.Right click on the partition you want to format and click on Format.... After that follow the instructions to format your drive.Warning: [...]
[ 27.01.2005 | 0 Comments | 91863 Hits ]

Erase hard disk and delete all data
Wipe your harddisk! If you are going to sell your old computer you should erase all of your data. A most comfortable tool to use for that purpose is "Darik's Boot and Nuke" DBAN.Based on Linux this utility creates a bootable floppy disk or CD-ROM. Use one of those media to boot your PC and to wipe your disk.There is also an option to overwrite all data [...]
[ 18.01.2005 | 0 Comments | 31961 Hits ]

Formatting: Format drive C in XP or Windows 2000 and erase all data
Formatting a hard drive is done with a few mouse clicks using the Disk Managment of Windows XP or Windows 2000 The option "format" however is grey for the drive C: or wherever Windows itself is located. This option is deactivated because the system does not allow to wipe itself off the drive.If you want to format this drive nevertheless, use this way: [...]
[ 11.01.2005 | 25 Comments | 455622 Hits ]