Every night at 12:10AM, the brand new primary hard drive in my computer begins grinding away for a duration of 10-60 seconds. Why? [more inside]
posted on Jan 14, 2008 - 12 answers

Are there any particularly awesome external firewire hard drive enclosures that I should be aware about? [more inside]
posted on Oct 29, 2007 - 7 answers

Disk cleanup/management tool, with flagging, a la Tivo/MCE. [more inside]
posted on Oct 3, 2007 - 0 answers

How many times should I zero the hard drive of a laptop I am going to sell? [more inside]
posted on Jan 8, 2007 - 18 answers

How does Windows XP label hard disks? [more inside]
posted on Dec 14, 2006 - 4 answers

I have a hard disk that I pulled out of a dead computer. It has been formated and has data on it. Are there any external adapters that I can plug it into so that I can use it as an external drive?
posted on Sep 30, 2006 - 13 answers

My external USB Hard Drive is freezing my PC! [more inside]
posted on Jan 12, 2006 - 4 answers

How can I detect how many hard drive bays I have? [more inside]
posted on Aug 31, 2005 - 15 answers

How can I access a non-responding folder on my LaCie 160GB external USB hard drive? [more inside]
posted on Jul 1, 2005 - 8 answers

What should I do with my new hard drive? [more inside]
posted on Apr 21, 2005 - 11 answers

My 160 gig HD is being scanned daily by Anti-Virus Guard. Seems like all this wear-and-tear would add up. Does this reduce the life span of a hard drive? Bonus if you know how to make Grisoft's AVG Free Edition scan less frequently.
posted on Mar 21, 2005 - 9 answers

Hard disk management. I have several hard drives, running from 20GB to 120GB. My primary C: drive is on the 20GB drive, and the other day I noticed it was taking quite a while to do things, the C: drive was down to about 20MB of disk space! What I'm looking for is a disk manager that would look at hard drive and tell me what folders are taking up what space on the hard drive, so I could prune the offending directories. I'm on Windows 2000, and would prefer freeware.
posted on Nov 8, 2004 - 11 answers