Where has all the free space on my hard-drive disappeared to??? It does not correspond to TOTAL CAPACITY minus TOTAL FILE SIZE [more inside]
posted on Jun 6, 2008 - 21 answers

What is the ideal size for a browser's disk cache? [more inside]
posted on May 10, 2008 - 11 answers

SATA Hard disk , suddendly not spinning up. No click of death, no sign of expected failure. [more inside]
posted on Apr 29, 2008 - 12 answers

Are there any repositories of historical prices for hard drives? [more inside]
posted on Apr 13, 2008 - 5 answers

The disk in my MBP was upgraded from 100GB to 250GB. They used a hardware disk to disk copier that just cloned the drive, bit for bit. Now, I want to grow my 100GB partition to fill up the new space, however Disk Utility only sees the drive as 100GB. I know there are some $100 utilities out there, but I am a geek and want to do it for free. [more inside]
posted on Jan 15, 2008 - 17 answers

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

My Computer detects a floppy drive when there isnt one installed ......... [more inside]
posted on Jan 4, 2008 - 8 answers

MacBook Pro: Disk is caught in the drive and _will not eject_. Please Help have tried everything. [more inside]
posted on Nov 12, 2007 - 18 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

Mirroring external drives on a mac... [more inside]
posted on Oct 5, 2007 - 8 answers

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

What is the easiest way to make a bit-perfect copy of a potentially failing laptop hard drive? The copy target would be a new 2.5" drive that I'd then install in the same laptop. [more inside]
posted on Aug 11, 2007 - 37 answers

I have a strong memory that there's an OS X command-line tool that can dump to the terminal a running log of all disk accesses, including which executable is reading or writing. It was very handy in figuring out what the Mac was doing when the disk was busy but the load was low. Does anyone remember what this was?
posted on Jul 30, 2007 - 9 answers

I'm not sure I have the terms right, but how do I make a "hardware-independent deployable disk image"? [more inside]
posted on Jul 11, 2007 - 13 answers

What can I do with all these old ZIP disks? [more inside]
posted on Jul 5, 2007 - 18 answers

My G3/700mhz (DualUSB) iBook is not booting in a strange way: I definitely need a hint on this one. Lots and lots [more inside]
posted on May 25, 2007 - 4 answers

Windows Server 2003: My 40GB disk partition shows up as being less than 5GB in Windows Explorer, but appears as 40GB in Disk Management. What's going on? [more inside]
posted on May 25, 2007 - 7 answers

Are there any utilities for windows that continuously read/write to a hard disk? [more inside]
posted on Mar 28, 2007 - 15 answers

I want to put a new HDD in an old PC and would like to know how. (But please teach me to fish...) [more inside]
posted on Jan 13, 2007 - 17 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

Does Apple use poor quality disks? Does Apple's filesystem suck? How do you get a bad drive to give a smart error sooner? [more inside]
posted on Dec 29, 2006 - 29 answers

How can I get my crippled computer to communicate with the outside world? [more inside]
posted on Dec 15, 2006 - 12 answers

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

Is there any way to "break" a mirrored disk set in Mac OS X (that was created with Disk Utility) back into two separate -- but identical -- drives? [more inside]
posted on Dec 2, 2006 - 3 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

When my hard drive started clicking, I backed it up. What now? [more inside]
posted on Sep 2, 2006 - 5 answers

Here's what concerns me: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md3 508M 475M 33M 94% /var not much open on /var. So I go to the /var directory and use du to find where the space is going..... [more inside]
posted on Jun 22, 2006 - 12 answers

Disk Repair tool similar to Norton Disk Doctor for Windows? [more inside]
posted on Jun 12, 2006 - 4 answers

On a Mac G4 system, OSX Tiger, how do I stop my external firewire drives from going to sleep whenever I step away from the machine for more than a 5 minutes? [more inside]
posted on Jun 9, 2006 - 5 answers

Can raided firewire hard drives from one mac be attached to another mac? In other words....here's my situation. I currently have a mac mini that I use as a backup fileserver. I have 2 250gb hard drives attached to this mac mini. Although it works fine and I'm not really looking to upgrade, the 256 mbs of original ram are not enough to run any programs on it very efficiently (as far as time is concerned). [more inside]
posted on Jun 5, 2006 - 3 answers

How do I replace a failing disk in a jbod array setup using the windows XP Pro dynamic disk system? [more inside]
posted on May 21, 2006 - 8 answers

How do I recover data from dead hard disks myself? [more inside]
posted on May 13, 2006 - 4 answers

Anything I can do about my dead dongle? [more inside]
posted on May 6, 2006 - 6 answers

Some RAID questions about what happens if you lose not a disk but the controller. [more inside]
posted on Apr 27, 2006 - 11 answers

What's the best way to encrypt an external hard disk? (Mac OS X) [more inside]
posted on Apr 22, 2006 - 4 answers

You can never be too rich, too thin or have too much disk space... [more inside]
posted on Mar 12, 2006 - 10 answers

Is there something like Spacemonger for FreeBSD? [more inside]
posted on Feb 12, 2006 - 9 answers

How do I get something other then a floppy drive to show up as the a: drive in Windows 2000? It could be a USB jump drive or a mapped drive, it doesn't matter so long as it's not a floppy. I have an old legacy application that only loads its data from a:, and it's driving me insane keeping stacks of floppies around.
posted on Jan 16, 2006 - 10 answers

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

iTunesFilter. How can I have iTune "see" tracks already present on my external drive? OS 10.4.2 [more inside]
posted on Jan 7, 2006 - 8 answers

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

Can I just copy a Linux system from one disk to another and expect it to work? [more inside]
posted on Jul 5, 2005 - 12 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

My master harddrive has gone tits-up, how can I boot from the slave? [more inside]
posted on Jun 18, 2005 - 14 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

I am looking for a way to monitor the disk space remaining on several of our windows servers. [more inside]
posted on Mar 9, 2005 - 10 answers

My partner has a PowerBook G4 with 40GB disk - how should she backup her work? [more inside]
posted on Feb 21, 2005 - 20 answers

Um, oops.
So I changed my disk partition a bit, changing my big data drive to a 'logical' partition of the same file-type (without changing the start or endpoint of the partition), and now Windows isn't recognizing it... Is there a good way to undo this horrible thing? The data should definitely still be there - no actual formatting occurred, just a changing of the partition table. Is there a way to undo this?
posted on Feb 13, 2005 - 3 answers

[CD FileSystemFilter] - Trying to burn HTML onto a CD and making a shortcut that links several dirs deep WITHOUT specifying a drive letter/name or running a Web server [MI]
posted on Feb 9, 2005 - 18 answers