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You should NEVER unplug your hard drive with your computer still powered on. It will destroy the drive.
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Can you touch a hard drive?
You should only touch the outside of a hard drive. The parts of the hard drive you should not touch are inside. The hard drive is sealed and if you break the seal, you void any warranties and risk any data you have inside.
You should perform regular backups of the hard drive at least?
You should perform regular backups of a hard drive at least weekly.
If you have an existing hard drive and want to install a second hard drive and you want to keep the first drive bootable as the bootable drive how should you configure the second hard drive?
If the Hard drive is IDE (40 pins on the back) you would configure the primary hard drive as Master and secondary hard drive as Slave using the jumpers on the back of the hard drive.
What hardware do you never open?
The hard drive. Do not ever open it.
If a hard drive and DVD drive are connected to the ide port with the same cable should the hard drive be on the end connector?
The hard drive should be on the bottom connector and all you other drives on the top connectors. Thats how mines connected!!!!!!!! :-)
What can one do if the hard drive is clicking?
If a hard drive is clicking then a person should make a decision to try and back up or recover any files on the hard drive. Files on the hard drive can be recovered by using professional hard drive recovery systems.
When installing an IDE hard drive's configuration a master or slave is handled?
the hard drive should be set to master...
How do you recover data from RAW hard drive?
To recover data from a RAW hard drive the hard drive must be intact in some way. Connect the damaged hard drive as the slave drive and another hard drive that is in working order as the master drive. This should allow for file transfer as long as the RAW drive is not too far damaged.
How should someone handle a hard drive to avoid this problem?
by not careing about damaging the hard drive and doing stupid things
How big should an average multimedia hard drive be in a PC?
An average multimedia hard drive could be anywhere between 120GB and 1TB in capacity. If you are planning to connect your hard drive to an HD television, in should be at least 500GB in size.
Why can't a playstation 3 work without a hard disk drive?
The PlayStation 3 is not designed to work without a hard drive. When the hard drive is worn out after many rewrites, the PlayStation 3 will no longer function and the hard drive should be replaced.
Can you use hard drive with terabyte memory on standard computers?
If it is an external hard drive, then the computer should be able to take it. However, if it is an internal hard drive, you will have to check the system requirements of your computer.
