Hard Disk Drives

A SATA hard drive is a hard drive that connects to the computer through the SATA bus. SATA is an interface released in 2004 to replace older IDE / PATA interfaces.

Also called a Serial ATA, the SATA hard drive helps in the process of transferring data from an external hard drive to the bus in the computer. The bus is a component that transfers information from one part of the computer system to another.

Repairing Hard Drive requires good technical skills , it's better to replace it , because performance of harddrive is degraded after repair .

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Does the PC boot to the Windows desktop with no errors?

Is the screen blank?

Can you hear a spinning drive or fan or see lights?

Has the OS begun to load?

Can you hear a single beep during the boot?

Is the problem related to reading from the hard drive?

No. Floppy disks are magnetic media that rely on magnetic polarization to write data to the disk much like a hard drive. Unlike CD media they can be erased by a strong magnet field that effectively scrambles the data tracks.

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It will look like a regular hard disk drive with the solid-state components hidden in plain sight.

What are some symptoms of hard drive problems listed on the hard drive manufacturers'

web sites? List three in order of seriousness:

Go to start, then my computer, right clickon your C drive, go to properties and hey presto, it shows you how much used space and free space you have.

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The fastest hard drives I have seen have 15K rpms. You will not like the price though. Western digital makes affordable 10K that are called Velocirator. It is the fastest consumer level hard drives (it is used for server applications too).

DVD's I'm not sure but I copy my CD's to my hard drive using Windows Media Player or any other software that converts a song from CD format to MP3 or WMA formats. A MP3 or WMA file is about a tenth the size of the original. I have over 4 thousand songs on my hard drive and it only takes up about 15 GB of space. I don't think you can back up DVD's without special pirating software.

One can purchase a Western Digital external hard drive at a variety of locations. One could go to an electronics store, a big box store, or a computer store. One could also buy one through online retailers.

Bulk data storage with a reasonably short access time and reasonably low cost.

These have been the design goals since IBM introduced the first hard disk the 350 RAMAC in 1956 with a capacity of 5 million 6-bit characters, an average access time of 0.6 seconds, and leased for about $3200 per month. The characteristics of hard disks have kept improving over the years.

A container called a filesystem needs to be created on the disk before files can be stored on the disk. The files are actually stored in the filesystem. The filesystem is basically a map of which data is stored where, what the filenames and directory names are, which files are in which directories, who owns the files, what permissions the files have, and when the files were last accessed and/or modified.

If your HDs are the IDE type, then you need to either set one to master and one to slave, or use 'cable select' to do it automatically. When you bought your new HD, chances are that it is already in cable select mode, but you should check to make sure they both are before you continue. You can do this by looking to the right of the large series of pins where the data cable is connected. You should see some more pins, with a 'jumper' connectin two of them together. The position of the jumper sets the HD to whatever mode you want. Check on the back of the HD or in the manual to find out which position is cable select.

When both drives are in cable select mode, put them both into the case mounting, preferably not too far apart, and screw them in. Then find the cable which was attached to the first drive. You'll see that it has 3 connectors: 1 in the motherboard, 1 in the middle and 1 at the end. Plug the end cable into your first HD (the one with the operating system on it) and the middle connector to your new HD. Finally, connect a power cable to both HDs. It doesn't matter which, just find a spare one. (They have 4 wires going to them: red black and yellow) Turn on your computer! Windows or your operating system should pick it up.

With SATA hard drives it is easy: just plug the second one in at any spare SATA connector: the SATA connectors are thick pink wires. You'll also probably need a SATA power convertor which changes the standard power connectors to one for a SATA drive. You may need to change settings in your BIOS to tell the computer which drive has your OS on it, but that shouldn't be needed. If you do have to, hold DELETE when your system boots. You should find a blue screen with options on it. Look for something like "Advanced Config." -> "Boot order" and set your old HD to be before your new one. Press F10 to save and quit.

I've linked to two sites which might help you: they have the same sort of guide but with pictures and a bit more detail.

click start orb,click "my computer",right click (c:) drive,click properties.that will bring up a window with all that info.

There are 1024 Megabytes (MB) in a GigaByte (GB), and then 1024 Kilobytes(KB) in a Megabyte, and then 1024 Bytes in a Kilobyte. So in a 300GB Hard Drive, there are 300 times 1024 times 1024 times 1024 Bytes, which equals 322122547200 Bytes.

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My Answer: NO, no, no, no, and yes. Ok, so here is the thing. FAT32 implies that the maximum disk size is 32 GB. But this limit is debatable, for most hard drives encoded in FAT 32 are fare larger than 32 GB. NOW WHAT IS CERTAIN is that you have create an single file in it's unopened, undeditable, unviewable stage larger than 4GB on a FAT 32 system. This means that one video, compressed as a .mov, .avi, .wmv, .mp4, etc, are all excluded from this hard drive if they are over 4 GB. I have heard that you can span the documents over infinite chucks of 4 GB, but you need software or you need to know what in the hell you are doing. This "slitting" is similar to combining 2 hard drives to create one big virtual hard drive. Original Answer from someone else: Yes, NTFS and FAT32 are data formats. The system does not care what format the data is stored in. So data on an NTFS drive is simply read off the drive and written to the target drive in the target drive's format.

There are be a number of possible reasons:

1. Electrical failure due to a device going bad or

2. A short circuit on the printed circuit board causing PCB and or component damage

3. Drive's motor gone bad

4. Read/Write head crashed due to mechanical shock

5. Firmware of one or more chips on the PCB got courrupted Before concluding that the harddisk is bad you can also check if the jumper settings are correct, power supply voltage coming to disk are correct, the motherboard is correct and the cable connecting motherboard and harddisk is correct. - Neeraj Sharma

How much space you really need. How much you want to pay. What type of connectors does it use (IDE, SATA, etc) What size is it: laptops usually use 2.5 in, desktops use 3.5 in The manufacturer. Do you really need a new hard drive, or is it more cost efficient to replace the whole computer?

Like anything mechanical, hard drives will eventual wear out and need to be replaced.

It goes to the Recycle Bin, of course. Then if you delete it the second time (from the Bin), it gets deleted as if you'd deleted it in DOS - which is to say it gets marked as deleted; you can restore it if you don't overwrite it first, and you need to supply the first letter of the file name.