| Q. | How can I recover a Hard disk drive formatted using cmd prompt? | Related Search:
Other - Hardware | | | I was trying to make a boot able usb drive using cmd promp and accidentally i selected a hard drive and gave the command CLEAN which formatted the hard disk drive completely. and now it doesn't show the hard drive anymore. I tried fixing it to another PC but still it doesn't show the hard drive.
Is there any suggestions to recover my documents?
| | A. | This works
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| Q. | How to copy the whole Hard Disk data into a new Hard drive? | Related Search:
Other - Hardware | | | I have a 80 gb hard disk drive which is nearly full. I need a hard drive with more storage capacity so that I can store more files, install more games, and keep the videos that I have downloaded. I'm getting tired of deleting something every time I have to install something new. I want a new Hard drive. Is there any way to copy EVERYTHING from my old hard drive into my new one? Any help is appreciated.
| | A. | download driveimage XML or macrium reflect they are both free clone programs which will make an exact copy of your old drive on the new one, it will boot up as if nothing has changed | | | |
| Q. | How exactly do you remember where something is on your hard disk drive? | Related Search:
Other - Hardware | | | As I said b4 I am computer illiterate. I can't be told even the simplest things w/out direction. Why do you need to remember about where on the hard drive? Or is it hard disk drive?HELP>
| | A. | It would take far too long to answer your question here so I found this nice basic tutorial for you...
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It shows you how to save files & how to locate saved files as well as some other useful basics.
The reason you need to remember where a file is :
say you write a letter to someone in ms word but haven't time to finish it in one go ...you can save it with whatever name you like (e.g letter23) and assuming you remember where you saved it .... you can open it up later, finish writing it and then print it out or email it to someone.
You'll really appreciate what you can do with a pc once you get the hang of the basics. Once you know the basics - you'll be learning the rest by yourself ;)
Give those tutorials a go - you can do it at your own pace without feeling pressurised.
Don't be too scared of wrecking the pc either - it's not that easy to do, so long as if ANY boxes pop-up .... ALWAYS read them before clicking ok, and you should be fine. | | | |
| Q. | How many times can you format your hard disk drive? | Related Search:
Other - Hardware | | | Will formating to much hurt your hard drive? And I know everything is wiped clean but what really happens to all the stuff that was on my disk drive?
| | A. | You can format any number of times; it does not damage your disk any more than normal usage. Formatting a hard disk simply creates a file system on the hard disk and maps logical disk sectors with physical disk sectors. When a hard disk is first manufactured, it consists of raw sectors that CAN hold data, it's just that no ordinary computer will know how to access that data because there is no Master File Table (MFT) on the disk telling the computer where one file ends and another begins, or where the data from a particular file is stored. To be usable, a hard disk must be "formatted" with a particular file system. FAT (File Allocation Table) and all it's more modern iterations (FAT16, FAT32) are simple file systems with their beginnings in the late '70s. Because of the way they address sectors, they cannot manage modern large hard disk volumes. NTFS is a newer file system that is much more robust and can manage larger volumes. There are many other file systems; these are just the two most common examples. With either of these (and most other) file systems, a Master File Table is created during formatting. It can be thought of as an "index" of which sectors to ask for when requesting a particular file. The MFT is separate from your files; you cannot "see" the MFT in Windows Explorer which is why copying every last file in Windows Explorer will not create a 1:1 clone of the hard drive. To "clone" a hard disk you need a program that can copy the MFT (and the MBR--Master Boot Record--if it is a bootable (system) hard disk). Formatting does one of three things:
1. Quick format--this erases the MFT and MBR only and does not check the disk for bad sectors. Your data actually remains untouched at the sectors it was originally written at, which is why data recovery software is able to recover files perfectly most of the time. The same thing happens when you delete a file (even from the Recycle Bin), it's data remains, it's entry is simply erased from the MFT and the operating system sees all the space occupied by the file as usable free space. Therefore, using the hard drive for any length of time will undoubtedly result in the data being overwritten, since the disk controller looks for the first available blocks of free space when it writes new files to the disk. As long as you don't use your hard drive after formatting, you should be able to recover most if not all of the data from it.
2. Full format--This is exactly the same as a quick format except that it also checks the disk for "bad sectors" (sectors that have been damaged by a power surge or physical damage of some kind), and if it finds any it reallocates them to an extra sector that is held in "reserve". On all HDDs there are reserve sectors for just that purpose (but not as many as you think--you aren't losing any significant amount of space and NO THAT IS NOT WHY HDDs ARE MARKETED AT A HIGHER CAPACITY THAN THEY ACTUALLY ARE. The only reason you couldn't recover data just as easily from a fully formatted disk as from a quickly formatted disk is if that file you are trying to recover was located on a bad/failing sector already.
3. Low-level format--This blanks the MBR, MFT and the actual file headers of every file. This will cause your files to be difficult to recover to a novice unless they know the original filename.
Formatting DOES erase everything, to the novice. Your data, however, is generally FULLY recoverable so if you want to truly erase it; unless you know how to properly erase data from a hard drive (multiple rewrite patterns; there are programs that do this for you) you should physically destroy the hard disk, and don't stop till all the platters are in pieces. | | | |
| Q. | How will my Winows 98 PC's hard drive work in an external hard disk drive enclosure connected to a laptop ? | Related Search:
Add-ons | | | If I connect the external hard disk case (with the Windows 98 hard disk in it) to a Windows XP laptop, will I be able to use the Win 98 hard disk drive as if it was in the original PC, i.e. can I use all the software (including such as internet connection programmes) as before or can I only use the data files ? Thanks.
| | A. | If you can set the laptop (in the BIOS) to boot from the USB external HDD it might get somewhere (try safe mode). But you will definately be able to read your data files off it as Windows XP can read FAT32 (Win98) drives. | | | |
| Q. | What is the recommended size of hard disk drive? | Related Search:
Other - Hardware | | | What is the recommended size of hard disk drive?
Some people says that size of a drive or volume should be as much as possible (means there should be only one drive of 40 GB if I have a 40GB hard drive). And some says that it should not exceed 10GB.
| | A. | Some people like to split a large drive into smaller partitions for faster partition defragmenting. For example, if you have a 300 gigabyte drive, then you might want to create a separate partition for your pictures and 3 gigabyte video files (data which doesn't change). This would make defragging faster because you would very rarely have to defrag the video/picture partition. Another thing some people do would be to create a 10-20 gigabyte partition for Windows & drivers, and then put their applications and data (e.g. video/pictures/music) elsewhere.
Generally, for a 40 gigabyte hard drive, you might as well just leave it with 1 partition. If you have a slow computer & hard drive, and you have many large static data files (1 gig or over), then you might want to put those files into a separate partition for faster defragging. | | | |
| Q. | Copying hard disk drive to another for using on the same computer.? | Related Search:
Laptops & Notebooks | | | I have a Dell Latitude D820. Unfortunately it as got only 60GB hard disk SATA drive. I want at least 120 GB hard disk drive because it is not sufficient for running all my study related programs. I am planning to change my hard drive.
I have installed Windows Vista Ultimate and some other programs for my studies. I don't want to lose them. I can reinstall them later also, but only as a last option. Using an external hard drive for the OS is ruled out.
Is there any way by which I may be able to copy my entire hard drive to another hard drive with more capacity to be used in the same computer??? I mean the whole Vista OS should be usable after the entire hard drive is copied.
No critical reason. Just that I don't like the idea of using an external drive.
For "thedeath"
I have mentioned that I am going to use the new hard drive on the same system as a replacement for the old drive. So I think the issue for system compatibility does not arise. Does it?
| | A. | There is no way within Windows itself to transfer Windows and apps to a new hard drive. You would need to use a third party program such as Norton Ghost or Drive Image. They allow you to clone hard drives.
The problem you will have is that to clone them, you have to have both drives attached to the computer at the same time, or you have to have room enough to make a complete backup your hard drive. If you are running out of space on your 60G drive, you probably do not have room to make a full back up on it.
So you would have to find a way to attach the 120G without removing the 60G. Best method is to use a USB enclosure. You put the 120G into the special case and then attach it as an external drive, do the clone, and then swap it into the laptop.
The 60G drive can then be put into the enclosure, formatted, and used as an external hard drive for file storage and backups. | | | |
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