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What are the chances that 2 hard drives go out on the same laptop in the same year? I must not be having good luck with laptop hard drives or something. But anyways, here’s the story. I bought a laptop in May and I used the hard drive that came with it, which was a [...]

My previous post talked about cloning your hard drive. This is a nice way to move your data to another hard drive, but what if you moved your data to a bigger drive and wanted to increase the partition. Windows doesn’t allow you to increase the size, so you’re left with using a partition manager.
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Just the other day, I was trying to install Windows XP Service Pack 3 on one of my virtual machines and the reason why it failed was because I had ran out of hard drive space. I thought 5 GB for XP would be enough, especially for XP, but I guess not. Since I can’t [...]

Bad sectors are areas on the disk that have physical damage. No data can be written to the physical damage otherwise an data that was written there will be lost. There is a program that is built-in to Windows, called ScanDisk, that will scan the scan for you and search [...]