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Checking and Repairing a Disk with CHKDSK
Your computer has a built-in tool for catching hard drive problems before they turn into bigger headaches. I’ll walk you through running CHKDSK from Windows Explorer and the command line, explain what it checks, and show you where to find results after a scheduled scan.
Should I Partition My Hard Disk?
Partitioning, or splitting a single physical hard drive into multiple drives, has pros and cons. I’ll look at those and make a recommendation.
Can I Move My Old Hard Drive to My New Computer to Transfer Data?
You can take the internal hard disk of an old computer and install it as an additional drive in a new one, or consider a more flexible alternative.
How Do I Tell If My Hard Drive Is Too Old?
Age isn’t the most important factor when evaluating hard disk risk of failure. I’ll discuss what is, and what you should be doing to protect yourself.
Can a USB Flash Drive Wear Out?
While the technology continues to improve, flash memory has a limited number of times it can be written to and can, in fact, wear out.
How Long Does a Hard Drive Last?
Hard disks can last a long time, but it’s important to realize that they could still fail at any moment.
How Long Will My SSD Last?
We keep hearing that SSDs and other flash-based drives wear out. Particularly when it comes to SSDs, there are ways you can see how close to wearing out your drive might be.
What’s the Best Long-Term Storage Media?
Choosing the right long-term storage media is part of protecting your data from degradation or other forms of loss. But there’s more to it than just media.
“Do You Want to Scan and Fix” a Removable Drive?
The message “Do you want to scan and fix” means Windows found an error on a recently-attached drive. What you do next depends on how disastrous data loss might be.
Replacing An Old Hard Disk With a Solid State Drive (SSD)
I recently replaced the primary hard drive on my primary machine with an SSD. I’ll walk you through the steps I took that made the process relatively pain-free.
