Tag: hard-disk-drive

No boot device found or available

29 October 2007 by Snakefoot | 2 Comments » | Trackback Off
Computer cannot start if no proper boot device exists, or if the active boot device fails.

Defrag command line switches

13 September 2007 by Snakefoot | No Comments » | Trackback Off
List of the available command line switches for defrag.

Change the Vista file copy to perform like in earlier versions

6 September 2007 by Snakefoot | No Comments » | Trackback Off
Configure the file copying method to use cached I/O requests instead of non-cached.

Mount Ext2 / Ext3 linux partitions inside Windows

28 August 2007 by Snakefoot | 1 Comment » | Trackback Off
Access Linux Ext2 / Ext3 partitions inside Microsoft Windows.

Description of the hard disk cache

19 April 2007 by Snakefoot | 7 Comments » | Trackback Off
The hard disk performance is very dependent on the configuration of the disk cache.

Recover deleted NTFS/FAT32 partition

10 January 2006 by Snakefoot | No Comments » | Trackback Off
When deleting a partition then only the boot sector is modified, so by restoring the boot sector, then one will restore the partition.

Configure I/O requests for SCSI devices

6 March 2004 by Snakefoot | No Comments » | Trackback Off
How to increase the allowed amount of concurrent I/O request for a disk controller.

Configure low disk space warning in Windows 98/Me

21 June 2003 by Snakefoot | No Comments » | Trackback Off
Description of the low disk space warning and how to disable it.

Enable support for hard disk above 137 GByte

12 October 2002 by Snakefoot | 1 Comment » | Trackback Off
Things to be aware of when using a hard disk larger than 137 gigabyte.

Fdisk with 64 GB support

6 February 2002 by Snakefoot | No Comments » | Trackback Off
Disk partitioning utility which is able handle hard disks larger than 64 GB.