How to ‘Fix’ Bad Sectors on a Hard Drive with Windows/Mac

Please note: A Bad Hard Drive Sector is an indication of physical damage to your drive. This happens eventually with every Hard Drive (though some might effectively last ‘forever’). It is recommended that as soon as you start to get … Continue reading →

Hard Drive Study

Google have compiled some statistics on their hard drives used for data storage. Because they use “off the shelf” drives their study is obviously quite accurate to what those of us in the “real world” might experience. The most interesting … Continue reading →

I just so nearly crapped my pants…

Ok, so I decided to reformat my computer, something I have done regularly over the last few years. I moved everything I want to save to my second internal hard drive partition and most of what won’t fit there onto … Continue reading →