Hard drive help and support
Updated: 10/18/2022 by Computer Hope
Hard drive basics
- What is a hard drive?
- Full listing of hard drive terms.
- Why is the hard drive the C: drive?
- What does the inside of a computer hard drive look like?
- Computer disk drive interface help and support.
- Computer hard drive drivers.
- Manufacturers of computer hard drives.
- Computer hard drive buying tips and help.
- The complete history of computer hard drives.
Top hard drive questions and answers
- How to erase a hard drive and start over?
- How to install a hard drive or SSD.
- How to unmount a volume in Windows.
- How to set up a hard drive and partition in Windows.
- How to find how much hard drive space is available.
- How to recover missing, lost, or deleted files.
- How to clean a computer hard drive.
- How to format a hard drive, SSD, or USB flash drive.
- How much is 1 byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, etc.?
- When I delete a file on my computer, where does it go?
- How to make sure all data is erased on a computer hard drive.
- How to regain computer hard drive space.
Hard drive related errors
- Information and list of all computer errors.
- How to test a hard drive for failures.
- How to fix an invalid or Non-System disk error.
- How to fix the missing operating system error.
- How to fix Invalid Media type reading drive C:.
- Computer is telling me my C drive is full or out of space.
- Receiving S.M.A.R.T. status bad backup and replace error.
- How to fix a sector not found error.
- A serious disk error occurred trying to read/write drive.
- How to fix disk boot failure.
- How to fix boot error "PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable."
- How to fix No ROM basic system halted error.
- How to fix a fixed disk failure.
- Getting bad sectors, clusters, or missing allocations.
- How to fix Boot Record Signature AA55 not found.
- How to fix 1780 or 1790 hard drive error at boot.
- How to fix hard disk controller failure.
- How to fix disk I/O error as the computer starts.
- How to fix diskette drive 0 seek failure.
- Hard Disk Fail (10), (20), or (80).
- How to fix insufficient memory error when formatting hard drive.
- How to fix VFAT errors.
Hard drive file system questions
- What is a file system?
- How to find what file system is running on my hard drive.
- What is FAT?
- What is NTFS?
- How to determine if FAT32 is enabled on a hard drive.
- Is one hard drive better than another?
- Is there a FAT16 to FAT32 file converter for Windows 95?
Hard drive specifications
- How to find the hard drive type and specifications.
- Conner hard drive specifications.
- Fujitsu hard drive specifications.
- Quantum hard drive specifications.
- Seagate hard drive specifications.
- Western Digital hard drive specifications.
Other hard drive questions and answers
- My computer is running slow, what steps can I do to fix it?
- How to copy files from one drive to another drive.
- How to see all drives available on the computer.
- Advantages of SSD over HDD.
- Error reading or writing fixed disk.
- How to find hard disk sector size in Windows.
- How to delete a partition in Windows.
- Do I need to defrag my SSD or flash drive?
- How to merge partitions in Windows.
- How to shrink or extend a partition in Windows.
- How to unmount a volume in Windows.
- How to connect and disconnect a computer external hard drive.
- How to remove a computer hard drive.
- Will a Mac hard drive work with a PC?
- How to upgrade a hard drive or SSD.
- Why can't I see over 8.4 GB on my hard drive?
- Why can't my computer boot with a hard drive over 33.8 GB?
- How to clone a disk in Windows.
- Unable to disable Write Precomp within BIOS.
- Where can I get the settings for my HDD?
- Why am I unable to see the full amount of a hard drive?
- What is causing noise in my computer?
- How to create a FAT32 partition.
- Why am I only able to see a 2 gigabyte partition or drive?
- Why can't I see over 8 GB with Windows NT 4.0?
- Can I put a laptop hard drive in a desktop computer?
- How to fix a no fixed disk present error.
- ATAPI incompatible press F1 to resume.
- How to change a drive letter.
- Can formatting a hard drive several times cause problems?
- How to view the name or label of a drive.
- How to rename or label a disk drive.
- What is the difference between a quick format and a full format?
- Can you get files and data after a hard drive is reformatted?
- Can a Windows computer read a Mac-formatted hard drive?
- How to disable and enable AAM.
- How to recover data from a hard drive in a dead computer.
- Computer stops at verifying DMI pool data.
- How to fix track error when reading, writing, or formatting a disk.
- Why does Windows 95 not support hard drives over 32 GB?
- Do I need to set jumpers when installing a new hard drive?
- Hard drive is not detected when using a boot diskette.
- Windows setup: compressed volume or disk-cache utility error.
- Do you have additional information on fdisk /mbr?
- How to set up dual-booting.
- How to fix a partition showing up as an MS-DOS partition.
- Why do I have a C and H drive?
- The volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems.
- Why is my hard drive only being seen as 504, 528, or 540 MB?
- How to manually remove hard drive compression.
- How many partitions can DOS and Windows recognize?
- How to fix MS-DOS compatibility mode issues.
- How to fix fdisk freezing during creation or deletion of partition.
- Information on the fdisk command with examples and information.
- How to lock or unlock the hard drive.
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