This guide contains advanced information, but has been written in such a way so that anyone can follow it. Please ensure your data is backed up before proceeding. If you are uncomfortable making ...

Hard dive manufacturers go to so much trouble marketing their products as "the best, the fastest, the highest capacity...." bla bla bla... But yet most of their "diagnostic tools" esp. bootable ...

Windows has an inbuilt mechanism that checks the hard drive and reports errors if anything isn’t working as expected. In case a problem is detected, the user gets ...

What do you do when your computer doesn’t start up correctly? Do you just restart the computer and hope it will work the next time? Do you just accept that your computer requires numerous re-start ...

I often used to help people in forums, where they mentioned that their hard drive had crashed and that they had lost all their data just because they did not check the health of their hard drive – and ...

Recently, I acquired several G-drives, and Glyph Studio enclosures. Before I swap out the HDD for WD Reds, I want to thoroughly test the old drives for their use and history. These enclosures are ...