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Hard drives can also be called HD. For information on the hard drive, click the link below

  • Hard Drives - Information on hard drives

  • Data recovery - Information on data recovery

  • Defrag - How to defrag the hard drive

  • Drive C - Unable to format drive C

  • Drive Jumper - Information on setting the jumper (IDE drives Only. SATA drives do not have this)

  • Drive letter assignment change - How to change the drive letter assignment to a drive in windows

  • Drive letter not showing - The drive is not showing up in My Computer

  • Drive size is incorrect - My computer is showing the size of the hard drive incorrectly

  • Free space - How much free space is on my hard drive?

  • Hard drive Dell diagnostics - How to run hard drive diagnostics on a Dell

  • Hard drive diagnostics - Manufacturers diagnostics

  • Hard drive addition - adding a second hard drive

  • Erase data on hard drive - Information on erasing hard drive and security of it

  • Hard drive identification - How to determine if it is a SATA or IDE

  • Hard drive install - How to install a hard drive

  • Hard drive missing space - When you look at a drive, a certain amount of space will not be shown. This tends to make you think there is something wrong with the drive.

  • Hard drive space low - Get the message the hard drive is low on free space

  • Hard drive types - Explains the different types of hard drives

  • Hard drive installed secondary for data recovery - How to install the hard drive as a secondary drive for data recovery

  • IDE power cable - Information on the IDE power cable

  • Smartdrive message - What this indicates

  • Troubleshoot boot issues - Here is a tool to help you troubleshoot

  • Hard drive constantly running - The hard drive constantly runs

  • Hard error - What to do about a hard error

  • Hard drive secondary not seen - what to do about the second drive not seen

  • Hard drive Unmountable Boot Volume - can either be corruption or a bad hard drive

  • Hard Drive not seen in BIOS - Troubleshoot hard drive not seen in Bios

  • What is bytes - information on bit, bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, Terabytes and such

  • External Hard Drive Letter - You should assign the drive letter of X, Y, or Z to this drive and why

  • External - Information on external drives

  • Hard drive enclosures - Information about putting a drive in an enclosure

  • Defrag and SSD drives - information about SSD drives and defrag

  • Secure Boot enabled? - How to determine if Secure Boot UEFI is enabled

  • Secure Boot - Information on Secure Boot with UEFI system

  • Trim - Check to see if Trim is enabled on a SSD drive