Winhex comes in handy for recovering files of a drive when there are endless CRC errors because it allows you to continue copying data skipping files that have CRC’s. Many disk clone tools won’t get past CRC’s and normal copying …
S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology), a technology found on most current harddrives. Ensure you have this enabled in your system BIOS. The purpose of S.M.A.R.T. is to warn a user or system administrator of impending drive failure while time …
Today I had a client with a non functioning external USB harddrive. I knew straight away it was either going to be the USB driver/port on the PC or a harddrive/caddy problem. Sure enough I attached the external drive to …