A recent growth spurt in the cyclical disk drive industry has slowed price erosion, tightened supplies of some drives, and is leading industry observers to warn that OEMs could have a difficult time ...

Now I'm wondering if I should replace the disk anyway (I have a spare one available), but as the disk is still working I would probably not be able to get an exchange under warranty for one bad sector ...

I have a 73GB drive with bad sectors I want to copy to a 150GB drive. If it weren't for the bad sectors, I would do a raw sector copy and extend the last volume. I use something like UNIX dd with the ...

MANHASSET, N.Y. — IDEMA, the International Disk Drive, Equipment, and Materials Association said that a member committee has recommended replacing the 30 year sector length standard of 512 bytes with ...

Moving the head takes a lot longer than waiting for the sector to come around. So low seek times (the time to move the head) are critical to good disk performance. Access time (time to find a sector) ...

In my last tutorial I introduced you to Windows 2000's Disk Probe, a utility that lets you modify almost anything on your system's hard disk on a sector-by-sector basis. Now it's time to start using ...