External hard drive conversion best practices
I have a hard drive that I took out of an old computer and placed  into an external hard drive case. my question is: Can I keep the now external drive on 24/7? or is it best to shut it down?

Answer Question   |  November 1, 2011  4:07 PM
External hard drives, HARD drive, Hard Drive Damage, Hard Drive Installation

Possible Hard Drive Crash
When I turn on my Dell Lattitude D630 laptop the only picture that appears on the desktop is my screen saver. No icons or toolbars or even the start button. What can be the problem?

Answer Question   |  August 24, 2010  7:37 PM
Dell Latitude D630, HARD drive, Hard Drive Damage, Hard drive repair, Reboot problem

Help recreating a mirror between hardware
I have two drives that are a hardware mirror. They are scsi and connected to a Windows advanced server 2003. The primary drive died. I tried switching the cable to put the second drive where the first was but no luck. How can I boot? How can I recreate the mirror?

Answer Question   |  July 27, 2010  2:43 PM
Hard Drive Damage, Hard drives, Mirror Driver, Mirrored Drives, Mirrored Server, Windows Server 2003

Hard drive issue
Can a electrical surge destroy the hard drive without seeing any visible signs?

Answer Question   |  September 11, 2012  9:58 PM
Hard Drive Damage, Hard drives