Tag: hard drive

Just about everyone has experienced a hard drive failure.  What recovery methods are your old standbys? In an article on TechRepublic, Jack Wallen discusses a few strategies for recovering unbootable hard drives, including booting from a restore disk and using a Linux live CD.  A Linux live CD is definitely something that you should have […]

Think you’ve got a great deal on a hard drive?  Counterfeit and outright fake hardware is all too common, especially when purchasing from overseas resellers.  You may think you can spot a fake, but now fakes are becoming more and more sophisticated, such as this 500GB hard drive that is actually a perpetually rewriting 128MB […]