Posts Tagged 'Physical Damage'

4 Top Risks when You Run CHKDSK on Hard Drive

As we all know. CHKDSK is able to check your drives for errors. Yet, if misused, it will cause unrecoverable damage to your drives. Now, in this article, we will expose its 4 most common risks. Windows has a native disk repair tool – CHKDSK, which is really robust to detect bad sectors and fix disk errors. However, it may result in some troubles and risks when it is misused in some cases. Now, in the followings, we will unveil the 4 top risks of running CHKDSK on your drives. 1. Run...

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A Quick Insight into Physical Shock Damage on Hard Disk Drive (HDD)

As we all know, hard disk drive (HDD) can be corrupted for miscellaneous reasons, such as virus infect, shock damage or electricity failures, etc. This post will lead you to learn more about physical shock damage on HDD. Hard disk drive is vulnerable due to its mechanical and moving components. So, in order to avoid data loss on hard drive, you should protect your drive against all possible risks to your utmost. One of the most common physical damage is shock damage. Therefore, in the...

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What Does It Mean If Hard Drive Spins Very Fast and Loudly?

In normal situations, when computer works, its hard drive will spin continuously at a standard speed. If you find your hard drive spinning unusually fast and loudly, you may feel strange and worried. This article will discuss about this case in detail. As we all know, hard disk drive will spin in data read/write. Generally speaking, during working, the common hard drive spins constantly at 7200 revolutions per minute (PRM) or so in a computer. And it will only stop after a certain period of...

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