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Guide to hard disk drive management

29 Mar 2007 | SearchWinComputing.com

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Despite their advances in reliability, hard disk drives still pose many questions for Windows administrators. Does a new drive need to be formatted? How many passes does it take to ensure that data on the drive has been erased? How can you tell if a drive is about to fail? In this technical guide, SearchWinComputing.com contributors identify some issues they've encountered while managing and maintaining hard disk drives.

Hard disk drive management

Introduction
Be wary of preformatted external hard disk drives
Hard disk drive MTBFs: The four biggest misperceptions
Hard disk drives dying: Six signs a hard drive is about to fail
Storage management software helps when hard disk drives fail
Quick-formatting hard disk drives: A shortcut, but safe
Erasing hard disk drive data: How many passes are needed?

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