I have had this problem that has been plaguing me for a very long time. Google’s webmaster tools has been reporting incoming links to our website that are returning a 404 (Not found) error. The weird thing is the URL that shows “looks” correct and even clicking the link it looks correct in the browser […]
How to Fix Bad Sectors on a Hard Drive
The truth of the matter is; you can’t repair bad sectors on a hard drive. Receiving ‘Bad Read’ errors or I/O errors from a hard drive is not the type of problem that can be remedied or ignored. The following is an explanation of how hard drives are designed and how a bad sector revealing […]
What Does CHKDSK Really Do? From a Software Engineers View
I wish I had a nickel for every potential client that has called the shop and explained to me that they have a hard drive that is locking up (bad sectors usually) and it won’t populate the file system. As I am listening I hear things like “I put it in an external enclosure and […]