Long gone, but now back… sort of. :)
(Answer requested by Anthony Dimpu) Sure. In general, drive cloning basically just hoovers up the ones and zeros from a source disk; and lays them down, unchanged and unexamined, in an exactly analogous pattern on another disk. It doesn’t matter to the cloning software what the ones and zeros represent, or whether the data is…
The general rule is: Put the operating system, and your other most-frequently-accessed files, on the fastest drive. NVMe drives can be faster than classic SATA drives; but the fastest SATA SSDs are faster than some run-of-the-mill NVMe SSDs. Plus, some of the spec-sheet advantages of NVMe may not matter all that much under real-world conditions….
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Yikes! I hope that’s all that was damaged. Because the USB socket may still be receiving power from the PC, start by turning off the PC completely: Unplug it from the wall, and remove any battery (if possible), etc. With the PC totally off and inert, you’re free to use any small tool you wish…
What a strange and dangerous way to hide a file! Because it was hidden, there’s no good way to track what happened. But you might — might — be able to recover the file. I assume you searched the entire disk for the file, including the Recycle Bin. You might also try searching for both…
Yup. It’s not a widespread practice, but floppies crop up in places you might not expect. One spectacular example: The U.S. is still using floppy disks to run its nuclear program ( https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/26/us/pentagon-floppy-disks-nuclear/index.html ) US nuclear force still uses floppy disks ( https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36385839 ) The Pentagon’s Huge Atomic Floppies ( https://time.com/4348494/pentagon-nuclear-floppy-disks/ ) Yes, The Pentagon…
(Answer requested by Nelson Vidinha) Because you can’t add half a platter to an HDD. HDD capacity is usually added in large-ish chunks, a platter at a time. An HDD might have one, two, or many platters. For each drive type and geometry, there’s a commercially-ideal capacity per platter. Hence: drive capacity commonly goes up…
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(Answer requested by Irwin Chung) Frown on? No. It’s a matter of individual taste. Both styles of fried clams, as we know them today, are local inventions anyway, created in towns on the Massachusetts coastline, north of Boston. The now-classic recipe for deep fried, breaded whole clams (with “bellies”) was created by “Lawrence Henry ‘Chubby’ Woodman from Essex, Massachusetts….
Ah, the ouroboros thing — software eating its own tail, or something. 🙂 If everything works as it should, the uninstaller should successfully uninstall itself, no big deal. Because the uninstaller is running, some of its in-use files may not be able to be properly removed right away. If everything is working as it should,…