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I recently installed Crystal Disk Info on a hard disk that was riddled with bad sectors. Crystal Disk Info was installed for 1 hour and all the time it reported that the drive was in good health. Is a HDD monitoring tool like this only suitable for monitoring over a couple of day because it's...

They are pretty much all the same. Never really noticed a big difference between brands in this area. Most seem to be made by LG, Samsung, Lite-On and some by a Hitachi / Toshiba alliance. The Rolls-Royce used to be Plextor but this might have changed.

Why do WD use bridge encryption on their external hard drives?

Can you run this as well and post results: https://www.smartmontools.org/

is this a new custom build? What type of BIOS is it? This could be a HDD power-saving feature.

Paperdoc, thanks for the really erudite and comprehensive answer. About how many backup GPT records does a NTFS (GUID) volume have? Obviously, there is one main one and some backup ones?

If there are files in the queue causing a problem just select Reset Printing System and all queued jobs will be deleted. System Preferences, then click Printers & Scanners. then click on Control as you click on list on left The Reset Printing System option should appear.

thanks for your answer but I wonder why "B" is the "correct" answer? (and yes the "D" option of a hammer would be best)

in a textbook on data security here. One questions asks about best practice in safely decommissioning an old computer. The options are: a) format the hdd drive inside b) initialize the hdd drive c) erase all files Bizarrely, the correct answer given is "B" why is it not "A"?

A friend gave me an Macbook Air A1465 fans revving and runs like there is treacle inside... Even opening a document file is painfully slow. Friend assures me there was no water damage...logic board looks undamaged...what could the problem be?

sorry I don't have a screenshot of it. Surely, someone has seen this before? Just to recap, 1) You ping a printer with it's IP address e.g. 192.168.1.200 2) The ping results come back as "Reply from 192.168.1. 40" I am just wondering what is happening here?

ok its an alternative way to giving devices an IP reservation in router settings?

sorry to interrupt here but why do routers have DHCP start and DHCP end parameters? For example, in this case, why can't the router just give out IP addresses in the range 192.168.1.0 to 192.168.1.254?

Shaun, thanks so much for such a in-depth response. The networks I would be dealing with would only have 3-4 devices on them. Secondly, would it have anything to do with the printer's own software or driver. For example, with some Brother network printers, they seem to connect to a network...