Tag Archives: Hard Drive

Q. Can I put a 3 TB SATA hard drive in my computer?

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Trevor

Motherboards with a standard BIOS will not support single SATA drives larger than 2 TB, support for 3 TB hard drives requires the new motherboards with UEFI firmware www.bit-tech.net/hardware/storage/2010/06/01/are-we-ready-for-3tb-hard-disks/4 If you have an earlier motherboard, an option is to install … Continue reading →

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Q. I have a drive I have been using on a Mac, I plugged it into a Windows machine and it can’t read it, there’s no data.

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Trevor

The hard drive is formatted as a Mac HFS+ volume.  Windows can’t read it without some third party software MacDrive www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive Paragon HFS+ for Windows www.paragon-software.com/home/hfs-windows/ HSF Explorer (open source, read only) www.catacombae.org/hfsx.html Although both Windows and Mac can read … Continue reading →

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Q. Photoshop keeps coming up with message “scratch Disk Full on C:”

Posted on May 3, 2011 by quill

First of all, how much free space do you actually have on the C drive? Photoshop requires a considerable amount of free drive space on the hard disk that is designated as the Scratch drive, to write temporary files. Back … Continue reading →

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