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GENERAL HARDWARE SUPPORT IS OFF-TOPIC. Questions about hardware should be asked on https://superuser.com. A hard drive is a physical storage device used to save state for operating systems and individual software programs. Questions should relate to reading and writing via programming.

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How to list physical disks?

How to list physical disks in Windows? In order to obtain a list of "\\\\.\PhysicalDrive0" available.
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How do I specify a label/path with spaces in /etc/fstab?

I am having trouble trying to get theh permissions for some of my external drives set up. I believe the probem is due to how I am dealing with spaces in the text such that the commands can be interpreted by the terminal. I have found this, which…
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How can I determine the sector size in windows?

How can I determine the Physical Sector Size (e.g. if i have an Advanced Format drive with 4,096 byte sectors rather than the legacy 512 byte sectors) in Windows 7? I know that by clicking on a file and get properties we can find out the NTFS…
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How can I easily add storage to a VirtualBox machine with XP installed?

When I installed Windows XP on a VirtualBox machine, I made the hard drive only 10 GB since and assumed it would expand in size (as do hard drives in VMWare as far as I can remember, isn't this true?). In any case, I'm trying to install Visual…
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Get hard disk size in Python

I am trying to get the hard drive size and free space using Python (I am using Python 2.7 with macOS). I am trying with os.statvfs('/'), especially with the following code. Is it correct what I am doing? Which definition of the variable giga shall I…
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How to view unallocated free space on a hard disk through terminal

I want to view the unallocated free space on my hard disk through terminal. I've burned my brains searching the internet for a possible solution, but all in vain. I used all sorts of commands like df, du, fdisk, parted, etc. It tells me about the…
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Getting a list of logical drives

How can I get the list of logial drives (C#) on a system as well as their capacity and free space?
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Python causing: IOError: [Errno 28] No space left on device: '../results/32766.html' on disk with lots of space

I am running a Python script that is causing the above error. The unusual thing is this script is running on a different machine and is having no problems. The difference is that on the machine that is causing the problems I am writing to an…
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Is there any way of detecting if a drive is a SSD?

I'm getting ready to release a tool that is only effective with regular hard drives, not SSD (solid state drive). In fact, it shouldn't be used with SSD's because it will result in a lot of read/writes with no real effectiveness. Anyone knows of a…
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Process permanently stuck on D state

I have an issue with some processes stuck in a D state on Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS. They have been in this state since Nov the 5th (today being December 6th). I understand these are uninterruptible sleep states often related to waiting for data from…
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How to get hard disk serial number using Python

How can I get the serial number of a hard disk drive using Python on Linux? I would like to use a Python module to do that instead of running an external program such as hdparm. Perhaps using the fcntl module?
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Get Hard disk serial Number

I want to get hard disk serial number. How I can I do that? I tried with two code but I am not getting StringCollection propNames = new StringCollection(); ManagementClass driveClass = new ManagementClass("Win32_DiskDrive"); PropertyDataCollection …
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Direct access to hard disk with no FS from C program on Linux

I want to access the whole hard disk directly from a C program. There's no FS on it and never's gonna be one. I just want to open /dev/sda (for example) and do I/O at the block/sector level of the disk. I'm planning to write some programs for…
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Powershell: how to map a network drive with a different username/password

Background: Assume I use the following powershell script from my local machine to automatically map some network drives. $net = $(New-Object -ComObject WScript.Network); $net.MapNetworkDrive("p:", "\\papabox\files"); $net = $(New-Object -ComObject…
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Spin Down Hard Disk Programmatically on Windows?

How do you request Windows to spin down a hard disk programmatically? Is there any user-mode function I can call (or kernel-mode function to call or IRP to send) in order to make this happen? I've tried making a program to send an ATA STANDBY…
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