What causes hard disk drive errors and how can you avoid data loss? We highlight six hard disk repair solutions.

Traditional hard disk drives, which write data to spinning platters, often develop bad sectors, or corrupted areas on the hard drive, after long-time use or exposure to static electricity.

When you open up the hard disk’s drivers with FWB’s HDT toolkit –done in an act of desperation — everything looks fine. Quite the poser, eh? Enough suspense.

While a rare occurrence, you may have a need to fix a virtual disk that has come attached.

Problem: Mounting a Hyper-V virtual hard disk outside of the VM breaks the VM. Solution: PowerShell.

When files on a hard drive were originating from a MAC device and then moved to a Windows machine, the notice “Can’t read from source file or disk” appears.

How to Fix It When A Disk Read Error Occurs While it may seem like looking at the hard drive first would be the best solution, there are several other potential fixes for disk read errors.

Solution 7: Repair Hard Disk Drive If the Drive where the game is installed gets corrupted, it can also cause disk corrupt error to appear on Steam when trying to download and or install a game file.

If your computer is telling you to free up disk space on your hard drive, here's what to do. (Photo: Getty) Raise your hand if you’ve been admonished by your own computer to free up disk space ...

How to fix a split Fusion Drive About a decade ago, hard drive makers began shipping hybrid drives - disk drives that had both small SSD chips and traditional spinning platter drives in them.

Running Microsoft Fix-It or Troubleshooting On older versions of Windows, Microsoft offered a tool that automatically attempts to repair many problems with Word called Microsoft Fix-It.

If you want to change hard disk size in VMware, you can follow the steps mentioned in this post if your guest OS is Windows or Linux.