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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 (…

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SMART Hard Drive INFO Powershell

I am looking for a way through possibly powershell to obtain the SMART data for a hard drive on any …

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R list.files(my_working_directory) shows no files but I know they are there. How to fix?

I'm trying to work with R using a directory in my external hard drive as working directory. I can set …

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How can I find the Harddisk Device Serial Number without using the WMI in .NET?

I want to get the hardwired serial number from the hard disk but NOT using WMI. I tried using WMI …

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LVM: Extending Physical Volume (under VMWare)

I have a virtual server under VMware, where I got 10 more GB harddisk from the sysadm. Inside Linux (running Ubuntu 11.04 …

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using c# how can I extract information about the hard drives present on the local machine

I'm looking to get data such as Size/Capacity, Serial No, Model No, Heads Sectors, Manufacturer and possibly SMART data.

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Install Android Studio and SDK on SSD or Mechanical Disk Drive

I have just upgraded to a new Intel Core i7 (4th gen) PC featuring a 512gb SSD, about 5TB of …

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Linux: direct access to the hard-disk in C

How can I obtain a raw access to the HD and know if that location is used or is a …

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How do you find how much disk space is left in Cocoa?

I suppose I'd like to be able to find out for any storage, not just the system disk, but that's …

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Converting HDD Serial # VB6 code into VB.NET code

I've got a cool piece of code taken from a VC++ project which gets complete information of the hard disk …

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