Not at all. Hard drives automatically remap bad sectors and present a slightly abstracted view of the actual hard drive to the OS. The HD-based utilities like SMART can see what's really going on at ...

File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so – but ...

I know that in XP's explorer .zip files are already treated more or less like folders, but this is not transparent to other programs.<BR><BR>I have a bunch of zip files which only contain a couple ...