A hard disk drive (or HDD) is a non-volatile, random access device for storing digital data.
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Motherboard replaced, drive letter screwed, not booting
I have replaced the motherboard of my computer (with the same model), reattached every device, (I have 3 physical drives, with few logic drives inside).
Not my computer boots up, but when windows 7 ...
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Does external HDD RAID closure exists not primarily for portability?
Is there such a class of hardware in which you can install multiple HDDs set up as RAID, while the unit maintains their ventilation and power consumption, independently of a computer?
External HDD ...
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Restore MBR on bad HHD after MBR erase
So here is my (kind of) bad situation.
I have this ~640GB Seagate 2.5' HDD. It's and old HDD I was using and it has a lot of important personal data.
It used to have a MBR and some Linux partitions, ...
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Can dd be used to make an exact disk image(copy) of HDD and SSD?
So I want to take a disk image of my SSD/HDD, but I want my disk image to be exactly the same as every bits/information of my physical hard disk. (so that if there are files deleted but recoverable ...
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Transfer Windows 8 from one HDD to another HDD (with Windows 7 on another partition)
I want to transfer Windows 8 from one HDD to another HDD (with Windows 7 on another partition).
I bought Windows 8 Pro 64bit update (I had a a Windows Vista DVD i never even used), placed a new hard ...
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Hard drive uninitialized when switching enclosure
I have a 3TB SATA drive which I've been using in an external USB enclosure. Today I upgraded the enclosure in order to take advantage of USB 3.0 speeds. However, in this enclosure I am unable to ...
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Why is the root of my hard drive acting like a picture folder?
I was browsing around and looking at some files in application data that my application saved (specifically screenshots) and I clicked the Show the contents of this folder or whatever it was to ...
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Dual boot Windows 8 with Windows 8 problems [closed]
High There,
I have 1 Pc with a SSD and Hard Drive
I removed the sata connection of hard drive and install "Windows 8 Upgrade" on SSD.
It's not using EFI.
I removed then the sata connection of SSD ...
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Windows XP not detecting IDE drive
I'm trying to install another hard drive into an old Dell I use as a server machine. I unplugged the main HDD with the OS, and plugged the secondary HDD in that IDE port, because it had linux on it ...
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Can I use Microsoft SyncToy to auto-backup my drives without me taking action?
Can I use Microsoft SyncToy to backup my drives without me taking action? I want to to back up often, like every 30 minutes.
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Is it better to have a disk drive run continuously or to have it sleep and start at least 5 times a day? [duplicate]
i'm switching from a big Windows PC with a number of hard drives in the box to a small MacBook Pro. I want to put all hard drives in USB docks.
It seems to works well but i have now some hard drives ...
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hard drive raw read error rate 9
My main HDD is about 2.5/3 years old. All that time, it has been running with about 40-45 (temperature).
I have had a HDD failure before and it was really frustrating, I don't want that to happen ...
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Solaris Automated install Hard-Drive Windows 7
I got two hard disks, one of 40 GB and another one with 1 TB.
The 40 GB has windows 7 installed on it, taking all the space of this hdd.
The 1 TB disk I got few logical and extended partitions; in ...
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How can I prohibit to Windows7 to turn off my HDD?
I have a notebook: ThinkPad Edge E530. I have just installed a new mSATA drive. The OS is installed on the mSATA drive, and the data are stored on the HDD. While using the computer (browsing etc.) I ...
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Should I install Grub2 to /sda or /sdb?
I have Windows 7 (default OS) on my internal hard drive which is /sda.
I have Linux Mint 14 on my external hard drive, which is /sdb
I'm going to install grub2 using a command, but I'm not sure ...
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Linux Won't Boot From Option in Windows Boot Manager
I have a pre-existing option to boot from (Windows 7), and a also made a Linux option which was made from Easy BCD.
I'm able to load Linux when I click on Windows 7 (When my external HDD with it is ...
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My 500GB external HDD is now only 150gb. What could have gone wrong?
Attempting to hand over my external HDD to a friend of mine for his use, I deleted all the files in my external HDD amount to freeing space close to 470GB. I did it all in my mac. For all I remember, ...
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Linux won't boot
I just installed my new SSD, and I put Windows 8 on it. Previously I had a hard drive with both Windows and Linux partitions. After finishing the installation of Windows 8 on the SSD I formatted the ...
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Windows 8 Storage Space Recovery
the problem start like this.
I add a 2-way mirror storage pool in my Windows 8. (consist of 2 x 500gb harddisk) I assume it can be read by any OS. So, I proceed to hackintosh my computer.
After ...
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Linux boots when I click “Windows 7” in boot manager [duplicate]
I've been trying to dual boot, which has pretty much been successful. I have Linux installed on an external Hard Drive. In the boot manager when I click on Windows 7:
(with the hard drive plugged ...
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How picky are RAID controllers when replacing a drive?
I had a drive fail in a RAID5 array and I'm working on finding a replacement. It's an older drive that's fairly hard to find, and most of them out there are used. How close of a drive do I need to the ...
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Moving Windows\winsxs\Backup to another drive
I've installed an SSD and for a number of big directories (e.g. Users\me\Downloads), I've been able to use the Sysinternals "junction" command to create a hard link on C: that references a copy of the ...
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CFQ hard drive scheduling algorithm
The CFQ algorithm uses an ordered set of queues based on the I/O priority of the processes that made the requests. That means there's a queue for process of priority, let say, 1, another one for ...
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MBR viruses: Is that really possible? What do I have to do to prevent?
I'm going through a real mystery right now.
My friend has a Sony Vaio VPCEG notebook and recently it keeps showing the following message:
S.M.A.R.T Hard Drive detects Error.
Please consider ...
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If I replace the hard drive, do I lose my Windows license?
I dropped my laptop and destroyed my hard drive. I have ordered a new hard drive to replace it and so obviously need to reinstall the operating system. The recovery information was in the hard drive ...
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ExFat partition not mounting - No main bitmap was found
Had 2tb hard drive for about a year.
Was plugged into windows pc, actively using Exfat partitions 'iTunes' and 'windows'.
The power cord for the hard drive was pulled out, reconnected in both the ...
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Laptop hard drive replacement: losing Windows recovery?
I might soon have to change my hard drive for a new one
as it is starting to show signs of ceasing to work properly.
I am running Windows 7 and have a recovery partition on the
current hard drive from ...
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Calculating hard disk block model reading time
My professor posted a slide on how to calculate the data retrieval from hard disk using the block model. The specs were:
7200 RPM
5ms SEEK
80MB/s TRANSFER RATE
BLOCK MODEL : Block size 4KB
I ...
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Creating symbolic link between mapped network drive and file:// url
I have a link on a shared website that points to a location on a Samba server as such:
file://my.samba.server/directory/foo.txt
On my local machine, I have the Samba server mapped to my m: drive. ...
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Being Careful with my new Hard Drive Docking Station
I feel weird with plug-and-play HDD's. It just seems unnatural to be turning the thing on and off, switching the USB over, etc.
I'm using it in a fairly variable environment - it will be connecting ...
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How can I increase disk space allocated to my VirtualBox VM?
The basics:
I'm running windows and have a VritualBox VM running Ubuntu 12.04 on top of that. I need to increase the disk space allocated from 8 GB to 12 GB. I'm trying to follow along with these ...
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“Recovering” disk from a Windows Home Server
I had a Windows Home Server machine which died on me. Now I wanted to "salvage" at least the disks in it.
But it seems those are somehow oddly formatted - each of the three disks has two partitions, ...
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Partitioning best-practices for SSD+regular HDD with multi-boot
I have a (couple of) regular HDDs on my machine , and I'm about to buy an SSD, probably 128GB, for it.
I would like the machine to be a Dual-Boot Linux (3.x kernel) + Windows 7. My question has two ...
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Checking hdd by its smart [closed]
I want to buy used HDD 1tb, and the seller gave me smart. For first look it seems not bad, however im still not sure.
Here is smart: http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/1754/1304131ia.png
Is it worth ...
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Windows 8 working with hard disk at idle time
I have Windows 8 installed on PC, and another Windows 8 installed inside virtual computer. On virtual computer - without antivirus. In both cases, I see that OS intensively works with the hard disk at ...
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I'm getting a popping noise and read errors from the hard drive during a partitioning work with GParted
I'm trying to move a partition from a GParted live disk, but two things started happening:
The disk is making a popping/cracking noise, almost like a Geiger counter.
GParted says Read error on ...
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Disk not found after running badblocks -vws
Ok so I have this one disk that is about 5 years old, Seagate.
Prior to running badblocks it was it was in a striped raid array with an identical disk that apparently died.
I kept this one disk ...
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Going from two hdd to one hdd cannot boot
I've had two HDD both with Vista installed on them. This is because the old Hitachi HDD failed previous and I added a Seagate HDD and just loaded Vista onto one of its two partitions. Normally when I ...
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OSX ghosting - need to reformat HDD
I have an OSX partition that does not take up the whole drive. Somehow, I managed to damage the unallocated space in a way that disk utility does not let me use it even though it is labeled "free ...
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How to format unrecognized USB drive?
I have used Unetbootin on one of my USB drive, and it seems to have partitioned it some way that it's no longer recognized by any OS. It's not even listed when I turn on my computer and press F12 to ...
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Formatting and Partitioning 1TB external hard drive [duplicate]
I just bought a 1TB external hard drive from Western Digital - My Passport.
I am planning to use it for couple of things;
Store my music
Store my videos
Store my pictures
Store my designs
Work as a ...
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Having installed fedora, I have lost capacity to boot into any OSs via BIOS or UEFI
(Running on Asus TaiChi)
When I try to boot without USB, I get sent straight to setup screen. If I press esc prior to setup screen, I enter the Please select boot device boot dialog. However, my only ...
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Bad sectors in external HDD
I've had this external HDD for around 3 years give or take 6 months. For the last month or so, it was pretty slow but it worked. A few files couldn't be copied onto my system but files could be ...
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How to connect Linux to a HDD that has been “security locked”
In the process of playing around with several hard-drives, and hdparm's --security-set-pass and --security-erase options, I have a pile of HDDs that are in a "locked" state and I cannot unlock them.
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Bootmgr is missing
I have seen many posts about this issue but none of them helped me solve my problem. I just installed a new SSD on my laptop. On the old HDD I have two partitions (Windows and Linux). I cloned the ...
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How do I restore windows 8 / hard drive after hard drive overwrite?
So I have been a bit of an idiot... I was installing fedora and I clicked through the partitioning without much attention assuming that fedora would be installed in dual boot. It seems to have ...
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Hard drive missing from boot sequence
I have a laptop with Windows 8. I decided to install Ubuntu. It didn't offer me to install it with Win8, though according to the docs it should have, or at least if I had win7. I clicked Something ...
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On Toshiba Satellite L650, is it possible to move from a 32 bit to a 64 bit using recovery media creator?
Purchased a Toshiba satellite L650 sometime in November 2009. It came with 4 GB RAM (not enough key bounce while I posted first, oops :-( ), 284 GB HDD, DVD drive and 2 USB ports, 1 sATA/USB port and ...
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TrueCrypt system encrypted drive fails to load Windows
I have full system encryption on my Win 7 Pro/64 hdd. I boot the machine and enter the TrueCrypt password, and Windows starts to load but fails with the error message "The boot selection failed ...
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Defragmentation stops and does not reduce below 52%
In one of my PC a single drive is not defragmenting. When i do it using windows defragmentation option the fragmentation does not reduce below 52%. I tried so many times and facing same problem. Then ...
