Questions tagged [hard-drive]
A hard disk drive (or HDD) is a non-volatile, random access device for storing digital data.
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What does NeedsCleaning mean in output of "wmic diskdrive get NeedsCleaning"?
Does it mean that I should run a CHKDSK (this is on Windows 7) or something else?
Adding more context to the question: I was exploring WMI (Window Management Instrumentation) commands at the CMD ...
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What do I need to connect this laptop HD to my new laptop?
I spilt water over my ASUS X555LA laptop and now it won't start up. In an attempt to recover files from my HD (which is a 1TB HDD 5400 RPM), I've learnt that it's possible to connect my HD to my new ...
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Is there any chance to recover data from a clicking HDD? [duplicate]
I've experienced HDD failures a few times already... Usually, my system was first starting behaving strange, or was even becoming inoperational, then I was doing a full HDD scan, which was reporting a ...
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Dropped HDD - Any chance of data recovery
So a friend of mine dropped his HDD and now it is not recognised even in the BIOS.
He told me he turned it on a few times after the incident, which is probably what killed it completely if the heads ...
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External hard drive always in use, no apparent reason
I have used 3 approaches to try and find what's triggering the "Can't stop your drive because it's in use" error message with my new WD external hard drive.
LockHunter found nothing
Nothing returns ...
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2 WD hardrives won't fit in Thermaltake
I recently bought the blacxduet thermaltake and got files i thought were lost from 3 old hard drives.I then went to pop my WD 1 TB hard drives and my WD 1.5TB hard rive in but they won't fit,
I'd ...
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How to attach VHDX file on Windows 7?
I made a Windows 10 backup, and now I have 2 VHDX files. If I attack that on Windows 10 in disk manager, no problem, but I must attach on Windows 7, and unforunatelly that doesn't work. How can I ...
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Linux: Is there a filesystem that can stand an abrupt storage device disconnection?
This may be more appropriate in UNIX & Linux, so please let me know. I'm wondering if there's a filesystem available in Linux that can withstand (or is designed to be able to better handle) hard ...
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Windows 10 - When combining MBR and GPT drives, does this affect boot priority?
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I have three drives in my computer. An SSD and two HDDs for storage (let's call them HDD1 and HDD2). My operating system is installed on the SSD. HDD1 has served me well for 7+ years and is ...
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Can't get Linux smartctl to show me disk health
CentOS 7
I'm trying to use smartctl to show my disk info.
I have an Dell PowerEdge R720 with an H710P controller, running RAID 10.
When I run df in the Linux virtual machine, it says /dev/loop0 is ...
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Corrupted drive and can’t boot after Windows 10 update
I have (had) 2 computers (Lenovo laptop, dell tower) running windows 10. Although normally they sleep, this last week they were both rebooted. When they tried to load windows, they failed to load and ...
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Static directory at the top level of the drive
On my Windows desktop, I need some directory which must stay on the same place "forever".
It is itended primarly for images, which sometimes included into Markdown files. Here is how it works:
C:\...
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How to get rid of dual boot and Windows Boot Manager safely
In the past, when I migrated to Win10 from WinXP, I created a dual boot for safety. The boot manager was installed on XP HDD and Win10 was installed on a new separate SSD. Still works great.
Now, I ...
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What do these lights on my server mean? Has my HDD gone bad?
So I got to work today after backing up this server over the weekend. I rebooted the server and it started running in the default windows OS and everything seemed to be working fine except for these ...
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Windows 10 dots spinning indefinitely when second hard drive connected
I spent all day at this yesterday but my brain is fried.
Issue can be seen here
My desktop started experiencing this issue recently where it would boot to the Windows black screen with the spinning ...
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Drive is not accessible (The file or dir is corrupted and unreadable). CHKDSK aborts. What else?
I have a "[drive letter]:\ is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable" problem with one of the partitions on my external hard-drive.
"chkdsk /f [drive letter]:" won't solve ...
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Data Recovery from a Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 Hard Drive
My desktop computer died today. I have important work saved on my desktop. I got the hard drive which I believe is in working condition. My hard drive specification is as follows:
Seagate Barracuda ...
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How to find the address of a WD EX2 drive?
I have a hard-drive of WD MyCloud EX2 connected to my wifi. I know its address should be something like 10.0.0.X. But I do not know what is X. How do I find it?
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Will SSD silent my computer? [closed]
Do you think my computer will be silent if I replace my HDD with a SSD? Actually, I realise thanks to Task Manager that only my HD is (most of time) 100% used when CPU and memory are only 10 to 15%. I ...
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One drive, two computers, but wireless
Looking to share the data from an external Lacie hard drive with both my Windows machine and my Mac machine. The issue here is that I need the drive to be accessed by one of the machine via wireless ...
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Recovering ssd data - Windows 10
I have my mother's laptop with me, a lenovo g-70. She claims she did a "windows" update (she has windows 10) and the computer will not boot up now. It was completely "fine", as far as I know the night ...
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Hard drives no longer work under Windows 10 but work under linux
Although I would have liked to fix this issue, I ended up putting the data on 2 new drives and formatting the problem drives.
2 of my hard drives just stopped working under Windows and pulling up ...
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Why the new hard drive has to be partitioned if I don't need any logical partitions? [duplicate]
Sorry if this question seems to be a silly one. But I want to clear my doubt regarding the relationship between partitioning and the file system.
These days almost all the hard disks come with a ...
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Will hard drive spin if only a power cord attached ?
If a hard drive is attached with a power cord (but without a SATA cable), will it spin ?
My primary concern is "will it degrade the hard drive overtime as if it has been used ?" because I just want ...
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Any way to wipe a hard drive that won't mount?
I have an iMac and a 12-inch MacBook. I also have an external hard drive.
The hard drive won't mount on either machine. I can't see it in finder or in disk utility. The weird thing is that I can feel ...
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What type of connector is this? MSA 2040
This connector is on our newly purchased (and incorrect model) MSA SAN Shelf.
What's the name of the connector? Some people are referring to it as "SAS 3", but I wasn't aware that there was anything ...
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Layered storage: automatically move from SSD to HDD Windows 10 [duplicate]
I have a 120GB SSD and a 2TB HDD
Is there a way to "merge" this, so I just store my programs and data to the respective folders, and let the system move the less frequently used stuff from SSD to HDD....
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Which HDDs/SSDs will be compatible with my Lenovo X201?
I'm thinking of replacing the HDD on my Lenovo X201. I'm willing to consider either new or used HDDs or SSDs, but I don't know what my constraints are. That is, what are the physical and software-...
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Does editing a text file replace/wipe the bytes written on the hard drive?
So when you delete a file on a PC it removes the pointer of that file rather than the actual bytes, that remains until it is written over.
If you have a txt that simply has the word "Hello" and I ...
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Cloning drive and the length of time it should take
I am using EaseUS Todo Backup Free to clone a 1.81 TB external hard drive with 1.5 TB of data onto a 4TB external hard drive. It has been 47 hours and the estimated remaining time continues to ...
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HDD capacity not detected correctly Ubuntu 14.04
My WD3200BUCT (320 GB HDD) stopped working. It had Win 7 (64 bit) installed. The problem at hand is that there is still some important data on it that I would like to recover. When I plug it into my ...
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Brand new laptop with hard-drive clicking and a weird S.M.A.R.T report on Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
I bought a brand new factory-sealed HP Omen 15-ce084no laptop that came with Windows 10. It has a 256GB SSD and 1TB mechanical disk. After checking that everything worked on Windows, I got rid of it ...
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USB HDD Case: can't mount 2nd ext4 partition
I bought a USB 3.0 External 3.5" HDD Case.
It is based on the following chip: JMicron JMS567.
I want to use it for attaching my internal HDD which has three partitions: swap and two ext4 partitions.
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Deleted files still taking space because I didn't empty the trash can on my school
The question simple, but I don't know what to do, I have an external HDD (1TB) and this morning I have deleted a folder with 30GB of contents, but I forgot to empty the trash.
Now I can't copy more ...
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Cannot determine true health of SSD
I've got a very new laptop running Windows 10 and recently it decided to do some self-updates and after the hard drive became unstable. Windows kept trying to scan and repair the disk but it froze at ...
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S.M.A.R.T attribute 0x04 start/stop count for external hard-drives
I'm currently testing my new usb hard-disk, a 3TB Toshiba Canvio Basic. I use Hard Disk Sentinel to check its SMART attributes and other parameters, and i noticed that the start/stop count for this ...
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Do SAS to SATA cables work interchangeably?
I need to boot a sever OS that lives on a SAS type Hard Drive, from a desktop machine (a server got a little bit wet and the PSU's have blown).
It's a Dell PowerEdge T620 that's gone down and I just ...
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Move Windows Boot Loader to another disk where Windows 7 is installed
For the last two days, I have been trying and searching for a way to boot Windows 7 from the new disk.
My disk configuration is as follows:
Disk 0 - Multi boot/multi portioned 1 TB HDD - Windows and ...
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Computer Blue Screen From ntoskrnl.exe
Recently iv been getting a blue screen of death at random times.. well i think, i haven't timed it. I used some software to read the crash dump and it this is what came out: ntoskrnl.exe ntoskrnl.exe+...
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huge difference between the filesystem size and the data size in a .image data. And I cannot shrink it
So I am trying to shrink a image file to a more reasonable size and I followed this tutorial:
https://softwarebakery.com/shrinking-images-on-linux
Basically it shows you to shrink the partition and ...
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Does running large file compression on SSD go faster than on HDD?
Let's say I have 5000 images I need to compress.
Option A.
Source folder on SSD and destination folder on HDD (Sata)
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Source folder on SSD and destination folder on SSD
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Uploading Files Faster to Google Drive
I had a question, I'm backing up my photos in RAR file and want to upload to Google Drive. Each RAR file reaching to 400 MB and sometimes that can abort the upload progression (because sometimes my ...
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Identify the bottleneck in reading from an external HDD over USB3
I am comparing (Windows fc.exe) two copies of a 200GB file. Each is on a drive connected over USB 3.0 to a Corei5 laptop. The following figures in TaskMgr have been stable (+/- 10%) for over 20 ...
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Change SATA mode to AHCI before reinstalling Windows on new drive - possible lose of data on non raid drive?
Currently I've got 5 HDD connected to my PC: 1 is the OS drive, 2 are connected into raid0 volume0, 2 are connected into raid0 volume1 (the volume numbers might be wrong, I'm writing this from memory, ...
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Prevent file from deleted in usb drive yet keep the drive remaining space writable
My situation is we will give out usb drive to people to use, which bundled a software for promotional purpose. We don't want this software be deleted by user, yet still let users use the usb drive as ...
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Can I just copy Windows from one SSD to another and use it?
To upgrade my windows SSD, can I just use a linux live version and copy the whole content over to the new (and bigger) SSD?
Or are there easier ways? I fear that the boot-sector (and whatever else ...
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Is there an indication of the vibrations a disk was subjected to?
I received today a new disk (traditional, plate-based one). It was quite loosely moving in a box, surrounded by a feeble wall of bubble-wrap.
The disk is brand new and I do not have specific reasons ...
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will formatting a hard drive from one computer allow me to use it in another?
The hard drive on my computer at home is actively dying. I have a ext hard drive that I have everything backed up to. At work, we have two computers, one of which died and my manager doesn't plan on ...
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DISM capture and apply WIN10 image failure. Need guidance
I've hit quite a snag here.
I booted from WINPE5.1 and ran DISM and captured a Windows 10 golden instance image and the UEFI System Partition (what I traditionally knew as system partition) saved to ...
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My Hard disk drive is different from what the sticker said it would be (Western digital), is av HDD bad?
Long story short I bought an HDD based on the sticker on it I thought it was this:
WD Blue 1TB WD10EZEX
But it turned out it was this:
Western Digital AV-GP 1TB WD10EURX
So now I tried to learn ...
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