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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Dual Boot Windows and Ubuntu on 2 separate drives Not working
I have a Dell Vostro 5581 laptop with Windows 10 installed.12GB RAM installed. Recently I installed a 500GB M.2 NVME SSD card. I installed Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on this drive. So the 2 operating systems ...
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How to view the MBR table and GPT table themselves (not how to check if partition type is MBR or GPT)?
I am trying to understand what exactly are MBR and GPT and so far what I have learned is that they are "tables". So to understand further, I would like to see those tables to see how they ...
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Dell Optiplex GX280 - HDD from SFF
Can I simply take the current HDD from my gx280 SFF desktop and put it within the full-sized model of the same gx280 computer and expect it to work perfectly? Or will there be differences in hardware ...
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Factory Resetting Windows 11 Computer and Then Switching Drives
I built my computer, but ever since I added two drives, it has been acting up. I'd like to remove my old, 256GB drive (the current C) drive, and just switch my current D drive to the C drive to use as ...
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How to identify and delete Linux Bootloader/GRUB from my HDD?
Im using win 10 in my principal HDD.
I needed a dual boot with linux mint, which should be in my SSD, so I installed it. The problem is that it installed the BOOTLOADER in the EFI of my HDD and not in ...
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I was cloning my os to external drive and computer shut down now disk is no show
I was clowning my c drive to external drive with mini tool it was almost done and pc lost power now the external hhd does not show anywhere, not in disk managment or device manager or anywhere tried ...
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How to use Recuva on a .mrimg Macrium Reflect image?
I'm trying to recover deleted data for a friend.
They accidentally formatted their hard drive (I'm hoping it was just a quick format).
The drive is currently in an external case accessed by USB.
When ...
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Adding an existing HDD to Windows 11, without losing data
I have several hard drives in my system:
1TB SSD - Ubuntu 22.04
1TB SSD - Windows 11
2TB HDD - NTFS data storage
My intent is to have the 2TB HDD be used as shared file storage across both Ubuntu ...
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Will saved CFD/CAD projects on HDD affect speed even if program is installed at SSD? [closed]
Programs are install on SSD.
If I want increase lifetime of SSD because of to much writing and save projects on HDD, is this good idea or will affect speed too much?
What are pros & cons of saved ...
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Bitlocker won't let me continue, but there is no hard drive to be bitlocked?
New to me university surplus laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad). No hard drive came with it. When I tried to start up from the USB stick to install Windows on my blank hard drive, bitlocker jumped in and tried ...
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Safest way to back up old, failing drives?
I have a number of old hard drives (some IDE, most SATA). Some years ago I powered them up and attempted to restore all files through an undelete program, and got some files. I'm not convinced I did a ...
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Extremely slow read speed on hard disk
I have a 4TB hard disk on a NAS which I only use to store media files and play them from there using my local network. Its about 50% filled. It worked fine for for years but I recently noticed that ...
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2TB GPT Disk mistakenly shown as a larger 8TB GPT Disk with unallocated partitions - Why?
I plugged in a 8TB GPT HDD in my pc via external usb adapter (see Footnote 1 for adapters). Then I safely removed and physically unplugged the adapter from the PC, turned off the PC. Next day I ...
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I have an HDD that was taken from a Windows laptop, is there anything on the HDD which will indicate the model, manufacturer and OS of that laptop?
The laptop in question is no longer available. I have the HDD in an enclosure and attached to a separate machine.
Here is a top level view of that drive:
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Aborting repartitioning
Around 5 days ago I decided to change the partitions on my external HDD. The partitions were full, but there was some space not used by them, so I wanted to move the partitions to the left and expand ...
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Windows C: drive apparently nearly empty but cannot account for the used storage
If I go to 'This PC', it says I have 22GB free out of 933GB, which is worrying.
However if I go into the C: drive, select all folders and files (including hidden ones) > right-click > Properties,...
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Why is my RAID 1 NAS (WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra) reporting RAID health "degraded" after replacing one disk and RAID rebuild?
I have a WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra NAS, almost 6 years old, and got a red light on it recently, indicating a disk problem. The NAS web dashboard reported one of the disks is bad, so I bought a replacement ...
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High seek error rate on new Seagate HDD
We just got our new Seagate ST4000NE001-2MA101 4TB as a replacement for a dying disk. After copying the data from the old disk I had a look to the smart data of the new one and found high values for ...
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Change boot device with multiple Windows 10 installations
I installed Windows 10 on 2 devices (HDD and SSD).
The first one was HDD.
Today, I can run Windows 10 on the SSD but only via the Windows boot menu that works only if I boot on HDD first.
The HDD is ...
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Migrating from a 2TB MacBook Pro to a 500GB MacBook Air
We don't want to lose any of the files.
My plan is:
Buy an external 2TB SSD.
Copy ~1.6TB of files from the old Mac onto the SSD.
Use migration assistant to transfer the old Mac onto the new one, ...
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What does it mean if SMART test reports Unknown_Attribute FAILING_NOW?
I have a hard drive (HUH721010ALE601) which is reporting a failing SMART test, but I'm having a hard time interpreting what it means. The failure looks to be with attribute 45, which is labelled "...
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HDD suddenly disappeared from Explorer
I have an older Seagate 120 GB HDD, that I'm connecting to my laptop with an IDE/SATA to USB adapter. The drive is easily 15 years old, but when I connected to the SATA/USB adapter (which is powered),...
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Wiped my HDD with Proxmox 8. Can it be recovered?
I was using Proxmox 8, I have a bunch of HDD's to setup. One is a secondary HDD for my Windows - the Windows OD is on a SSD, but I use the HDD for bulk.
In Proxmox I clicked "wipe disk" - ...
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Is it possible to swap a hard drive from an HP TPN 119 laptop to a HP Stream laptop? [closed]
I have an HP Stream laptop with no operating system on it. I tried to download a Windows operating system onto it from a USB flash drive. But it would not take it for some reason.
Someone told me that ...
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What is the expected write-speed drop for SSDs [duplicate]
Basically, the problem is this:
An external SSD (SATA drive in an enclosure) drops the write speed after some time when uploading large files/ a lot of files.
I first noticed this when just uploading ...
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Black screen when accessing the UEFI firmware settings using a specific SSD
I'm trying to access my UEFI firmware settings to change the main boot directory to GRUB on my SSD (Windows is on the HDD), however whenever I try to launch the UEFI firmware settings, I'm met with a ...
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Windows unable to shrink 930GB freshly installed windows partition more than 15GB on kingston SSD even after removing unmoveable files
I am trying to install Linux (Arch) in a dual-booted system with Windows. The problem is that my windows partition is 930gb out of my Kingston SNVS1000G's 1000GB. I have done a fresh install of ...
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Stop Hard Drive from waking up after Sleep?
I use my PC mostly for studying. I take frequent breaks during these study sessions and put my PC to sleep to limit dust entering its case and also to save power. I have an SSD (where Windows resides) ...
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How to Programmatically Eject a Drive for Immutable Backups with Physical Connection?
We are looking for a practical and cost-effective way to enhance the security of our backups. Our initial idea was to go for immutable backups but unfortunately, due to cost constraints, we are ...
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How to prevent massive fragmentation when copying large files to NTFS HDD?
I have some virtual machines, and for example the first one I'm looking at is 89gb.
Unfortunately when I try to copy it to a new drive it forms around 100,000 fragments (more than 1 per mb.)
I don't ...
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Reclaim WSL2 disk space after setting it to sparse
Following the advice on How do I get back unused disk space from Ubuntu on WSL2? I set my WSL disk image to sparse with wsl --manage <distro> --set-sparse true. But the ext4.vhd file is still ...
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Linux no boot after cloning partitions
I had and old HP Compaq laptop I wanted to upgrade because the IDE HDD was dying inside. Previously I had set up a Windows XP / Lubuntu 14 dual boot on it. After cloning the drive with Rescuezilla to ...
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I am unable to write data to the hard drive and cannot backup it
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A hard drive is a solid-state drive with a 512GB SATA interface.
There are multiple partitions in hard drive A, each in sector order, used for [recovery/ESP (EFI partition)/MSR/Windows/Btrfs/...
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Python APP OS error: failure reading sector 0x10e6c8 from hd0
This is a Verifone Ruby2 POS. I have an Ubuntu boot flashdrive and another Ruby2 (main register).
My question is can I repair/recover the hd0 (which is 2GB solid-state SATA Flash)?
Or, copy Python App ...
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Intel RAID setup blocking PC from booting
I had an external drive fail,
(described here How to save data from an external disk that died)
Following the advice from the comments I dismantled the case, extracted the hard drive, took off the USB/...
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HDD is shown in Ubuntu, but isn't in Windows
Windows 11 double boot via Grub with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
I had bought new HDD, but it wasn't showing in Windows at all. Not in disk maganger, nor in any third-party software, yet was perfectly fine on ...
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Can't access my data on old HDD, the USB adapter shows only Windows and program files [closed]
I have an old 2.5 ATA/IDE HDD, since my PC had problems with the motherboard I bought a ATA/IDE USB adapter.
It does connect to the PC from the adapter, but I can only access the Windows installation ...
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External hd acidentally converted to gpt on windows - how to recover lost data? [duplicate]
As my external hd did not show up in disk manager I accidentally clicked gpt when asked. Now the disk results "not allocated". In fedora results "windows reserved".
Now I am ...
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Dropped HDD seems to be working fine with Windows, makes clicking noise when connected to Raspberry Pi 5
I dropped my External HDD (WD My Passport 5TB) while unplugging it from my Windows PCs USB port. Drop height was about 1m/3ft and it fell on the floor immediately after USB was disconnected. I'm ...
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vmstat + on RHEL machine high values of swpd
The swpd field indicates how much swap space has been used; this value increases when your systems physical memory is full and the Linux kernel starts to use the swap partition/file. When the systems ...
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How to identify file by "File Record Segment"?
How to actually identify files by "File Record Segment" addresses as reported by chkdsk?
There was a blackout and my drives' filesystems were corrupted, the hardware and operating system ...
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VMBox, Actual Size virtual size and Disk Usage give 3 diferent value
I have a Virtual Machine on Virtual box that has weird disk usage value, I'm trying to launch a Docker app. During npm install I get an error of insufficent space and can't understand why.
On my Disk ...
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What does "$DATA (nonresident)" mean?
There was a blackout in my home and my computer's hard drives' filesystems were corrupted.
I checked the system files and the hardware, and found no problem. But I did the stupid thing of running ...
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How to see all files affected by chkdsk?
A few weeks ago my home lost power while my computer is on. Recently I have encountered some problems.
So I did a full system check, I used SeaTools for Windows and all drives passed S.M.A.R.T check, ...
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Loud cracking sound on brand new Seagate Exos 16tb HDDs
Just bought new QNAP NAS and brand new Seagate Exos 16TB X18 HDDs. Everybody who are using them, does they make similar sound as mine?
They make so loud clicking and scratching noise that it doesn't ...
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Will it hurt my computer if I remove the copies of standard directories like Documents and Downloads Windows installed on each of my hard drives?
My laptop has two distinct hard drives. The smaller one is a solid state drive and is where I install programs and keep current projects that are computationally intensive. The second is three ...
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Breaking down e2fsck
Is e2fsck -cc equivalent to badblocks -nsv -o badblocks.txt; e2fsck -L badblocks.txt?
If so, could I potentially speed up the testing by getting badblocks to do a destructive read-write test? Like ...
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What makes e2fsck -cc so slow?
This isn't a complaint or a request for tech support or help! I'm just curious about what's going on behind the scenes :)
I'm doing e2fsck -cc to flag bad blocks on an 8TB LVM ext4 filesystem. ...
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MacBook Air (2012) Toshiba SSD enclosure / connector
Recently, my A1466 MacBook Air (2012) suffered some water damage. Since then, it can’t boot up anymore. I pulled the hard drive with the hope of transferring the files to either an external hard drive ...
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Can I use SATA SSD on my Lenovo V15 IGL?
Can I use SATA SSD on my Lenovo V15 IGL? Manual only mentions 2.5" SATA HDD. There's already a M2.2280 in there. Running Windows 10.