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A hard disk drive (or HDD) is a non-volatile, random access device for storing digital data.

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A lot of time to reboot after creatre a RAID1

I created a RAID1. All looks working fine, but it is taking nearly two minutes to shut down or reboot the server. No idea where to start looking for the problem. This is the configuration: NAME ...
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Is it possible to enable BIOS disk password and OS suspend at the same time?

I am currently on Lenovo ThinkBook 14+ ARA. I found the BIOS offers disk lock method (Master/User Key). After setting the two keys, it is needed to enter one of them to unlock my disks when POST. ...
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Error formatting and creating partition on SSD in Ubuntu

After Giving this Error: Error formatting volume-Error wiping device: Failed to open the device '/dev/sdb1' (udisks-error-quark,0) How can I solve this problem and get the disk to format properly?
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I want to delete Linux Ubuntu from my computer

I have two storage devices on my computer: C: SSD 500gb with Windows 10 on it. D: HDD 1TB with Linux Ubuntu on it. I want to delete Linux from the D: drive while keeping the rest of the data on that ...
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Disabling SMART in Mac

I am trying to disable SMART on a Samsung SSD, to follow the advice in this question. I run the following command: sudo smartctl --smart=off /dev/disk4 smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [Darwin 21.4.0 ...
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How to remove a drive for USB-stick which is greyed out although no USB-stick is plugged in anymore?

Drives taken by USB-sticks remain greyed out (see D:\ and M:\ in screen-shot) although the USB-sticks are ejected properly by Safely Remove Hardware. The command net use does not list these drives ...
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Can I separate an external drive composed of 2 hard drives while keeping data?

I have an old external hard drive that is composed of two physical hard drives inside, but shows as one device in Windows. (it's twice the thickness) Is it possible to open the enclosure and put them ...
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What computers can read MS-DOS hard drives?

I have a G|Raid External Hard drive that is formatted as MS-DOS. I verified that by checking the file format on a Mac (it says MS-DOS). I know Macs can read APFS, but I tried plugging it into a ...
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NL-SAS disk in desktop PCIe SAS controller. Does it work?

I have recently got the idea of deploying a home NAS, since I got a used SAS disk online. But now I realised it's a nearline SAS disk, and I preemptively bought a SAS controller for my desktop ...
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Boot issues, is my SSD broken?

I'm having problems with 3 month old desktop. I dual-booted Windows and Ubuntu, which worked fine for a while. After a new Ubuntu installation, it started throwing boot-loops. I thought the problem ...
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Looking for a way to swap several HDD's quickly

I'm looking for a way to go through an absolute boat load of HDD's quickly, without having to open my PC and swap out drives. They are all 3.5" SATA drives that have data on that i may or may not ...
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HP T620 Flexible Thin Client loses all the data on the SSD after a power cycle

I bought a refurbished HP T620 Flexible Thin Client some time ago and today I had the idea to use it headless with a TV Tuner and Tvheadend, so I began with installing Ubuntu Server on it. Everything ...
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Interpret the output of smartctl for SSD and hard drive

I have dropped my external hard drive on the floor recently and wanted to know if the electronic parts and mechanical parts were damaged. I have no idea how to find this out from the output of ...
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ASUS running Ubuntu suddenly boots into BIOS only and says "cannot find any bootable devices" – what should I check or try?

My son (too young for a Stackoverflow account) has an ASUS X515EA on which he had installed Ubuntu versions 23.04 and 20.04 in addition to the pre-installed Windows 11 OS (so three partitions in total)...
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Windows Storage Spaces 2-Way Mirror behavior in case of a faulty drive

Assuming a simple, fully-provisioned two-way mirror Storage Spaces setup on Windows 10/11, how does it behave when one of the drives gets faulty: One of the drives cannot read some sectors, and SMART'...
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Make internal Disk bootable in MacBook Pro

I have installed new NVMe hard drive on my MacBook because the old one has been corrected. The new hard drive is shown up at Disk Utility as normal. I had formatted it as Mac OS Extended and the ...
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Install a new HDD in the same file directory as the old HDD

I have a 1TB computer on Unix that is full mounted at /. I have installed a new 10TB HDD and mounted it at /hdd . I would like to know if I could still write in /home/usr and have the storage used ...
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Reboot and select proper boot device Error

In the morning I was using my desktop without any issues. I left my apartment for about 2 hours, returned back home to find the my mouse and screen frozen. I restart my computer and get the error: &...
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How to secure specific folders on a portable SSD that works on multiple devices?

I use a portable SSD with different devices such as Windows PCs and Samsung TVs. Some of the folders on the SSD have sensitive or personal data that I want to protect. How can I encrypt, password-...
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How to make RAID-1 (almost) full bandwidth when processing the sequential write/read?

When I read OSTEP chapter 38 about RAID, it says in p10: The 1/2 penalty assumes a naive read/write pattern for mirroring; a more sophisticated approach that issued large I/O requests to differing ...
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Make disk images for a PC that runs a complicated set of interacting control programs such that if a drive crashes we can swap it for the image?

I have stated to work with a home-built scientific research system that includes many instruments from separate vendors and four PC to control it all. In some cases two or three different vendor-...
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Chkdsk /f /r /x stuck

I know there a few topics out there, but the question I have differs. It got stuck here: timer never went down past 16% and the ETA got stuck Stage 5: Looking for bad, free clusters ... Disk checking ...
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Big size of NTFS/MFT reservation on windows server 2022

Over 1 month ago I started to have have problems with free space on drive C: as it's suddenly started to decrease every day. External tools like TreeSize or Dirstat weren't able to show what is "...
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How to correctly boot into Windows D: drive after cloning

I've recently bought a new SSD and successfully cloned the old HDD and all it's partition to the SSD resulting in a C: and D: drive. I've added a new boot entry with bcdedit by copying over the ...
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Wipe unallocated disk space in Windows and clean or rename file in directory structures

I want a way to clean free space in Windows once I delete the data, so that: The files are no longer recoverable by any disk recovery tools The file names are no longer visible in any disk recovery ...
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Should I leave or remove the big white foam on top of the hard drive case?

I received a new Corsair Airflow tower. The case for storing hard drives came stuck in place with a big chunk of white foam (or whatever material this is). I'm wondering whether this should either: ...
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Image a drive to network share from Windows

I have used both dd and clonezilla to image drives, and that's great for us Linux folks; but I have clients that run Windows and I'd like to be able to be able to either clone to an external drive (I ...
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Recovering data from iMac internal hard drive when you can't login to your account anymore

I'm looking for help on recovering data from an internal hard drive on my iMac. I have a iMac that I purchased online in 2018 refurbished. It had been slowing down over the last few months, but I ...
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I want to increase the size of home partition in Ubuntu 23.04

I have installed ubuntu with windows in dual boot and I have about 100gb in free space which is not partitioned anywhere but I cant seem to find any solution that fits my problem. I have about 150 gbs ...
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6TB Errors - Prefailure GSmart Control

My 6TB is reporting these values - after some looking online - I'm not entirely sure if its "really bad" and going to fail or "somewhat normal" - Hoping someone can tell me
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can a faulty hard disk make my CPU IDLE so low

we have couple RHEL servers ( RHEL version 7.2 ) with very low CPU idle as the following. our suspicion is about the disks as for example sdk and sdc and that because we saw from dmesg errors as [sdk] ...
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File System Unknown after decryption with Veracrypt Rescue Disk

My laptop had 2 veracrypt (1.25.9) disks (one as system, and the other with the same password) with windows installed in the first disk. Suddenly it could´t boot anymore (May be it happened because, ...
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How to extend Disk Space with LVM on Linux Server: Limited Hardware, High Capacity Needed

Regarding LVM Partition I am using a Linux server machine (IBM) for a genome assembly task. The OS is Ubuntu, version 22.04.2 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) The machine has a memory capacity of 248 GB. There ...
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Hard disk recognised but doesn't show up

I have this strange issues with my Seagate external drive that has important data. When I connect my HDD via usb, I can see the device appear in the tray as seen below: But however, it doesn't appear ...
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Strange beeps while booting and currupt BIOS

I have an ASROCK motherboard.. every time i unplug/switch off the power supply to the machine.. its BIOS currupts.. everytime I boot, i have to press the F1 key to continue booting.. and then the most ...
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Ubuntu hard disk mounted with no partitions

I have an Ubuntu system with 2 hard disks. When I type the lsblk the output is the following: sdb 8:16 1 1.8T 0 disk /storage sdc 8:32 1 1.8T 0 disk └─sdc1 8:33 1 1.8T 0 ...
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How to detect Intel SSD that freeze on boot on Thinkpad T450?

Few days ago, after starting my laptop, all i saw was frozen To interrupt normal startup, press Enter screen. No response to the keys, only few times after 3-5 mins i got also Error 2100: HDD0 (Hard ...
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Driveimage xml hard drive copy after back up?

I started by trying to restore my system from a system image but later found out that didn’t include a copy of the actual operating system so that wasn’t helpful. Edited to add: I also tried to just ...
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Trying to fix a Fsroot error using first aid in disk utility

I'm on iMac running Sonoma OS14.I keep getting some weird errors to do with the fsroot tree coming up on my hard drive when I run drive genius and first aid on disk utility in recovery mode. I found a ...
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How can I make Linux/Win10/Linux triple-boot work?

I have two physical drives: 500GB Samsung 860 M.2 and 1TB WD SSD The entire Samsung is Ubuntu 22.04 (/dev/sdb) The 1st half of the WD is Windows 10 (/dev/sda2) The 2nd half of the WD is Debian 12 (/...
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Swapping the contents of 2 drives with Windows Explorer without needing to copy-and-delete?

I have local 2 drives, neither of them my Windows boot drive: A 2TB HDD, drive letter E:. Contains about 300GB of data. A 1TB SSD, drive letter F:. Contains about 4GB of data. I want to swap the ...
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EVGA GT1300 doesn't power 4TB Dell SAS drives from its SATA connectors, but does when connected to Molex; Why?

I've been having problems with enrolling some SAS hard drives (on a ZFS ZOL system of mine). I had an EVGA 600w power supply. I thought maybe it was that or cables. I replaced the cables, still had ...
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Cannot use free space for swap partition

I am trying to increase the swap space on a CentOs-7 VM. I was running a program that crashed on the VM complaining about running out of memory. I thought increasing the swap space might fix the issue....
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Recovering corrupted NTFS partition on external HDD

I have an external WD HDD with a unique NTFS partition on it that seems corrupted. I wish to recover the data on that disk and the disk itself if it is not physically damaged. After a huge file copy ...
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Linux Internal HDD Cloning/Backup Issue [closed]

I have installed Manjaro XFCE in my Laptop, that also has Windows 8.1 in a dual-boot format. The Windows 8.1 was installed earlier than Linux. But, in terms of disk partitions, between two partitions ...
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Windows crashes when hard drive is loaded

I have a hard drive which has 3 Windows installations on it, and it had 13 partitions in total. a couple days ago it stopped booting, it would hang on boot. When booting Windows 7 in safe mode it ...
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External Seagate Ultra Touch HDD lags computer and can't be mounted correctly on Linux or Windows 10

On Windows 10 it at least (sometimes) shows the overall directories on the HDD, but Linux can't even do that anymore. I'm fairly sure that up until a couple weeks ago my Linux PC could read the drive. ...
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WD Elements portable has only /dev/sg entry but no /dev/sd on linux

I am troubleshooting a WDBU6Y0020BBK-0B external hard drive of a colleague on Ubuntu Linux. It shows up as /dev/sg3, but has no /dev/sdx entry. My problem is similar to this question, but the output ...
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Toshiba hdd2j13 hard drive is not showing up

My Toshiba hdd2j13 hard drive is not showing up, I have a external adapter connecting it to my Windows 10 laptop when I connect or disconnect the computer beeps, it shows up in device management and ...
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Setting the nodefs for kubelet

It seems that kubelet uses the default disk for ephemeral storage and logs, but I need to set a soft raid disk. How can I do that?
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