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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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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Can I restore a Windows 95 MBR using a Windows XP installation disk?
If I have Windows 95 installed on a temporary, secondary, FAT32 drive (which needs to go back into its original machine), can I repair its MBR using a Windows XP installation CD ROM?
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After swapping in SSD I can’t get into the BIOS on my Lenovo G560
I've replaced the hard drive of a Lenovo G560 after the drive died with an SSD. Now it won't let me boot from anything, not to mention it won't let me get into BIOS. From all I found on Google they ...
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How do I rename a SSD (NOT the label)?
How can I rename a SSD's actual name like its model name? I had used Sabrent Control Panel to check for a newer firmware on a non Sabrent NVMe, it said there was a firmware available, but I did not ...
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Predict a disk's near failure or burnout [closed]
I have a project to submit on computer resource's monitoring, and for that I wish to create a CLI program -for Linux and Windows- that analyses the data provided by SMART each time the computer ...
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Set standby timeout for Seagate drive
I recently built a NAS running Debian 12 with 3 3To Seagate Iron Wolf.
To save power, I would like the drives to enter standby mode after a 30 minutes.
For this, I used hdparm -S 241 <drive> to ...
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Barracuda 7200.12 making a very loud sound (squeak). Drive is not showing
I have a Barracuda 7200.12 1TB, the drive is not being detected by any OS, before i spin the platters myself that hard drive would make a click sound as if the heads are trying to move but the ...
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Old Sata / Sas Controller on Ubuntu 22.04.2
I have recently bought a new motherboard (ASUS ROG Strix B650E-F GAMING WIFI + AMD Ryzen 9 7900 CPU) and moved over an old SATA controller from an old rig (Iocrest si-pex40097). It will work no ...
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Can i delete windows 7 on a hard drive and keep my stuff and then access it on a new windows 7 on an ssd?
Qk let's say I have a hard drive with windows 7 and all my other stuff on it. I later buy a new SSD to put my Operating System on it.
Can I delete windows 7 on the hard drive and keep the rest of my ...
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To build a pc , is it necessary to have SSD and hard drives [closed]
I am going to build a pc. Inspite having 16 or 32 gb ram is it necessary to have SSD or hard drives.which processor brand should I use . I am going to use it for programming , building games and ...
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How to expand the Windows partition when the Recovery one is in the way?
My partitions on my primary disk look like this:
I would like to expand C: with the Unallocated space but the 946 MB Recovery partition is in the way.
Is there a way to swap the Recovery partition ...
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Why is my WD HDD making a curious sound?
I've tried to access an 3.0TB Hard-Drive from Western Digital (Model WD30EZRX).
The hard drive is not being shown by the operating system and it creates the following (repeating) sound:
https://...
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How to check the activity log of the hard disk
Is there a way to see the activity log of the hard drive, like when do I open the hard drive and files, regarding that my Windows crashes and I reinstalled the Windows, so now all the log are deleted ...
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How to DIY split SATA to two USB 2 ports?
Any portable device (such as USB or SATA etc.) must be available to do two things:
Must feed its circuit with Power, either from the source port (eg. USB) or from any external power source (eg....
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How to recover RAID 1 array from a single device during reshape?
I have one disk that is in raid 4 reshaping from a previous raid 1. According to examine mode by mdadm, the disk is marked as a spare in a raid 4 array of 3 disks. I was hoping to recover data on it ...
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Any way to do a Batch file move operation only when the HDD is idle-ish?
I know how to check if a specific program is running like winrar which might indicate usage on drive d: but is there a better way to determine if a drive is relatively idle enough (via Batch or other ...
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Diskpart can't delete partition
My boot drive stopped booting with a registry issue, and now I cannot wipe the drive from a fresh windows image (on disk 1).
I have tried to wipe the drive in many ways, and none of them work. I was ...
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Clonezilla disk to image speed decreasing over time
I am actually backing my whole 2tb disk using Clonezilla disk-to-image option.
I don't use any encryption or anything that I know that could slow down the process, and yet, Clonezilla tells me that ...
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How do I optimize Windows disk I/O for high-latency throughput?
Let's say there are 25 processes each which want to read and index a large (say, 1GB) file.
The hard drive may be capable of ~100MB/sec throughput, but the head movement and rotational latency ...
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Motherboard Dying? AHCI Drive Init and boot loop intermittent failure
My computer is now intermittently failing to boot up.
For the last couple of days, when I turn it on it hangs on "AHCI Drive Init...", and when powered off and on again, it booted up fine.
Today, it ...
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How do you know the partition letter of the SSD that just fried?
My OS is Windows 11 and I just encountered a multiple SSD failure due to PSU malfunction some part of the board on SSD are damage and BIOS can't pick it up anymore.
How can I know the damaged SSD ...
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Why is a 64TB drive only for Mac?
For reasons that I won't get into, I am stuck with Windows. I was looking for a drive and on eBay I saw a lot of 64TB drives (is there such a thing, or is it a scam?), but they were marked "or ...
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Can I remove a hard disk from the boot menu?
I have two hard disks installed in my PC. When I boot up my PC and press F8 to reach the boot menu, then I am faced with three options:
1) CDROM:PM-TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-322
2) SATA:PS-ST31000524AS
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Remove Unallocated Space from VHD
I have an XP machine, with a 60GB Drive size. In the interests of resilience, I created a clone of this drive, onto a 1TB disk. I want to try avoid using disk2vhd on the origianl disk if possible.
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How to remove file permissions from an external hard drive?
My macbook recently died and I am currently trying to figure out how to copy my data.
What I did was, I took out the hard drive, put it in an enclosure and plugged it in to my other laptop that runs ...
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REALLOCATED SECTOR COUNT 4948. Request for advice
I felt need of testing because some of my stored games were failing to boot properly. Quick test from HD Tune Pro app displayed 3 red blocks in one of the test runs and a full test always reports 3 ...
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Can't find my disk after diskpart clean
I have a PC with an SSD encrypted with BitLocker, I forgot the Admin password, and lost my BitLocker recovery key. I decided to reinstall Windows and wipe the SSD, but the Windows installer couldn’t ...
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How can I split from /dev/nvme0n1p3 to /dev/nvme0n1p2
I only have one disk, an SSD on my laptop.
My disk status is as shown above. The /dev/nvme0n1p2 disk part (mounted at /) is too small. I plan to move 42GB from /dev/nvme0n1p3 to /dev/nvme0n1p2, but /...
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USB Drive shows up in Device Manager but is not accessible from File Explorer/My Computer
I have a USB drive that shows up as Lexmark USB in Safely Remove Hardware but I cannot find it in My Computer. The only things that show up in My Computer are the computer's hard drive and Network ...
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My WD Caviar Green SATA HDD cannot be detected
I have a WD 2TB Caviar Green SATA HDD. I used it as an external hard drive formatted to FAT32. The main purpose was to store my PS3 games. It worked fine and all of a sudden my PS3 stopped detecting ...
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HDD freezes Windows 10 when reading
My external hard drive (MAXTOR M3) run into issues lately.
At first I thought the MFT or boot sector got damaged somehow. Because the drive didn't show up at all, not even in the disk management. The ...
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How can I know if a Self Encrypting Drive is really encrypting
I have a Self Encrypting Drive (claiming to have hardware built-in encryption) I would like to know if when I put a user password the drive is really encrypting something or only denying access to the ...
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How to detect which drives comprise a full copy in RAID1 and go about recovering?
We had a 4-bay WD NAS in RAID 1 configuration, so each pair should have a full backup. In an attempt to upgrade the NAS without proper procedure, someone just plugged a drive out and swapped it with a ...
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Computer restarts when booting from HD or USB
(I didn't add/remove any hardware)
Yesterday my ASUS Desktop PC couldn't manage to boot into Windows 7.
I tried to boot from an Installation USB too, with the same unsuccessful result.
I can use the ...
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Making HDD to spindown when not mounted but to keep it spinning while mounted
Is it possible to make harddisk spin when it's mounted and to stop spinning when I unmount it?
I was finding answers on the internet, but there is not any precise answer for such a question. There is ...
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How can I use the full 6 Gbit/s mode on my SATA HDD?
I am using an old WD My Book (don't know which version, but it's most likely the one from the video How to open a WD my book case) with a WD 2 TB HDD. It is connected via mini USB b <=> USB A to ...
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Unable to access data on Intel "fake RAID" after failed Ubuntu update
Recently I did an update of my Ubuntu, it seems to work at first but after restart it shows:
kernell ofset relocation range kernel panic not syncing: VFS
I try to use different older kernel from Grub ...
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Cannot unmount/remove 'Linux' drive from Windows 10
System: Windows 10, up to date
I have a mysterious drive/folder which appears mounted on Windows 10, called simply 'Linux', which I cannot unmount or otherwise get rid of. It's empty, and there do not ...
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Why is my hard drive not found in boot priority order? ”No bootable device found”
My hard drive is not found in boot priority order.
When I open the laptop it gives me an error “no bootable device found.”
My hard drive is enabled in drive configurations screen inside my Phoenix ...
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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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Can a 3.5" hard drive use USB-C as its only power input?
Can a 3.5" HDD be enclosed in an external USB-C enclosure with USB-C Power Delivery (PD) and have a USB-C cable from the computer as the only power source to avoid a second power cable?
Does such ...
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External HDD unable to be formatted in W10
I have an old 1TB external HDD, used it fine for ages no issues. I flashed Batocera (retro game Linux distr and my first time touching anything Linux) to the drive using Balena Etcher. After doing ...
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Can I use a boot hard drive with different computers?
I am wanting to use a hard drive that is a boot drive with multiple computers.
The computers would boot to this hard drive and both computers are different in every way.
Is it possible to do this by ...
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How much power does a hard drive use?
This is not as straight forward as it sounds.
Specs from Western Digital's site for a WD 3TB Green Drive:
Read/Write 6.00 Watts
Idle 5.50 Watts
Looks fine right? Look at this part of the spec:
"12 ...
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wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error
I'm encountering this error after creating a brand new partition.
What I did:
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdb: 3.7 TiB, 4000787029504 bytes, 7814037167 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector ...
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Multiboot hard drive different partitions
I have two drives:
The first one is a SSD with my OS (Windows 10 last update).
The second one is a HDD, internally connected by my CD/DVD bay slot.
I want to convert my HDD into a multiboot drive, ...
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How does hot cloning a running Windows drive actually work?
I'm aware of the software options - what I mean is, how do they actually achieve this, when a running OS may be writing files such as logs, even if I try to not actively use it?
I read one comment ...
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How to execute an Extended SMART self-test on a hard drive in Windows?
I have an old internal IDE hard drive that needs to be tested. I used an IDE-to-USB adapter to connect it to a USB port on a Windows PC. Then I tried using GSmartControl to execute the Short SMART ...
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Overcoming "windows can only be installed to gpt disks" while installing windows 8 to new computer
I bought a new laptop without windows. Now i want to install windows 8. I formatted entire hard disk (file format = NTFS) and then tried to install windows 8. When selecting the disk to install, the ...
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Fix missing USB drive (Linux) [duplicate]
Recently found USB remaining on after Linux computer shutdown, so I removed. It was then plugged in to a Windows 11 machine, which displayed "Please insert a disk into drive". When plugged ...