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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Windows system partition has 450 GB free but cannot be shrunk [duplicate]

I have bought a laptop with a 1 TB bitlocker encrypted drive and Windows 10 installed. I want o reduce the Windows C partition from under 1TB to ~200 GB. I was able to reduce it by ca 476 GB. Now it ...
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Trouble booting SeaGate's "SeaTools Bootable" on a Dell laptop

W11; Dell Latitude. I'm having difficulty using SeaGate's "SeaTools Bootable" software. I'm able to put it onto an USB-Drive as per the instructions. But when I try and boot it the sequence ...
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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 do I change Motherboard firmware settings from UEFI to Legacy boot so that I can use Paragon Hard Disk Manager?

I have been using this excellent software program, Paragon Hard Disk Manager, for many years for backing up and restoring select files. In order to use its recovery media (created on CD or thumb drive)...
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How does RAID 5 handle unrecoverable sectors on a HDD

I'm going to set up a RAID 5 on 4 hard drives on my ubuntu system. I plan to use ext4 on a logic volume. Suppose one disk reports an unrecoverable sector. How would RAID 5 handle this? My ...
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Restoring a veracrypt volume

I had a great idea at one point, creating an asus motherboard raid 0, where i ultimately installed windows too (yes i know). One of the M.2 ssds, started failing and i had to reinstall everything. ...
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How can I erase my hard drive?

I have an old Alienware computer. I am upgrading to a new model. My Alienware is around 8 years old. My wife says I want your old one when you get the new one. That's fine, but there are sites and ...
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"Disk is starting to degrade. New SMART event detected."

When I look at Event Viewer I find an error that bothers me: "Disk is starting to degrade. New SMART event detected." This PC is brand new, so why am I getting the degrading message? Disk ...
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Motherboard fried, what does that mean for the rest of the pc?

My motherboard got fried, I think I plugged in a fan to the wrong spot and on boot I heard an electric pop and the computer stopped working. A chip on the motherboard is visibly cracked but I didn't ...
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How to disable CHKDSK permanently, windows 10/11

I want to completely and permanently disable CHKDSK on windows 10 and 11, reason is a long story but as a summary: I work with complex custom builds having multiple SOs(mostly Linux) and 2 NTFSs ...
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Turn off Hard Disk manually from the operating system

I have Windows 10 installed on an SSD, a hard drive for the data. The hard drive continues to operate for a few minutes before it's turned off by the power options in Windows system. Windows turns it ...
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Reassemble RAID0 array despite error

My ancient Synology CS407 was setup (deliberately) with RAID0 and I didn't have a backup system set up yet. There are four 1TB drives making a 4TB volume. One drive had a failure which led to the on-...
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Seagate HDD spins up - Not understanding why (WD does not)

I have built a NAS with TrueNAS at my home. I access the data around once every week (twice, as I will run a ZFS scrub once per week), hence I prefer to spin-down the disks when I do not access the ...
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Hard drive won't work after deleting whole partitions

I was trying to install Ubuntu server to my external SSD via a bootable USB flash drive. After deleting whole partitions in the disk I changed my decision to boot Ubuntu and cancelled the installation....
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Macbook Pro is NOT showing up Bootable USB Drive

System: Macbook Pro 2019, Intel, T2 Chip, 16 GB RAM, No USB port (Using VIVA USB hub), Ventura 13.6.5 Issue: The bootable USB drive (EFI) is not showing up when restarting with 'Option' key I had ...
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Why is my external hard drive showing up as read only every now and then?

I'm using Windows 10 Professional and have an external USB hard drive that is used for backups. From time to time this hard drive becomes read only. I found out, that I can remove this read only state ...
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NTFS hard disk not detected in Ubuntu

I have a 250GB SATA NTFS hard disk which i am trying to access thru a hard disk dock on my Ubuntu machine but i haven't been successful. Here's what i have done, Used 'dmesg' as directed in this ...
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UEFI boot is disabled, disabling Legacy boot does not work

On my computer, I enabled Legacy boot to use older operating systems (even though I did not install any). A few weeks later, I could not find UEFI boot on my hard drive. I get "Notebook Hard Drive" is ...
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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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In Windows 10 (22H2), network drives are not reconnecting after re-connecting to the VPN. Error: The local device name is already in use

A user is connecting to a work network using a FortiClient VPN client. When the VPN connection drops, the user re-connects to the VPN, but they are unable to re-connect to the network drives. If ...
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Prevent Win10 using a given drive for temp or other files

I recently added large TB hard drive (F:), seems to be working fine except it makes a lot of noise when the drive head seeks any where. The annoying thing it seems to be every 5 -> 15 seconds ...
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Samba reports incorrect disk space when on shared mount points not directly beneath /media

I have some shares that are located on mount points like: media/ backups/ 01/ 02/ 03/ ... 01, 02, 03 and so on are different physical drives mounted at those locations for ...
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Hiren boot CD is not booting when I connected with HDD

A computer in my organization is not booting. In BIOS sometimes it showed disk error and I restarted several times. Sometimes it's working and sometimes it's not. Suddenly today it stopped working ...
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Windows re-install - striped volume not detected

I've reinstalled Windows (moving from two RAID0 NVMe SSDs to a single NVMe SSD), and I've had two Windows striped volumes (2x 1000 GB SATA SSD, 2x 4000 GB SATA HDD) for data. When reconnecting the ...
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Switched SATA Hard Drive, Same Brand and Size, Now Showing As Wrong Drive/Blank

I had a Seagate 16TB hard drive connected to a SATA port on my Windows 10 computer. I will call this Drive A. I wanted to put in a different Seagate 16TB hard drive, Drive B, same brand, model size, ...
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How to Effectively Reverse Windows Storage Spaces?

A couple years ago, I built a computer for my father. His PC has an SSD + 2 TB hard drive setup. Earlier this year, we added an additional 2 TB hard drive to his tower. For awhile all was well, but my ...
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Windows 10 / 11 hard disk data operation limit needed? [closed]

Basic Features: This tier imposes moderate restrictions on data operations, such as limits on daily saves, edits, and shares for various file types. Daily download and paste limits are also enforced. ...
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How to read MacBook Air (2013) SSD via PCI card adapter from Windows?

I purchased an adapter which connects my MacBook Air (2013) SSD to PCI-E of motherboard. However, I was unable to find a proper way to read it, even with MacDrive. What I want to do is back up the ...
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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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Why am I getting "Partition 3 does not start on physical sector boundary" warning with this setup?

On a fresh install of Proxmox 8.1, fdisk -l is warning "Partition 3 does not start on physical sector boundary". This is unexpected to me, because the start of the partition is 2099200, ...
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File Transfer of ISO files using ROBOCOPY and Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V

I have these two products: Virtual iODD External Encrypted Enclosure Virtual Samsung SSD 4TB I have a Sabrent SATA Driver Enclosure on the side connected to my main computer, with a Windows 10 OS. ...
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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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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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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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