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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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Windows system partition has 450 GB free but cannot be shrunk

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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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Can I force/request windows preemptively cache files to RAM?

I'm working with some computers with an unusual configuration, where they have mostly high-end components (including a 12th gen i9 CPU and 64GB of DDR5 RAM), but we're booting Windows 10 from old ...
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Back to Back Failing HDD's?

last year i purchased this PC, and this january i had a HDD get the "Hard disk failure is imminent." I didn't diagnose the hdd, i simply considered it faulty, and bought a new one, the data ...
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Unexpected Power Loss Count meaning in SMART

I have bought a brand new HP SSD, I use it for backups and do that by opening the case and install it as a secondary drive. Recently, I ran CrystalDiskInfo and found out a really weird indicator AE - ...
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Signature collision in Windows 11, why?

I'm running into a problem in Windows 11 I can't figure out, maybe someone has ideas... I have a hard drive connected to my motherboard in a hot swap SATA rack called "Project 20". This is ...
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Metric screw size for 3.5" HDD [duplicate]

Hey all I am looking to purchase some screws from Amazon for my 3.5" HDDs. Issue being is that the nice ones are all M[x.x] a.k.a. Metric. I know the size of a HDD screw is 6-32x1/4 but I need to ...
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Why sometimes the whole system crashes?

Sometimes when I work with Google Chrome, the whole system suddenly locks and the mouse and keyboard stop working. This usually happens when I'm working with Wampserver. Even once the local database ...
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Mapping ddrescue and data from a particular head on a hdd

I'd like to clone data from a particular head of a HDD. Can I do a ddrescue and then divide the rescue image by the number of heads to get multiple images, each with data from one head/surface? ...
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Questions about backing up data?

I have installed a 3TB internal HDD, I have almost more than 2TB of personal data, this drive will be unplugged after backing up. My question is that I have music production and photography data with ...
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On a new PC with PCI 4.0 express SSD: Cloning or new install of Windows? Any performance differences? [closed]

I recently received a new laptop, my old one is really in a stage in which productive work is not possible anymore. The new laptop is equipped with an Nvidia GTX 4080 12 Gb and a 12900 processor and ...
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Windows Server Scheduled Drive Optimization (defrag/TRIM) drives list is empty

I want to setup scheduled drives optimization on Windows Server 2019 (defrag HDDs and TRIM SSDs). The Optimize Drives main window lists my drives properly. But when I want to select the drives that I ...
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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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How to ensure cloned hard-drive is not traceable to original

I need help understanding what identifying information on a cloned hard drive needs to be changed in order to remove any trace back to the original hard drive. I would think the IP address and MAC ...
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Why has my hard disk started dying all of a sudden? [closed]

I have explained the complete environment/set up of my laptop in this question. It is long, so I am not repeating it here. Please note that is a completely separate question and hence this is not a ...
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Should I be worried about my SMART values of my drive?

From what I gather, this is really really bad. I should probably replace my drive. But could I get verification that I am correct before doing so? SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 ...
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