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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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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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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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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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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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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?

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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Problems with usb3 attached drive ERROR: Transfer event for disabled endpoint or incorrect stream ring

I have a HP Microserver gen8 that I'm using for testing and some minor backup. This machine has a debian 9 installation, I'm planning to upgrade it to debian 12 when I will have some time, the machine ...
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Hidden disk usage in Windows 10

I have an exFAT-formatted disk which I put some hyper-V VMs on. One of the VHDs was dynamically sized so it would just eat up more disk space as it was being used. I was doing something in the VM that ...
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SAS HDD Clicking Noise in IDLE - Seeking Advice on PERC H710 Setup (Storage Troubleshooting)

I recently acquired 5 used SAS HDDs with approximately 35 days of service each. It was a great deal compared to purchasing new HDDs, but there was a slight mix-up as I initially thought they were SATA....
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HDD makes a noise occasionally, and I get this error

I've tried changing the SATA Cables, and SATA Power Cables from the working HDD's to this HDD but I still get this error, and the other drives work fine. I've tried adding the libata.force=noncq ...
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Do I need to overwrite free-space of my SSD?

I'm selling my gaming computer to a neighbor. As much as I trust him, I don't trust any third party who might get access to the computer. So I've come to the conclusion to overwrite the free space of ...
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Recover Linux Mint HDD

I have an HDD that doesn't work anymore. It was working fine, but the OS was lagged and the user turned off the computer using the power button, after that the bios doesn't recognize the HD anymore. ...
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Disk 0 doesn't show when using PowerShell Get-Disk

On one machine I'm using, the PowerShell cmdlet Get-Disk doesn't show Disk 0. But using other commands it will... Get-Disk | Select Number, FriendlyName, HealthStatus, Size Number FriendlyName ...
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Windows explorer stuck at "items remaining: 0" when copying files

This is a simple issue that I haven't found a fix for months and Google searching is futile. Sometimes if I copy/move/delete large folders containing many files (think tens of thousands) using Windows ...
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Recovering NTFS / GPT partition after failed "Automatic Repair". Now shows as "RAW" in diskpart

My Wife's Windows 10 laptop seems to have suffered some critical failure on her primary system drive (c:). I didn't loose the whole disk since I'm able to get into WinRE and spawn a WinPE shell from ...
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Interpreting dmesg output: Drive failure imminent or sys admin error?

Last week I swapped out a 1TB drive for a 2TB drive I have lying around. I now get the following in my dmesg output. [Fri Feb 16 16:15:48 2024] ata5.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x20000 SErr ...
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Is M.2 NVMe SSD supported by Lenovo Thinkpad L490

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad L490 (2019) running i5 - 8th gen. It only has a B key slot (notch on the left with 5 pins to the left). I am looking to buy an SSD preferably M.2 NVMe but not sure if it’s ...
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Why does Samsung Magician constantly make the hard drive LED blink?

I have a Samsung T7 Shield connected through USB Type C and I noticed that it was constantly blinking even though there was no access. So after much trial, closing every single program and service, it ...
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What should be the owner for an external USB drive?

I've been using an external drive on 1st PC on a regular basis, I've now switched to a 2nd PC which I use daily. The drive is a Samsung T7 Shield connected through USB Type C. When browsing through ...
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Is this "Retired Sectors Count" correct for brand new disk Seagate CONSTELLATION ES 7200.3?

I have bought a brand new Seagate CONSTELLATION ES 7200.3 drive. It was laying in my desk's drawer for over a year, but now I decided to connect it to my PC. When I first switched on the computer with ...
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HDD missing space until reboot

I have a non-system HDD in my computer. There is no hibernation, pagefile, backup, volume shadow set up on that HDD. Recycle bin is empty. The OS is Windows 8.1 the disk is NTFS. I downloaded some ...
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Clonezillas raw image folder to .img file

I've made a raw disk image copy of an old hard drive using clonezilla with the following options: /usr/sbin/ocs-sr -q1 -c -j2 -rescue -z0 -i 0 -sfsck -scs -senc -p poweroff savedisk 2024-02-15-10-img ...
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