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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How do I install Windows Pro to new hard drive that was already running Pro, but now won’t accept it
Windows 11 Pro i7 has been running 11 Pro. The hard drive failed. Have a new hard drive. Bootable USB key is OK, then says machine is not compatible. Need help from anyone with any software that may ...
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What type of connector do I need for my HDD?
I got a new 3TB HDD. I got a cable as well; a combined one with power and the data one but it was not the right one as I found out. What connector do I need for my Seagate ST3000NM0023?
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ddrescue not even printing to terminal doing anything?
I'm trying to recover data from a hard-drive (unmounted but located at /dev/sdc according to lsblk), that worked flawlessly until last week, by using ddrescue. It's been a couple of years since I last ...
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Main internal hard drive not recognized
I'm having a very frustrating problem with my main internal hard drive and I cannot boot my computer at all.
Context:
I wanted to use WSL2 in Windows 11 for working purpose so I installed it then ...
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How to reformat a BitLocked HD?
My Windows PC BitLocked itself and the password was not found. I performed a “clean all” to reformat the hard drive so I could do a clean reinstall. Now the hard drive is invisible/inaccessible.
I ...
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Windows only detects one NTFS drive when two are connected
This is a follow-up to this question.
I have two NTFS drives named disk 1 and disk 2. They are the same model (WD Red 4 Tb) and previously, they used to be clones of one another. To clarify, I used a ...
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What HDD copy strategy is best between manually syncing and rewriting from scratch?
To backup my personal data, I have two WD Red 4 Tb HDDs, labeled "disk 1" and "disk 2".
Regularly, I put all the files that I want to save on disk 1. Then, using this specific ...
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Why does my WD My Passport not read, write, or half the time, it doesn't even sense the drive?
WD My Passport won't read, write, or half the time, it doesn't even sense the drive.
It does makes noises like when a drive is about to go out (only had it since 2020, only used once), but where my ...
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Windows 10 tablet hard drive is full, how to make some space?
Device
Someone told me that he has this Windows tablet:
NEXTBOOK Flexx9
8.9" Quad-Core Windows 10 Tablet
Problem
He told that its hard drive is full. He asked about how to make some space on it.
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How to resize non-primary disk partitions? [closed]
I am transferring from Windows to Linux. Windows was my primary operating system, and that is what is installed on my C:\ drive
I do not intend to remove Windows yet
I have installed Linux on G:\, and ...
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How to set up two hard disks so that the one on which the system is installed does not get clogged with software?
I have 2 disks installed in my system: disk 1 (let's call it Z) with a capacity of 1TB and disk 2 (let's call it X) with a capacity of 256 GB (Z and X are like variables, not hard disk partitions).
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Are there ways to throttle HDD operations based on its temperature?
When I am replacing spare drives on my array I have to keep them outside of the case, and the lack of airflow and heavy workload shoots the temperature to around 55~60 C.
The drive spec says
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How to set a disk or drive icon with a Windows icon or a custom icon on Windows 11?
So you're trying to change your driver icon on Windows 11 but realized that the "Customize" section of the driver's properties is missing the "Change Icon..." button. Also, you'd ...
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Checking for errors after unplugging a drive without ejecting
I had a few external drives (HDD, flash) plugged into my PC that weren't ejecting, even when using LockHunter (errors), restart, or shut down (would just hang).
I had to go to the airport, so after 10 ...
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Dying Hard disk has a profile folder, how to ensure succesful admin login?
Using Windows 7 64 bit.
I have a dying hard disk which contains all my windows 7 profiles, including the admin account. My windows OS is on another hard disk. I did this separation between OS and user ...
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How is it possible that a disk has 100% of active time but 0 KB/s of read speed and 0 KB/s of write speed?
I've noticed a disk that has 100% of active time but 0 KB/s of read speed and 0 KB/s of write speed according to Windows Task Manager:
How is it possible that a disk has 100% of active time but 0 KB/...
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I bought a hard drive sold on AliExpress used. Is it somehow modified? [closed]
I bought a 2.5" HDD on AliExpress and it is inside an enclosure case. I know it is used, but most of the 2.5" HDDs sold on AliExpress are used but show 2 hours of use and good health on ...
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How to rescue data from my failing SSD using Fedora to an external HDD without overwriting the current contents of that drive? [duplicate]
My Fedora system recently crashes with strange error messages, so I am worried that my ~5 years old SSD is failing.
Now I want to rescue my data from this SSD and reinstall Fedora from scratch on a ...
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Cloned HDD won’t boot via SATA Connection [Lenovo Error 1962], will boot via USB Enclosure
I am replacing my current HDD (WD10EZEX 1TB HDD, henceforth “Old Drive”) with a new HDD (WD40EZAX 4TB HDD, henceforth "New Drive”). I used Casper 11 to clone Old Drive to New Drive. Windows 10. ...
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What SATA drive failure is this exactly? “SError: { RecovComm HostInt PHYRdyChg PHYInt }”
I have a some spare HDDs from hitachi that I keep for offline backup. It goes a few months offline and then get a ton of writes, then back to storage.
My drives always die after a year or so in this ...
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New SSD doesn't show in UEFI boot but only in Legacy and won't accept Windows 11
System: HP Pavillion Gaming
CPU: Intel Core i5-8400
SSD: Kingston FUry Renegade NVMe 1TB
RAM: Kingston Fury 2x16GB DDR4
MB: HP 843B
OS: Windows 11 Home
UEFI firmware: AMI F.42
As a part of my PC ...
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BSOD on connecting laptop to projector. PC won't boot now and no HDD/SDD shown in BIOS
Problem: So my Toshiba laptop ran into a BSOD (I didn't note the error msg) the moment I connected it to a working projector screen using an HDMI I think. I disconnected the projector but now on boot ...
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Is it safe to reuse the 12v and 5v connections from an ATX 24 pin connector on a dual rail PSU?
TLDR; Is it safe/possible/sensible to reuse the 12v and 5v connections from an ATX 24 pin connector on a dual rail PSU?
I've been looking to build a ZFS backup target using my old 4TB drives, SAS HBA, ...
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Broadcom HBA 9500-16i and HDD disconnections
I experience random HDD disconnections. The workstation has:
Broadcom HBA 9500-16i
16 HDD seagate and WD, 16-18TB, sata connected
1 sata cable from PSU to 14 HDD, another to 2 HDD
Seasonic gold focus ...
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HDD is yellow (Caution) in CrystalDiskInfo, Transferred files off of it, but Properties shows 78GB Used Space
HDD is yellow (Caution) in CrystalDiskInfo.. I transferred all visible files off of the hdd, Windows Explorer shows no files on it anymore, but when I open Properties it shows 78GB Used Space.
Is this ...
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Attached volume not available to docker services
I successfully attached a volume to my ubuntu host as can be seen below.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 3.2G 2.1M 3.2G 1% /run
/dev/sda2 99G 37G 58G ...
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Why am I experiencing hard drive issues during more intense reading operations?
My 14TB Exos internal HDD started restarting itself during more intense reading operations on it. E.g. showing the thumbnails in a folder with 400 JPEGs in it: about 20-70 thumbnails will load, then ...
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Windows with external hard drive in enclosure [duplicate]
I have a Kesu 2530 and Orico 25PW1 USB3.0 enclosure case. I use Seagate ST500LM030 and WDC WD10JPVX-08JC3T5, APPLE HDD HTS541010A99E662 2.5" hard drives.
In Windows 10 there is an eject function ...
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Comparing folder tree files across systems?
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Plan was to migrate my library of Photos + Data from Windows to Mac setup
About 4TB of files across 2 drives, on each Windows + Mac
Windows drives are NTFS, Mac drives are APFS and HFS+
I ...
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How to transition a Linux hard drive to be a virtual machine?
I had a PC running as a home server with the hard drive running Debian Linux alongside CasaOS and other things these past few months.
Things are different now, I have a far better PC running Windows, ...
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Moving local git repo from macOS to external hard drive (APFS case-insensitive) - will there be problems?
I have a local git repo on my M1 Mac Mini (running Sonoma 14.6.1) that I would like to move to an external hard drive (to free up space on my Mac).
The external hard drive drive is new (empty) and has ...
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Debian 12 and NVME not recognized correctly = disk full and server crash
EDIT 1: managed to restart my server with a power plug pull technique and can now ssh and debug :)
Posting this because at the moment my pi as crashed because I suspect there is somehow no more space ...
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Hyper-V Win11 image faster than physical machine
I started Hyper-V Virtual Machine on my development machine to perform some tests. The virtual machine is running on the same hardware as physical machine. I noticed my application start 2x faster ...
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External HDD has a lost partition with my data but I cannot access on my Laptop
Is there a way to recover Lost Partition from an External Harddisk? On my windows laptop my external harddisk was connected and accidently my HDD got chosen as the Boot Disk image and a FAT32 ...
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Can Windows 11 access first-gen IDE drives, set-up using CHS under MS-DOS 3.3, and connected using an IDE to USB bridge device?
I've several first generation IDE drives (from MiniScribe & Conner Peripherals) partitioned and formatted under MS-DOS 3.3. Can the files on their primary and extended FAT16 partitions be copied ...
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My hard drive keeps disconnecting: what can the issue be?
My configuration:
Seagate Exos X22 20TB SATA 6Gb/s 7200RPM 3.5-inch Enterprise HDD (ST20000NM004E) (pic) connected via SABRENT USB 3.0 to SATA External Hard Drive Lay-Flat Docking Station (pic)
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Dropped my SSD; no longer mountable, but partially readable to a limited degree, what happened?
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I dropped my laptop with SSD inside
The drive is no longer mountable or fsck-able (the dreaded input/output error)
However, the disk is still intact/working enough to read the partition table ...
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Why does a newly installed storage device appear and reappear multiple times?
I use Kali Linux and installed a 480G SSD disk by myself. I use sudo fdisk -l to check. Sometime the disk appears and sometime not.
I divided the disk into 2 partitions: one has Window system and the ...
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Is it possible to use NAS hard drives in a desktop?
Is it a good idea to use a hard drive that was made for use in NAS as a desktop system drive?
I am particularly concerned about error recovery.
The following post claims that NAS drives do not try as ...
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BIOS drive order is inverse of Windows'
After installing a 2nd SSD on my laptop, I noticed this complete nonsense:
Here's the BIOS:
Here's Windows disk management:
What should I do?
Swap them to fix order in Windows? Thing is, doing so ...
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No volumes for HDD in Windows Diskpart/no drive letter on reboot
Whenever I reboot my PC, one of my HDD's just decides to remove its drive letter. I think this started to happen when I installed Linux on it but wiped it after I gave up (so maybe it still thinks it'...
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PC "crashes" all the time
I own a Lenovo ThinkCentre that I believe is an A55 8985-series model but I am not so sure. It has an AMD Athlon CPU from 2005, with 2 GB RAM. I keep swapping the hard drive, none would work. I've ...
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Hard drive parameter has exceeded its normal operating range [duplicate]
I few days ago, I started seeing this message during boot:
NOTICE - HD SELF MONITORING SYSTEM has reported that a parameter has exceeded its
normal operating range. HP recommends that you backup your ...
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Samsung EVO External Drive not showing up in Windows explorer
I am able to see and explore contents on external hard drive manager (EASEUS Partition Master) But the hard drive is not showing up in windows explorer. What can I do for it to show up in explorer?
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My external SSD is dead, how can I recover it?
I haven't lost any important data or anything, but I spent 100 bucks on this SSD drive and it suddenly started giving I/O errors, which I presume means the SSD was pulled out from a critical state, I ...
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Issues with deleting and reinstalling git completely after hard drive which had Git was corrupt [closed]
I have a Windows 11 system, and I have had Git for a long time. I downloaded Git on my internal HDD on my laptop. Recently, my internal HDD got corrupted, and I am not able to access any data in it ...
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Windows won't boot anymore after failed attempt to clone the drive
I have a laptop with Windows 7 (yeah I know it's not supported/secure anymore but I only use it offline with specialized software that doesn't work as well in newer OS).
Anyway I wanted to move this ...
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Why does my HDD speed drop sometimes?
I have a PC, with a HDD inside. Sometimes the self copy speed (from itself to itself) dropped for no apparent reason from ~50 MB/s to 0,5 MB/sec. According to SMART, the health dropped to 54%, so I ...
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Interpretation of Seagate SMART attributes
I have a Seagate Barracuda SATA HDD. I have run both a short and long test using SMARTCTL. Both failed with 90% remaining.
I then looked at the SMART attributes for this HDD. They are listed in the ...
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Limit Windows NTFS for only its first half to be writable
I want to install Windows on my PC on a partition that should take up the entire disk, but I want only, say, the first half or quarter of it to be usable, and reserve the rest (for some infosec thing ...
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