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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Monitoring disk space
I am looking for an app like WinDirStat or SpaceMonger for Windows, preferably command line.
I want to set up a script to run regularly whcih will generate a report similar to what you see in ...
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Intuitive view of what's using the hard drive so much on Windows 7?
Sometimes my hard drive usage is near 100%, and I have no idea what is causing it. Are there any utilities that can help diagnose excessive hard drive usage and have as intuitive of an interface as ...
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Asus Sabertooth 990FX RAID - Drives disappear
Just got a 990fx 2.0. I'd like to setup two Seagate 1TB drives in a RAID 1 config and same thing: Detected under AHCI but as soon as the SATA ports are config'd to RAID, they aren't detected. I don't ...
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HDD situation - what would be best - data and backup
I just installed W8 on an Intel 330 180 GB SSD.
I have 3 1TB HDDs.
1 HDD will be external for backup.
2 HDDs are then available for my PC. I do not need 2 TB of storage, so I thought I'd set these ...
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What does the SMART self test actually test?
What does the SMART self test actually test?
I can't seem to find a list of the things the test is actually running.
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External drive put inside computer as 2nd drive, will it keep files already on it in tact, or will it auto format it?
If I take my external drive and put it inside my computer as a second drive, if it already has stuff on it, like music, files, ect.. will it keep them intact or format it automatically?
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Replaced HDD but screen wont turn on
I had a SMART error (301) on my hard drive which required the hdd to be replaced.
The computer is a HP Mini Netbook 110-3135DX. I already have a usb installer ready to make the OS installation. ...
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Setup for NEW HDD?
Building my FIRST computer. Will start with at least - one HDD, I purchased a WD SATA HDD a 10,000RPM VelociRaptor 500GB.
I have read that if you use one of the settings, can't remember what it's ...
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Compare HDD and SSD performance [closed]
I have just ordered my first SSD, and I want to run some tests on my current HDD now, and then run the same tests again once I get my SSD up and running in a couple of days, so I can see in detail how ...
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Read data from unknown filesystem?
I have a disk from an old XBMC live box which no longer mounts. I have plugged it into my ubuntu 12.10 computer, my macbook pro (usb) and my windows xp vm (macbook pro usb). They all see the disk but ...
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One hard drive missing after converting from ide to ahci
I have two 500GB SATA HDD in my desktop running XP. After converting from IDE to AHCI, the HDD I use to store data can no longer be accessed from XP. It shows only the first partition as 150GB, and ...
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Clicks or ticks every minute when HDD is idle
My HDD is a Western Digital (WD) My Passport... It's 2 weeks old. I hear this tick or click followed by another one about 8-9 secs later, and they repeat every minute almost exactly... They usually ...
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TrueCrypt: How can I mount an anonymous drive?
(Windows 7, TrueCrypt v7.1a)
I use a batch file to mount two TrueCrypted disks when needed. On my old motherboard, the devices were initialized in constant order, and I could use
truecrypt.exe /...
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New Hard Drive beeps once when started
I just bought a new SATA hard drive (the Samsung HN-M101MBB) and connected it to my pc via a external drive reader (the Sharkoon Quickport), when I turned the docking station power on the hard drive ...
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Blue screen error 0xc000034
I downloaded Windows 8 and now PC (Dell Inspiron N5050) does not start and a blue screen with error 0xc000034 appears.
Any suggestions?
Thank you
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My other hard drives are invisible, but still accessible
For some reason I cannot see any of my other hard drives through Windows 8's explorer window. I can see them in disk management, and opening them from there works. They are also visible in file-...
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Ubuntu 12.10 - Session.log filling hard drive
Here's a goofy problem.
On my Ubuntu computer the session.log and session.log.old files have been continually filling up the hard drive. I've got a 80gb partition for the OS and these logs have ...
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Resizing dynamic disk
I merged 2 partitions using other software, instead of using Windows' tool (Administrative Tools->Computer Management->Disk Management). Is there any way to un-merge those 2 partitions, or at least ...
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Do 7.2k SATA drives and a hardware raid controller always end with trouble?
I'm reading the FreeNAS userguide and came across the statement:
Note that hardware RAID configured as JBOD may still detach disks that
do not respond in time; and as such may require TLER/CCTL/...
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How can I unlock a non system Mac OS X 10.5.8 drive
I have just had to reinstall OS 10.5.8 on my G4 tower (I'm using it as a file server/auxiliary machine) I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it but, I have another internal drive in the ...
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Can I possibly recover the Windows system partition that I deleted (100MB)?
After moving to SSD I deleted the System Partition (100MB) from my previous drive, causing mass destruction.
I tried to delete the System Partition which windows 7 creates (on my previous disc as I ...
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The BitLocker encrypted logical drive of my laptop is not accessible. On clicking error appears,"Application not found"
I had an important personal data that was stored in my laptop drive 'F'. My 4 year old son also uses my laptop to play games. To secure my data I used bitlocker software that was already there in my ...
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Hard Drive not recognised by BIOS and no visible damage on PCB
An external IDE harddrive that I have has recently stopped working quite suddenly, when tried in other computers it is not even recognised by the BIOS or by a Linux recovery disk. I assumed that the ...
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Hard Disk failure message from windows
Because of my internal hard disk failure I did a rebuild sectors by DiskPatch today. Before it, I wasn't even able to run OS. Anyway, now I can run OS, but still getting the error message. I want to ...
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HD has one bad file that it won't fix
there is one particular file that my external hard drive always freezes on when I try to read. Since I know a bit about HDs and RAID, I would have thought it should try to automatically perform error ...
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How to discover true identity of hard disk used in counterfeit external hard disk?
I have 2 fake external hard drives that claim to have a storage capacity of 2TB. I pulled the enclosure apart and the hard drives seems to be refurbished ones with their labels replaced as Barracuda ...
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How to automatically take daily HDD backup?
I think my HDD might have crashed. I don't want to lose data if this happens again. I have dual boot Windows/Ubuntu system. What is the best way to backup data and other software settings in Ubuntu? I ...
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Why are sizes different, and what do they mean?
I have a 1 TB hard drive that consists of one NTFS partition which I use to back up my data (no operating system). The size of all the data in it is 726 GB, size on disk: 728 GB, and the used space ...
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Which file system is the fastest? [closed]
I'm looking to format my hard drive. I've heard about a file system called "ext3", it's supposedly a linux partition and I think is a lot faster than NTFS.
But my question, is, is there anything ...
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Can I recover data from external HDD or do I format and lose it all?
I have a Maxtor external HDD 500GB but haven't used it for a year or so. I have plugged it into a new laptop as the one I used it with before is busted. I know that there is a ton of data on the HDD ...
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Converting bytes to bits and then to Mbits
If you have a 100 50KB files that is saved on your hard disk per second, I want to figure out how many Mbits per second this is.
So please correct me if I am wrong:
= 50 * 8 * 1000
= 400 000 bits ...
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Recovering drive via boot to Win7 setup command prompt
I am trying to recover data from two old IDE drives. Drive1 has been successful, but something is wrong with Drive2. It does not appear as a drive letter.
Due to limited legacy hardware, the only way ...
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Laptop HDD not mounting.
I have a laptop with broken (shorted out) motherboard and a 640 GB HDD.
I want to recover my data from the hard disk.
Every time I connect the hard disk using an external casing, it is being ...
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Repair BAD Sectors or Buy a new HDD? [closed]
I have a Seagate internal hard disk drive. I recently opened up my laptop [Dell Inspiron N5010] [Warranty has expired], cleaned it and it worked normally after waking up from hibernation. However, ...
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Windows Server 2008 r2 reports wrong hard drive free space
I have Windows Server 2008 R2 installed onto a Virtual Machine on ESXi 5.0.0. When I originally created the VM, I gave the C: drive 350 GB of hard drive space, and I made it thin provisioned.
Today, ...
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Disk ID update after partition cloning from HDD to SSD
I am looking forward to adding SSD in a laptop and in a desktop both currently having single HDD each. Laptop has single partition (well apart from the Recovery and OEM) and desktop has two partitions ...
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how to copy some old harddrives onto an imac
I have some old hard drives from my former linux box (RedHat). Alas, that computer is dead, though the hard drives as far as I know are still viable. I now have an iMac and I would like to retrieve ...
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Cannot create a partition because of out-of-space message
I have 69GB of un-allocated space on my hard-drive. When I try to create a partition in it, I get the error message below telling me that there is not enough space to create it. Why am I getting this ...
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Does a hard drive degrade if we always write to the same directory?
I have a very heavy I/O application that is constantly receiving data through the network and writing to a specific directory on the HDD. Then, the application need to load the files from that ...
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Is it sufficient to refresh an archival external HDD with chkdsk?
Some background:
I have been helping my uncle, a photographer, maintain a system of storage for all his work (Terrabytes of images!).
We do this by using two external hard drives for his data ...
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SATA HDD suddenly stops being detected by any computer
So I have a 500gb Seagate HDD that, after powering down my computer one day, stopped being read by ANYTHING. It's not a mechanical error that I could diagnose; it spins up and down quietly and makes ...
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Files recovered with full size but unusable
About 3 weeks ago, I have accidentally used the "clean" command in diskpart in DOS.. And every thing in the hard drive was removed even the drive letters, it became unallocated space (465.8 GB).
I ...
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Why is "size on disk" much bigger than "size" when I copy data from NTFS to exFAT?
I tried to backup from my NTFS external hard drive to a new exFAT external hard drive. When the copy finished I saw that I have very little free space remained. I checked my file size and I saw that ...
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SSD to Lenovo Y560 and G780 optical drive slot
I have a Lenovo G780 laptop and my friend has a Lenovo Y560 laptop, we thought about replacing the useless optical drives with an SSD.
I have found a great blog post about it but I still have some ...
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New 3TB seagtae internal hard disk hangs after inactivity period
I have two interal seagate 3TB hard drives and 5 external usb drives.
Now wvery time i try to move mouse after some inactivity peroid. my system hangs and i ahve to wai for 2-3 minutes to get going.
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My Internal HDD Backup Drive Not Recognized after new Windows install
I have been backing up files to an second HDD internal to my laptop, including system image backups. We will call this the D drive.
Today my main SSD with Windows failed, so I went and bought a new ...
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WD My Passport space problems
I have a new 1 TB WD My Passport hard drive, Model: WDBBEP0010BBk-EESN.
I checked the properties of the hard drive when I first plugged it in, the used space was 320 MB, though the total size of the ...
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Extra HDD or hybrid SSD for my Laptop
I have an SSD installed on my laptop and currently it boots 4 Operating Systems. I have my old HDD installed but it is low on capacity. I want to increase the capacity by buying another HDD. I see the ...
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How can I add a second hard drive to a previously configured UEFI/ACHI Windows 8 machine?
Recently purchased a new Windows 8 PC.
It came with one hard drive.
I want to a second hard drive to it. This second hard drive is my data hard drive from my previous computer.
However, I have run ...
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Does HDAPS wear out a hard-drive?
I’ve installed hdapsd on my Thinkpad. It is a Linux daemon for hdaps that parks the hard-drive whenever the accelerometer detects a shock. Since installing it, I have noticed that even small movements ...