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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Recovering Windows 7 on new hardware without resetting
I have Windows 7 installed on a hard drive I haven't used since I switched computers (motherboard was Dell Inspiron 580), and tested it only very recently, with it showing "Starting Windows",...
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How can I zero out only the USED space on a storage drive?
I have a large drive (4TB) that I've only written a few gigabytes to. I'm giving it to a friend, so I'd like to zero it out. I know I can zero out the whole drive with dd, but I'd like to know if:
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Understanding Secondary Log Hard Disk Impact on Write Speed and Data Integrity After Power Outage
I've recently come across the notion that a secondary log hard disk can be employed to enhance write operation speed in a database system. I find this concept intriguing but am struggling to grasp the ...
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Data Recovery from Veracrypt-Encrypted External Drive After Power Fluctuation
I find myself in a bit of a predicament and am reaching out for guidance on recovering data from a specific partition on a 1TB external hard drive, where all partitions are encrypted with Veracrypt. ...
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Should A Smaller Partition Be Placed First or Last?
I'm wanting to partition my new external HDD based on whether the data is backed up or if it's not backed up (the data they contain are different than he backup). I figure I'll make the backup smaller,...
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Dell keeps booting to old SSD
My Dell G5 5590 has a 250GB SSD and a 1TB HDD. I bought a Samsung Evo 870 1TB SSD, and used Samsung's Data Migration tool to clone from the 250GB to the Evo.
Then, I opened the laptop and installed ...
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Windows 7 keeps changing partition type from 7 to 23 at every startup
I have the following problem: after every boot Windows 7 keeps changing the id (type) of my logical partition 3 to 23. Right after boot it shows up normally in Explorer. A minute after boot is ...
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Copying one partition at a time doesn’t result in a bootable drive. Why? How to fix?
Instead of using clone software, I wanted to copy, one at a time, each partition on my C: boot drive to a larger drive. I did this with no errors (used mini wizard to copy one at a time)
I thought it ...
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Fujitsu Lifebook U749 secondary HDD
I own a Lifebook U749 and I would like to add a second hard drive, unfortunately I do no have a service manual and cannot check if this is feasable, I tried to put a Sabrent SSD PCIe NVME "M"...
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Data recovery with original folder structure
I have an external disk that was formatted as a result of using it as a boot disk for Windows. Can I restore the files with their full path and original folder structure, since theexternam disk had ...
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Is removing the disks from readynas duo v1 and reconnecting them after performing a factory reset likely to cause data loss?
As mentioned in the topic, ı want to remove disks then perform factory reset to clear mistaken configuration and lastly insert the disks back. Is there any possible data loss chance in this operation?
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Internal SATA HDD disconnects by itself. System can see it again after rebooting. Is this a drive failure or something else?
So I got a Dell Inspiron 7559 with an M2 SSD (main drive) and a secondary SATA HDD.
The secondary HDD is disconnecting by itself, when nothing is happening e.g.: I left it on overnight. Next day, the ...
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Need help finding source of constant HDD activity in Windows 10
My issue is similar to constant HDD activity but I have a slightly more complicated setup and can provide more details.
I've checked the usual suspects... nothing in task manager performance tab, ...
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Resize an OpenBSD *fdisk* partition
I have cloned an OpenBSD qemu image into a physical hard drive and everything works but the fdisk partition dedicated to OpenBSD has the same size it had in the virtual machine and most of the excess ...
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problems with DS3524 - no link
Have DS3524 with SAS link and win server Some times ago link was down. Now I have no link to DS3524. But i can ping controller by IP and connect to it via telnet.
How can detect problem and Fix it?
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Create Windows 11 Disk.img for no cost? [closed]
What well-reviewed Windows 11 software successfully creates a .img file from a disk for no cost? I already have many softwares that create their own proprietary image files in Windows, but not a Disk....
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Why does the write speed of my SSD significantly decrease after writing to it for a few minutes? [duplicate]
I have more than 20 SSDs from Crucial, Samsung, and other companies.
Let's take the example of my Samsung 970 Plus 2TB which I use with a 10 Gbps USB C enclosure. On the product page it says that the ...
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Fault detected on drive 0 in disk drive bay 1
Under the circumstances where our system operates Windows Server 2019 on a Dell PowerEdge R440 server and displays the error message:
Fault detected on drive 0 in disk drive bay 1
The hard disks in ...
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Disk is starting to degrade. New SMART event detected [closed]
when I look at Event Viewer there is a certain error that concerns me...
Disk is starting to degrade. New SMART event detected.
Why would my drive be degrading if this is a new pc?
Disk model: ...
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SSD cannot be recognised on Windows and LInux
I recently bought a new SSD to replace the one in my laptop. I took the old SSD out and stuck it in an external enclosure, planning to use it as an external drive. When I first plugged it in to ...
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HDD ticking noice. A thump every x seconds [closed]
Just bought a WD 8TB HDD and it makes a thump noice every x seconds. See the video. Is this normal/okay or is it defect?
A video for reference.
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Optimize file system for parallel read for HDD
I have slave 16TB drive, that need to run 6 spacemesh node which need each to read 512G folder (so total ~3TB data) at same time as fast as it can (atm its 230MB/s as read is sequential with 1 node)
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Cloning Windows 10 Home to new SSD hard drive?
I'm trying to clone my data and licensed version of Windows 10 Home from my old HHD drive to a new Crucial MX500 2.5 SSD using the Acronis True Image for Crucial software. It clones fine but when I ...
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Is DiskGenius Safe? [closed]
Morning, I recently got a little problem with my external HDD for which I have to run CHKDSK, but while browsing questions about it, I read about CHKDSK renaming files or even deleting them when they ...
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How do, I clone my current system to an external-hard disk? [closed]
I want to make a minimal clone of my current system, and flash it on to an external-drive, or clone my current windows-system to an other external disk, then later connect it to another laptop, and ...
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Manually defragmenting a Mac? Strange phenomenon with CPU usage
Processes on Mac OSX getting 'stuck' and strange CPU usage describes the same phenomenon, but for writing. My question concerns reading.
OS X version 10.8.5
I have about 30 million small files on my ...
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Why does my HP Pavillion 15- notebook not see my docking station with a 4T WD Red Plus? Smaller 2T drives are recognised
I have been reading from this site as well as others trying to understand this. It all started with this tiny 500 SSD with a dream to make this notebook's capacity something one can do something with. ...
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Identify files that have changed in my hard drive
Everytime I run a process within an application it causes a failure that can only be fixed when reinstalling the application.
I want to keep track of exactly which files have changed, added or deleted ...
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Can i change my C drive from my SSD to my HDD?
Like the title says I want to move my OS from my solid-state to my hard drive. Are there any drawbacks to this is don't mind the slower boot speed but will it affect anything else and is it possible ...
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BSOD ntoskrnl.exe MSI Creator 17 B11UH-405BE i9-11900H running Windows 11
My MSI Creator 17 B11UH-405BE i9-11900H running Windows 11 was in screen saver and when I wanted to work again a BSOD appeared. After restarting, I wanted to view the source of the BSOD. It turned out ...
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Why is rsync slower within my SSD than to an external HDD?
I have partitioned my primary SSD, and mounted two partitions in my /media directory. rsync between these two partitions are slower than rsync-ing the same files to an external HDD, and I don't ...
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No space left in device error despite being empty
Why am I getting No space left on device when I try to create more than 32767 files in my vFat USB Flash Drive?
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Flash drive is empty (freshly formatted)
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How to debug my server hard drive I/O issue
I have a small headless server on my LAN running Ubuntu 20.04. Recently I had an issue where one of my external drives was intermittently going into read-only mode and sometimes failing to mount at ...
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How do I clone a disk drive with bad sectors?
Current old failing disk: micron c400 512gb 2.5" SATA III
Main and only boot device on Dell XPS L521X 15" running Windows 10 Pro. BSODs and boot failures every few weeks due to bad sectors.
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How to best repair a lost or broken partition on a valued external hard drive without losing data
Can an unallocated external hard drive be repartitioned directly and made usable without losing data and without need to reformat? (Windows 10, 64 bit)
My external hard drive's partition has for ...
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Windows 10 Legacy-BIOS Installation Error 0x80300024
I want to install Windows 10 in Legacy-BIOS setting on disk 1. Disk 1 is emtpy, disk 0 has 3TB ExFat partition, disk 3 is the Windows installer. If I try to install Windows, it has error 0x80300024.
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How to prevent small ISO from marking incorrect size on large target drive?
I am trying to write a 20GB iso to a 200GB hard disk. However, when I do this, the partition table from the ISO seems to carry the 20GB drive size marking with it, so that KDE Partition Manager thinks ...
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Noticable performance drop after upgrade to Fedora 39
I have an older machine. I've had the impression for a while that despite this fact, it is in fact slower than it used to be, and not just slower than a modern machine.
Yesterday I upgraded to Fedora ...
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Expand storage on PERC H710 RAID 0 Dell Poweredge R620
I can't find any good tutorials online. It's my first server and I don't know much.
I have a RAID 0 and I want to expand storage without losing my data? Is it the same process for a RAID 5?
I've read ...
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How would I best solve putting HUGE personal files in drive D
I want to install onedrive. That requires around 1TB of space.
My C drive is limited.
How do I arrange that my personal files are in drive D instead of C?
One thing I can think of is to simply create ...
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Host Protected Area: User Data Logs/Versions?
I recently sold a computer that had sensitive financial information stored on it. I stumbled across this article and I am now very worried:
https://www.easytechjunkie.com/what-is-a-host-protected-area....
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Artificially slowing down drives
I'm developing an application on Windows, and I would like to run tests on how gracefully I handle situations where I'm bottlenecked by slow disk I/O. Unfortunately (fortunately?), all drives I have ...
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Why cant windows xp installer, either 32 or 64 but, detect my IDE drives. No SATA
Windows XP installers can't find hard drive to install to. The available drives are both IDE. All answers I've found just ignore this when mentioned in the question, and instead focus on SATA driver ...
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Cleared CMOS and now Windows won't load
I just built a new PC with the following parts.
Intel Core i9-13900KF
MSI Gaming Radeon RX 6800
ASUS ROG Strix B760-F
G.SKILL Trident Z5 DDR5 RAM 64GB (2x32GB)
SAMSUNG 870 QVO SATA III SSD 8TB
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Cannot manage APM Level on WDC WD100EMAZ
I was looking into configuring some sleep schedules for my server disks, but it looks like I cannot change any settings on my drives. I am looking for some help on this because I am pretty ...
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With raw disk, before Partition, before filesystem, how to map bad blocks?
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neofetch --stdout |grep 'OS:'
OS: Kubuntu 22.04.3 LTS x86_64
After zeroing disk with:
time sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd_ bs=1M status=progress #Zero_disk_delete_wipe
We have ...
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can I recover a hard drive with a missing connecter?
I have this hard drive from (what i believe is) 2006. It is a SATA hard drive. so i can test it. but there is one problem about it.
The orange connecter piece that connects the main HDD disk and the ...
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please insert a disk into usb drive after rufus [duplicate]
I used rufus to install windows on a fresh pc and after the install was finished I booted into windows, removed the usb drive. When I restarted and plugged the usb in it can't detect any media on it ...
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How to output disk size in GB only with no rounding error? [duplicate]
Output disk size in GB only. Giga Bytes only.
Not MB. Not Mega Bytes.
Not TB. Not Tera Bytes.
Tested thus far:
sudo blockdev --getsize64 /dev/sda
1000204886016
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How to output disk size in GB only with no rounding error?
Output disk size in GB only. Giga Bytes only.
Not MB. Not Mega Bytes.
Not TB. Not Tera Bytes.
Tested thus far:
sudo blockdev --getsize64 /dev/sda
1000204886016
sudo blockdev --getsize64 /dev/sda |...
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