Recent content by Boogieman_WD

We'll miss being here as well. I know it's not much, but we'll be around for 2 more days. Unfortunately I can't discuss the decision. All I can say is that it has nothing to do with the community in particular. You guys have been great and all the moderators and admins have done a lot for us...

Western Digital has enjoyed participating in tom'sHARDWARE. It is with regret that we won’t be posting in the forum any longer; however we encourage our customers to visit our WD community at https://community.wd.com/ or via customer service at http://support.wdc.com/ for WD related questions.

Great news and good job. In any case you should definitely test the drive for errors with a diagnostic tool just to make sure that it's working properly, as this is a bit unusual behaviour. :)

Hey there. Well it will be difficult to determine that. If you have separate cables and not a direct port where you connect the drive, you could try those cables with a different computer to see if the same thing happens. Other than that I'd recommend that you get in touch with the laptop...

Hey there. Make sure that you've connected the drive properly. Try a different port and different cables. Try connecting it externally via an IDE/PATA to USB adapter, to see if the same thing happens again. If the drive is still not recognized at all (by Disk Management, Device Manager or even...

Hey there, ntilikas. You could try connecting it internally to a different computer, just to see if the same thing happens. If it does, then it's highly probable that it might have failed. You could also download its manufacturer's diagnostic tool and try running the tests on the drive if it's...

Well most manufacturer's offer such tools for their SD cards and flash drive, so I'm guessing that the official website and a probably a software download or a troubleshooting section. However if the manufacturer does not offer such a tool, you could check the web for a 3rd party flash drive/SD...

So if the tests show that everything's fine with the drive it could be a connection issue (so go ahead and proceed with the SATA cables and port swap), or probably the problem lies somewhere else. I'd recommend that you do a memory tests as freezing/hanging of the system might be caused by a...

Hey there, candiceee. You did a great job getting your data back! The chkdsk can't test RAW partitions and RAW partition means that its file system has been corrupted. This could be due to some sort of fault and ca usually be fixed by reformatting it, but having in mind the errors you're...

Hey there, SwankyDanky. First, backup any important data which you might have written on that HDD, just to be on the safe side. After that go ahead and try the drive with a different SATA port and cables, to see if the issue still persists. You should also download the HDD manufacturer's...

Hey there, Antoni. Unfortunately there's not much you can do in terms of troubleshooting an optical drive. You could give it a go with different SATA cables and port, to see if the same thing happens. This way if you the issue does not occur again, it would mean that there was a problem with...

Hey there, Josh. It does sound like it, since you have Windows installed and the SSD is not recognized according to what you've mentioned. I'd recommend that you check Disk Management and Device Manager and post screenshot of what you see there. Here's how to open them: How to access Disk...

I see, in this case this should prove helpful in terms of the cloning process: http://lifehacker.com/5837543/how-to-migrate-to-a-solid-state-drive-without-reinstalling-windows. As for the M.2 drives I guess you're talking about an M.2 SATA drive and an M.2 PCIe drive. Having in mind the SSD...

Hey there. Tviej3jeer39k. So from what I understand, you have the file/s but you need previously saved version/s of it/them? If that's correct, I don't think you'll have any luck with a data recovery program as basically the last saved version of the file overwrites the previous one and this...

Hey there. Unfortunately you might be out of luck. You could either try recovering it via the suggestions from this article: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/316951/how-to-recover-a-lost-word-document or by trying out data recovery software, hoping that you'll be able to find it...