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oh that's really helpful actually, thanks for the explanation. what was SMR made for then? it seems to have little to no upsides, but i could be wrong lol. maybe SMR works better as drives used for system-backups, or long-term data storage? either way, guess i'll try returning this HDD and...

ty for the reply! that's interesting, i've never heard of those terms before. i tried googling, but is there an easy way to tell whether an HDD is SMR, CMR or PMR? i googled the serial number of mine, which is "WD20EZBX ", and it does say it uses SMR technology. is looking up the serial number a...

ty for the reply! not "old" as in "age-old" haha, i bought it around Nov. 2019. it's a seagate constellation 3TB, 7200RPM. it started acting up shortly after i got it but my warranty was only 1 month so i didn't want to bother going through a process since it would only act up sometimes and...

hi! a couple weeks back i bought a new HDD since my old one started to make weird noises and i wanted to be safe. It's a WD Blue, 2 TB, this one (newegg link). it's intended purpose is to store steam (and other) games, but also some regular files. a problem i've noticed that i didn't have with...

i tried doing that a few times but it didn't yield any results. what i did instead was go into my indexing options and rebuild the index database for my D drive, which seems to have fixed it for real this time! if i turn on my pc tomorrow and the files are back in the search list or using opera...

okay so, something interesting i've noticed: the .opdownload files ONLY show up when utilizing the search function, both the windows start menu one and the explorer window one. they clearly list a location they're supposedly in, but when i go to the location the files are nowhere to be seen. i...

i don't think that's what it is, mainly because the files have the exact same names as the actually downloaded files. e.g. if i downloaded a picture named "tree.jpg", it'd automatically also create a file named "tree.jpg.opdownload" or "tree.jpg.opdownload.opdownload".. i also tried opening the...

well it's unfortunate but it looks like opera just.. keeps creating ghost .opdownload files.... why exactly i don't know, but it's pretty infuriating. if there are any other suggestions, i'd be happy to try them! might reinstall opera after all, sigh

thank you for the suggestion, i'll try it later tonight when i'm not using my pc. my pc did actually crash some weeks ago after fullscreening a game (??) and i think i had opera open at the time, not actively downloading anything but maybe it still messed something up. does chkdsk /f scan all...

sup, i've been dealing with this problem for a few weeks now as i usually choose to ignore it and move on since i can't fix it. some time ago i noticed some .opdownload files, which are supposedly files that are currently being downloaded by opera. however, there are none such files, as all my...

alright, many thanks! :)

so i'll need one that has a power plug as well?

the problem is as follows: for quite some years i've had the intent to somehow gain access to my oldest hard drive, which i used in my first laptop until it broke about 10 years ago. now i've been occupied for a good while but i finally started looking into it again and it seems there are quite...

sorry for the belated update! i have good news. since i reset the bios settings to default i haven't had anymore problems and it's been about a month since then. if the problem resurfaces in the future i'll be back but for now this thread can be closed!

sorry for the late response again, i get really busy from time to time and forget about things. i noticed that if i hold down the power button for 5-10 seconds before turning on the power and starting the pc, the frequency of the safe mode POSTing seems to decrease. not sure what that means. the...