Recent content by GamePowa

Thanks for your help but my drive is now a doorstop, after creating a new thread about an error I was getting a Moderator told me it basically was a doorstop, but I'll use your teaching for when I buy a new HDD for extra storage

Okay Thank you (just so you know this hard drive has been ab(used) for 5 years in a not so good config xD)

It's a drive from an old config with no important files on it, I just wanted to recycle the drive and get an extra 1TB of space. If there really is no way of fixing it I will just use it as a fancy doorstop

The error shows up when I start up the computer so no, I cant acces it (it's a page right before the BIOS)

So I decided to put my 'Toshiba 1TB drive' from an older config inside my current one. I checked that the SATA rate was the same and it is. After putting it in I found this error message and I dunno what it means. SMART detected HDD/SSD failure 6 : TOSHIBA DT1ACA100 WARNING! Please back up...

After I put the drive in, I put the windows booting manager of the old drive at the bottom. When I save and exit it buts me back on a bios screen saying: SMART detected HDD/SSD failure 6 : TOSHIBA DT1ACA100 WARNING! Please back up your data and replace your hard disk drive WARNING! Your HDD/SSD...

Is it dangerous to have the old windows on the drive and can I format teh drive once I'm on the desktop ?

So, basically we were removing useless stuff at my house and found my old config. I decided to see if I can recycle stuff and removed my 1TB hard drive. I checked the compatibility and it's the right SATA. After looking online I found a couple of threads and tutorials that told how to set a...