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I've had this laptop for around 5 years and never had this issue. This started to happen a few months ago, couldn't tell you exactly when. Any USB storage device that I plug into the laptop works fine initially. After some time, whether it's being used or not, it just disappears from "This PC"...

I have a seagate external hard drive that is unknown, I have tried initialise disk but that comes back has a device that does not exist was specified. most data recovery software also can’t find it other than mini tool portion wizard but after the search it goes through portion and freezes at 5...

I recently decided that I wanted to make some changes to my computer, which included replacing an hdd (not what the os is on, thats on an ssd) and adding in a new m.2 drive. Before doing anything, I reset my entire pc so it was completely bare bones besides the os. I also made sure the hdd that...

What's the fastest internal 2TB SSD on the market now? Also, why is https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MFZXR1B more expensive than https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-Rocket-Internal-Performance-SB-ROCKET-2TB/dp/B07MTQTNVR/ ? Any strength of that Samsung thing over that Sabrent thing?

Hello guys , my Drive C which is an NVMe SSD is 413GB and as you can see in image below when i calculate the whole drive it shows its about 400GB full but when I calculate all of the files and folders inside the drive (even hidden ones) it shows 200GB so where the hell is other 200 GB ??!!!

I have a Western Digital 1TB external HDD. While doing some very simple "housekeeping" I've decided to run a chkdsk (on Windows 10 x64). Well... I shouldn't have done that! Now I'm on a mess with lots of files. First, chkdsk reported that the drive had filesystem errors. Without continuing...

Recently I cloned my old 1TB drive to my SSD. I was able to boot from both drives perfectly last night. However, I removed a couple partitions within both drives (only around 65Mb partitions). Now i am unable to boot to both drives. Im having a hard time figuring out what to do. I have set my...

So I just bought a m.2 ssd (A2000 500GB) and I can see it in the storage tab, I installed windows on it, I can boot on it, but I can't set it as boot priority since it doesn't show up as a bootable drive. How can I fix it?

Sorry if the title doesn't make the most sense but, I recently bought a new motherboard cpu, ram, and a ssd. I plan on installing windows on this new ssd. I was wondering if I could just plug in my old drive as a second drive(non os drive) in my new pc(I want to keep the data on it). To clarify...

Hi, I just installed a new SSD onto my computer and now have the following setup: 1) C: (SSD containing OS and some programs/games/applications --> 250GB) 2) H: (HDD containing some programs/games/applications --> 2TB) 3) S: (SSD that is completely empty --> 2TB) I'm trying to move pretty much...

I have a Seagate 10TB 3.5" drive which I was using as a large single drive to copy the contents of my 8.5TB RAID5 volume, so I could back this single drive up to the cloud and get away from using a RAID array. I'm running Windows Server 2008 R2 on the machine. Drive is formatted NTFS and is...

Which on to get? I'm currently in a stalemate between the Samsung 860 EVO and Samsung 970 EVO . On paper the 970 EVO is 7x as fast but if you check videos on youtube it comes down to >1 sec in loadscreen timings. ( M.2 NVME vs SSD vs HDD Loading Windows and Games ) Is there anywhere else...

My wife recently plugged a working SanDisk 128Gb thumb drive into the USB port of her Camry. The car did not recognize the drive and the drive became very warm to the touch. After a couple of minutes she removed the drive. We brought the drive inside, plugged it into the computer and this is...

So my SD2000DM001 drive, that has been working for over 2 years suddently decided to stop working. I can find it my device manager, but not at "My computer" nor Disk manager. Ive pretty much tried every solution i could find, but with no good luck.. Ive been struggling with this problem for...

I built a computer and my usb devices are having a problem where the noise for disconnecting and plugging in happen every couple of seconds as for no reason. At some points all my usb devices completely turn off for a couple of seconds. Ive reinstalled drivers and it didnt seem to help it. Its...

SO I just built a new PC and everything's been going great so far, except when I went to file explorer I noticed my 2 TB Seagate HDD wasn't shown, just my SSD. No big deal, I open disc manager and didn't see it the HDD. So I looked online for tutorials on how to fix it but to no avail. I've...

Why Windows 10 File History copying is so slow? If I copy-paste files to my backup hdd drive I get almost 200 Mb/s but when File Hystory is doing it it tops at 30 Mb/s. What is the difference? Does the File History process slows down the transfer on purpose to avoid to use too much drive...

Hello all, I recently purchased a 2tb WD Blue Hard Drive and when i opened my file explorer, i saw that it was only around 1tb. I went to look at the partitions and i saw that the other tb was unallocated. I messed around with it, trying to get them together, and i somehow ended up with 2...

Hi, I have a touchsmart 520 desktop WINDOWS 7 HOME and ASUS notebook laptop WINDOWS 10, I do not have windows installation discs for either of them; what I would like to do is create a complete c drive copy of both computers and reinstall from a single external hard drive; is this...

Hi guys, I just recently did a full rig update, i9 9900k, brand new MSI motherboard (supports optane) and also bought 2, 2 TB hybrid drives to replace my main storage and game storage. I also just bought an intel Optane memory that will be arriving tomorrow. My question is this; I intend to...

My D drive is a partition and suddenly disappeared when I force closed the epic games launcher. I can't find it in my disk manager even after rescanning. I personally know little to nothing about this whole thing so I have no idea how to fix it either. anyone know how to fix this?

TLDR; I thought I broke my hard drive but now it works again! Hello! I was transferring some data from an external hard drive to my (C:) drive. When I was moving data from the drive, the power in my house went out. When I tried to restart my computer again after the power went out it did not...

I have had stuttering in games for a while. I think it started when I installed my new sshd, but everything seems fine with it. I tried reinstalling things directly to the drive rather than moving it there, didn't help. It also doesn't matter how demanding the game is. I play apex which takes...

I have 64GB pendrive, which for unknown reason works perfectly fine on my laptops and smartphone, but not on my PC. When i plug it in it shows device cannot be detected error. There is absolutely no sign of it in the system, it only shows in device manager as device that cannot be used. It...

First I would like to say that this website and forums are awesome. You all have so much knowledge that you are willing to share. With your help I was able build a computer while blowing right past my budget by thousands.... I had a old HP PC and was going back to school. I already hated to even...

Hey so earlier in the summer I moved across the country and had my PC shipped via a trucking company. Long story short, the truck ended up catching fire and destroying my PC. Luckily I had my doubts about the computer’s safety and removed the HDD and SSD prior to shipment so that my data would...

Just trying to find an HDD for mass storage in the range of 2 tb. Both the Seagate and WD BLue drives seem to have a large amount of 1 star "failed within a few months" reviews across Amazon and NewEgg. That seems pretty high.. Could this just be an effect of people with a bad product being...

Hi all, Just purchased a used QNAP TS-453BT3 for video editing and the original owner had installed two 256gb M.2 drives for caching. At the moment, I'm shopping for drives to populate the NAS and am wondering how much of a practical difference will exist between a drive that has 128mb vs 256mb...

Hey all! I have a HDD that I retrieved from a dead laptop, and I want to put it in a Hard drive docking station, to plug into my other working laptop to get files off. But my only concern is that this is a hard drive from a windows 7 laptop, whereas the files I'll be sending it to is a windows...

Hi all: Yes, it happened. I learned the hard way. After plugging in a power supply cable from another manufacturer and connecting my SSD, the drive fried. With a round of investigation, it looks like all of the voltages were moved around. Here are the two configs: The unfortunate part is the...

I have a WD Scorpio Black hard drive, that I have in a case with a USB wire, so I can plug it in as an external drive. Been using this as a backup drive for some time without problems. Earlier today, I copied some files onto it, then when it had finished, unplugged it. I just tried it in my lap...

So I brought a PC case, this thing is hard glued on it, the owner has no idea what it is and it’s basically impossible to take it off. I used heatgun/water and managed to take it off. ( slightly damaged both the case and the device while doing so) I dissembled it and found a 500GB drive, seems...

So i have two old drives that i swapped out of my system when I upgraded. I realized later that I had some files I wanted to get off of said drives. However, I was concerned that loading up these drives would cause conflicts with my current drives as the newer drives have some of the same...

Dear Tomshardware forum I'm having issues with my desktop as it started randomly freezing several weeks ago. This started happening after having had to replace my HDD that became corrupt, I then got an SSD. The pc freezes when using any program or even performing simple actions, from 2-15...

Here, the Kingston A400 2.5 240GB and the Western Digital Green 2.5 240GB SATA SSDs cost about the same, which is about 28-30 Euros, which is very cheap and it's a good upgrade over my HDD. Which one should I buy?

Hello i am trying to setup a raid on mobo asrock x399 - as manual said to switch SATA mode to RAID - but after that i cant boot from any hdd (i can only see a usb drives) even with that i cant see any array to create too (only see all drives in list without arrays) manual...

So my computer has gotten a bit wonky so I backed up all my files and I plan on factory resetting my PC. However I got a new 500gb 860evo SSD to use as a boot drive and want to use my previous boot drive as a storage drive along with my old HDD. How can I do this if I want to wipe all my...

My desktop dell 5680 inspiron came with a Intel Optane+931GBHDD 1TB whenever all of my components are above expectation but there seems to be a problem? after using user benchmark I receive this notice... Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected what does...

So about a week ago my (D) drive's recycling bin was corrupted and refused to save anything. I had to find some command prompts that fixed it. I eventually fixed the corruption, but now it does not let me save ANYTHING to the drive, whenever I try, I get the "You don't have permission to save in...

Hi. I reciently bought MSI GS65 and it comes with 250Gb of memory as standard. That size is ok for my collage needs, but since im also a gamer, i wish to expand my storage for games. At first, obviously, i thought: M.2. It goes inside of the laptop, its small and very fast, but the only fast...