Hard Disc Drive

I read somewhere that usually when you hear a clicking, the HDD is mostly at fault, but never anything about beeping. I had headphones on, but I think the beep lasted for about 3 seconds. Just one long beep. I was nervous, so I restarted. When my PC booted back up, I checked my files, and my HDD...

Hi I have a lenovo G580. It has a 320 gb toshiba hard drive. Sometimes I turn on laptop and it get stuck on lenovo. Also I could not get into bios or recovery mode. But after repeated attempt windows boot up. Also I tried removing hdd and then I can go to bios. Also the laptop feels sluggish...

Installed a new 4tb hdd, cloned 1tb SSD that was almost full to it. Now when trying to set it as a default install location for games from Xbox game pass for PC or default in the windows system it gives me an error code and says try again later. What could be wrong? It's a wd blue hdd. Error is...

In my desktop PC I have two internal SATA hard drives; the first one is for OS and data, the second one is for data backup. The second drive is accessed only once a month by a program which does the back-up of data on first drive. Since the total volume of new data in one month compared to the...

WD's page on NasWare 3.0 states the following: I'm not sure how firmware alone could accomplish this. Do WD Reds have super caps or some other circuitry to ensure command completion after power loss? Do the WD Reds actually protect your data in case of a power loss or is this just a fancy...

So recently I have come across a few problems with my system. At first I had PCIe slot die on me which resulted in a purchase of a new motherboard. After that I had an issue where my CPU's core 0 was stuck at 100% 24/7 and a windows reinstall fixed this. I believe that issue was due to...

Here's the story: i wanted to turn a small partition of my external harddrive into a recovery disk or something, can't remember what it was exactly. it was some backup function in windows, that's all i remember. But instead caused the harddrive to be formatted, losing all my files and being...

As I switched on my PC I got message to insert a boot drive so I knew something's wrong with windows After running system check it said boot bcd error 0xc0000098 so I tried reinstalling windows but got to know that I cant select drive because I have 0mb space I went to bios and checked, the...

Do all hard disks have HPA and DCO? If not, does it depend on the kind of disk or does it depend on the manufacturer?

So guys i have 2 HDDs in my pc and DWD/RW 1 HDD (Seagate Baracuda ST500DM02) 500GB SATA 3i-s where OS is installed and some games/programs etc..I have bought this HDD used for decent price in 2017. 2 HDD (Seagate Baracuda ST3160815AS) 160GB SATA 1-im using this HDD for 11 years and did not have...

is it possible to do so without re-installing the OS? I have a 120gb and its getting filled up (still has enough free) I want to clone it and use the another larger drive as my new 'C' or boot drive. i have windows 10 as the OS.

Hi all, I just finished cloning an old failing Hard drive and its all gone fine. I would like to keep the old drive in if possible but im not sure what will happen if i delete everything off it right now as i think all my programmes are still loading off that and not the new drive, even after...

just switched to a aorus x470 ultra gaming motherboard. after getting everything back together and making sure all drivers are up to date bios is still not detecting my sata hdd. It powers up fine and i can hear the drive running. the drive was working prior to the switch this morning. any...

Hey Everyone! Toms Hardware forums have been a great help to me as I get my first PC build going. I do not game. I do a lot of photo and video shooting with my DSLR and slowly have accumulated 10-15 external hard drives full of data over the years. I really want to get them all added to one...

Hello, I tried to dual boot ubuntu with my windows 10 but after what seemed to be a successful attempt, i realized that it just did not work anymore the boot ui (where it allowed me to select which OS I would like) just did not show up and I got booted straight to windows. On top of that, I had...

My ISP (Comcast) provides me with a 75 Mbps connection (speedtest.net often yields 88-89 Mbps). I am using an Apple Airport Extreme router with a ARRIS SURFboard DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem (SB6141) modem. All of my devices in the house are properly downloading around this speed, except a certain PC...

will i be abe to SLI a 2gb gtx 960 with a 4gb gtx 960?