hard disk (hdd) problems

I accidentally changed the format of disk to ext4 . Which is not a format that windows supports. And even installation disk doesn't recognize my hdd. But my hdd was healthy before . I told my friend to connect my hdd to his motherboard and check if the drive appear on disk management or not ...

I’ve done this cloning operation: Original device: SSD Kioxia Exceria Pro 1TB PCIe 4 NVMe Target device: SSD Kingston FURY Renegade 4 TB PCIe 4 NVMe I followed all the cloning process, with success messages, all seemed to be correct. I followed this tutorial, step by step: [Moderator note...

My main PC has some problems with my 1 TB seagate HDD. It was working fine until a week ago and then it suddenly stopped showing in file explorer and everywhere else. Switching cables and ports worked a few times in the beginning and everything would work normally for a few hours before it...

Hello, I'm having some issues with my hard drives, in the past 2-3 months I've broken 3 hard drives, (all started making weird noises, then having my files and games corrupted) i honestly don't know why and how, all i did was put my Steam games on it, one thing that i noticed that i did before...

Hi there my main backup Hard Disk 4TB WDC suddenly disappeared After trying out different methods of connecting (to ensure it's not a cable fault or USB mount), I've now connected it to my main computer directly to the MB, and it appears as uninitiated and unallocated I've ran...

I recently installed a new SSD (Seagate BarraCuda 2TB) and PSU (MSI MPG A1000G). I moved everything from my old HDD to my new SSD. On my SSD, I am dual booting Ubuntu and Windows. At the beginning everything was running perfectly fine, but then all of a sudden after about 2 weeks or so my...

I recently installed a new SSD (Seagate BarraCuda 2TB) and PSU (MSI MPG A1000G). On my SSD, I am dual booting Ubuntu and Windows. At the beginning everything was running perfectly fine, but then all of a sudden after about 2 weeks or so my computer has drastically slowed down. I took at look and...

I have my windows installed on my NVMe SSD and my HDD doesn't show up in Windows (disk management, device manager, etc) but does show in BIOS. To get my HDD to show in Windows I have to boot into BIOS and exit out and then my HDD shows in Windows (file explorer, etc). Normal boot up without...

Hello, I did not expect to be posting to this forum or any forum however I have encountered some unfortunate circumstances. Recently my Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB drive got the click of death. I ordered another drive of the same model only a year newer. 2016 vs 2017. I replaced my read write head...

Hi, my external hdd isn't recognized on some usb ports until i restart windows and they suddenly appear on my computer. Board is VIII hero, and i think only on blue ports, when i reconnect them to red one it is recognized immideatly, but on blue port it doesn't appear, even on hd sentinel and...

For the past few days, my computer has been extremely slow. It takes several minutes to boot, random freezing in file explorer and when opening files, videos freeze randomly during playback etc. Is this a sign of dying hard disk or is their some other component at fault? Asking because I...

hello my hdd is about to die and now reached 133 reallocated sectors, it already got ejected by the system and would not load a few times so it does not have long and i may not be able to get a new and higher capacity hdd at the moment, i am looking at 500gb western digital blue/black/green hdds...

so, this is my 3rd RMA HDD. and the same issue. it doesnt appear on device manager,even if it does, it comes and goes every 5 seconds. and all of the hdds also had a clicking issue. i used every single sata port. changed the cable, still nothing. when i changed the cable. it didnt even show up...

so 2 days ago i was converting some vidoe files to other formats to save space and after a bit i started getting smart bad error. every time i try to start the computer and every hour or so during the time i use the pc, so i did some testing with hd tune software and it appears i have 138...

I just bought a new 1tb WD Blue hdd for my laptop and it works fine for a day, but suddenly on the next day the health indicator on hd sentinel drop from 100% to 9%, and it shows a lot of bad sector. But i try to run read test on HD Sentinel and it shows no problem at all, i also run disk...

Hello, wanted to write this to seek some possible help on a toshiba satellite c45, when turning on it didnt get past the loading toshiba screen it wouod just pop up the text with "no bootable device please insert..." i tried some toggling on the bios menu by pressing f12 but wasnt able to get...

I just got my Win10 system installed on a new SSD and my HDD was formatted. I decided to install games on the empty HDD but a strange thing happened: my HDD disappeared when installing the game. I tried to reboot my pc and the HDD is visible again , but when the game client continue the...

So I bought this SATA 1TB HDD few months back and all of a sudden it stop functioning properly today. Randomly started corrupting few of my files and I even got a S.M.A.R.T error during windows boot regarding the HDD. I even did chksdk /f which fixed some errors but corruption continued. I even...

Hey there , I heard a clicking noise on my HDD 2 days ago and my screen kept freezing. I downloaded CrystalDiskinfo and HD Sentinel and I found that there were the following errors on my C: D: E: (my BOOT drive) C5 Current Pending Error 170 C6 Uncorrectable Sector Count 170 CrystalDisk Info...

My hard drive automatically disconnects and reconnects for 3-5 seconds while using. Already applied so many methods still couldn't find the solution. My config CPU: Ryzen 3 2200G Motherboard: AsRock B450M Steel Legend Ram: 2x8GB 2400Mhz GPU: Gigabyte 1660s 6GB STORAGE 1x SSD transcend 250GB...

Hi, I recently purchased a new NVME SSD to install a fresh windows on and prior to the installation, I made the mistake of not unplugging all my other hard drives before. I have several other hard drives one being a 2TB dynamic disk with a spanned drive (I had a M drive and D drive) which...

Hello, So my HDD was acting very strange the red light was on and in task manager it was showing 100% usage but with 0/kbps read and write in between it jumps to 25mbps read and 15kbps write i restarted the pc to see if it gets fixed, but the pc refused to start and was stuck on the windows...

It's an ASUS N750JK (i7 4700HQ CPU, 16 GB RAM, graphic cards HD 4600 + GeForce GTX850M, Windows 10 on a 840EVO 250GB SSD). It always had some problems -the original motherboard had to be replaced by ASUS when it was in guarantee- but recently it had some more issues that I described in a couple...

I came to Toms looking for an answer, unlike the past I did not find an answer to my problem which was why bios could see my hard drive and windows couldn't. The thread is here. https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/hdd-shows-up-in-bios-but-not-in-device-manager.1524311/#post-11134623 I...

My laptop's disk usage is jumping to 100% after every few seconds. There are now such processes running in the background or foreground which could consume disk. But still its happening . The problem is reached to the extent that my laptop is freezing every time usage reaches 100% . There are...

Hello! Several years ago my laptop's HDD started dying and I had it replaced. It's a Toshiba 1 TB 2.5 HDD from Toshiba laptop. According to HDD Sentinel it's at 9% life with 2848 bad and 13528 weak sectors.It's almost empty but I have previously scanned it with EaseUS Data Recovery and...

I am facing a lot of lags on my system, of course in games, but outside it as well. It basically freezes anytime it feels like it but mostly when I click on anything. So I got the CrystalDiskInfo software installed and that showed yellow dots on "Reallocated Sector count" and "Current Pending...

Specs ; Windows 10 Pro Version 1909 Ryzen 5 2600 Zotac Rtx 2060 16GB XPG ram B450m asrock steel legend 120GB SSD Gigabyte GP-GSTFS31120GNTD Health 97% 1 TB HDD Seagate ST1000NM0033-9ZM173 Health 100% source hddsentinel* Hi, so my weird problem is, when ever im using my PC {not idle} ...

Hello! I am having little issues with my Hard Disk, Not like it's a problem, but it is a bit frustrating. So my Hard disk sounds like when I turn off and back on my PC. Indeed, this occurs randomly and I am not sure why is this happening. As far as I know, I've been using another cable from it...

Hi, I have an ASUS k72f laptop, which has 2 hdd SATA interfaces, so few years ago I changed the main hdd to an SSD, and more "recently" I added a second, mechanical HDD. So from time to time, I start the computer, and few seconds after windows login, the computer just freezes. image freezes...

Hi, I just found an old computer that I no longer used and I wanted to put it back together to use it as a server. I, therefore, needed to disable the 'halt on' option from the bios to be able to boot without having attached any external device, like screen and keyboard. I also had the operating...

One if my drives started clicking yesterday. I thought it was almost dead(i can copy data from it) and I got a new drive and a cloning dock by Orico. When I plugged in my drive into the dock it stopped clicking. Can you help me troubleshoot? Thank you in advance!

Hi, been using computers for over 20 years, first time this happens to me and I'm at a loss here, so I hope somebody has new ideas for me to try :-/ 4TB Western Digital Blue hard disk (SATA) only 15 months old. Last year, I upgraded from a 3TB WD Blue (approx. 4 years old, never had an issue...

I cannot able to access the files , maybe the file system is corrupted , how to repair that, the pictures are the errors i got.

I used crystal disk info for the first time and it said that the health status is: Caution and that there were 40 current pending sector count and 40 uncorrectable sector count Then I checked Hard disk sentinel and it showed me that they are 32 and not 40. So I rechecked crystal and the number...

Hello! I have an Internal HDD "Samsung Model: HD161GJ 160GB" with Serial: SATA & manufactured in 01/2011, suddenly stopped working as no boot device & not shown up in BIOS. It gives a sound like click, So I searched on internet about this concern, it shows that this type of problem related to...

Hello, I recently built a new pc but it has been randomly restarting. No error codes or blue screen of deaths, it just restarts. After running some tests, my pc reboots when it idles for a while or when I run Defraggler's hard drive benchmark tool. I checked all of my PC's connections and cables...

I had a problem with an incredibly slow boot up, and i tried reinstalling my windows. So before reinstalling, i planned to backup my data, i tried copying my files to another hdd, but it was too slow (about 300kb/s). And to make sure i tried copying files from another hdd to my hdd, it went...

I've had this computer for quite some time, and there were no issues with it at all, however while I was playing a video game called War Thunder, my PC suddenly froze and crashed, when it restarted by itself it wouldn't go into Windows, so I reinstalled windows ( I formatted all the Hard Drives...

Hi, I have a very old hard disk (around 12 yrs old now) that I got from our laptop that was last used maybe 8 yrs ago. I have plugged it into my current laptop using a usb adapter but the problem is it doesn't show up on explorer nor on disk management. It does however show up on device...