Hard Drive Failure

Recently had an older external HDD fail (recognized in device manager in Windows, but not Disk Manager), looking to recover if possible. When I plug it in, everything sounds good and it and spins up to a pretty high rpm, but the motor seems to turn off just before it finishes spinning up, then...

I Have one defective HDD and a new and fresh M.2 SSD, it has shown errors like Unexpected Store Exception and Critical Process Died and it has been clicking under the lightest of loads like opening a torrent client and loading two youtube videos on chrome. I have run programs like...

Hi, My laptop has a 128gb nvme ssd which has the operating system on it and is the C drive, and a secondary 1TB seagate hdd (st1000lm035) which is the D drive. The D drive boots fine but after a random period of time will disconnect and won't reappear until restart. I have run crystal disk info...

My computer won't even post anymore Spec Ryzen 7 3700x 32gb 3200 ram RX 560 mini (upgrading to the 3080 when I can get one in stock) MSI b450i I have 2 drives A 500gb WD nvme drive A 1tb Samsung evo ssd A little backstory In the middle of a game my computer crashed and boots me into safe mode...

Hi, I was using my laptop when I suddenly got a BSOD "UNEXPECTED_STORE_EXCEPTION". I searched it up and it appears that the reason can be a faulty hard drive. After the laptop rebooted I started to see some clear signs that my HDD was dying: Booting took longer, search bar doesnt work, some...

Sometimes my PC gets a "unexpected I/O error has occured" When booting windows, But when I replugged the sata, It boots to windows normally. And sometimes it freezes. Is it a hard drive failure ? or the ram ? PC Spec : Intel Pentium E5700 3GHZ ASUS P5G41C-M LX Seagate 500 GB Video 3.5...

Hello. Recently, my hard drive failed (Luckily I had a backup). I tried to make a new partition on it to store some non-important files (I needed a way to transfer them and this was the only available drive I had at the time). While doing so (In Disk Management in Windows) I got an error...

Accidentally set my secondary HDD to active partition while making partitions on my new HDD. The actual boot device is Samsung Evo 256 SSD. Now windows won't boot and says " An Operating System Wasn't Found, try disconnecting any drives that don't contain an OS". Any help is very much...

Some guys told me that the msi has the best vent system but its 50$ more expensive so i am asking for the difference

Hey guys, I am building my own pc, here are the specs: CPU: Intel Core i7 6700K Motherboard: Maximus VII Hero Graphics Card: Geforce GTX 1080 Founders Edition Memory Card: G.Skill Trident Z 16GB 3200 MHz SSD Card: Samsung 850 EVO 500GB/1TB PSU: Crosair RM750x Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 Do you think...

i turned off my laptop after 3hrs i turned it on again but it won't proceed to the windows menu it suddenly turns off

I have a Gigabyte GTX 970 and I was wondering why my graphics card isn't performing to the best of its ability. It is paired with an AMD FX 8350. I know someone with the same rig as me and they are getting a lot more frames in most AAA titles than me. I was wondering if it might be because of my...

I need to replace the end of my computer speaker wires on the AUX port. coming from the speakers have white and yellow wires, the aux cord end 'm using to replace it as black and red wire. How do I connect?

At home i have two wifi access points. one is the main at&t uverse modem router and it's connected to another older at&t router with DHCP turned off. I had hoped I could set up something that allowed me to pass seamlessly from one access point to the other if I got out of range of one by giving...

So I'm thinking of getting rid of my old hunk of junk and building myself a mini-itx system with a 4790k and a gtx 980. My current computer is a 2120 with a gtx 680 being powered with a 500w PSU. I know nobody likes Raidmax PSUs, but apparently this one is fairly good, and I've had it for about...

I have an Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor Q8400 (4M Cache, 2.66 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB). If you watch here (http://ark.intel.com/products/38512/Intel-Core2-Quad-Processor-Q8400-4M-Cache-2_66-GHz-1333-MHz-FSB) it says that it support x64 systems. When i bought my pc though it had Vista x32 and also it...

Windows Experience Index was introduced with the release of Microsoft Windows Vista, and was also available in Windows 7. With the help of Windows Experience Index, you can easily assess the available hardware of a computer, and can know which particular hardware device needs to be upgraded in...

any RPG game i play, the screen keeps rotating 360 degress. even i i turn the mouse to the opposite direction, it doesnt stop. its been doing so in bioshock infinite, bulletstorm and a couple of other that i tried... please help me out!

Good day, I am thinking of moving my current old servers into one machine with enough power to run it virtually. There is IP Phone system, some light web services, Terminal Server, SQL Server, Sharepoint, AD DC for about 100 users, Exchange Server. Might run SQL on its own machine because...