hard drive

As I said in the title, I might have a possible virus on my computer, and it’s a sneaky virus and proving hard to find so i’v come to the conclusion of completely wiping my computer as things have gotten a little bit messy on it anyway over the several years I’ve had it. OS; WD 250gb ssd main...

TL;DR - I have two internal 8TB HDD's that I insert into a USB dock and plug into my computer to transfer files and now it's reading as corrupted after I disconnected the dock. ------------------------------------------------------------------- I have two internal Seagate Barracuda 8TB HDD's I...

Hello everyone. I have this pc: CPU: intel xeon e3 1270 v3 3,5ghz RAM: 1X8GB ddr3 1600mhz 1x4GB ddr3 1600mhz GPU: Geforce 1060 GTX 6gb (edited) STORAGE: SSD kingston 500 gb MOTHERBOARD: asus h81m-k PSU: SENTEY 600W 80 PLUS BRONZE HBP600-GS...

I have ASRock Z270 Pro 4 motherboard (Intel). Got a used HDD drive recently, today plugged it in, and tried to enter F11 Boot selection menu. Before, it was all ok, but now, it appears glitched (pic 1), until you click enter on single entry, which is there even if nothing is connected to...

I found an old laptop that I haven't used in years. Just to explore, I started taking apart the hard drive and exposed the platters. I didn't have glove or anything on. Luckily, I was outside when I decided to take pliers and bend them. They shattered into a million pieces. I swept up what I...

When I boot up my PC, the PC freezes abruptly and the HDD light on the PC tower is solid red. Even if I try to boot into Windows Installer USB, the PC freezes sometimes at "starting windows", or sometimes when it does go into the installer, it freezes randomly. It doesn't even respond to mouse...

hello!!! now I come to this forum to see if someone could help me with another doubt I have. It happens that I want to put a hard drive in my pc which is the "barracuda 1tb 7200 rpm", it turns out that the problem is that I have a small problem with putting this hard drive because I have a power...

Hello, this is my 1st post and the reason why I joined. I have a water-damaged hard drive 6TB that had water on-or-in it for 1 day and then I dried it out. I see no water corrosion damage anywhere on the drive itself or the internal control board in the chassis or housing. This hard drive would...

I have an old hard drive that I took from a 2010-era Macbook Air. I also have an old HP Envy desktop that I would like to use for some coding; however, I am working with Swift and I can't use Xcode on a windows PC... I only have windows computers, so I was curious if anyone knew of a way to use...

Hi All, I'm in a little bit of a sticky situation, so if anyone could help i would appreicate massively. So, I have bought a Custom Mini Pc, With room to add a 2.5 inch laptop drive. I have a NVME in it for main OS and it didn't come with the HDD mount to add my 2.5 inch drive. It has the sata...

I have a 20 TB 7200RPM HDD that doesn't fit in my case. Would using a usb enclosure for it work as a permanent solution? This drive will be used frequently as the storage for a media server. If so, are there any recommendations for an enclosure that handles heat well and can handle a 20TB drive?

Hi everyone! I might have to install a new Optane drive soon, which will require a U2 to PCI-E adapter for my motherboard PRIME Z690-A . As you can see, there's only one x4 PCI-E slot available, but due to the M2 heatsink next to it (with light brown stripes), I don't believe the U2 to PCI-E...

The screw holes don't line up with the hard drive bracket included with the case. Is there something I'm missing or does this case just not support this kind of drive. If not, could using a USB external harddrive enclosure be used as a permanent solution for a frequently used hard drive?

I have 2 factory hard drives from an old Dell Optiplex 9020. I'm trying to connect them to a new Lenovo Ideacentre 5-14IOB6. I've connected all of the cables - the ones directly to the motherboard and the power supply cable, but no additional hard drives are shown connected when I boot up...

I'm currently helping someone copy over pictures, videos, documents. They don't really care about making a image backup since they already bought a new computer. I started out by just copying and pasting everything. I realized that it would take a while to do that, so I chose to do a backup...

I've got my OS, and some other applications and files such as Adobe on a Samsung 870 EVO SATA SSD. I've got a new build ready to put together but I'm not sure if I should do a fresh install of Windows, clone the drive, or just move the hard drive and continue to use it as my boot drive. I have...

For the past few months, I've been encountering unusual problems when downloading games on Steam. Despite having a 1 gigabit per second (gbps) network connection, Steam's download speed consistently remains at 50-60 megabytes per second (MB/s). This discrepancy doesn't seem to be related to my...

I'm looking for an external SSD backup drive for my OS drive (2 TB SSD nvme) and my 4TB WD black HDD. My motherboard is capable of USB 3.2 gen 1 but the external drive I need, the Samsung T7 Shield 4TB, Portable SSD, is USB 3.2 gen 2. Data caps at up to 1,050 mb/s. Will the transfer speeds be...

Noticed sparks coming out of the wall socket where my PC was plugged into so I had someone else help me swap it to another wall. However, I didn't think about the PSU switch still being on and this person jerked the cord in and out as electricity was visible each time. Right away I realized I...

I recently bought a m2 wd black sn850x 4tb ssd and a ugreen enclosure. My intent was to clone my internal m2 ssd I tried to clone it using arconis true image software. I installed the SSD in the enclosure and cloned the internal drive. I swapped it to inside my laptop however it failed to boot...

Recently I had a problem with my old SSD setup (and I do mean quite old), so I bought a new one for my computer as soon as I had the money for it So when I got it, I did all the installation process, went all just fine, except that my Hard Drive doesn't show up anywhere on the new windows...

So I tried to push my power cord into the wall outlet and saw electrical sparks. Then the cord came out and I put it back in but sparks came out again so I quickly took it out, but the power switch wasn't turned off. After switching to another wall outlet, this time with my switch off, I turned...

I was dual booting Ubuntu and Windows 11. I deleted my Ubuntu partition as I no longer have a need for it and when I did so I have 250 gb of unallocated space on my drive now. I have tried to extend the other partition of the drive but it says there is not enough space. I formatted the windows...

my custom build died and i'm trying to replace it with a dell t1700. i need to add two hard drives. i know i need a caddy to install one in this empty bay: i thought i might be able to fit a hard drive here but that might just be wishful thinking. i know i should be able to put one here...

Video Example I got a brand new Seagate Barracuda 2TB from Amazon last month and have been using it since with no problems. Starting yesterday it’s been making its “read write” noise nonstop even on idle or when only power is connected (no data cable). It’s super loud and I’m worried if the...

I dozed off while working and woke up with my asshole cat's paws on the laptop. She jumped up from the floor onto the desk and I guess landed with her front paws on the laptop. I'm not sure if it ever made this sound before and maybe I'm just being paranoid. Can someone please help me? Thank you

I have a hard drive that I can't access. I'm looking at Data Recovery. there are two ways I can go. One is to ship it to someone or a company and pay them for whatever their service is or download software. and pay them for their service. my question is which is better? what is the percentage...

Hi sorry for the noob question but i am not very tech savvy. I have a very old PC with a single hard drive split into two partitions C and D. I'm wondering if the windows 10 install will just wipe C and leave D alone as that would make it easier for me to backup key files as i cannot easily...

I want to purchase the Seagate 4TB Expansion portable STKM4000400 and want to use it as a backup drive. This model does not come with software according to Seagates website (2nd link below). Not sure if this is the toolkit software that some models include or not. But I see in the 1st link below...

View: https://imgur.com/a/aeJ4QQG I haven't opened this drive in months and now I've noticed it's making this clicking noise. The hard drive health is still 100% when I check Hard Disk Sentinel. And Crystal Disk says its Good in health? Is my external hard drive okay?

Hello all, I was swapping some hard drive cables because of odd behaviors (the hard drive disks would keep stopping and spinning again at random), and at some point when I turned on my computer, I saw smoke coming out of the SATA power port on one of the hard drives. Immediately I switched off...

Hi there, I recently got a new Seagate Barracuda 2TB hard drive and when I installed it into my pc, I noticed that the vibration of the hard drive could be heard through my desk. As soon as I lifted my pc up from my desk, the sound immediately disappears and when set down the sound comes back...

I bought some NVME SSDs, but looking to return the ones I don't need. They'll mainly be used for Steam games and storing pictures/videos. What capacity should I keep and which one specifically? Do any of these need an additional heatsink?: - Crucial P3 Plus 2TB PCIe Gen4 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD...

Sorry if this question is the wrong category, I don't really know which one it fits into. Quick disclaimer: This is not the first time I have had issues with a disk drive. (my previous HDD burnt out) Current disk drive: WD Blue SA510 2.5 1000GB So whenever I start up my PC, I always have issues...

So, I gave my hard drive to a friend because they needed the movies on it. When i got it back, i realized it did not work. Plugging it into all my ports plus a usb hub made no difference. It would show the led indicator blink like 5 times, and just stay on. Checking task manager, i saw that...

i just moved to new house and i realize my mom accidentally pack my external drive (wd my book 4tb) on top of my studio monitor speakers (yamaha hs5) the speakers are magnetically unshielded and its been on top of the 2 speakers for 11 days , do strong magnet like this speakers will affect the...

I've had this computer for a many years now and I'm wondering how long until the hard drive is done, here is a picture of the results from crystal disk info.

For context, recently while updating windows my power had gone out and corrupted the OS on my HDD. I've had an SSD on standby for awhile now so I figured I'd install windows on the new SSD. Since then, my SSD doesn't appear in BIOS but my HDD does. BUT my SSD appears on windows (file manager/...

I decided to add a secondary drive onto my pc build (my OS and files are currently on a Samsung SSD M.2 card). I have a 3.5" Seagate hard drive that works perfectly fine when I use an ejectable adapter that connects my HD to the USB port on my pc. My pc recognizes it and I am able to transfer...

Hey everyone, I recently encountered an issue with my old laptop, which seems to have a problem with either the graphics card or the motherboard. In order to retrieve my data, I removed the ADATA XNS381E-128GM-B SSD that contained all my files, including Windows. Now, I'm attempting to...