hard drive

last time tried to format it, maybe it didn't successfully formated. It's showing nowhere, except here. I also tried another pc.

The hard drive has been split up into many partitions and i have no idea how to remove them. Any help would be greatly appreciated Here is an image of my problem: https://pasteboard.co/K8orIvt.png

Hello, I just bought a new drive WD40EFAX WD RED 4TB and after connecting it to the pc is unrecognizable and it makes a weird noise on boot, I also have this error pic. Another drive on these same sata cables works fine. Any suggestions? Listen it here. Weird-click-noise-audio

I reconnected my hard drive to my PC today after waiting for a data link cable to arrive and it's been running at 100% usage in task manager, with System and COM Surrogate being the two processes killing it. It's so slow I can't search it for files, it's basically unusable. I really don't want...

Hi, i have a question umm i have a hard drive from my broken laptop and it still have a windows 7 on it, if i booted on my windows 7 will my main machine which has windows 10 will the files on my windows 10 will lose? Yeah ik my English is bad.

I've never posted here before so apologies if I'm doing this wrong. I have a somewhat new pc that I got, and it had no hdd or ssd in it so I decided to put in both. Settled on getting a 250gb ssd as the boot drive and a 2tb hdd as additional storage. Pc powers up and works fine with the ssd, I...

Hi, as the title suggests, my I'm running out of space in my 100gb hard drive. Everything keeps downloading/saving to there even though I've changed the settings to save to my D drive. How can I make it so that everything is properly directed to my D drive, or how can I safely replace my C drive...

Hello, it's been a while. I'm wondering if it's safe to relocate an empty Desktop folder from an SSD system drive to an HDD drive that also contains a Desktop folder which is being used by the system by default. My objective is to merge them and its default location should still be in HDD. I...

After a Windows 10 update my hard drive D is disappearing and sometimes appears again. I have an Asus laptop and it has never happened before that my HDD doesn't work. In the device manager the hard drive D disappears and reappears sometimes too. I tried removing the windows update and install...

The weirdest thing happened 2 days ago. My EXFAT formatted portable Hard drive (Seagate Slim), suddenly Unmounted from my Mac and never came back on again. The drive spins when I connect it, the light shows but it doesn’t get recognized on the Mac or on disk utility or even system profiler on...

When I connect my disk, the PC doesn't boot to Windows from it, but shows a black screen with "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected device and press a key". When I'm in bios, the disk is shown as connected to the SATA, but it's not visible in the boot menu...

I have a WD Elements external that I bought less than a year ago started making this beeping/squeaking sound and didn't get recognized when I plugged it in at a computer at my college. It worked fine with those computers before (which are macs btw). When I plugged it into my laptop at...

I've got a spare SAS drive I want to use on my desktop PC. I don't need to run it in RAID or anything, it's just going to be a single storage drive. I've looked for SAS controllers on ebay but they vary wildly in price and specs. Some even require DRAM and a battery which sounds like a hybrid...

So I've already sort of made a post about this here: https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/my-pc-wont-boot-os-after-installing-a-second-hdd.3704942/ But I wanted to make a new one to clarify. I had to rebuild my PC in January, and this included getting a new motherboard (so it's only like 3/4...

Anyone know what drive this laptop use? Its a Sony Vaio PCG-4H1M Thanks

i have 4 hard drives (HDD) one of them has the operating system im not gonna lie its kinda full and makes it very very slow so im planing on doing some changes such as moving everything, apps, files, to other non-operating system hard drives ( please note i don't mean files like...

I’m currently planning a small long term data archive and I was wondering: are 2 hard drives in RAID 1 more reliable than 1 SSD? No one has really compared these 2 configurations that I could find, so I was wondering if any of y’all have any insight on this. Thanks!

Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM010 (1TB): https://www.ebuyer.com/758013-seagate-barracuda-1tb-3-5-hard-drive-at-ebuyer-com-st1000dm010 OR WD Blue WD10EZEX (1TB): https://www.ebuyer.com/393482-wd-blue-1tb-desktop-hard-drive-3-5-sata-iii-6gb-s-7200rpm-64mb-wd10ezex My use will be for homework and...

Current HDD: ST2000DM005-2CW102 USE: School works and a bit of gaming; Stellaris, Total of War: Rome 2. GTA V etc. Hi, My hard drive (which was included with my PC when I bought it second-hand about 2 years ago) is keep making loud noises before crashing my computer. In fact, this has been...

Second Hard drive not showing in windows explorer Does anyone know how to get a 4 tb hard drive which I just installed and attached the data cable to it to show in Microsoft Vista Windows Explorer? It is a Western Digital Hard Drive ATA. It is however showing up in the Microsoft Device Manager...

So, there are three hard drive on my PC the first one is my SSD as my boot device and the other two of them are 1tb and 500gb WD blue hard disk. If I only plug the SSD it worked, it POST and I can get into the bios. But if I plugged the other 2 hard drive it just running but no display. On my...

How can I get my Hard Drive Bios Setting to Enable in the Bios Settings? I cannot get it to change. I try to hit the plus sign but it does not change it to enable. I am running two hard drives the old one is too small but is running windows Vista, but when I am in Vista it does dot regognize...

Ok so I have a pc with an i3-7100 and a new one that I built with a ryzen 5 2600. Everything is done but all I need to do is transfer my hard drive from the old pc to the new pc. My question is will I have to remove any current intel drivers on the HDD? And if so, what should I do? I don’t want...

Note: drive is not the original one that came with the laptop , it's a replacement. The laptop is fine , the problem doesnt come from it. Hello. I have a western digital 120 gb 2.5 inch drive. After successfully installing and running windows 10 i shut down the laptop. Starting it back on made...

Hi, I happen to have a 500GB HDD that won't open properly. It is detectable both under Windows and Ubuntu. So, I decided to follow the most common guide I found online, back it up. I use DDRescue to clone/copy whatever is possible to a 4TB HDD. After running it for 2d 22h 24m, the process...

Hi I have an old internal hard drive of my fathers would anyone know if it’s possible to get an external adaptor or docking station for it? It’s a WD2500js praying it’s possible. If anyone can send a link to a suitable option it would be greatly appreciated as there old photos I would love to...

Planning on replacing an old 2.5 5400rpm hard drive in a HP 17z-ak000 with an ssd. My question is, the hard drive seems to have a compression fit (which probably means it stays there due to being squeezed) when I looked up a video of it. I'm not sure if the SSD will work since I believe its...

I built a PC that just utilizes a 250GB SSD and wanted to add some extra storage to it. I purchased a BarraCuda 2 TB hard drive and installed it using the same SATA power cable that connects to the SSD (there are 3 heads on the cable). At first, the HDD light on my chassis would flicker when I...

Hey, i have two hard drives, 1 is installed on the pc the other is not, how do I know if they are 2.5 or 3.5? I think things will be easy with the installed one, but how about the other one, is there a way that I can know without installing it, is there anything written on it that can tell me...

Hi, I have a spare drive from friend thought I'd use it as backup storage. I don't know much about fiddling around inside PCs but I watched a bunch of YT vids, got a anti-static wristband, plugged it in, and it didn't show up in my "This PC", I'm using Win10. So I tested it. WD Dashboard says...

Hi, I recently needed more storage in my PC so I got a Barracude 2TB hard drive to put into my system, after putting it in my PC would randomly crash completely, I took the hard drive out and my PC started working perfectly again. I then went and got it exchanged, thinking maybe it was just a...

Ignore the dumb title and please help me, I've been messing around with my hard drives since I've decided to fully upgrade my PC. I now own a 3060 and ryzen 5 3600 (an upgrade from a 1050 and a dead CPU) but now I've run into another issue, my new hard drive is awful, it runs slower than my...

Hi, so I was messing with my folders and I can't find one of my folders which contains all the files of my D: drive. The only way to access it is through Quick Access and finding a file located in the folder I made as backup containing all my stuff in. When I go on my D: drive the folder with...

I've asked this on another thread a few years back, but once again I'm in need of a OG internal HDD and it's time for a refresh of the question. This time I'm considering a 5-6TB secondary/tertiary drive in my system. StorageReview.com seems to be defunct, so that sucks. I call this a gaming...