hard drive

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...

On Win11 after doing a windows update (1 security update installed) I restarted my computer to find my main external storage drive was not accessible and the icon was a white sheet of paper instead of the drive icon. I could not eject it at first - it said it was in use by something. After...

I would like to upgrade my desktop computer, which currently has a conventional mechanical Hard Drive of 1TB. I am considering installing an SSD hard drive. Would a 500GB SSD be sufficient, or should I opt for a 1TB SSD? What type of SSD hard drive should I choose? I have come across two...

Windows 10 - brand new Toshiba X300 8TB hard drive. I connect it to my computer via USB connector and this is what I see...it's removeable F: What do I need to do so my windows computer will see it and I can save to it? https://ibb.co/sv3f4G7

hi i want to get a new hdd for storage my media files and some important stuff and maybe gaming there is wd red (nas) wd blue both of them has the same price , speed, size, cash and cmr red has 1 year more warranty so what should i buy for my desktop

Hi, around 30 minutes ago, one of my hdd started making grinding sounds so i decided to unplug it from the pc, i didn t knew which one was making that noise so i decided to unplug them separately until the sound is gone. So, my drives are partitioned as follows : SSD : C: 250 gb HDDs: E and F...

Just bought a new Dell XPS 15 (9520) with the specs indicated below. I deliberately didn't spring for the upgraded hard drive as Dell wanted close to $300 to get to a 2tb drive and so I'm going to buy one and upgrade myself - very comfortable with opening laptops etc. My question is about which...

Hi. I want to replace my old HDD with a new HDD (not SDD). How to do that? Thanks!

I have a Dell OptiPlex 9020 (running Windows 10) with a 250 GB hard drive. I want to upgrade to either 1 TB or 2 TB, and am unsure as to whether I should get a hard drive or a SSD. I understand that SSDs are quicker and can speed up the system, but as I run my computer virtually 24/7, I'm...

Hello! I've been having an issue with my HDD (Model Name: WDC WD10EZEX-00BBHA0) and this problem has been happening constantly since I have bought the HDD. The problem with the hard drive is that it constantly freezes when it writes pretty much anything, during the writing process the HDD stays...

hello, I have an ASUS TUF gaming laptop I bought back in 2019. Processor AMD Ryzen7 with 16GB Ram, 64bit. I am using Windows10 Home. My harddisk is 2TB and partitioned as C: for 500GB and D: 1.5TB. D: is where all my files, folder and data is. 2 days ago I saw one of my new folders...

So I have a Penguin Relion 1900 1U rack mounted server running CentOS 7 that recently had a hard disk failure. It had 4 hard drives configured in RAID 6. To replace the failed HDD, I powered off the machine, swapped the failed one with a new drive of the same size (4TB) and powered on the...

I have tried installing my 3.5-inch Hard drive into the bay that comes with the case on the back side (only 1). However, it does not seem to be aligning with any of the screw holes, and the case did not come with an HDD/SSD Cage or additional bays. Everything else is installed except the HDD...

Hi all, First time visitor and poster to these forums. I'm at a complete loss on this one. I have done a fresh build with a Asus ROG STRIX-E Z790 motherboard., PSU is Thermaltake 1650 Toughpower GF3 PSU and a 13th gen processer. I have 3 NVME drives installed which were detected with no...

So, as the title says: I installed a new hard drive in my HP desktop and now the USB and HDMI ports are not receiving any power, meaning my monitor is not receiving any signal. I confirmed this by plugging in my USB mouse into all the ports, the ones on the back panel and the ones connected to...

What is an easy to use and reliable software to run that will tell you if your drive is failing? I have a laptop that has two internal drives, and I'd like to check if one or both are failing. No signs that they are, but they are older drives that have been worked to death.

My PC is still running with an old Seagate drive (ST31000524AS) that I have been using since 2013 as the main storage drive. I have been monitoring the health of my drives using HDSentinel, particularly the old 1TB drive, and it has reached the point where its estimated remaining lifetime is now...

I have. a laptop that the drive is clicking when booting up, def a bad sign! I am wanting a way to clone this drive to a new drive w/o over working the drive to death. Should I use something like Macrium Reflect? I know that requires the drive to be powered on and in windows? Is there a...

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...

Windows 10 updated and restarted automatically while i was at work. i came home and was able to log in and after 2 minutes everything started freezing up and i got a BSOD. I did not record the error code as i thought this was a one off crash. When i tried to boot again i got sent to the...

So I have been playing games like Fortnite Valorant and r6 but then suddenly one day they were very laggy. I checked task manager and it said that my disk was at 100% while running the games, and I thought this was weird because the games were not on my hard drive but on another SSD. But just to...

So I have been playing games like Fortnite Valorant and r6 but then suddenly one day they were very laggy. I checked task manager and it said that my disk was at 100% while running the games, and I thought this was weird because the games were not on my hard drive but on another SSD. But just...

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...

So, long story short, my PC was working perfectly fine until my PSU got fried by high voltage. After 6 months of not using my PC bought new one but now a new problem is there. I started the PC and instead of loading up Windows normally it says "Enter a valid bootable media". And also my BIOS...

I have a 500 GB HDD, and was using it last night. I unplugged it and I slept. Today I tried to used it and plugged it. It was making a noise every 4-5 seconds or so. Then I thinked to myself, let me try throwing it. And I did, and it fixed it. It works now. Any idea why?

I've got a WD Red Plus 2TB in my PC, which is making a strange noise frequent and irregularly. Though, only when it is actually doing something (it's a second harddrive). E.g. when I'm just playing games off my SSD I won't hear it at all. Only when writing or reading files. However, it's not...

I've had this problem for a while, and it seemed to stop itself, although now it has come back in the past couple days a bit more consistently. Basically if I don't have a game, discord, or a video/stream playing, my computer runs the chance of just freezing all my screens and needing to be...

Hi, I’m currently using a notebook, but there are a few files on my previous computer’s HDD that I need. I have searched countless sites, and either they don’t have one (not even Curry’s PC World to my shock), or I’m just not sure if it’s right for my HDD. I have a Western Digital Black Sata...

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my pc was running slow one day and then I decided to reboot it then it would not boot up then i tried multiple things and found out when I have the HDD plugged in my pc stops working, when I plug in the power SATA cable, while the pc is booted into windows, the pc blue screens and tries to...

Hi there. I took out the main Hard drive (C: from my older PC and connected it to my new PC. It did not open but was seen in DISK MANAGEMENT. I then realised that it would not open because it had previously been assigned the letter C:. So there was a conflict between the old C: hard drive and...

hello, recently i posted a thread about my bricked pc and how i was struggling to get it to boot. thread here if you want to read it: (TLDR: healthy pc died out of nowhere, replaced half of my pc before i got it to work, turns out my GPU and PCIE cable were fried)...

Hello everyone! God i really hope I'm not noobing here, but i have installed 3 pcs in the past, so i like to think I have decent knowledge. I've installed this pc and i noticed when i did that there was only 2 sata ports to use for the data cable that you plug into the hard drives. This...

I was holding my switched off external drive, while notifications on my watch bring vibration. My question is, is there gonna be physical damage from such a vibration?

I have been using the media player built in TV app for many years now to access the same external hard drive which would show all files without any issues until 2 days ago when I went into it and around 80 percent of the files no longer show. I checked the hard drive on computer and through a...

I'm trying to move my hard drive to my new case and its stuck in the tray that I assume came with my old case. How on earth do I get it out? https://ibb.co/xMJqT6s