hard drive

I have a Windows 10 which was updated yesterday to version 21H1 64 bit computer with a WDC WD1502FAEX-007BA0 SSD (C: Drive) that Windows is installed on. When I started it up this morning, all of my Chrome sites were signed out, and certain programs wouldn't start which are held on the C Drive...

Hello. Is it possible to reset the S.M.A.R.T stats in Windows 10? I have an HDD that was misused, and reported many warnings and errors due to sudden unplugging of the SATA while working, unsafe shutdowns, logical errors, electric shocks, etc... The HDD is now used properly, works fine, and...

I tried connecting my WD Blue 1TB HDD 3.5 inch hard drive to two different enclosures and it still won't show up on my PC. It doesn't show anywhere, whether it's in the My PC file, in disk management or in device manager. However I did notice that in ''other devices'' it shows Raid controller...

Hello i was using my 3.0 port the other day with my external hard drive and it suddently just disconnected from my system. When i tried to reconnect it to my system it wouldnt connect. The only way it works is if i plug it into either my front 3.0 ports or the 2.0 ports on the back. I have tried...

I ran into this issue with my new external m.2 that I have in an enclosure connected to my tomahawk motherboard via usb-c when transferring files between an external "my book" hard drive. It starts normal at first and after a bit of time it freezes and disconnects the m.2 which I then have to...

I have an issue with my secondary drive disappearing after waking the PC up from sleep. I've tried switching the sata port on the motherboard, the hard drive drivers are up to date, windows 11 is up to date. I genuinely have no idea what's causing this. I have no idea whats wrong, is it...

I'm in a bit of a pickle with my computer and idk if anybody else had this problem so I figured I'd ask. So my D drive (which is my storage) just suddenly started saying it has 100kb free despite me not adding anything to it, and last night it had like 40 or 50gb free. I tried deleting something...

Having some issues with mounting a hard drive for a server I'm building for a client. I've searched everywhere for Documentation on this specific case but haven't found a lick of anything. One review made on the case even stated their own problems mounting their hard drive, but didn't offer a...

Hi I got an M.2 NVME for C drive and another SSD for my projects and other works, I just need about 4 to 6TB of storage for Archive (mostly video) Speed is not important at all, I just want something that is SILENCE and works 24/7 (my current WD Greens both become clicky from 3 years ago, I did...

I have 2 disks in one computer SSD and the other a regular mechanical hard disk, everything worked fine, I physically connected a new SSD drive that is detected in the BIOS and I was able to install Windows 10 on it It is important to note that while I installed and connected the third disk...

Two issues happening at random times: BSoD "An operating system wasn't found" during startup. When I look into the BIOS, sometimes the boot priority changed by itself to the drive with no OS (Samsung SSD 850 Pro 512GB) , sometimes the hard drive with OS completely disappears (Samsung 970 EVO...

My laptop isn't too old and I don't understand why but my hard drive seems to be broken and its only two years old. A day ago I was just downloading a steam game and my chrome tabs became unresponsive and the download also paused just before finishing so I knew something was wrong. I tried to...

Hello, i borrowed this drive from a friend so i can backup his files. After plugging the drive in my pc, it shows up with no problems. However, for safety i tried scanning it with windows defender. It detects 1 virus and the scan stopped. I tried to "clean threat" and "quarantine" that virus but...

I installed a new 1 GB SSD in an HP laptop ;ess than three months ago. A couple of times recently Windows 11 has crashed with a BSOD, and when I restarted the laptop would not boot up, giving me a boot device not found error message, and refused to boot. Several attempts resulted in no luck. I...

Recently got my HP 750-287C's PSU knocked out by a power surge but had it replaced. Now, when I use my PC, there's a sound coming from it that sounds like someone is shoveling snow outside or the printer starting to print something. What is this a sign of? Is it a sign of a component failing...

I just bought a new hard drive to store my games. When I start to play any game, even games to low spec PC, I'm having stutterings. so I took a screenshot in the task manager to see what is happening View: https://imgur.com/a/tGdIU7X My Specs: GTX 970 i5 6400 16 GB RAM SSD (Operational...

My 3TB D drive crashed my PC. Rebooted and it took a long time to start but it was fine, outside of my desktop being on the D. Turned it off to remove and recover the D and MB wouldn't post. Just nothing, so my Sys eng. husband troubleshot it and nothing seemed to reliably help. He ended up...

So I tried to install windows 7 on my Medion s6421 laptop, but at the point where I normally should select a disk partition to install the system I cant get any further. It doesn’t show any hard disks… I already tried to install the sata controller drivers from the manufactor, but still no disks...

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 think the blue screen occurred after the laptop screen was slammed to it’s closing position. After restarting it - no bootable device screen appears. The laptop was functioning completely fine before this had happened. I also went through BIOS and I’m pretty sure it recognizes the hard drive...

I bought a new Seagate Expansion 2 TB hard disk yesterday. I used it and copied 200 GB data on it. Which copied successfully. Then I copied some more data but during that I lifted my laptop to place it somewhere else but I forgot that my hard disk is attached to it with USB. So the hard drive...

Hello everybody! I really don't know if this is the correct forum for this particular question, Please allow me to explain: My dad found his beloved iPod Classic, its a 6th Generation 80GB of great music, I haven't seen him so happy in YEARS... We were looking for an USB Charging cable so we...

A friend and I were installing a new hard drive into his computer, and once we started installing games (after formatting it) every platform that wants to install a game onto the new volume crashes. We've managed to install destiny 2, which works, but installing Valorant only causes riot games...

I have a 2TB NVME SSD, a 750GB SATA SSD and a normal 1TB HDD. I was thinking about exclusively storing games (game files) on the NVME SSD while using the SATA SSD as the main/boot drive (Windows install) + storing software on it while I use the normal HDD for normal big file storage (media...

Hey folks, I appreciate in advance any knowledge or advice you can share. I was upgrading from a Corsair CX600m PSU to an EVGA Supernova 750 P2 PSU. I had 2 SSD's and 2 HDD's as storage, with an M.2 as the boot drive. I replaced the GPU, CPU and Motherboard cables but kept the Sata cables in...

I bought a WD 6tb hardrive and it arrived today, it's WD60EZRZ. The manufactured date is 28th may 2019, is this normal? I was sold this new from WD website. Wondering if it's fine to use.

So I have two laptops, let's call it #1 and #2. #1 is the one with bad hard drive. So I went ahead and removed SSD from laptop #2 with windows installed (different version windows) and installed to laptop #1 that had the bad hard drive. I also removed ram from #2 and "added" to laptop #1...

I'm getting a new PC soon and was wondering if it's possible to just swap my current hard drives to my new PC, my hard drives just have my games and other files on them, no trying to swap the os, so I don't have to download all my games again.

Hello, I have a problem with an older laptop, it's a HP ProBook 4545s. The problem started a couple of days ago. When I would turn on the laptop, Windows would start loading and it would boot to a black screen with the cursor. The first thing I tried were the advanced startup options, such as...

I game and have PS4. Use a external Seagate hard drive to store my fortnite account on etc. And now it’s just suddenly stopped working. When I plug it in, it lights up just does this very dull beeping sound (have to put it to your ear to hear it). But just isn’t working at all. I’ve tried...

So im using hard disk sentinel to check my hard drives health and one has been showing 13% health left and no more than 14 days left on its lifetime wich means that its basically dead. I removed all data and it just sat in my computer empty for some days. But today i went into hard disk sentinel...

I recently came across a 600GB Seagate Cheetah 15K RPM SAS hard drive and I've found a lot of mixed info about the speeds of these drives. I'm currently only able to connect it to a SATA2 SAS controller which only supports speeds up to 3 Gb/s. I know for ordinary hard drives that's still plenty...

4 days ago my hdd started making noises on startup, which I can describe as scanning / printer noises or something like that. Maybe grinding noises? But they are not that loud or bad. When it makes those noises it does not boot further until it stops, only then does it show my bios and loads the...

Hi I was working on my pc when I thought I should try to install my old hard drive that we weren't using anymore. So I shut down my pc and started installing it. Once I had installed it I pressed the power button and for a second it sounded like the fans were spinning up and then it stopped and...

Greetings, Apologies if some of you might not understand the thread question since it's sounds a little bit gobbledygook, but recently a question popped out of my head. Here's an example so you people who are very well versed in computers can understand it to a greater degree. For example, if I...

Hello guys! Here I am asking a dumb question, but here me out... I kinda have a reason for this... So, I build my first PC in 2017, nothing fancy, its an 7th Gen i5 with a NVIDIA 710 Graphics, I'm old school, so I bought a DVD/Blu-Ray optic unit, just to have it there, Anyway... I had an non...

I am trying to fix my mom's computer after she stopped getting signal to her monitor. I've followed all the steps to troubleshoot, reseating, unplug, cmos etc. I finally decided to try a different hard drive and finally got to bios. I was able to put windows on it and had it all set up again for...

I'm going to get an ADATA SU800 512GB SSD to put in my PC. I want to transfer my OS on to it, but the only methods I've seen online involve copying over all of the files on a hard drive and moving them over to an SSD, which I can't do because I've used more than 512GB on my hard drive. Is there...

Hello everyone, I am making videos for youtube. I record games, upload them to youtube and store them on my hard drive. Youtube keeps the videos, but I feel safer if I still have the videos in case youtube would delete my videos ir was shut down or we are in a war and there is no more internet...

Recently I was updating my computer but the power went out and now the hard drive makes a clicking noise, But I noticed it started clicking during the updates And now it wont boot Now it won't boot, for reference irs a IBM T42 thinkpad!