hard drive

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!

I know similar questions like this have been answered in the past but my case is a bit different. I'll give some background; I downloaded BF1 in my SSD and it ran fine. The game ran on ultra settings with no hassle, no stutters no nothing. I then got a HDD from a really old computer and got it...

Hello, I have been using my Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM008 ever since my old HDD died in 2019. However, today while gaming everything froze, I got the .... not responding message. I closed the game, checked file explorer and I saw the hard drive missing but my other 2 small storage ssd were...

I'm reviving a build from 2011ish to capture old raw dvcam footage to show to wedding studios as I get back to shooting/editing. Will build a 4K system soon but for now my main specs are - i7 - 860, 6G ram on a Asus P6T WS Pro. This mobo has 2x PCIe 16x , my Quadro FX 1500 is taking up 1 slot...

I ran crystal disk and got 688 pending and uncorrectable sector count. Is this bad?

Hi guys, I recently got the Samsung 980 and just installed it into my pc today. As I want it to have my OS on it, I used AOMEI Backupper to clone my current C: drive onto the new one. However, it is not appearing as a completely separate drives. Here is the screenshot (The F: drive is the clone...

I tried plugging in a hard drive with data already on it into my new PC and Windows didn't detect it. I bought a Wavlink USB 3.0 docking station and plugged my WD Blue 1TB hard drive in it and Windows still doesn't detect the data but now it's showing multiple disks and nothing on it. The...

Good day, I'm currently looking for a 1TB M.2 NVME that has excellent REAL WORLD performance, I don't really give much emphasis if a lot of the NVME drives today have very fast speeds when it comes to synthetic benchmarks since these are SYNTHETIC BENCHMARKS. I'm looking for a drive that can...

Hello, my newish PC doesn't recognize an older hard drive from a previous PC. The hard drive is a WD Blue 1TB drive. It's almost filled up. On my old PC, it works fine, it's not corrupted, but when I plugged it in to the current computer, Windows doesn't show it at all. If I go into Bios, same...

So I've got Windows 11 installed on a WD Black SN750 500GB NVMe SSD. I used a 2tb WD Blue 5400RPM that I've had since 2017 for mass storage of games, movies, downloads, clips and everything in between. Recently (even when I was on Windows 10) my OS has been acting a bit funny. It randomly...

Hey everyone hope you are all doing super fantastic, Sorry if I am asking in the wrong place. Basically, soon I am planning to get a brand new pre-built PC from Scan. Anyways, I have like 4 SSDs and 1 SSHD that I wish to move over. I have an Nvme SSD as well in it, but I will keep that in...

This is just a warning to the community. I have a Surface Pro 3, installed the windows 11 Release preview on it some time ago. I only use local accounts, no online MS bs. I found my drive was encrypted with Bitlocker, when i tried to save the key it would not allow it. I was forced to sign in...

The reason I'm worried is because I got my laptop (an Acer aspire 5) in December 2019. Then months later (June 2020), the hard drive died (complete with "no bootable device" when I rebooted from the BSOD that occurred) it failed again on August and since the laptop was still under warranty, they...

Hi, I wanted to make a video on Camtasia studio 2019 but I have forgot that I did not have enough space available on my hard drive. I still had 44 GB of free space and the video was bigger, so the creation of the video could not be completed. However, the 44GB of space in my stockage is no...

I know it sounds like a stupid question, but there are infrequent occasions when my computer turn off after the Windows system turns off. The system shuts down, but the power is still on (especially the button and fans- I have a gaming laptop). I conjectured that my hard drive is the culprit...

So recently my old laptop's motherboard had a short and I had to get a new laptop. Now the new laptop has a terrible hard drive and I want to swap the hard drive from my old laptop to my new laptop. What files do I need to move from my new hard drive to my old one so it can boot up the new...

I just replaced my 512GB SSD with a 2TB SSD, and now my PC randomly turns off after about 20 to 40 minutes. There is no shutdown message, it just turns off. For both hard drives, I have my Power & Sleep settings set to "Never". After troubleshooting and reading forum posts for several days I...

Hello guys, so lately my pc has been choking a little, giving a lot of memory management and store exception blue screens. I figured out it was a hardware problem which the hard drive seems to be starting to fail, it would be nice to buy something to solve it but i still don't feel too confident...

I have an ironwolf 8tb drive: In my main pc (5900x, Asus b550-f) it shows up fine; I can see it directly in windows, view what's on it, use it completely normally. However, in my server pc (3770, MSI Z68-g45 b3) it doesn't show up at all - not even visible in BIOS. I can feel and hear the drive...

Let's make this quick. I start up my computer and on boot up it's far slower than usual, I notice the HDD light is mostly off and barely flickers. And because of this the whole computer is slow. But then after some time the HDD starts acting like normal, activity light goes on and off like...

I accidentally punched my laptop on the keyboard, and it suddenly shut off. I turned it back on again and when it goes to the windows home screen I realized that it can no longer load the name of the folders. I tried to open the Windows Explorer but it crashes and forces me to shut down the...

I have a few crypto wallets from 5+ years ago, which I think would be worth something now. Bitcoin, Monero and Dogecoin, and perhaps one more. I had these on my old hard drive, which I migrated to a new hard drive as a new partition. I've been trying to find these wallets a few times but to no...

UPDATE: Solved! It turned out to be a conflict between the main board video and NVIDIA GeForce. The system works fine now. Hello all, The other day I sold my old PC to some family of mine. They're having trouble getting it to work-- which is very odd considering that I had no issue with it...

A couple of months ago, I purchased a Seagate "Basic" 2TB USB external hard drive (STJL2000400). Looks exactly like this: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Seagate-Basic-STJL2000400-Hard-drive-2-TB-external-portable-USB-3-0-gray/694094792 During light usage, it functions fine. However, I've been...

The laptop (Lenovo) is 10 years old, but it was working fine until the owner in a bout of anger hit it hard with their fist :) After that it turns on with black screen, and then after 10-15 seconds starts loud fan noise. I thought the problem might be that hard drive (no ssd) or RAM might have...

So I harvested a 1000Gb hard drive from a Rogers PVR. The drive spins up and I can see it in disk management the problem is that it shows the size as being just under 8GB. a far way from 1000GB right. If I had DOS I could probably Fdisk it outside of windows but I'm unsure how to do this with...

Hello, I was having issues with an external HDD and was trying to recover files. It was running normally and providing a drive letter despite being unable to see the files normally. But a few hours later it disappeared, and when I tried plugging it in again is beeped a few times, didn't sound...

Hello Everyone, So I cam accros this issue just a few days back. While using the laptop the entire system would just suddenly freeze and it would shutdown the laptop on its own. When I try booting up it again it would either give me a Disk Read Error OR Boot device Not found error OR Just a...

I've been having an issue for a while where my two HDD's don't work when plugged in together, however both are perfectly fine by themselves. The older drive is a 2tb hybrid SSHD-HDD and the other is a 4TB brand new WD blue. When both drives are plugged in together, whatever drive was plugged in...

Hello, So my HDD was acting very strange the red light was on and in task manager it was showing 100% usage but with 0/kbps read and write in between it jumps to 25mbps read and 15kbps write i restarted the pc to see if it gets fixed, but the pc refused to start and was stuck on the windows...

Hey, so I have a 3tb 7200rpm Seagate Hard Drive that suddenly went incredibly slow. The OS (Windows 10) is in my SSD and I have already tried formatting the HD and checking for bad blocks. What really worried me was the HDTune Benchmark results: The HD has no files, it's completely empty. So...

Hello everyone, this is kind of a long story, a few months ago I needed to use an old computer and the windows installation was driving me nuts, mostly because I wanted to boot from USB and the machine didn't like it. Anyway what I did was put the hard drive on another computer that was already...

I have a Seagate ST3500312CS that can't be detected and making clicking noise. Since it's doesn't hold many important files, I tried open it up and fix it. The head was stuck near the middle motor and after watching a couple of videos and images of hard drive interior, the head should be parked...

Hi, I've got a 1GB Seagate Expansion portable SSD. I have used it for over a year with this laptop and It was working fine until last night on my MSI GE62VR Apache Pro laptop. I was downloading something on the Microsoft Store to the external drive last night. I was at the same time trying to...

Hello. Thank you for taking some time to help me with my situation. I have a Dell Inspiron 3650 that I have upgraded with a GTX 1050 and a EVGA 400W power supply. It usually works great with these components and runs smoothly. However, one day I went to turn it on and it wouldn’t boot past the...

I recently reformatted my system and everything was fine until I applied my cpu OC profile in the bios. After the PC crashed I would get the "Reboot and select proper boot device error". The only ways to get the PC to boot into windows is either to unplug any of the hard drives or the Disk drive...