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TLDR; I would like to know if by suspending the decrytpion process during it is in progress, can I now remove the disk safely from my computer while the decryption is still unfinished, without putting my data at risk? [Moderator edit to break up solid paragraph/wall of text.} Hello everybody...

Hi. Does anybody know how to fix this issue? I have a hard disk from my old laptop that I've turned into an external hard disk. However, when it's connected to my new PC, it shows 'Dynamic Invalid' in Disk Management. The hard disk has multiple volumes (D, E, F). I need this hard disk to work...

Hello, a shared harddrive was dropped while running, and probably the headers are broken as it makes clicking sounds, the drive spins fine. Can this fixed by replacing headers? Does not have to be 60% recovery of data. If its possible can anyone recommend a service provider? I thinking about...

Hi! So my new hard drive, a Seagate Barracuda 4tb, has been making a noise I am not familiar with. I have looked around online, and not found a similar sounding one. Was wondering if it was the "Click of death", but I don't think it is. It only happens once in while, maybe 4-5 max in a minute...

Hi, Recently my HDD had started to misbehave. It was working fine until it started to make some clicking and beeping sound. I saw a video regarding the similar issue with a fix. But that doesn't seem to work. However I have recorded a small video of it. Hope someone can help me fix it ...

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.

Just curious why this can happen, so I have Hackintosh installed on my nvme. Btw, I bought this nvme two weeks ago. I'm doing file scans using an application called CleanMyMac. In the middle process, I do force close this application Then my OS is freezing The computer turn off instantly...

If i plug my external toshiba HDD in USB 3.0 port it's not detected in pc (disk management, device manager, mypc). After continous removing and re-inserting the HDD for 10 times its finally detected. Then again after use and ejecting, if reinserted it is not detected. Everytime HDD fan is...

I have an old laptop which is not my main Laptop, I got a newer pc so I moved a hard disk from it to use it for something else I had an older hard disk, so I decided to use it instead on that pc after that my pc turn on and I log in to windows but after that, the laptop turns off, it started...

Can't figure it out. i just wanted to find something affordable and better warranty. https://www.techpowerup.com/277540/zadak-announces-twss3-sata-ssd https://www.nikktech.com/main/articles/pc-hardware/storage/solid-state-drives/12360-zadak-twss3-1tb-ssd-review?start=10

I have the opportunity to buy a laptop of second hand in well state from a member of my family. My unique concern is the HD. What is the best tool recommendation to install or mostly to load through a Live USB to scan quickly the HD to detect if has something wrong. For example bad cluster for...

I was moving around to talk to my cat (had to make a moment (new kitty)) and my knee smashed into the hard wood desk that contains 13 HDDs (external, stacked). The force was kind of large, I could have hit a kick ball around 20-30 feet. Is it possible that I damaged my HDDs? (I think I know...

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...

Hi. I am having trouble with my WD external hard drive. Whenever I used to plug it in, it would boot up just fine, and I could access its contents on Windows. However, now the only response I see is that I plug it in and my computer slows down to a halt for about 2.5 hours and in that time any...

I have an ADATA 2TB External HDD from ADATA and I've been using it for a few months now. When I am checking HDD details from CrystalDiskInfo I have seen that when HDD is in heavy usage the temperature rises to 55C and in normal usage it's 44+ C like that. But my other HDDs from different brands...

hi! a couple weeks back i bought a new HDD since my old one started to make weird noises and i wanted to be safe. It's a WD Blue, 2 TB, this one (newegg link). it's intended purpose is to store steam (and other) games, but also some regular files. a problem i've noticed that i didn't have with...

Hi I have a 2TB hard disk with a burned pcb. Specifically the motor control chip was completely fried. I ordered a replacement pcb for it and successfully replaced its bios chip with my original bios from the burned pcb. Now the drive appears in the device manager normally but in windows disk...

Hi, I live in an area with really unstable power so we have frequent cuts. Unfortunately, this led to my PS4 shutting down incorrectly a few times, and after a while it started to get slower and slower until it eventually stopped starting up due to corruption. I tried to format the hard drive...

Hello everyone! So I’m new to PC stuff. I got a bunch of parts from my old junk removal job and these are my specs. CPU: AMD FX 9590 GPU: Gtx 970 gaming 4g Mother B: GA-990FXA-uD3 rev 4.1 2 8gb vengeance ram 750w gold standard power supply Water 3.0 by thermaltake my question. I have it using...

I wan to check if it's possible to fix my drive by replacing the PCB. It's a Seagate ST1000LM035 and it's actually an external harddrive (Seagate Expansion). When I plug it in to my Linux Laptop, using USB, it says like this in dmesg [16433.285102] usb 2-2: new high-speed USB device number 14...

Hi all, I popped in my new Ironwolf 14TB hardrive into my win10 machine and the first thing it asks is to initialize it using either MBR or GPT. this HDD will store a backup of my data. Which of those should I choose?

I have a problem with a seagate 3tb HDD from an old computer and it was not working so i tried on my pc "Replacing it in place on my hdd cables(so cables are 100% working)" and it gives me the same error "a device which does not exist was specified". Sometimes i would start the windows and its...

i recently installed windows 10(4 days ago), i have data in my hard disk that why i did not format whole hard disk. I only format my C drive and installed new windows. After doing this the blue screen was start popup. First it shows, 1.Memory_Management 2.Some WatchDog(not game) Issue 3.Page...

hello! i can currently have 5 hard disks ( some of them are hanging ( not mounted properly ) ) . and i am out of space, so i'm gonna have to buy a new case. Can someone suggest a me a good pc case which can support up to 5 or 6 ( or more ) 3.5 hard disk bays and atleast 1 5.25 bay for under 60...

So suddenly I got this problem and I've been using this hard drive for about 1 year. Previously, about 3 weeks ago I did a surface test on a sentinel hard disk and there was no weak sector at all, but today I know this problem because when i do reading data, I hear strange sounds like beeping...

Hi, I have been struggling to figure out why my external harddisk will not show up. someone suggested i try crystaldiskinfo to see if the harddisk is ok. the report says bad. But i am not able to understand what happened or why it is bad. Can someone please help me understand what this means...

I got 2 windows7 both shows blue screen upon starting, the "Repair your computer" option from f8 doesn't work ( shows an error on the 1st one, stucks forever on a black screen on the other), I used a bootable flash drive with win7 installation setup, the setup doesn't start and stucks at "Setup...

Hey Everyone, I bought an 8TB Seagate hard drive from Amazon (BarraCuda Hard Drive 8TB ST8000DM004) and I have plugged it in correctly and it shows up in my disk management as 8tb RAW Healthy (Primary Partition) after a few days of trying and failing. I have read that windows doesn't understand...

I had turned off my pc before the storm happened but still when i tried to turn my system on it gets stuck at ''starting windows". I have also tried to launch 'startup repair' but after the windows is loading files screen happens my moniter screen turns off for a second and it get stuck when it...

Hello My problem is that I see low internal tranfer speeds between harddrives. The files vary in size, but they can be from 40 to 80 GB. The file transfers will start at maybe 170 MB/s, and then they slow down to 3-4 MB/s, sometimes 700 kb/s. And it seems to be one way sometimes. Like if I...

can you please suggest me what to do ?

I just bought this new drive to build a new pc and sometimes it makes these noises is the drive not good? I have checked smart health check and other drive check they say it is good.Except a userbenchmark wich puts its speed below average. Recording: https://voca.ro/idmPvPc4jnq HDD 3.5" 2TB...

Hey guys, I made my PC a year ago and it runs great. I had purchased a 4TB Toshiba X300 internal HDD for it and it works flawlessly. Recently I decided to add a new HDD in addition and went for 3.5'' Toshiba X300 8TB. But the problem is that my PC is not picking it up. It is being shown as...

I am having a Server with Xeon Processor and 8GB Ram and 1TB Harddisk. One more hard disk can be connected with my server. I am using it as a web server for my website. My clients will upload and store files on the web server. Say I can allocated 20GB per client. I am expecting around 2000...

hello. its me again. i have a external harddisk with "hgst" brand. its 500gb and it was working fine until this evening. i got a new dvd drive and decided to install it to my computer. i closed my computer and installed the dvd drive and the next time i boot up my computer the harddisk was...

Hello, Recently, I installed elementary OS. I have SSD and a HDD. I, obviously, installed this OS into my SSD. Now, it only shows my SSD in Applications>Devices>... It won't show my HDD. what should I do?

I have a mechanical disk and lately, I noticed that it's constantly making a noise like it's reading/writing something. The problem is it's really not doing anything (that I was able to find). It's a secondary mechanical disk, not system disk and all there is on it are user files (documents...

WD Elements 1TB drive suddenly stopped working. I had my games in it because computers own hdd is very small. I play games a lot so it was very actively used. I bought it not more than 2 years ago. At first suddenly some files became corrupted i think because Steam couldnt opened DOTA because...

Hi legends.. my first experiance in BIOS bootable software to much slow in windows 7 OS installation else hiren boot.. i try both pendrive & CD.. its very very dead slow.. its take long time to next step... what can i do?? solution please legends.. System Configuration Intel i3 2GB Ram 500GB HDD

Hear ye! Hear ye! My fellow nerds, gather 'round and I shall tell you a tale, a tale of frustration and confusion. A tale filled with fraught and...alright I'll get to the point. I need some help with this one. I know some of you guys live for this stuff so hopefully you can help me get this...