harddrive not working

I have a Toshiba hard drive. It is not showing anywhere (e.g., disk management,file explorer). The HDD is shown in the bio. So, I took the Sata cable that was connected to the Toshiba HDD and connected it to another HDD (Seagate Baracuda 1TB). Seagate Baracuda HDD is not shown anywhere except in...

I am running an old ASUS PC with Windows 7 for the specific reason as it's the only OS that supports my x-ray developer. I cannot upgrade my OS or I cannot run the program to develop the radiographs. Last week after a power surge the computer would not turn on at all. It was on a surge...

I've used an 8TB WD external hard drive for years without issue. I recently removed it from its shell so that I could install it internally. When installed internally, the drive won't even spin up, when I put it in a USB dock, it works fine. I have 2 other HDD's that I tested internally and both...

Hello I recently installed a new M.2 SSD after realising my new 3TB HDD was a 5400RPM drive and running way too slow for my needs. Following the install (which was messy as I didn't unplug any of the other drives etc which made the process much more painful) my third drive, which is a 2TB...

Hi there! Yesterday one of my Western Digital internal harddrives ran into trouble. Therefore I reach out to you, the many wise members of this forum, for some help. SEQUENCE OF EVENTS It all started with the computer lagging, and filetransfers going really slow. I then noticed that the...

this "problem" begins today when my laptop suddenly shutdown itself and stop working for some reason... i was unable to turn on again, so i decide to open it and disconnect the battery and do a hard reset then i put the back again and try to start the laptop but it wont turn on anymore. so i...

I am building a computer for my little brother. The hard drive I'm trying to install windows onto is a 2 tb segate baracuda hard drive. The problem is that it doesn't let me put windows on it and I dont know why. It said to activate the controller in the bios, but when putting it in both the new...

I understand this problem might seem common at first, but I’ve been completely stumped by it. One of my hard drives, a SeaGate 1Tb hard drive 2.5inch (it’s a desktop, I’m using the 2.5 inch because it was cheaper at the time) suddenly stopped working. Windows forced a restart, but It never...

My Seagate 2tb hard drive suddenly stopped working, the motor is working but the led is not blinking. It's not even showing any trace on disk management or in boot screen. Any help will be appreciated I don't want to lose the data. There was only 50gb left on the drive if it's related to that...

My SSD alone without any HDD start up pc normal 15 seconds or so which is my normal time, but when i plug in my Old HDD that was working perfectly up untill 1 day when i put some files only to it, and it became super slow so slow that it affects my SSD to Boot Pc. My HDD that is slow all of a...

Hello, i got a weird problem been searching google for answers but dont find anyone with this kinda problem and no fixes, maybe i can get some help here hopefully. Long story short got a problem with my HDD WD5000AAKS, its a really old HDD that worked really good up untill 1 day, so to start...