harddrive

So I decided to buy a new Western Digital 2tb Hard Drive. After I got done installing it I decided to install CS GO and Apex on it first. When I started playing CS GO (Apex was still downloading) I noticed some stuttering and checked task manager and saw that my CPU was at 100%. I restarted my...

So i just bought a new ssd and have a hard drive with windows 10 on it that i want to wipe completely. What would be the process I would need to follow to factory reset my hard drive and install windows on the ssd instead?

im trying to fix up a pc for a friend when i came across a problem where at first there was no display what so ever so i removed the graphics card (gtx 760) then after a few restarts i got into the bios and because this pc came in without a hdd i tried my personal one which i could not get to...

I’m about to buy a new ssd cause my current hdd is getting old and I’m planning to remove it and I wanna know is it safe to just take the sata cable and power cable out. The harddrive was a secondary one that I just put other games and applications on so it didn’t clutter my main ssd with my OS...

So recently I bought a new PC from someone and it ran really great and the specs are amazing (posted below) the only downfall to me is that it didn't have enough storage and only had a ssd that was a 128gb SSD and Im a person that loves to have games on their PC so I took it to this computer...

For years I have wanted to make my own HDD caddy, like a computer tower but made out of HDD's, that have been lieing around. I have around 27 x 3.5 and 1 x 2.5, and I want to make a tower, have a PSU, connected up with sata, but the thing I need help with is connectivity to the main rig. I...

I was updating games on steam when an unexpected scenario occurred. The hard drive was apparently not recognised after updating three games individually, as a result i restarted and it opened BIOS. After multiple attempts to start up, even reconnecting the HDD,it booted. The computer started...

I recently salvaged my old hard drive from my dead PC and bought a case to turn it into an external drive. I then used my laptop to format it to NTFS. I wanted to copy larger files to the HDD, and there were no problems whatsoever in that process. However, moving or copying those larger files...

I have 2 hard drives in my pc, one being an SSD. I am going to sell my pc to a friend and want to wipe them so there is only windows left on them. I have searched this up but I get so many different options and I'm not sure which one to choose. note: my pc has no cd drive and I'm on windows 10...

So I have a strange issue with windows 10 since upgrading to my ryzen 7 3700x. current specifications are - ryzen 7 3700x Msi mpg edge gaming WiFi voard 16gb Corsair vengeance 3200mhz ram 2x8gb Rtx 2070 super pny xlr8 tri fan 650w EVGA supernova g1 psu Bx500 crucial ssd Seagate barracusa...

I'm going to upgrade my motherboard to another model and upgrade the CPU at the same time. I currently have 2 SSDs and 2 HDDs on my system. If I just plug these into the new mobo and select the correct ssd as a boot drive, will everything be ok or will Windows 10 randomly re-assign the drive...

Hi everyone. I would really like to know your opinions on something. You see, I plan to put more storage into a laptop that I have using either a spare SSD or a spare spinning-platter hard drive. Here are my options: A 1 terabyte SSD, a 2 terabyte spinning platter hard drive, or a 4 terabyte...

View: https://i.imgur.com/42gpEcR.jpg View: https://i.imgur.com/W9RdsON.png View: https://i.imgur.com/bUgheA4.png View: https://i.imgur.com/wPFOChu.png So I am looking into upgrading to an ssd. Did some research and had a few questions. Is that slot in the picture a pcie slot? How can I...

So one of my hard drives failed. I have my C hard drive which has my windows installed on it and my D drive which failed earlier today. Now I can't place icons on my desktop and keep getting the error "D:desktop unavailable" any time I open file explorer or start my computer. Equally I can't pin...

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...

Hard Drive will not be recognized by the motherboard. It just says n/a next to all sata ports in the bios when the HDD is plugged in.The person has tried all of the things you could think of. Tried to plug into every SATA Port still in the bios it says n/a next to all of the SATA ports. They...

Hey guys! So sometime back my mobo died and i decided to sell off my other parts before attempting another fresh build. After disassembling, I discovered the drive I used for storage has a burnt spot. Image: View: https://imgur.com/a/tAAJWvC I don't know how old or how long ago this was...

Hello guys, recently did a fresh install of Windows 10 and have been able to find 2 out of three of my drives in disk management. I was able to enable both my 500GB SSD and 1TB HDD but it disk management cannot find my 2TB Hybrid drive. I am able to find it listed in my BIOS. If it matters...

So yesterday I tried to update my bios but it didn't go as planned, my pc booted up just fine after my failed updating attempts but when woke up today my pc wouldn't boot what so ever. I have 1 SSD and 3 HDD drives, I checked the bios list to sort the prio list of my drives, didn't work. I...

Hi! I just bought a new WD Elements Portable, that I filled with data. Unfortunately, today I connected it to the pc via an old USB hub of mine, which has corrupted the hard drive making it invisible to the pc (I think so, because it already happened with an USB stick). In Windows, under...

Hey! My HDD keeps disappearing when being used, most likely when I run a game that is installed on it. 5-10 minutes into gaming, the game just shuts down and when I open up My Computer it doesn't even show anymore. Rebooting doesn't solve the problem, even if I open up the BIOS when rebooting...

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Hello, my laptop just broke and there is no way to fix it. I had 2 partitions, primary: C and D where i keept all my stuff. I heard it is possible to transfer them from the HDD to my PC. Broken Laptop: Toshiba Satellite C50D-A-12R IFSOMEOME COULD FIND THE CABLE ON GERMAN MARKET HDD: View...

Hello While I was playing my game suddenly closed and I tried to start the game and realized the files for it couldn't be found. My disk doesn't show up anywhere. So I'm guessing its dead. This SSD only had games on it, nothing else. The only thing I have done recently is installing some...

Hello I want to change my hard drive to ssd on my laptop, but I want to choose the right ssd. My laptop in ASUS K550V and I am using it most for programming on it, now I am thinking about buying Samsung 2.5 860 QVO 1TB SATA3 and I want to ask if it's good or to recommend me something .

I recently got a refurbished 3TB HGST Ultrastar 7K4000. The seller claimed it it has 0 bad blocks. The drive passed both short and extended tests with Western Digital's WinDFT. The drive also passed short and extended tests with GSmartControl. As a side note, I'm suspicious the seller may have...

My laptop is hp pavilion dv6 with 4 gb ram,2.8ghz and ATI radeon hd 4200 series graphics. It came with win7 but i installed win 10 later. The screen often turns off abruptly while playing games and when carrying out heavy load tasks. When it turns off, sound,wifi and harddisk's LED indicator...

I have a super quick question before I potentially wait hours for my update to finish. I’m currently in the process of factory resetting my pc (about 19% in) and was wondering if anything bad would necessarily happen if I decided to turn off my pc. Disconnect my HDD and simply use my SSD to do...

I found this adapter that plugs instead of the CD reader which have SATA ports on it, so I decided to buy it and plug an SSD to it since my laptop runs off an HDD and its really annoying how unresponsive it is just wondered will it have standard W/R speeds? or will it be throttled, if it does...

Hello, I would like to repair my harddrive by myself, and as is learn a lot about electronics and everything that make an harddrive work. So, I have been looking for a course online, and the only one I found was really pricy (5000$) and I cannot afford it. So, do you know any book, reference...

Hello.. I have a cooler master mb511 cabinet, it looks great and all with plenty of airflow. mb511 come with a bay that fits 2x3.5 hdd's, so I have installed one of three 3.5's I have as shown in below picture View: https://imgur.com/3cnKfor Is it ok to have the hdd like this because I...

So, I just bought a WD RE3 1TB for my rig (yes it's enterprise, but was cheap and works perfectly fine). But I'm curious if these temps are good or do I need to take some action: When idle: 45 C/113 F Under load for 30 minutes straight: 50 C/ 122 F Room temperature is 30 C/ 86 F. Thanks in...

Okay, so, I decided I was going to upgrade my computer, which required me to unplug on my internal Drives that were plugged in the the SATA ports. Long story short, the upgrade was a fail. So, I decided to put everything back into my old case. Then, I ran into a problem with my two hard drives...

specifications of my parts: GPU: evga gtx Nvidia 950 sc CPU: amd ryzen 3 1200 RAM:4x2 corsair vengeance HD:1tb western digital SSD:250gb Samsung evo Mobo:ab350m budget= around £250 ask me any questions about the parts, I'm open to answering them.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqRpaKmSjqs&feature=youtu.be The external harddrive spins up like normal, its just the head that stays at the exact same location while making a clicking sound. View: https://youtu.be/W0bLeV6GeXo if i try to push it a little closer to the disc, it just...

My internet speed is very slow (~500kbps) And his is about 20MBps. If i were to take my nearly empty HDD with only the Oculus app and Steam and either switch it with his HDD currently in his pc or place it inside with his HDD would this work and cause no issues or would we have some issues with...

I have been having lots of trouble with my one year old Dell Inspiron 15 5570. It has good hardware, but I recently noticed the issue of not being able to install to my hard drive. The laptop has a 120gb SSD and a 1Tb HDD. The HDD was correctly partitioned, but only files could be written to...

I don't know what's going on, but I am having SERIOUS issues with my Seagate hard drive. A regular internal (3.5) drive that I have been using on a VERY light basis will not power on. Thought it was the enclosure, so I put it into another enclosure. Nope. Not working When I unplugged the hard...

I have a Seagate Backup Plus Slim 1TB hard drive. Recently I connected it to my windows 10 PC, It shows up under Device Manager and in the BIOS, but I get nothing when I go to Disk Manager. Also when I double click on it under devices and try to populate volumes I get a message saying 'Volume...

Hello there. Just installed my new SSD with Windows 10 on it. I had to take out my HDD because that also had Windows on it, so now I am just running with my 120 GB SSD. I realized that 120 GB is probably not enough and I will need some extra storage to take care of my download folder and such...