hdd activity

Forum discussion tagged with hdd activity.
  1. makart

    Question Data error cyclic redundancy check HDD

    While I was making a new partition I lost connection with the hard drive dock and now I can't get the HDD to work, I tried different solutions but nothing worked.
  2. warspc

    Question Functional HDD not working

    Hello all, A few days ago there was a thunder storm in my area. During which the power went out and (not having my computer connected to a power strip or ups, a thing broke. Specifically my SSD broke. I figured this out after trying to boot up and seeing a "Reboot and Select proper Boot...
  3. M

    Question crystal disk info and other monitoring software missing c1 info ?

    3 seagates , all of them 160gb , one of them is pipeline seagate, i get knocks in it when delete a file or when access the drive or click a shortcut to that drive , so i read that it might have that advanced power management apm abled .so then came across reading about load/unload cycles , but i...
  4. Mattimanden

    Question Changed hardware, now drives will not read.

    I recently bought my friend's system as he was moving abroad and I have had some concurrent issues with my motherboard. Before I switched hardware all drives worked and had 95%+ on crystalDisc. Now, my two M.2's and two SSD's work fine, but my two HDD's will not read. I have two questions...
  5. H

    [SOLVED] Use Cheap CCTV HDD like Seagate Skyhawk or WD Purple for alternative?

    I have about 6 PC with the HDD that needs to be changed because of the bad sector, some of them didn't even detect anymore, so I want to change it, Since these PC will only use an Ms. Office program and an ERP software that mostly only uses LAN to fetch data, can I use a cheap HDD like Skyhawk...
  6. N

    Question What is wrong with my HDD?

    Hello everyone! Once again, a question with a weird HDD situation arises. I've built a secondary, low-cost pc to set up as a local server/work station, and so far everything has been going smoothly... until the HDD part came. I installed a copy of windows using the download tool Windows...
  7. nvyrectangle

    [SOLVED] Constant hdd activity

    After upgrading from 8.1 to windows 10 i have horrible hdd performance. System PID 4 process is constantly writing and reading to hard drive, i've checked procmon and its showing activity by (C:\$Mft ; C:\$Mft::$BITMAP ; C:\$Logfile; C:\$Extend\$UsnJnrl:$J and also System Volume Information)...
  8. A

    Core i5-6600k or Core i7-6700k

    i wanted to buy a new processor but i have not thought between i5 or i7