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  1. K

    Question 2060 worth it?

    Hi everybody, first of all let me state my case. Its been 2 years since my 1080ti died, i was not able to replace cause the costs were too high plus the newest gpus at the moment was series 2000 so replace the gpu would ve been extremely costly. i ve been playing using geforce now wich works...
  2. SimplyAurallz

    Is there any way to replace the ps3 hdd with an m.2 ssd?

    The title pretty much says it all. I just want to know if I can put like 8tbs of ssd in a ps3.
  3. JustDom04

    Question HDD causing weird issues

    my pc was running slow one day and then I decided to reboot it then it would not boot up then i tried multiple things and found out when I have the HDD plugged in my pc stops working, when I plug in the power SATA cable, while the pc is booted into windows, the pc blue screens and tries to...
  4. Mr Helix

    [SOLVED] Hdd issues

    Hello! I only have Seagate 1TB HDD, so lately I cleaned my pc inside out from dust and it all started after that i guess, So after cleaning and plugging everything back in and my pc first started giving me bluescreens, '' innacessible boot drive'' errors, well after that i went to connect...
  5. C

    Question Import Foreign Disc

    I just installed a new windows 10 (home verison) to my new ssd, now my hdd shown up as foreign disk in disk management. There's "Import Foreign Disk" option, but will it wipe the data in my hdd? (I want to keep the files in my hdd) screen photo: https://ibb.co/sRWHdCC
  6. J

    Question System not recognizing HDD from Mobile Rack unless booted

    Hi, I wonder if someone can help me with some advice? In my desktop I have installed mobile swap rack like this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00834SJ8K/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I like the ability to turn the rack on/off based on if I need the storage/drive or...
  7. R

    Question HDD PCB is cracked

    A cracked HDD PCB can damage anything on other components if the HDD fails ?? The HDD is working until now . I am posting an image of the state of the PCB . https://postimg.cc/Mv3CNLqk
  8. rielle1

    Question fixed my bricked pc, but now my drives are dead(?)

    hello, recently i posted a thread about my bricked pc and how i was struggling to get it to boot. thread here if you want to read it: (TLDR: healthy pc died out of nowhere, replaced half of my pc before i got it to work, turns out my GPU and PCIE cable were fried)...
  9. A

    Question HDD making two beeps and then brr noise. cant get into it.

    Hi, my 4tb hdd started making beeping noises and a brr View: https://imgur.com/xfHKdyd now i cant get into it. any help on a fix? i really want to get into it cause it has photos and videos of my buddies when they were still alive. for name its s 4tb wd red drive
  10. Welcome_234

    Question Is my hard drive showing signs of dying?

    Hello, today I checked my event viewer and noticed it said this: Is this something to be concerned about as it seems to be spammed in the event viewer in places. The disk is a "SAMSUNG HD321KJ 320GB" and is my first hard drive I installed in my system. However there have been no data corruption...
  11. EgoHeroic

    [SOLVED] HDD not recognized neither in windows or bios ?

    Hello, Long story short, I ran out of storage in my pc (running with 2 pcie's 1tb) and needed additional storage, so tried swap 1TB HDD from my old laptop, but my PC doesn't recognize it, nether in windows (10) or BIOS. Tried to format it and change partitions lettering, turned on every SATA...
  12. R

    Question My disc D: disappears when playing World o Warcraft.

    Hello, My HDD disc D: disappears after some time playing World of Warcraft. Once I reset my laptop it comes back but disappears again when I run the game. I tried updating drivers, scanning disc for problems but it shows that the disc is healthy and there are no issues even though it...
  13. P

    Question Non-stop 100% disk usage on a laptop

    One of my friends' laptop has recently got into a problem, saying it has suddenly slowed down massively and is barely usable. She gave it to me to try and fix it, and as soon as i boot it up, open task manager to check for any bloatware running in the background, i notice that it's HDD is at...
  14. Antoin Marc

    Question My new SSD can't boot after windows installation with UEFI mode

    Hello everyone! I have a Laptop Dell Precision M4800 with i7-4810MQ CPU, with the latest BIOS update (the version of latest update was released in 2019) I installed windows 10 on the HDD with UEFI Windows 10 which works properly. I bought a new SSD Crucial MX500 250GB, and I wanted to replace...
  15. I

    Question CrystalDiskInfo displays Caution with IDs [05][C5][C6] being yellow, should I replace my HDD?

    I've been using this PC for three years almost, four now, and this HDD is mainly just used for games along my Unity and Blender projects. Also a few months ago I ran a virtual machine through Oracle VirtualBox VM, that might be the cause for the ridiculous amount of reallocated sectors but I...
  16. G

    Question Kernel data inpage error(BSOD)?

    The error comes only when I play games. I was playing another game which used to run fine before but now crashes within 10 minutes. Tried running game on single 8gb stick (i have 2) one by one and error was still there.Also my drive shows "reported uncorrectable errors" as 1 in...
  17. G

    Question Can someone explain to me how switching from hdd to ssd works?

    So basically I install OS in the new ssd. But does the hard drive still need to have the old OS installed? Does the hdd show as a fellow drive in file explorer and then I can easily copy/paste what I want?
  18. N

    Question SSD work only with override

    Hi everyone, i cloned my hdd to a samsung ssd on my old laptop with macrium reflect but now i'm only able to boot on ssd with override on bios and the ssd is P0 on the bios, i did the same thing with 2 hdd 2 years ago and it worked fine,
  19. ditrate

    Question Kingston SSD Manager is not recognizing external drive( A 400)?

    Kingston manager is not recognizing my external A400 drive (2 USB adapters, with and without additional power). But WD lifeguard and Crystal Disk Info does. But when i connected the drive to a SATA, it being recognized in Kingston SSD Manager.
  20. ditrate

    Question How approximate S.M.A.R.T. is?

    I have different values and stats on the same HDD, different soft shows me different stuff. So, as I understand the backup is only valuable option to preserve the data? In order to don't lose any valuable information. Is it right?
  21. F

    Question HDD isn't recognized until restart

    Hi, my external hdd isn't recognized on some usb ports until i restart windows and they suddenly appear on my computer. Board is VIII hero, and i think only on blue ports, when i reconnect them to red one it is recognized immideatly, but on blue port it doesn't appear, even on hd sentinel and...
  22. ditrate

    Question Is there any harm of multiple disk management?

    Is the HDD controller would be damaged after many deleted partition or formatings been done? For example after 2 continuous deletion of partitions and formatings and creating new ones?
  23. ditrate

    Question Concerning values?

    Unsafe shutdown count and Power-off retract count. Are those are concerning values? I usually using this drive attached to a router, so maybe because of that?
  24. jnjnilson6

    Discussion What Were the CPU and Specs of Your First PC?

    Specs of my first computer (year 2001): CPU: Intel Celeron Tualatin @ 1.3 GHz (overclockable to 1.5 GHz) GPU: GeForce2 MX 400 w/ 64 MB memory RAM: 256 MB HDD: 40 GB Operating Systems: Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000 and RedHat Linux 7.3 You may write about your current system specs and CPU, the...
  25. NikitaR

    Question HDD makes scratching/crackling sounds when booting and when it's working ?

    I had a hard drive that was six months old. One day the computer froze and would not respond to anything. When I restarted the computer using the button on the motherboard, the hard drive started making a crackling noise. A Victoria scan of the hard disk revealed bad sectors. Overwriting the...
  26. codemilly

    Question Deleting partition/system files where OS is installed but keep the files in 2nd partition

    Hi y'all. I'm planning to install Windows 10 on my old PC using a new SSD. The thing is the old PC's boot drive is using an HDD. The HDD has '2' partitions. 1st partition is for the OS and 2nd is for the storage. I want to keep the files from the 2nd partition but delete only the OS files from...
  27. S

    Question Which hdd I should go for?

    Hi. I have a 1tb samsung ssd and I'm running out of storage. I only need a drive to run single player games on it. I don't care about loading time though I do care if it's gonna continuesly load mid game and cause stutters. I can't afford a WD black (They're currently hard to find in my country...
  28. ditrate

    Question FTP. Explain, why is my drive can be operatable in sleep mode?

    I was able to create folder and close my FTP client (FIlezilla), while HDD was still in standby mode. All actions was made, and after that I heard that my drive begin to wake up. Is this was request on delay or what? My FTP: Router and WD My Book.
  29. O

    Question CPU Overheating

    So my pc blue screened a couple of times while playing games and I went looking for the problem, it was my CPU overheating, so I dusted my PC and went into the bios and changed fan speeds. While in there I saw the Intel rapid storage technology and decided to turn it on, after getting out of the...
  30. ditrate

    Question How reliable is SHA-256

    I never used hash checking, but now I started to use SHA-256 for my files, should I change it for a different hashing type (MD5 or SHA-1)?
  31. ditrate

    Question WD colors

    As I understand WD drive colors are describing different purposes of usage (Black - for server; blue- for pc's, Green- is ecology friendly, etc.). But how is they differs inside?
  32. ditrate

    Question Can a magnetic charger (Mi Band 6) damage external hard drive.

    Can a magnetic charger damage external hard drive, by putting close enough?
  33. ditrate

    Question How reliable is "WD Dashboard"?

    I regularly using this program because of speed and because is vendor specific software. How the "Extended S.M.A.R.T Test" is comparing to default surface scan or chkdsk?
  34. ditrate

    Question Experience of using an SSD with overlimited TBW

    Does someone used drive like that and why?
  35. M

    Question Kingfast HDD loading but freezing Windows ?

    Hello I have a problem with my SSD (Kingfast Model: F6PRO 240GB). This HDD was previously on an older computer I had. I tried connecting it to my computer with an external disc reader, they disc loads up but once I try to go into the files it begins to take time to load to the point it will...
  36. ditrate

    Question 3,5 " External drive plastic case: design gimmick, practical or both?

    Various storage vendors ( WD, Seagate etc.) have a different external drive product lines (My Book, or My Passport, etc), with a different plastic case designs. Is it for design purpose only or it adds to the g-shock resistance of the drive within it ?