I/O Device Error

I was given an old computer to mess around with, it had only windows 10. I was trying to do a dual os with windows/ubuntu and turn it into a server. Somewhere along the way I really screwed it up. I pulled out the hard drive and hooked it up to another computer and have tried everything I can...

I am trying to recover files from an old WD Caviar 26400 hard drive using a SATA/IDE to USB adapter. It connects just fine - I see the HD appear in my file manager with a 'E:' designation. I can also see the files in the device, but when I try to access them or copy them I get the I/O error...

Please can anyone help? I have a Seagate SSHD 320gb that is not working, it comes up with I/O device error in dsk mgt and easyUs data recovery cant find it. I have checked connections etc and tried alternatives. I can hear the drive do something on start up in a caddy but thats where it ends...

I got a brand new external hard drive today. After trying to copy my pc's hard drive to the ext. hard drive, it got around 20% complete, successfully copying many files, but then got stuck with an error. Now, whenever I try to copy any files from the pc's hard drive to the ext. hard drive, it...

Hi, I have a USB drive full of photos I would like to copy across to my computer. When I plug the drive in, my computer goes extremely slow for about 2 minutes until the drive is recognized. Once it has loaded, I go into the drive and copy a folder and it's sub-folders to my desktop. It...

I have Seagate Backup Plus 2 TB External Harddisk. So i have this issue: until 2 days back i could copy FROM the external hdd anything without any issues. In the last few months i haven't copied anything to the drive. Now i copied some stuff around 20gb to the drive but in between i got an I/O...

Hello, I've got a Seegate Freeagent Desk 1 TB external drive wich had been working fine for several years. Now, I can't access files with with file explorer and get the error "Location is not available: F: is not accessible. The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error." I...

So, at the beginning of February, our 20TB G-RAID Thunderbolt 2 external hard drive failed. We use this hard drive to store backups for 9 different machines (it's connected via thunderbolt cable to one of them, and the rest are backed up over the network via shared folder). We had not configured...

I was encrypting my pendrive using veracrypt and the encryption failed at 97%, thus making the flashdrive RAW. I have tried formatting the pendrive many ways, nothing works. I have used 3 different third party softwares such as minitool AOMEI partition. They do detect the flashdrive but aren't...

I Dell XPS 15 l502x laptop running windows 10. I use external hard drives a lot as I am a photographer and have a lot of photos. I have an intermittent problem whereby the hard drives randomly disconnect, by which I mean after a while when I try to access them windows explorer loads for ages...

I have been trying to boot my computer for the past day and every time I connect my keyboard it doesn't work. I need to press F1 to continue the boot and when I attempt to use another keyboard it also doesn't connect. Some USB ports will allow the keyboard to light up, all ports allow the mouse...

hello guys, I have bought an M.2 Nvme SSD 240G Kingston , I've Installed windows 10 on it, after Windows update is done, laptop rebooted and didn't boot windows and laptop is not detecting windows anymore (not in EFI list) . After that I have successfully booted to Windows by using grub uefi...

I bought a new WD40EZRZ from Amazon and I just connected it and it is getting an I/O error when I try to initialize it to GPT. Then I use disk part to clean which is successful, but when I try to convert to gpt it again gets an I/O error. I check the event viewer and it says "8007045D@02070008...

Hi guys.. After reading some threads over the web I saw a lot of talk about power consumption. I know my new gaming pc will consume more than my laptop but how much more? What is the monthly impact? Because of my work I can only play for a certain amount of time per day excluding saturdays...