Questions tagged [hard-drive-failure]
Questions about hard drive mechanical failure.
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Can't access HDD External
So I have 2 HDD external that can't be accessed
Both showing at devices and printer
But doesn't show at computer
In devices and printer it says BUP portable and expansion but I can't access both
Light ...
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REALLOCATED SECTOR COUNT 4948. Request for advice
I felt need of testing because some of my stored games were failing to boot properly. Quick test from HD Tune Pro app displayed 3 red blocks in one of the test runs and a full test always reports 3 ...
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WD External Drive Stopped Working - Are there any Non-Destructive Diagnostic Options? What's the Best Course Of Action?
I'm having problems with my Western Digital My Passport 4TB External Drive.
This model, specifically: WDBYFT004BBK-0A
I was in the process of cross-backing-up data between my live setup (laptop), my ...
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Should I be worried about my SMART values of my drive?
From what I gather, this is really really bad. I should probably replace my drive. But could I get verification that I am correct before doing so?
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
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Interpret the output of smartctl for SSD and hard drive
I have dropped my external hard drive on the floor recently and wanted to know if the electronic parts and mechanical parts were damaged. I have no idea how to find this out from the output of ...
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Failing HDDs - detection, backup strategies and reuse
I have a 2TB Seagate HDD that I believe has reached the end of its life in my primary Windows 11 box. It is the data drive - it contains things like video games, source code (backed by a remote repo), ...
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Is recovery possible if nothing can be read?
I have a failed hard drive (from the infamous ST3000DM001 line). The symptoms of this failure are that it registers the wrong size when plugged into any system (usually 4.1GB when it's supposed to be ...
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Formatting new identical HDDs, one taking way longer
I have recently purchased 2 identical HDDs:
Model Family: Seagate BarraCuda 3.5
Device Model: ST4000DM004-2U9104 (labeled as ST4000DMZ04)
Capacity: 4.00 TB [3.64 TiB, 4000787030016 bytes]
I've ...
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Hard Drive Failure? - Reallocated Sector Count
I recently noticed Windows was extremely slow and some programs failed to run.
The hard disk is checked during boot randomly. Sometimes checks go to Stage 5: 100s of thousands of sectors.
After a ...
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What does a beep sound mean from a working hard disk?
I have a laptop of 7 years old with a 2TB Seagate hard disk. About 2 years ago I heard a loud beep sound and it didn't happen again after months. But nowadays the intervals between the beep sound get'...
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Advice on next steps for recovery? (WD 3TB MyBook Essential)
My Western Digital 3TB MyBook Essential (Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)) made a knocking noise a couple of years ago during a Time Machine backup on my mac:
Time Machine couldn't ...
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If SSD content is changed due to this kind of error, should you get new SSD?
This came up when I booted. When I did the manual fsck it told that it changed the content of the drive. Is there a way to know which file(s) is affected?
The system is running Ubuntu 20.04 and this ...
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Is it bad keeping an external hard drive on my desk – given vibrations from typing on keyboard?
I keep an external hard disk on my desk, which is usually turned off, but I will plug it in occasionally to do backups of my computer.
A friend told me that it's a bad idea to be typing on the ...
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Ca running OS from corrupted drive cause data corruption
I have a slightly bad 1TB drive (2 bad sectors, that cannot be read).
I would like to use it anyway as an OS drive in my spare machine. I would not put any critical data on that drive, it would be ...
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Why do SSDs tend to fail much more suddenly than HDDs?
Modern PCs tend to use one of two types of internal-storage devices:1 2
Hard-disk drives (HDDs) store data on spinning disks coated in a magnetic recording medium, a technology dating back to the ...
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