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How to execute an Extended SMART self-test on a hard drive in Windows?
I have an old internal IDE hard drive that needs to be tested. I used an IDE-to-USB adapter to connect it to a USB port on a Windows PC. Then I tried using GSmartControl to execute the Short SMART ...
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Do magnetic HDDs gradually lose their data?
I read that magnetic HDDs can lose data with age as the magnetism weakens in spots.
I have a more than 1 TB and growing archive copied onto several magnetic hard drives (each drive has the whole ...
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How to automount an ext filesystem in macOS
TL;DR This question is about auto mounting partitions with file systems non native to macOS.
I'm presently running macOS 10.12.x and I can successfully mount an external SATA disk formatted with an ...
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Periodical performance drops and high HDD usage Windows10
Usually my system performs fine. However, periodically, there are temporary performance drops. Basically the Task Manager shows 100% HDD usage and the culprits invariably turn out to be system related ...
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macOS 10.13.1 High Sierra Disk Space iMac
I cannot determine what could possibly be taking up so much of my 1TB startup disk.
I have moved most applications to another disk and moved home directories and still receive your disk is almost ...
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Extremely high modified memory usage and pages won't flush
My Lenovo Y50-70 machine suffers of extremely poor performance lately.
I'm disturbed by some memory-related issues. The machine has 8gb RAM and the pagefile size is currently 24gb ("Autmomatically ...
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What is the meaning of COMRESET failed?
Laptop's internal WD SATA HDD of 1 TB is not being detected from any OS. It does not have any physical damage.
However while booting to linux from another disk, log is printed
[ 6.397803] ata5: ...
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Need to reconnect power supply to boot windows 8.1/10
Please let me know if it is offtopic here. I am facing some hardware problem may be that's why I am posting it here
I have a desktop pc with dual boot(ubuntu14.04 and windows 10).
Motherboard: intel ...
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Can I mark an entire partition as "bad sectors" to prevent a device from formatting the whole thing?
Update: My HDD did not support HPA. All well, I'll just stick to using it as a true external drive with folders for both PS3 and Xbox.
I have a large HDD that I'd like to partition and use half on my ...
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How to read MacBook Air (2013) SSD via PCI card adapter from Windows?
I purchased an adapter which connects my MacBook Air (2013) SSD to PCI-E of motherboard.
However, I was unable to find a proper way to read it, even with MacDrive.
What I want to do is back up the ...
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Size on disk way bigger than expected
I have read Why is there such a big difference between "Size" and "Size on disk"? but why is mine so different?
My RAID5 is set at 128kb stripe, the volume is formatted at 64kb NTFS. I would expect ...
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How Can I List Which Processes are Using a Specific Disk in Ubuntu?
How can I list which process(es) are using a specific disk in Linux?
I'm trying to track down what is writing to my hard drive, because I'd like to move the process's stuff to my SSD so that my hard ...
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hdd recognized as ssd after windows 10 update
I received the Windows 10 update and installed it without any problems to a Lenovo computer running Windows 7. So far, everything works fine except that
when I go to defragment the drive, the media ...
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Rebuilding FakeRAID RAID 5 with new disk, no partitions show up, invalid PMBR
I have a RAID 5 array with 4 2TB disks on a HP Z800. One disk failed and was swapped out for a new one.
I went into BIOS Intel Storage Matrix Utility and set the Array to rebuild with the new disk. ...
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Combining two disjoint ddrescue backup images
I have a 3 TB drive which recently started to malfunction. I was using the ddrescue utility on Debian to read data off the disk to a different external hard drive. However, after 2 TB of data had been ...
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