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Reallocated sectors number went down?
So far from what I've read online reallocated sector count can't go down, at all. And yet, my hard drive that recently reported 24 bad sectors seems to decrease it?
Firstly, hard drive via S.M.A.R.T. ...
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CHKDSK - Drive unusable after the scan
Drive is unusable after the CHKDSK scan. Any idea how I can fix this? It shows that the device is a raw device. I want to recover data and then format the drive.
File record segment 1432 is unreadable....
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How to add a filesystem to a drive without formatting it? [duplicate]
My hard drive suddenly appeared entirely unallocated in partition manager. I tried asigning a drive letter to it and seeing if it would recognise the old file system, but it did not. Instead it asked ...
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What's the rule of thumb to keep data safe in portable SSD? [duplicate]
I am well aware that SSDs in general are not ideal medium as long term shelf storage.
But if one insists on using it for that purpose, what can be done to keep files stored in SSD corrupt-free, other ...
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Explorer crashed while moving files to external drive, amount of free space after that is wrong
During the weekend something strange happened, which I don't understand.
Maybe somebody smarter than me can help me out here.
Last weekend I had the idea to move some movie files from my internal D ...
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Trying to recover files and programs after Windows update
I tried to carry out a Windows 10 software update but when I came to restart my laptop, it would not work and kept restarting indefinitely. Eventually, I had to reinstall Windows 10 using a USB but it ...
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Is it possible to EDIT/REMOVE the first sectors of a SDD/HDD?
Read This for the full story:
BitLocker Recovery Key Isn't working ( Corrupted Maybe ? )
the drive isn't encrypted yet
I mentioned that in my older post, and it appears to be correct the drive isn't ...
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3TB HD Slave suddenly disappears - Windows asks to start the HD
I Have a 3TB Seagate HD - working as slave with some media files - in WINDOWS 10 - like videos and images for my work.
This HD is working well - no noise, no fail, no connection issues (it's on sata) -...
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Recover NTFS file system from RAW partition w/o recovering individual files [duplicate]
There is an NTFS partition with data that was converted into RAW partition by a piece of software. Now it's not readable. File recovery utils easily find all the files (including deleted ones) and it'...
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How do I recover Windows 10 with files recovered from a drive
Originally posted on ServerFault - told that was the wrong place, pointed here
I had a drive failure about 2 months ago on my custom built PC with Windows 10 (probably professional version). It was a ...
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How to recover from a diskpart clean command
I have two hard drives and an ssd in my computer, I accidently ran clean on one of the hard drives.
The disks were both dynamic and had a spanned partiton on it between them.
I accidently ran the ...
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Failed to recognize hard drive
I'm trying to backup a WD My passport external hdd (2TB). I couldn't find my hdd in file explorer(windows 10), so I checked disk management, which showed "The request failed due to a fatal device ...
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SSD not working anymore and windows not opening
Windows suddenly stopped working when I connected the HDD with rack on my laptop. I’ve tried almost everything, so later on I have discovered after reinstalling the HDD and placing the SSD in the rack ...
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The file or Directory is corrupted and unreadable - chkdsk not working
Unintentionally powered off external HDD when moving some files with the move command. Now the move target folder is "The file or Directory is corrupted and unreadable".
chkdsk E: /f /r /x
Failed ...
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One Partition Data Loss in External HDD - Windows 10 OS
I can't able to see the data that I have transferred on my external HDD on yesterday.
Today I have plugged my external HDD again and I got surprised, I got nothing from those I have transferred ...
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