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Switched SATA Hard Drive, Same Brand and Size, Now Showing As Wrong Drive/Blank
I had a Seagate 16TB hard drive connected to a SATA port on my Windows 10 computer. I will call this Drive A. I wanted to put in a different Seagate 16TB hard drive, Drive B, same brand, model size, ...
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Host system dead. How do I read data stored on a RAID 1 drive/pair?
I have looked for similar questions and I probably don't know the proper phrases to find an equivalent question if it exists here on SU. I have seen a couple questions from 6-plus years back that ...
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How to read SMART stats of hard drives connected via Silicon Image Raid controller on Windows 10?
I am using a PCI card in my Windows 10 (Enterprise) pc, which is correctly listed under Windows device management as "Silicon Image Sil 3114 SoftRaid 5 Controller". No RAID is enabled on the ...
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SSD not recognized in bios after Ubuntu crash
I install zorin os on my hdd but due to some mistakes my hdd crashed along with zorin...when I bought a new SSD and replace it my ssd is not being detected..and my battery light keeps blinking...I ...
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BIOS doesn't recognize internal HDD connected through a SATA to USB adapter
BIOS(or motherboard firmware), doesn't recognize internal HDD connected through a SATA to USB adapter
I have two computers, a tower and a laptop.
I usually use a laptop but recently, in addition to ...
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Can't change SATA mode from RAID to AHCI in Windows 10
I am trying to install Ubuntu in dual boot with Windows 10, but after many failed attempts I realized that I have to change SATA mode to AHCI.
I have tried literally everything I have read online, ...
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Windows 10 can not see HD SATA after ssd installation
I had a setup as below
1 SATA 160 gb Bootable (windows 7)
1 SATA 160 gb
1 SATA 350 gb
1 SATA 500 gb
I decided to buy an Samsung evo 256 gb SSD in order to replace the bootable disk
and i performed a ...
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8 TB Disk dying - or is it the Controller?
During the last copy operation of my Seagate 8 TB disk (connected via USB 3.0), the speed of my disk dropped dramatically (from 90 MB/s to 100 kB/s). So I took CrystalDiskInfo to check the SMART ...
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Why is my SATA Harddrive not being detected by Windows?
I recently upgraded my Windows 7 PC to windows 10 which caused all sorts of problems. I've solved most of them, but my WD10EADS-00M2B0 Western Digital Caviar 1tb 7200rpm 3.5inch harddrive is not ...
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How to un-mark a SATA HDD “as spare” in Windows 10
I have a desktop computer with an extra HDD connected to it via SATA port, and I have done "mark as spare" to the drive, but I don't remember where I got to that setting, and I want to undo ...
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What's the best affordable high-speed SSD Hard drive if I want to upgrade the laptop? [closed]
What's the best affordable high-speed SSD Hard drive if I want to upgrade the laptop?
I am using a laptop (Model: Lenovo Ideapad 700-151SK) and I did replace the original hard drive with Western ...
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Hard disk drive is visible via USB 3.0 but not via SATA
I have connected and initialized(as GPT) a new 3.5 3TB hard disk drive via USB 3.0 (using this Orient UHD-523 adapter with external power supply), moved my data from two old 1TB hard disk drives into ...
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Windows 10 setup won't recognize HDD in Travelmate laptop
Just bought my new laptop, it came without an OS, so I went about installing Win 10 on it from USB. Everything is fine until I have to choose where I want the OS installed, and the list is empty. I've ...
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External HDD Plugged into SATA shows uninitialized
I checked my Seagate external drive, or tried to, but it just wouldn't open up in Windows Explorer. (It had been plugged into the PC's USB for months, but I had not bothered to access it in this ...
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Trying to Clone Hard Drive to SSD Using a Third Hard Drive
I've recently purchased a Samsung 870 EVO SSD to replace the HDD inside my laptop. To clone the drive inside my laptop to the SSD, I found that I can purchase a SATA to USB cable to facilitate the ...
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