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Random slow POST or no POST with harddrive
Has anyone experience random slow POST or no POST at all with a harddrive?
I tested pluging and unplugging my hardware to see what is causing this issue.
And when I got into unplugging the harddrive,...
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Troubleshooting failing disk hardware (no medium present) on Linux?
Ok, I was working on my Asus TX300CA, which has a tablet part with CPU and one hard drive in it (/dev/sda), and a keyboard dock with another hard drive (/dev/sdb). The partitions on the drives from ...
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Widespread File Corruption - HDD failure, or other components corrupting drives?
Apologies in advance, this will be a long post as I figure explaining everything that's relevant is better than being vague and having a long back-and-forth. The main reason I'm asking here is because ...
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Hard Drive Failure - Next Steps and Process
I have a 2TB Barracuda that has some bad sectors (detected via CrystalDiskInfo). When I turned on my computer, I cannot detect my D:, E:, F:... which are all mapped to my failed disk. What I mean is ...
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Barracuda 7200.12 making a very loud sound (squeak). Drive is not showing
I have a Barracuda 7200.12 1TB, the drive is not being detected by any OS, before i spin the platters myself that hard drive would make a click sound as if the heads are trying to move but the ...
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Seagate HDD failure: is it a controller board issue?
Wednesday, there were some issues with regards to my Seagate 3 TB HDD as it was having trouble reading the device. Windows had popped up a "reboot your computer to fix drive issues", which I did. It ...
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How should I store a spare HDD for maximum lifetime, when the disks in use may not fail for years?
I've got about 12 large enterprise (5 yr warranty) HDDs across 3 computers. Their current ages are 4 disks @ 2-3 years and the rest 3-6 months, so they're all past their 3 month burn-in and no SMART ...
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Windows doesnt recognize my hdd
I have one 250 GB SSD, one 1500 GB, and the last one is 4000 GB.
But last time the cables get unplugged. I fixed today and only say Disco 1 is a 128 GB disk instead. BIOS also detect the disk but see ...
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Can't see hard disk after inserting it in again
I have inserted an old hard disk on my PC, but to do it, I took off the one that I usually use. After seeing that the old one was OK, I inserted again the one that was there before, but the computer ...
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Which of my hard drives are most likely to fail? [closed]
Hard Drive Test results, all so different:
There are no words to describe this. Its a mess. All 4 software give me different results. You can tell third party are more alighned but they saying ...
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How do you manually recover a failed internal HDD? [duplicate]
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A SATA hard drive suffered mechanical failure (a little while after percussive shock) and OSX declared it unreadable despite ...
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HDD S.M.A.R.T. information
Hello. Yesterday I was trying to install a program, when it got stuck. Afterwards, I saw a notice from Windows saying I should back up my data. I know if S.M.A.R.T. tells you something is wrong, then ...
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Reading data from a 23 year old IDE harddrive
I have a 200 MB Western Digital 2.5" IDE drive, originally from an Amiga 1200, that I would like to try to get an image file of, so I can keep the data that is on it.
Since the drive is very old, and ...
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HDD Painfully Slow, Attempting To Do a Data Recovery
I had a WD Blue 1TB drive in my laptop until 3 weeks ago where it violently froze on me. I have been trying to recover a document full of wedding photos for a family member. Though I am having no luck....
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Hard drive clicking, is my hdd dying?
I have a laptop HP ProBook 455 G1. 50% of the time when laptop is writing(hdd led is blinking) I hear a clicking sound and it is definitely my hdd. It started a few months ago, but I wasn't worried ...
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