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What does "spare capacity available: 99%" mean in a disk report?
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What does "spare capacity available: 99%" mean in a disk report?
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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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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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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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Refurbish partially failed hard drive?
A friend gave me an external hard drive that had been performing terribly to see what I can diagnose and fix.
First step was shucking the drive to eliminate the USB controller as a variable. Then I ...
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Any way to tweak Windows' kernels or drives to handle I/O and reduce or eliminate hangs with failing drives?
I frequently work with failing hard drives for data recovery and various tasks. These tasks are usually short lived in nature, but important. The way Windows seems to handle any failing drive that's ...
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Pre-failure and old age on new drive
So I just bought a WD Blue hard drive, brand new. I plugged it in and checked the S.M.A.R.T. values- and kinda got shocked.
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME ...
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Temperature threshold CrystalDiskInfo value
Could you please help me get understand what this value (C2 Temperature Threshold 70) means and do I have to worry about ssd or do i need to replace? :
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Will tools like shred, wipe or dd (or hard drives in general) check that a write was successful?
I usually use shred to delete complete hard drives.
But I was wondering if and how tools like shred, wipe or dd verify that the expected bits end up on the hard drive.
Does a hard drive always check ...
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Is it only writting to a HDD which causes failure? [duplicate]
This is probably a dumb question, but for platter drives specifically, is it only writing to them which causes eventual failure?
Like, if you wrote a load of data once, and then only ever read it ...
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Does spinning harddrive not showing up in BIOS suggest logic board failure?
My 2 TB 3.5" SATA harddrive failed while being used in an USB enclosure. I'm trying to determine the cause based on the symptoms.
The drive fails to work in two working SATA-USB enclosures on ...
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Internal HDD not showing up anymore
One of my internal hard disks(out of 3) stopped showing up in Disk management(Windows) or Disks(Ubuntu). Its showing up in BiOS.
These are what i could find from ubuntu terminal:
"sdc is the one ...
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Harddisk with >10k bad sectors
My computer has two drive : SSD for C drive ,HDD for D drive
My Windows OS is installed in C drive
Recently ,when I click the folders ,the File Manager always hangs. I cant even turn off the computer (...
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Hard drives seemingly no longer has bad sectors on it after erase and reformat
I have a Seagate SSHD laptop hard drive. When I use Seagates Software SeaTools. The drive used to fail the short drive self-tests and the long generic test. When it failed tests sea tools would warn ...
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WD External Harddisk turning on and off repeatedly
It's a 5yrs+ old 3TB external harddisk running fine until a couple of months ago when I had a power outage.
After that, it stopped functioning properly. It stays on (with all the data intact), and ...
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How does storage space (Simple), without resilience, save the files on the harddisk
If you create for example 3x4tb Storage spaces, without any resilience (simple), and one drive crashes, will you lose everything, or just that's on just that drive?
is it saving the data in stripes ...
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How to copy a Large disk to multiple smaller ones
So I have a 2TB HDD drive that is about to fail. I have around 1.5TB of used space. Now I want to copy all the files from my Big drive to smaller ones. I have 3 500GB drives. The problem is that there ...
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How to stop unused dying hard drive from clicking
Since a week ago I have been getting a warning on start-up that my hard-drive is about to fail. It also makes an extremely annoying clicking sound. I have tried disabling it in device manager but when ...
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Should I back up the data on a RAID 5 that had one drive fail?
I have a CentOS server that uses a RAID 5 array for data storage. Recently, one of the four drives in the array failed, and I was wondering whether it makes more sense to back up everything on the ...
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New HDD is "clicking" HTS721010A9E630 1TB Windows 10
I have question related with my new HDD - is it normal that it "clicks"?
I pickup my notebook from RMA (they changed old HDD), and I noticed that it make sometimes weird sound (mostly when I turn ...
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My Hitachi HDD cannot be read or written to, but SMART results and others are OK. Why?
I do not care about any data on the drive and I do not intend to store important data on the drive in future - this is purely an academic exercise!
Attempting to read or write results in a failure:
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Is there any way to transfer programs between laptops?
My old laptop that I do a lot of work on is starting to die. I have a lot of really important programs on there that would suck to lose.
Is there a way to perhaps copy these programs and allow them ...
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Best way to try to recover a failed hard SATA 3.5" drive?
When I booted my desktop this morning it announced it was scanning and repairing one of my drives.
When it finally booted into Windows, the drive showed up, but when I tried to right click it to ...
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Blank screen before Windows login screen - is my SSD about to die?
I'm running a Windows 7 system with an ASRock H61M-HVS motherboard which boots from a 128GB Kingston SV200 SSD. The drive has been in use in this capacity since 2010, and until recently has had fast ...
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HDD issue: Buffer I/O error on dev
One of my drives that's encrypted (LUKS + cryptsetup) ext4 seems to give strange errors when looking at dmesg / syslog:
https://pastebin.com/RZdJK2qg
And I can't ls into it (but I can cd into it)
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Can a PSU outage cause a Mechanical Start Failure on a S.M.A.R.T. drive?
Recently, my PSU crunched out on me and I had to replace it. The drive in question was running at the time, and during an attempt at start up afterwards (during which the PSU did not output enough ...
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Is an intermittently beeping HDD normal? [closed]
I recently bought a 3TB Toshiba DT01ACA300 HDD from Amazon. All I've done so far is connect the drive and initialise it, but in the few months it's been connected to my computer I've noticed that it ...
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Raid 0 life expectancy and how to access 2 disks from Raid 0 outside of original computer
Two questions about Raid 0:
My situation:
My motherboard with RAID controller got sent in for an RMA (3 weeks turnaround). Asus sent me back a different motherboard that had way worse problems than my ...
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High amount of high fly writes on recently bought disk
I recently (about a week ago) bought a hard drive (Seagate ST3000VN007), and set up S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring. I also used badblocks on it to see if there was any important damage because of the shipping ...
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HDD shows up as "no data" on it and can't be initialized in Windows
I have a physically undamaged 2.5 inch HDD (Hitachi 5400RPM 320GB) when I connect it with an sata to usb convertor windows doesn't react on it. When I open the windows disk management software it ...
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I attempted to repair a hard drive and it doesn't show up anymore
I have a computer who's motherboard fried, and in the beginning the hard drive was detected by the computer but I couldn't access the files so I tried using the program TestDisk to fix it. From the ...
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Hard Drive Not Detected Error When Swapping Drives
I have a Dell Inspiron 660 computer that's running 32 bit windows 10 and the motherboard fried.
I tried putting the hard drive which still works into a Dell optiplex 9020 and tried to start it up, ...
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New HD has just died: any way to resurrect it?
I bought a brand new WD Blue 4TB hard drive, and decided to test it for a bit before actually starting to use it. I plugged it into an external USB3 dock, and ran HDDScan on it (the "read" test) for a ...
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Fedora just warned me hard drive might fail soon
So I bought a "Asus X540LA Laptop, Intel Core i7-5500U 2.4GHz, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD" in June this year. And today I got a warning that the HDD would fail in <24 hours. I ran smartctl to diagnose the ...
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HDD capacity not detected correctly Ubuntu 14.04
My WD3200BUCT (320 GB HDD) stopped working. It had Win 7 (64 bit) installed. The problem at hand is that there is still some important data on it that I would like to recover. When I plug it into my ...
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What could cause the power-on hours of a disk to reset?
I have three hard disks in my laptop, bought about 4½ years ago (March 2013). One 500 GB disk is from an older laptop (so 5+ years old), one 500 GB came with the laptop, and I added a 1 TB disk two ...
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Hard Drive suddenly became unresponsive, recovered on reboot. What to do next?
So I have a desktop PC with an SSD and an HDD. Windows 10 is installed on the SSD, all my data is on the HDD. Today while I was playing a game, it suddenly became unresponsive. At the same time, the ...
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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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