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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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need to find out if my hard drive is broken - windows corrupted and wont boot
OK, so a short story long: I had windows 8. It was working fine. When updating to Windows 10, the process interrupted, corrupting my windows installation.
I formatted and reinstalled windows. fine.
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Should I re-install Windows 10 on my failing hard drive?
I have dual-boot but i am unable to boot into windows. I booted into Ubuntu and it showed my hard disk is failing soon. The other partitions are now read-only. Would re-installing Windows 10 fix some ...
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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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How to avoid losing data by disk corruption?
I've had following situation:
Data & Backups: I had a computer (with Windows 10) with data (some files "static" like photos, others with more like "work in progress" things ...
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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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Defective hard disk: Software evidence of last functional activity?
I am calling for Stack's arcanes to know whether it is possible to provide software-based evidence of a Windows 10 laptop's last operational activity before the hard drive went nuts.
The scenario is ...
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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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Is it normal the 2TB USB hard drive become so hot during the TestDisk [Deeper Search] process?
This question is the continuation of my problem in this link.
So I use Testdisk to try to fix my problem.
The highlighted drive is the drive which became RAW (Seagate BUP Slim).
So in short, I did : ...
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Recovery of failing bitlocked HDD: RAW partition instead of NTFS
Short story: My new drive ended up having RAW partition instead of NTFS after running repair-bde command. Can't access any of files.
Long story: Had a 2TB laptop HDD as my second drive for data ...
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S.M.A.R.T results telling me that both SSD and HDD are dying?
I have a question - are those S.M.A.R.T results showing that my both SSD and HDD dying? Did they fail?
Pasted it on pastebin to not make a mess here
https://pastebin.com/tXc3QsPu
Windows S.M.A.R.T ...
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Bios recognizes SSD but doesn't boot from it after bios update
I have updated the bios because my pc going through some stuff right now (like not recognizing my nvme ssd, can't update windows and boot really slow). Just before I updated the bios I chose to save ...
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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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Black screen with only a cursor and security options when I plug my external hdd in
I recently dropped my external hard disk and it wouldn't spin after that and would only make some beeping sounds.
So, I searched on YouTube on how to fix it and opened it up and did this.
But, after ...
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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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