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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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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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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 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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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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Seatool's Short Generic test fails, but Long Generic test passes
I've got a new Seagate Expansion External hard drive, model STEB5000100 (5TB) from Amazon. It is connected to a computer via USB 3.0
Even though it is brand new I decided to run Seatools tests.
It ...
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external hard drive can not be fornatted
While I was formatting my external hard drive (this one: http://nl.transcend-info.com/Products/No-284), another program that was running caused a failure that aborted the formating. Since then, I have ...
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External USB hard drive and risk of internal condensation?
Apparently you can kill a USB hard drive by moving it from a cold to warm environment and powering it up. The killer being internal condensation.
Q1: How real is the risk? What kind of temperatures ...
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Is this hard-drive beyond recovery? [closed]
A family member dropped a couple of their external hard drives as they were swapping to a new computer.
Needless to say both drives have been ruined, but with different symptoms; the first drive works ...
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Western Digital Elements 1TB USB3.0 Spins up and then beeps?
Well, today, I unplugged my WD external HDD from my laptop so that I could move it to a different port. I was not using any program that would be accessing the drive at the time. However, when I ...
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Is it true that a hard drive need to be used once in a while to stay alive?
I have heard someone saying that someone else said hard-disks need to be "moved" once in a while, meaning it has to spin or data has to read or written to once in a while or something like that.
I am ...
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How to prolong the life of an external hard drive?
In ten years, across several different machines, different companies, and different operating systems I've noticed a trend that external hard drives die long before their internal counterparts. ...
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External HDD Failure: Fell on the ground and now only beeps
My 3,5" portable drive fall on the ground from 40-50cm high.
I connected USB cable to computer. It ran (I heard rotation sound), but the disk not shown under My Computer.
Then disconnected it. While ...
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