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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Can't boot windows

So I have a Dell Inspiron 15 7537 laptop for about one and a half year, it has performed quite well over the years. But yesterday when I started it, it got stuck in the Dell logo. I ran the ePSA and ...
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