Questions tagged [hard-drive-failure]
Questions about hard drive mechanical failure.
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Beeping hard disk in a multiple hard disk configuration
I've been hearing a continuous beeping sound coming from my hard disk. The problem is, I have 2 hard disks and I'm not sure which one it was.
My primary hard disk is WD 250gb and the second one is a ...
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Mean Time to Failure (MTTF): When disk manufacturers post this, how should you interpret their numbers?
Mean Time to Failure (MTTF) is usually given in terms of hours, and by doing some calculations, it seems that a disk should fail only after a good number of years have gone by.
It seems that disks ...
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Unix Utility to Constantly Read and Write Disk to Kill Clicking Drive?
One of my hard drives is slowing down and makes intermittent clicking noises. I'm pretty sure it's about to die and have backed up all it's contents. Is there some hard drive stressing utility or ...
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Seagate hardisk clicking and suspending access, but Seatools passes all tests. How to RMA
The drive access will periodically hang for 10-20 seconds at a time, it always gets there in the end but there's no doubt that the drive's on the way out.
Will I have to wait for it to actually fail ...
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My harddrive failed SMART check and short drive self test. What should I do?
I used SeaTools for Windows to test my harddrive and i failed the S.M.A.R.T check and Short Drive Self Test.
What's wrong with my hard drive?
Is it a big problem? Do I need to do anything to solve ...
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Why is my Seagate desktop HD not being detected?
I purchased a new Seagate 1tb Barracuda 7200.12 hard drive 1 month ago and installed it
successfully. I experienced no problems with it until yesterday when I turned off my PC. When I powered it up a ...
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Seagate HDD burnt PCB
We've been experiencing a rather odd volume of Seagate Barracuda [7200.9 (80GB)] HDD failures that resulted in brown spots on the PCB (hence "burning").
These units come from machines running RAID1 ...
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Something went wrong with external hard-drive, can I get my data back?
I have Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex External Hard Drive (500GB) and today when I plugged it to the laptop, it wasn't detected, and the indicator also remained off, however, I noticed a beep sound at ...
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Seagate barracuda 2TB drive not loading/freezing system
A day ago, the drive would fail to copy certain files and had thought that this was a problem of the OS; later however, the system would only recognize the drive at certain times and so had to ...
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How to prevent programs (e.g. Process Monitor) from killing my SSD in 2 weeks?
I just got my first SSD - Intel 320 Series 120GB yesterday. And I have SSDLife monitoring in the background. I have TRIM enabled.
After I have installed all software, and did some basic testings. ...
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Are SSD's really reliable enough for power users? [closed]
TL;DR (though please read my full experience before jumping in with a quick answer.)
A power user performs a certain amount of write cycles. Does an MLC SSD drive support enough write cycles to last ...
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Seagate hard drive, logic board fried. Desperately need replacement [closed]
As a Christmas present to my grandparents I was going to backup their data, format their hard drive and reinstall the OS so their computer ran better. A few minutes after started to work on it the ...
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How do I fix a boot process that broke because of a failed hard drive? (Windows 7)
I used Windows XP for years, before I was able to get my hands on Windows 7 RC, which I bought a new HDD for, and setup to dual-boot. About a month ago, Windows XP started acting funny, and I thought ...
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