Questions tagged [hard-drive-failure]
Questions about hard drive mechanical failure.
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Shrink worn-out SSD to prolong lifetime?
I have a 120GB OCZ Agility 3 SSD (latest 2.25 Firmware) which is recognized in BIOS and has the following symptoms when compared to another OCZ SSD in the same machine:
the wear level counter in ...
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Reinstalling OEM Windows 7 Without Original Disc?
My grandfathers 2 year old Dell laptop recently suffered a hard drive failure. I purchased a replacement hard drive and installed it for him.
Unfortunately no Windows disc was provided with the ...
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Difference between bad block, bad sector and bad cluster? repairing
So recently my system (win7 64) started running strange.
Open file dialog broken, random service crashes, .
Throughout the day the system was getting less and less stable until continuous blue screens ...
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Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 Failing Again
I've got one of the infamous Barracuda 7200.11 hard drives (ST3500320AS), and it ran fine for several years, then failed with a bunch of LBA read errors. It was still under warranty, so I got it ...
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ddrescue rescued "0 B" under current status?
ddrescue rescued "0 B" under current status?
Here is a picture of the screen showing 0 bytes rescued and with /dev/sda messages on the side (are they error messages?):
There doesn't seem to be any ...
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Seagate hdd (internal) unmount/disappear after awhile i plugged in
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Before my Seagate ST1000DM003 (1TB) failed, the disk usage always goes up to 100% active with no transfer rate, this causing my pc freeze randomly. BIOS POST shows up'S.M.A.R.T. COMMAND ...
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No hard drive detected on compaq presario m2000 (IDE hard disk)
My laptop crashed. At first I thought it was a hard disk problem. I bought a new one but the computer keeps telling me that no hard drive is detected.
I have tried to install Windows XP SP2/3, ...
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Can't access HDD External
So I have 2 HDD external that can't be accessed
Both showing at devices and printer
But doesn't show at computer
In devices and printer it says BUP portable and expansion but I can't access both
Light ...
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Advice on next steps for recovery? (WD 3TB MyBook Essential)
My Western Digital 3TB MyBook Essential (Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)) made a knocking noise a couple of years ago during a Time Machine backup on my mac:
Time Machine couldn't ...
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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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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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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?
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