Questions tagged [hard-drive-failure]
Questions about hard drive mechanical failure.
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Hard drive clicking, is my hdd dying?
I have a laptop HP ProBook 455 G1. 50% of the time when laptop is writing(hdd led is blinking) I hear a clicking sound and it is definitely my hdd. It started a few months ago, but I wasn't worried ...
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Synology NAS smart error
I have an old Synology DS209 running DSM 4.2-3256 and have 2 hard disks installed (raid 1) I have read something similar on How can I verify the health of hard disks using a Synology NAS?
And have ...
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Do random accesses wear hard disks?
For classical, old-style, non solid state hard disks (HDD), I know that random accesses are much slower than sequential accesses since the physical tip needs to jump from one point of the disk to ...
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What do the current, worst, and threshold SMART values mean?
I have a 2TB internal hard drive that might be failing. It spends several minutes at 100% usage when I first turn it on since I installed Windows 10, and yesterday it reported a corrupted Recycle Bin.
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Random, very specific kind of reboot in PC
My computer is rendered unusable due to immediate restarts after booting up. Sometimes it is within seconds, and sometimes within minutes. On a new day (after 8-9 hours) it runs well for a few hours, ...
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WD MyBook Won't Power On
A friend of mine recently gave me an old WD MyBook mirror edition external harddrive. It's a 2Tb drive (2 1Tb drives inside) so it's quit a bit of space to be handed for free. Problem is, it doesn't ...
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damaged hdd: recovery possibilities?
I've had a damaged Samsung HM500JJ Rev. A laptop drive lying around for some time but only recently tried to recover any data from it. It died just after a year of use, out of the blue: no indications ...
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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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How to prove Seagate drive failing for replacement under warranty?
I've got a fairly new 4TB Seagate Backup Plus portable drive, still under warranty. It's suddenly started to somewhat regularly bring my whole system down during heavy usage, with I/O errors reported ...
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RAID controller says drive failed, another computer says it's healthy
I have a home server with the following specifications:
Lenovo TS140 Server
IBM ServeRAID M5015 RAID Controller
4x WD Red 4TB Drives (WD40EFRX) in RAID 10
3WARE SFF-8087 Cable (CBL-SFF8087OCF-05M) ...
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How to replace wins 7 without disk - Hard drive failure
My hard drive on my HP laptop has failed. I do not have a install/backup disk.
How can I install windows 7 onto new hard drive without a disk?
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My Laptop became extremely slow and found error with hard disk
I am using Dell Inspiron N5010 (windows 8). It was working fine, suddenly it became extremely slow. So I had restored my laptop to a previous Restore Point. After restoring I got this error message.
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Smart extended test fails on same LBA every time. Is my drive really dying?
I ran a smart extended test on my old laptop's hard disk, and got a read error. I ran it again, and it got the same LBA of the error. Does this mean the disk is really dying, or just that there is a ...
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HDD IO errors, is this definitely a HDD failure or could it be something else? kernel.log
This HDD's history
The hard drive is 1.5TB, 6 years old. IIRC it's 7200RPM with a ATA133 interface, using the motherboard's onboard controller. It gave perfect service in a big desktop PC, then 1 ...
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Dell Optiplex 960 will not boot
I had to power my desktop down by holding the power button on until it shut down. Now when I press the power button the green light flashes a few moments on the number 3 on the harddrive and then ...
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Laptop HDD Sparky Crackling Sound
Recently my new laptop started producing this sparky, "electric" sound that is coming from hdd. It starts, I think, when the laptop warms a bit. Also my laptop becomes slow ( I guess, same reason). I'...
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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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Hard drive failure recovery
Yesterday my family's laptop's hdd gave out and stop working. When the computer is turned on it says Checking Media [fail]. After I go into the BIOS settings is says Fixed HDD <Not Detected&...
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SATA hard drive has extremely slow write speed
It was fine until one morning, a few days ago.
Any ideas? Can it be fixed?
P.S. completing that benchmark took FOREVER
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Does URE apply in non-RAID setups?
According to this article (http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-raid-5-stops-working-in-2009/) if you have a RAID 5 setup and one of your drives decides to die you would replace the dead one with a new ...
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Storage Spaces marks all disks as failed after 30 minutes of copying files
I have an Intel NUC with Windows 10 64bits, I connected with USB3.0 (UASP) an 8-bay HDD enclosure that contains 2 new HDD WD Red 6Tb, and 1 old HDD WD Green 2Tb (99% full but healthy, formatted with ...
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Is it possible to damage my computer by installing an old HDD?
I found an old 1TB HDD in my basement. I don't remember why I removed it from and older PC the past - maybe because it was failing, or maybe because of a computer upgrade. I'm not sure it has always ...
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Is my hard drive faulty?
I have a new laptop with both an SSD and an HDD. However, it seems like the HDD is faulty because content on it seems to skip. For example, I'd play a game on it and occasionally the game would freeze ...
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Is my hard drive dying or is it an OS issue?
Our tech doesn't think it's a hardware failure and is planning to reinstall windows. I ran chkdsk and it didn't find anything, but I keep seeing other oddities. Examples below:
DSIM Error
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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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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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Can I move a hard disk platter to another hard drive?
My hard disk just started making a ticking sound, and then it stopped spinning. I checked the inside and saw that the r/w head is broken.
Can I just move the platter to another hard drive or will it ...
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Using an external drive from Seagate with an HDD from Samsung
I have been running my external drive Seagate STBV20002004.5 for 2.5 years until it started showing read errors. I disassembled it and replaced the HDD with a Samsung HD501LJ (which, I am sure, is ...
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How many drives can I safely lose in a RAID-10 array?
In a 4-drive RAID-10 setup, how many drives can I "safely" lose before the data becomes unrecoverable? It's a bit unclear to me whether the setup provides one drive or two drives worth of redundancy.
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HDD Failure? Seagate 320GB
I have a Seagate Barracuda ST3320820SCE 320GB HDD 7200RPM Brand new from a trusted seller on eBay (i know, but it’s new)
Worked fine then today I got 2 crashes causing windows to shut down.
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Which copy will be used when RAID1 loses a piece of data? [duplicate]
The case of complete drive failure is pretty clear for RAID1: the faulty drive simply does not work and data is being read from the good one.
Now the other real situation: the drive works, but some ...
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External HD stops working while transferring files
I was moving some files into my external HD (WD Elements 4TB) when it suddenly stopped working, on the copy window i had a message saying that the destination was not available. When i touched the HD ...
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Fujitsu Lifebook A514 Setup Warning Boot Failure
Day before yesterday, everything was working without a problem. My notebook (Fujitsu A514 Lifebook) was running Debian testing amd64 on kernel 4.2. I put it to upgrade, and it ran completely. Then ...
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Lenovo Thinkpad HDD Error While Running Recovery Tool - Windows 7 OS
My Lenovo T430 started to "hang" or shut-down unexpectedly. Norton's did not find any viruses, but when running the Lenovo hardware tests (included with the system), a HDD failure was identified. I ...
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Is my hard drive failing? Win 10 won't boot
My son's Windows 10 laptop won't boot, laptop fell a couple feet while powered up but booted fine right after that. A couple hours later it wouldn't boot, and got stuck after a few seconds on the ...
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Solid State Drive became unresponsive after large file download - Is it dying?
Do some solid state drives have a hard time dealing with instructions when they have low free space? Or should I expect that the drive is at the end of its life (at just over 1 year)?
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Can a failed SSD have zero bad sectors?
Today, my Windows 7 pc decided it didn't want to boot out of the blue. After the bios screen, all I see is a black screen. No windows logo, no text, just black.
I've ran chkdsk off a boot CD and it ...
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Would frequently reinstalling Linux distros affect the life of my hard disk?
I have Ubuntu and Fedora Linux distributions on my computer. I try to tweak many things in both of them and many times mess things up. So I normally reinstall the OS to fix it (as a last resort).
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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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How to tell whether the memory chips or controller have failed on an SSD?
I've got an Intel SSD 320 Series 160GB that's suddenly failed - it just wouldn't boot one day. I'd like to have a go at recovering the data by desoldering the memory chips and soldering them onto the ...
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2TB Seagate External GoFlex external hard drive failure: Is there anything I can do?
I have a 2TB Seagate External GoFlex—which has a Seagate 2TB 9VT156-570 installed—that I’d like to recover the data from. It was working and I was going to make a backup. I bought a SATA docking ...
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Is I/O error sufficient reason to return SSD on warranty?
Several times I’ve encountered heavy disk errors leading to complete system crash, after reboot m/b doesn’t detect SSD till full PC poweroff.
Here is log I've managed to display before OS gone ...
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RAID Disk failure - one per day (3ware 9650SE - Seagate Barracuda 3TB)
I have a RAID6 config, with 3ware 9650SE-8LPML card and 6x Seagate Barracuda 3000GB running from early 2012 (May?). Those HDD were quite big for that time.
They always made a strange noise when ...
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NTFS partition is in an unsafe state: failure to boot Windows 8 Lenovo laptop
I have Lenovo G50-45 that after power on have no signs on the screen, though cpu fan is rotating, that goes to self power off after few seconds of such a state and self power on to repeat the same ...
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Computer boots to black PXE screen, then reports "no bootable device"
When I turn on my computer, I get the following on a black screen:
Intel UNDI, PXE-2.1 (build 082)
Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation
For Atheros PCIE Ethernet Controller v2.0.0.4 (03/03/09)
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Why are my drives failling (version 2)?
I have a problem similar to the one described on question Why are my hard drives failing?. I have a PC assembled by my self and It has worked fine for 3 years but recently It have been killing hard ...
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Did a Primary Hard Disk Self Test on my HP Pavilion dm4; what do these results mean?
I did a Primary Hard Disk Self Test and I would want to know what the results mean. I do know that my Hard Disk has failures...
My laptop is HP Pavilion dm4.
This is the first screen picture and ...
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What does fsck mean with “Filesystem has n clusters but only space for n-m FAT entries. (m>0)”?
I started a long time copy action onto my external HD. I went away, and somehow the energy saving mechanism must have realized that the user was idle and suspended the machine. (BTW, what exactly is ...
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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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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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