Questions tagged [hard-drive-failure]
Questions about hard drive mechanical failure.
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Data rescue - general advice & ddrescue output
I have a broken 4TB NTFS Seagate HDD with thousands of tiff images with measurement data:
Ubuntu Disk tells me, "Disk is OK, one bad sector", Contents: "Unknown".
The BIOS doesn't ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 with sudden filling of the disk
My problem:
I was using Ubuntu 18.04 as normal and then suddenly it popped that i am left with few MB's out of 497GB.
My 1 TB hard drive is divided into two partition one is having 497 GB and the rest ...
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Unstable BCLK/PCIe clock + 4 hard drive failures in 6 weeks after move. Replaced Mobo+CPU but Issue persist & new HDDs failed
I'm having several issues that I believe are related. The issues began when I moved the computer to a new house 6 weeks ago.
The Bus Clock (BCLK & PCI Clock) of my CPU runs ~2Mhz lower than whats ...
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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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Seagate Backup Plus portable USB HDD beeps and won't mount
About two years ago, I bought me a Seagate "Backup Plus" Portable HDD, 2 TB capacity. Model: SRD00F1. And indeed, I filled it with some content. It's not critical material, but - it's the only copy I ...
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Black screen with only a cursor and security options when I plug my external hdd in
I recently dropped my external hard disk and it wouldn't spin after that and would only make some beeping sounds.
So, I searched on YouTube on how to fix it and opened it up and did this.
But, after ...
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Should I back up the data on a RAID 5 that had one drive fail?
I have a CentOS server that uses a RAID 5 array for data storage. Recently, one of the four drives in the array failed, and I was wondering whether it makes more sense to back up everything on the ...
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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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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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Laptop HDD fail, Shows partition but can not copy data, testdisk MBR code fail
I use 2TB HDD in my laptop with 250 GB partition for windows 10 and rest for data storage. I switched my laptop so moved the HDD from old to new laptop and started the system. Windows logo came up but ...
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Blank screen before Windows login screen - is my SSD about to die?
I'm running a Windows 7 system with an ASRock H61M-HVS motherboard which boots from a 128GB Kingston SV200 SSD. The drive has been in use in this capacity since 2010, and until recently has had fast ...
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Lots of disk errors but no hardware alert. Is this hardware related or software?
Summary: Random disks on one datanode of an Hadoop cluster keeps getting read-only. Jobs fails but there is no hardware alert on server.
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I am administring an Hadoop cluster which runs on ...
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I attempted to repair a hard drive and it doesn't show up anymore
I have a computer who's motherboard fried, and in the beginning the hard drive was detected by the computer but I couldn't access the files so I tried using the program TestDisk to fix it. From the ...
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What could cause the power-on hours of a disk to reset?
I have three hard disks in my laptop, bought about 4½ years ago (March 2013). One 500 GB disk is from an older laptop (so 5+ years old), one 500 GB came with the laptop, and I added a 1 TB disk two ...
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Random slow POST or no POST with harddrive
Has anyone experience random slow POST or no POST at all with a harddrive?
I tested pluging and unplugging my hardware to see what is causing this issue.
And when I got into unplugging the harddrive,...
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