Questions tagged [hard-drive-failure]
Questions about hard drive mechanical failure.
91
questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
0
votes
0
answers
1k
views
Troubleshooting failing disk hardware (no medium present) on Linux?
Ok, I was working on my Asus TX300CA, which has a tablet part with CPU and one hard drive in it (/dev/sda), and a keyboard dock with another hard drive (/dev/sdb). The partitions on the drives from ...
- 5,738
0
votes
0
answers
200
views
StorageSpaces reports Media Failure and retired the drive, but the drive appears fine
A few days ago my computer started acting funny with mysterious errors and crashes, it felt like it maybe should have BSOD'ed "to prevent damage to my computer", but didn't. It took half an hour to ...
- 1,250
0
votes
0
answers
178
views
Widespread File Corruption - HDD failure, or other components corrupting drives?
Apologies in advance, this will be a long post as I figure explaining everything that's relevant is better than being vague and having a long back-and-forth. The main reason I'm asking here is because ...
0
votes
0
answers
36
views
Windows doesnt recognize my hdd
I have one 250 GB SSD, one 1500 GB, and the last one is 4000 GB.
But last time the cables get unplugged. I fixed today and only say Disco 1 is a 128 GB disk instead. BIOS also detect the disk but see ...
0
votes
1
answer
1k
views
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....
0
votes
0
answers
35
views
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, ...
0
votes
1
answer
945
views
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 ...
- 1
0
votes
0
answers
57
views
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 ...
- 103
0
votes
1
answer
510
views
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 ...
- 1
0
votes
0
answers
656
views
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 ...
- 191
0
votes
0
answers
630
views
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 ...
- 6,548
0
votes
0
answers
67
views
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 ...
- 152
0
votes
0
answers
342
views
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 ...
- 539
0
votes
1
answer
2k
views
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)
...
- 1
0
votes
0
answers
44
views
Installed Kubuntu on old hard drive and now it's making loud clicking noises
I recently installed Kubuntu on a very old hard drive (it's 10 years old at least). It installed OK, but when I started the computer, I heard the hard drive making loud noises – sounds most like the ...
user459171