Questions tagged [hard-drive-failure]
Questions about hard drive mechanical failure.
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My Hitachi HDD cannot be read or written to, but SMART results and others are OK. Why?
I do not care about any data on the drive and I do not intend to store important data on the drive in future - this is purely an academic exercise!
Attempting to read or write results in a failure:
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HDD issue: Buffer I/O error on dev
One of my drives that's encrypted (LUKS + cryptsetup) ext4 seems to give strange errors when looking at dmesg / syslog:
https://pastebin.com/RZdJK2qg
And I can't ls into it (but I can cd into it)
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Failing hard drive or bad controller after hard shutdown
After nouveau freezing everything with dual monitor for the millionth time I had to cut power on my macbook pro (mid 2010, fedora 24, SAMSUNG HN-M500MBB hard drive). Wasn't doing anything IO heavy ...
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Boot-loop, error code 0xc0000225, after full-drive encryption
I encrypted both my personal and system file drives using Diskcryptor, after full completion I set my laptop to hibernate. Now, my device is stuck in a bootloop with my only option being to use CMD as ...
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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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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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HDD Raw Read Error Rate over limit
I've been trying to make a clone of this HDD for a day now, but it's been horribly slow. Someone recommended doing a chkdsk on the drive and then rebooting, but chkdsk was going way too slow as well—...
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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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Fedora just warned me hard drive might fail soon
So I bought a "Asus X540LA Laptop, Intel Core i7-5500U 2.4GHz, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD" in June this year. And today I got a warning that the HDD would fail in <24 hours. I ran smartctl to diagnose the ...
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What happens to a RAID 0 array if some of the constituent drives are unavailable?
If I have three drives in a RAID 0 array containing a file system, and I happen to disconnect two of the drives, then what would I see on the only connected drive? Would I see nothing? Would I get an ...
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Damaged disk, what are my options
I think I have a damaged hard drive, with lots of PRECIOUS data on it. I always had a backup drive somewhere of it, but I needed it so I ordered more hard drives (should be here tomorrow or so) and ...
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Do 3TB hard drives have a high failure rate? [closed]
I just picked up a couple new Western Digital 3TB hard drives, and I was having some minor issues with one of them that is causing it to randomly un-mount. So I was Googling a bit and there seems to ...
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Is my Hard Drive repairable OR can I get my data back (Picture)?
I have an old 80GB Seagate Baracuda Harddisk.
It fell on my toe.
That time it was working fine.
But today as I turned my pc on and this happened.
Can replacing the circuit board will help me ...
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Windows does not detect my hard drive
my hard drive (WD Scorpio Blue 1TB) is not recognized by my Windows 7. The hard drive spins but it clicks every 2-3 minutes and is not recognized by windows using sata to usb cable and sata only. I ...
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HDD S.M.A.R.T. information
Hello. Yesterday I was trying to install a program, when it got stuck. Afterwards, I saw a notice from Windows saying I should back up my data. I know if S.M.A.R.T. tells you something is wrong, then ...
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