Questions tagged [hard-drive-failure]
Questions about hard drive mechanical failure.
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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
C:\...
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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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