Questions tagged [hard-drive-failure]
Questions about hard drive mechanical failure.
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What does "spare capacity available: 99%" mean in a disk report?
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What does "spare capacity available: 99%" mean in a disk report?
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Can't access HDD External
So I have 2 HDD external that can't be accessed
Both showing at devices and printer
But doesn't show at computer
In devices and printer it says BUP portable and expansion but I can't access both
Light ...
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Why do SSDs tend to fail much more suddenly than HDDs?
Modern PCs tend to use one of two types of internal-storage devices:1 2
Hard-disk drives (HDDs) store data on spinning disks coated in a magnetic recording medium, a technology dating back to the ...
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Temperature threshold CrystalDiskInfo value
Could you please help me get understand what this value (C2 Temperature Threshold 70) means and do I have to worry about ssd or do i need to replace? :
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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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Barracuda 7200.12 making a very loud sound (squeak). Drive is not showing
I have a Barracuda 7200.12 1TB, the drive is not being detected by any OS, before i spin the platters myself that hard drive would make a click sound as if the heads are trying to move but the ...
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REALLOCATED SECTOR COUNT 4948. Request for advice
I felt need of testing because some of my stored games were failing to boot properly. Quick test from HD Tune Pro app displayed 3 red blocks in one of the test runs and a full test always reports 3 ...
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WD External Drive Stopped Working - Are there any Non-Destructive Diagnostic Options? What's the Best Course Of Action?
I'm having problems with my Western Digital My Passport 4TB External Drive.
This model, specifically: WDBYFT004BBK-0A
I was in the process of cross-backing-up data between my live setup (laptop), my ...
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Should I be worried about my SMART values of my drive?
From what I gather, this is really really bad. I should probably replace my drive. But could I get verification that I am correct before doing so?
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
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Reinstalling OEM Windows 7 Without Original Disc?
My grandfathers 2 year old Dell laptop recently suffered a hard drive failure. I purchased a replacement hard drive and installed it for him.
Unfortunately no Windows disc was provided with the ...
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Interpret the output of smartctl for SSD and hard drive
I have dropped my external hard drive on the floor recently and wanted to know if the electronic parts and mechanical parts were damaged. I have no idea how to find this out from the output of ...
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Failing HDDs - detection, backup strategies and reuse
I have a 2TB Seagate HDD that I believe has reached the end of its life in my primary Windows 11 box. It is the data drive - it contains things like video games, source code (backed by a remote repo), ...
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How can I recover dead SSD drives?
I haven't lost any mission critical data or anything, but I have in my possession a large number of SSD 2.5" drives that were pulled for unreliability or being "dead". I am curious if there's any way ...
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Is recovery possible if nothing can be read?
I have a failed hard drive (from the infamous ST3000DM001 line). The symptoms of this failure are that it registers the wrong size when plugged into any system (usually 4.1GB when it's supposed to be ...
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Formatting new identical HDDs, one taking way longer
I have recently purchased 2 identical HDDs:
Model Family: Seagate BarraCuda 3.5
Device Model: ST4000DM004-2U9104 (labeled as ST4000DMZ04)
Capacity: 4.00 TB [3.64 TiB, 4000787030016 bytes]
I've ...
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SSD – smartctl – Status
I have a SAMSUNG SSD 830 Series SSD in my MacBook Pro. In my work, I need to analyse huges amounts of data. I have php scripts that extract the data, build csv sheets, then gnuplot generates hundreds ...
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Hard Drive Failure? - Reallocated Sector Count
I recently noticed Windows was extremely slow and some programs failed to run.
The hard disk is checked during boot randomly. Sometimes checks go to Stage 5: 100s of thousands of sectors.
After a ...
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What does a beep sound mean from a working hard disk?
I have a laptop of 7 years old with a 2TB Seagate hard disk. About 2 years ago I heard a loud beep sound and it didn't happen again after months. But nowadays the intervals between the beep sound get'...
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Power outage during disk wipe. What do I do now?
I was using Roadkil Diskwipe on an external hard drive and the power went out. I had removed it from any outlet connection by the time power was restored to prevent power-spike damage (it's on a surge ...
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If SSD content is changed due to this kind of error, should you get new SSD?
This came up when I booted. When I did the manual fsck it told that it changed the content of the drive. Is there a way to know which file(s) is affected?
The system is running Ubuntu 20.04 and this ...
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Advice on next steps for recovery? (WD 3TB MyBook Essential)
My Western Digital 3TB MyBook Essential (Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)) made a knocking noise a couple of years ago during a Time Machine backup on my mac:
Time Machine couldn't ...
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Why does Windows 10 stop seeing an internal hard drive while I am using a program on it?
Fundamental question: is my drive failing and I should clone the information off it onto a new (preferably SSD) hard drive?
The computer is running Windows 10.0.19041 Build 19041, with a Gigabyte H370 ...
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Recovering data from failing hard-drive using ddrescue
Lately my hard-drive have failed me. I'm trying to rescue some important data from it and right now im stuck doing this... I've read about ddrescue data recovery tool and it seems like it's doing its ...
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Hard drives seemingly no longer has bad sectors on it after erase and reformat
I have a Seagate SSHD laptop hard drive. When I use Seagates Software SeaTools. The drive used to fail the short drive self-tests and the long generic test. When it failed tests sea tools would warn ...
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Is it bad keeping an external hard drive on my desk – given vibrations from typing on keyboard?
I keep an external hard disk on my desk, which is usually turned off, but I will plug it in occasionally to do backups of my computer.
A friend told me that it's a bad idea to be typing on the ...
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Ca running OS from corrupted drive cause data corruption
I have a slightly bad 1TB drive (2 bad sectors, that cannot be read).
I would like to use it anyway as an OS drive in my spare machine. I would not put any critical data on that drive, it would be ...
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Refurbish partially failed hard drive?
A friend gave me an external hard drive that had been performing terribly to see what I can diagnose and fix.
First step was shucking the drive to eliminate the USB controller as a variable. Then I ...
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Any way to tweak Windows' kernels or drives to handle I/O and reduce or eliminate hangs with failing drives?
I frequently work with failing hard drives for data recovery and various tasks. These tasks are usually short lived in nature, but important. The way Windows seems to handle any failing drive that's ...
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drive failing, dd back failed at 33%, can I partially recover?
An external hard drive had trouble mounting after bootup. So I began to clone it using dd.This was quite a while ago, and so I don't recall the exact parameters. Something rather standard for a ...
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Most resilient container for archiving many small files
Recently I've setup a new system to handle my data hoarding needs. I have a few HDDs (2TB, 4TB, 8TB, looking to add more soon) in a StableBit DrivePool without duplication. An external 8TB HDD where I ...
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Pre-failure and old age on new drive
So I just bought a WD Blue hard drive, brand new. I plugged it in and checked the S.M.A.R.T. values- and kinda got shocked.
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME ...
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Harddisk with >10k bad sectors
My computer has two drive : SSD for C drive ,HDD for D drive
My Windows OS is installed in C drive
Recently ,when I click the folders ,the File Manager always hangs. I cant even turn off the computer (...
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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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How to avoid losing data by disk corruption?
I've had following situation:
Data & Backups: I had a computer (with Windows 10) with data (some files "static" like photos, others with more like "work in progress" things ...
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Will tools like shred, wipe or dd (or hard drives in general) check that a write was successful?
I usually use shred to delete complete hard drives.
But I was wondering if and how tools like shred, wipe or dd verify that the expected bits end up on the hard drive.
Does a hard drive always check ...
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Bios recognizes SSD but doesn't boot from it after bios update
I have updated the bios because my pc going through some stuff right now (like not recognizing my nvme ssd, can't update windows and boot really slow). Just before I updated the bios I chose to save ...
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Is it only writting to a HDD which causes failure? [duplicate]
This is probably a dumb question, but for platter drives specifically, is it only writing to them which causes eventual failure?
Like, if you wrote a load of data once, and then only ever read it ...
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SSD stopped working suddenly. Any chance of data recovery?
I have been using a Corsair Force 3 (120GB) SSD since last 1.5 years.
Yesterday, the laptop freezed suddenly and I had to hard reset it.
Then it refused to boot as if no HDD was installed. This has ...
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Does spinning harddrive not showing up in BIOS suggest logic board failure?
My 2 TB 3.5" SATA harddrive failed while being used in an USB enclosure. I'm trying to determine the cause based on the symptoms.
The drive fails to work in two working SATA-USB enclosures on ...
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Can't access external harddrive in OSX
For some reason i can't access my external HDD anymore. It's not showing up in Finder, although i can see it in the Volumes folder and in Disk Utility app.
When i access the HDD from terminal and try ...
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Internal HDD not showing up anymore
One of my internal hard disks(out of 3) stopped showing up in Disk management(Windows) or Disks(Ubuntu). Its showing up in BiOS.
These are what i could find from ubuntu terminal:
"sdc is the one ...
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usb stick's broken after badblock with -w option
I have two usb sticks with 8Gb and 128Gb size. For different reasons, I pass badblocks with -svw option, and now both sticks are totally damaged. Every time I want to write on it I have the same error:...
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How to fix my old, seemingly dead Seagate internal HD
I think I know the ultimate answer, but I'd like to know the cause.
I have an old, custom-enclosure Maxtor OneTouch 4 750gb, which contains a Seagate Barracuda 7200 internal hard drive. I tried to use ...
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WD External Harddisk turning on and off repeatedly
It's a 5yrs+ old 3TB external harddisk running fine until a couple of months ago when I had a power outage.
After that, it stopped functioning properly. It stays on (with all the data intact), and ...
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Is it normal the 2TB USB hard drive become so hot during the TestDisk [Deeper Search] process?
This question is the continuation of my problem in this link.
So I use Testdisk to try to fix my problem.
The highlighted drive is the drive which became RAW (Seagate BUP Slim).
So in short, I did : ...
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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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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 does storage space (Simple), without resilience, save the files on the harddisk
If you create for example 3x4tb Storage spaces, without any resilience (simple), and one drive crashes, will you lose everything, or just that's on just that drive?
is it saving the data in stripes ...
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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 ...
