Questions tagged [hard-drive-failure]
Questions about hard drive mechanical failure.
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Computer doesn't boot up, shows PXE error and/or "operating system not found", "no bootable device", "insert boot media", or other similar error
My computer no longer boots Windows or the installed operating system. Instead, I may get this error:
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
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Check cable connection!
PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM.
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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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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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Mean Time to Failure (MTTF): When disk manufacturers post this, how should you interpret their numbers?
Mean Time to Failure (MTTF) is usually given in terms of hours, and by doing some calculations, it seems that a disk should fail only after a good number of years have gone by.
It seems that disks ...
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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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How do I fix a boot process that broke because of a failed hard drive? (Windows 7)
I used Windows XP for years, before I was able to get my hands on Windows 7 RC, which I bought a new HDD for, and setup to dual-boot. About a month ago, Windows XP started acting funny, and I thought ...
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My harddrive failed SMART check and short drive self test. What should I do?
I used SeaTools for Windows to test my harddrive and i failed the S.M.A.R.T check and Short Drive Self Test.
What's wrong with my hard drive?
Is it a big problem? Do I need to do anything to solve ...
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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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How to prevent programs (e.g. Process Monitor) from killing my SSD in 2 weeks?
I just got my first SSD - Intel 320 Series 120GB yesterday. And I have SSDLife monitoring in the background. I have TRIM enabled.
After I have installed all software, and did some basic testings. ...
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How to prolong the life of an external hard drive?
In ten years, across several different machines, different companies, and different operating systems I've noticed a trend that external hard drives die long before their internal counterparts. ...
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Are SSD's really reliable enough for power users? [closed]
TL;DR (though please read my full experience before jumping in with a quick answer.)
A power user performs a certain amount of write cycles. Does an MLC SSD drive support enough write cycles to last ...
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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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What is the fastest way to force hdd to reallocate bad sectors and discard the data?
I either own or am in charge of (at work) a lot of HDDs that are either part of raid arrays, or there are backups of the data elsewhere.
When a disk is starting to fail and going slow because it's ...
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Whole working Windows 7 partition (on SSD) suddenly became "Unallocated Disk Space"
I have an HP 2540p with Windows 7 installed on a Plextor M3 SSD that sits in the upgrade drive bay (that used to house a DVD drive). The system has been working fine for months until this morning when ...
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Windows detected a hard disk problem — what should I do?
I'm using Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, I'm getting windows error popups like this one for about 3 days, multiple times a day:
This Samsung SpinPoint F3 HD502HJ 500 GB is about 2 years old and I already ...
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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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Is it true that a hard drive need to be used once in a while to stay alive?
I have heard someone saying that someone else said hard-disks need to be "moved" once in a while, meaning it has to spin or data has to read or written to once in a while or something like that.
I am ...
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How should I store a spare HDD for maximum lifetime, when the disks in use may not fail for years?
I've got about 12 large enterprise (5 yr warranty) HDDs across 3 computers. Their current ages are 4 disks @ 2-3 years and the rest 3-6 months, so they're all past their 3 month burn-in and no SMART ...
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Difference between bad block, bad sector and bad cluster? repairing
So recently my system (win7 64) started running strange.
Open file dialog broken, random service crashes, .
Throughout the day the system was getting less and less stable until continuous blue screens ...
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HDD IO errors, is this definitely a HDD failure or could it be something else? kernel.log
This HDD's history
The hard drive is 1.5TB, 6 years old. IIRC it's 7200RPM with a ATA133 interface, using the motherboard's onboard controller. It gave perfect service in a big desktop PC, then 1 ...
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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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Can the $BadClus file hold recoverable data?
I have an external hard drive that a family member dropped but however still functions perfectly other than the drive is not partitioned; the drive doesn't even click in the way a normal damaged hard ...
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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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Are there any possibilities to recover data from dead hard disc [duplicate]
I have an Sea-gate 500gb hard disc that is completely dead, i mean when i connect hard disc to my system it is not getting detected.
But i had so much of important data in it, i need those data now.
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