Questions tagged [hard-drive-failure]
Questions about hard drive mechanical failure.
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Reading data from a 23 year old IDE harddrive
I have a 200 MB Western Digital 2.5" IDE drive, originally from an Amiga 1200, that I would like to try to get an image file of, so I can keep the data that is on it.
Since the drive is very old, and ...
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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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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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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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Recover data from one PV of an LVM mirror
A 1TB disk containing one partition which was the only PV in a VG containing one LV was failing by becoming intolerably slow without reporting any errors. My first thought was to attempt to use LVM ...
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Hard drive works intermittently but stalls on a specific sector
I replaced a hard drive for a client, but they have a lot of family photos on the old one, so I'm trying my best to recover them. The drive powers up, but often doesn't appear in HDClone. Sometimes, ...
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NTFS seagate ST31000528AS drive can be accessed from various linux distributions but not from Windows
This a windows 7 NTFS system drive that stopped booting windows.When seen from a windows repair boot DVD it appears as RAW.Seagate diagnostics (Seatools) Fails at 10% of simple diagnostics.BUT various ...
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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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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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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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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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Skipping unreadable files from damaged USB harddisk (Windows)
I have a USB connected harddisk of which many (1000s) files can not be read. The problem is, these files seem randomly distributed over the drive, and it takes a very long time (over an hour) before ...
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Ghost external HDD (OSX): nowhere to be seen
I need to retrieve a hard drive, which was used on Mac, but when connecting the drive it boots and lights-up, except that it doesn't mount, in fact it doesn't appear in my USB bus connection despite ...
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BTRFS RAID5 disk failed while balancing
If you clicked on the link to this topic: Thank you!
I have the following setup:
6x 500GB HDD-Drives1x 32GB NVME-SSD (Intel Optane)
I used bcache to setup up the SSD as caching device and all ...
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RAID-1 corruption: Possible to apply catalog data from one disk to another?
More details can be provided, but here's the basis for the question. I just had a RAID-1 hardware failure which has resulted in an unusual situation:
Disk A, containing the file catalog data, but no ...
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Booted into black screen with a flashing under score
I am having a problem with my computer, a black screen with a flashing under score.
I was updating my system yesterday, then I let it update for awhile to complete and then switch it off. After ...
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Advice on recovery of a failed WD SATA drive
My old internal WD 2TB drive (WD20EARX Jun 2011) which I mainly use for storage (not windows) failed yesterday while I was inside windows - the drive suddenly showed 100% utilisation and the ...
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Laptop HDD Sparky Crackling Sound
Recently my new laptop started producing this sparky, "electric" sound that is coming from hdd. It starts, I think, when the laptop warms a bit. Also my laptop becomes slow ( I guess, same reason). I'...
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SATA hard drive has extremely slow write speed
It was fine until one morning, a few days ago.
Any ideas? Can it be fixed?
P.S. completing that benchmark took FOREVER
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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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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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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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How do I find which disk (volume) is failing?
I am using stock Apache Hadoop 1.1.1 and I can't get a datanode to start due to:
2015-04-23 09:12:48,138 INFO org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.impl.MetricsConfig: loaded properties from hadoop-metrics2....
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Shrink worn-out SSD to prolong lifetime?
I have a 120GB OCZ Agility 3 SSD (latest 2.25 Firmware) which is recognized in BIOS and has the following symptoms when compared to another OCZ SSD in the same machine:
the wear level counter in ...
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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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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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Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 Failing Again
I've got one of the infamous Barracuda 7200.11 hard drives (ST3500320AS), and it ran fine for several years, then failed with a bunch of LBA read errors. It was still under warranty, so I got it ...
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ddrescue rescued "0 B" under current status?
ddrescue rescued "0 B" under current status?
Here is a picture of the screen showing 0 bytes rescued and with /dev/sda messages on the side (are they error messages?):
There doesn't seem to be any ...
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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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No hard drive detected on compaq presario m2000 (IDE hard disk)
My laptop crashed. At first I thought it was a hard disk problem. I bought a new one but the computer keeps telling me that no hard drive is detected.
I have tried to install Windows XP SP2/3, ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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Unstable BCLK/PCIe clock + 4 hard drive failures in 6 weeks after move. Replaced Mobo+CPU but Issue persist & new HDDs failed
I'm having several issues that I believe are related. The issues began when I moved the computer to a new house 6 weeks ago.
The Bus Clock (BCLK & PCI Clock) of my CPU runs ~2Mhz lower than whats ...
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How to copy a Large disk to multiple smaller ones
So I have a 2TB HDD drive that is about to fail. I have around 1.5TB of used space. Now I want to copy all the files from my Big drive to smaller ones. I have 3 500GB drives. The problem is that there ...
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Seagate Backup Plus portable USB HDD beeps and won't mount
About two years ago, I bought me a Seagate "Backup Plus" Portable HDD, 2 TB capacity. Model: SRD00F1. And indeed, I filled it with some content. It's not critical material, but - it's the only copy I ...
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