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3.5 inch HDD making clicking noise (video included) [closed]
Seeking Advice: Recovering Data from Clicking 3.5" HDD
I have an approximately 10-year-old 3.5-inch SATA hard drive that I'm trying to get old personal files off of. When connected via a SATA-to-...
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Are there recovery options for a SSD drive which is not detected anymore?
The SSD drive on my laptop is not detected anymore, resulting in a "no bootable device" error at startup. If possible, I would like to recover some of the files from the drive.
I use Linux ...
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Does my HDD still work after almost 10years not in use?
I found my HDD HD250HJ from Samsung after 10years.
The whole HDD is encrypted with TrueCrypt 7.1 and is a hidden volume.
When I plugged in my HDD it's not visible in the explorer nor in TrueCrypt.
Is ...
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How to fix issue with hard disk leading to "The installer encountered an unrecoverable error" with Ubuntu 20.04
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 20.04 on an Asus having an SSD (1To) as the only hard disk and I ran into a bunch of issues.
When I thought that the installation ended I got this error message displayed: ...
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How often is HDD data completely unrecoverable?
My question is simple. Let's say I'm an average desktop PC or laptop user. My hard drive fails. I take it to an expert to recover lost data.
How often is the data recovering process absolutely and ...
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Hard drive not detected
I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, but I am desperately in need of finding the solution, so here goes.....
Back story :
Yesterday I dropped my phone on my laptop keyboard ...
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How to know if the hard drive is corrupted or the iso or the usb?
I had deleted all the partirions of my internal hard disk and created an unallocated space for the clean installation of windows 7. I also have a bootable usb of windows 7. But when I boot from it, it ...
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High Reallocated Sectors Count and Current Pending Sector Count and Uncorrectable Sector Count, Is the disk dead?
I am using a raid 1 system. Yesterday one of the disks caused raid 1 degradation
Today i have connected that disk into another computer
From smart data of the disk I see the following problems
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After performing a platter swap (hard drive repair) it seems like the issue isn't with the PCB or head or mechanics but with the platter itself?
This question isn't mainly about recovering the data. I just don't understand how to interpret my observations.
Initial situation:
So I have this old 320 GB 2.5" hard drive which wouldn't get ...
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How to restore my hdd?
My 1TB HDD sudenly dissapeared from my laptop, bought in October. It is not visible from Disk Manager screen. Reseting computer and deleting last Windows 10 update did nothing.
Lately, it wasn't ...
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USB HD shows in 'Device Manager' but not 'Disk Management'
After various software and hardware (driver) issues on my laptop, I decided to back-up and then format, reinstalling Windows 7.
While reaching for the portable drive, I dropped it, less than a foot. ...
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Laptop HDD failing? Can I repair it?
I have already backed up my HDD.
Questions:
Has it already corrupt data stored on it?
Can I repair it and if yes how?
If I repair it, can I trust data from that HDD?
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Backing up HDD with bad sectors. Why is it so slow?
So I have a Western Digital 2TB WD20EARS "Caviar Green" HDD that managed to fail on me after only ~3 years of use. I had it in a home server machine that I frankenstein'd together, though the machine ...
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Regarding Bad Sectors on Hard Drives
Modern hard drives utilize a 4,096 byte sector size when storing information. For a hypothetical exercise let's say we are attempting to store 40,960 bytes (10 sectors) worth of data on the drive. ...
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Accidentally started diskpart format on 2TB external drive, and now Explorer can't see it
On the command line, I used format override fs=fat32 while in diskpart, assuming I had selected my 8GB flash drive, and realised I'd accidentally selected my 2TB external drive which had been assigned ...
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