Questions tagged [hard-drive]
A hard disk drive (or HDD) is a non-volatile, random access device for storing digital data.
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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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Unusual Boot Issue - Windows 10
I have windows 10 Home Edition and I generally leave my PC on round-the-clock. Today I had to restart my PC andWindows forced an update on me like usual, except this time it would not boot back. I had ...
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External HDD (1 EXT4 Partition) Won't Show Up On Other Linux Computer
I have recently formatted a Seagate 2TB portable HDD with 1 EXT4 partition (from my laptop running arch). When attempting to access this on my PopOS desktop, the drive will not show up in the file ...
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Save a btrfs disk after power failure?
I have a non-system 4TB Western Digital disk (WD4000F9YZ) with a sole btrfs partition that no longer shows up after a power failure.
I can see this in /var/syslog that it's struggling to do something ...
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How do you mount your physical hard drive to VirtualBox?
I have a physical two terabyte laptop hard drive that I want access. The hard drive itself contains a Windows 10 Home OS that used to belong to an HP 15-da0061cl notebook. I used to own that notebook ...
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MotherBoard or NVME disc error - unclear
Recently there was a power outage, and while the PC seemed fine, woke up later to all NVME disks not being bootable.
I had a dual boot win11 and ubuntu, I was still able to access all the files on the ...
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Can't read my user files from internal hard drive using USB 3.0 To SATA and IDE Cable
I am using a USB 3.0 to SATA adaptor to recover data from some old internal hard drives from old laptops. The hard drive had been used on a Windows 11 laptop.
I can see all of the folder structures ...
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PC won't boot from drive when I select it, but if I select boot from file and specify GRUB it works
fdisk HDD and grub installI have an HP Elite X2 and the OS on the ssd is windows 11. I have a external hdd with Kali Linux installed and it works fine on other laptops. But on this one it won't boot ...
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Old HDD not recognized by Windows
I connected my old PC's HDD external drive to my laptop. (I have a connector to connect it. Since it requires an additional voltage to run, I've all the necessary tools and I am able to connect it to ...
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Fix a HDD that got bricked due to reboot during formatting
Someone gave me a 1TB Western Digital WD10SPZX HDD that got bricked due to a reboot during formatting. The formatting was being done using Windows File Explorer. Western Digital Dashboard no longer ...
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"predictable" device names in smartd.conf on various linux-like systems
To configure S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, there is a configuration file at /etc/smartd.conf. That control file and several web pages I've seen, indicate that the configuration file should be customized by ...
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How to use an external hard drive as my main storage device which I can access/sync to my laptop like Google Drive?
I have a MacBook laptop which I use to work from home and at the office. The Mac has a 500 GB hard drive which is not enough. I currently use Google Drive (1 TB used) and an external hard drive at ...
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Why screenshots are being saved in moved folder?
In my work system of Windows 11, I moved the contents of the default Pictures folder into D: drive from C: drive. I tried to take a screenshot by the Win+Prt Scn shortcut, it took the screenshot but ...
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RAID 5 array won't assemble, lsblk shows drive size as 115.5P for all drives in array
I have a raid-5 array comprised of 4 2TB drives that has been operational since 2018. One day I noticed that access was very slow, and the next day it was completely inaccessible. I have an old (2011) ...
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HDD is selectable but not loaded in the boot menu [closed]
Situation is as follows. Having another person's laptop for repair, and trying to turn it on, I see the logo, but after that a boot menu is seen with three points. First is the HDD, second and third ...
