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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1TB Samsung M.2 SSD drive (less than 2 years old) just died after the recent storms. Now it will not post. What can be done? [duplicate]
I have a 1TB Samsung M.2 SSD drive in my machine. It serves as my c drive Windows 11 OS. It's less than 2 years old. After the recent storms in Dallas it suddenly will not even post!
We eliminated all ...
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Can't boot VHD image after resizing in VirtualBox
I have a pretty big mess to sort.
I have a 512GB VHD which I use to store private backups. It started running out of storage so I looked online how to make it bigger (as I assumed VHD's probably just ...
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Cloning windows to another partition in a different ssd drive [duplicate]
My windows 10 is installed on "Samsung SSD 750 EVO 120GB" and after checking crystaldiskinfo, it's health is at 1% with 38 tb written. since it's on such a low health I'm planning to clone ...
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Output disparity on Chkdsk and Drive Properties
I recently noticed that one of my drives is having issues and I suspect it may be failing. Apps on this drive are slow to load (sometimes wont load at all and freeze), and any game that is on this ...
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Storage space with 2 new SSD disks failure after 2 months, how to recover the data back?
I am not sure what happened but after simple reboot the P: drive was not there.
At the beginning both disk where showing OK, but with the ERROR on the pool.
I did some tests and after that one start ...
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New SSD speed tanks after writing a couple of GBs [duplicate]
My System:
Windows 11 Pro
Intel 13600K
RTX 2080 TI
MAG B660M MORTAR DDR4
Samsung NVME 980 Pro 1TB (Windows)
SEAGATE 1.92TB BarraCuda SATA 3 2.5" ZA1920CV1A002
This brand new SSD - SEAGATE 1....
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Ubuntu freezes during I/O on external NTFS disks
I have external NTFS disks of 1TB, which I use to keep a backup of my data. This disk is plugged into the PC once a month or so. I noticed that my Ubuntu freezes while copying 300 GB of data from this ...
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Degraded four-drive RAID 5 with missing superblock on single drive
I'll start with the question: Based on the following information, is there a mdadm command I can make in the readyNAS to reassemble all four drives in the raid 5 in a working state where I can pull ...
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How to confirm ready state for an external USB disk before attempting other actions
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Before I plug in my external USB backup drive, my computer is fully booted-up, and I am in my session as root. Because of its location, my USB cord is already plugged in, but I ...
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Recovered Files from Deleted Partition Are Empty, How Can I Fix This?
I accidentally deleted a partition on my hard drive and used a file recovery tool to restore the files. The recovery process seemed successful as the files were restored with the correct extensions ...
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Unable to mount SSD after computer froze - Zorin OS
While I was watching a popout Youtube video in Firefox while moving about 81GB of files from my secondary SSD, which was a backup from when I had Windows 11, to my main drive into the documents folder,...
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When I use four drives, one operates very slowly
I’m experiencing unusual behavior with my system. When I attempt to write to four disks concurrently. In fact, the last disk (/dev/sdd) consistently operates at a speed ranging from 40MB/s to 5MB/s.
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Unidentified Hard Drive Noise
I bought HGST 4TB drives (HDN726040ALE614) a couple of years ago and put them in a NAS. Just pulled the drives after around 5 years of not using it and now they are all giving me this sound. It spins ...
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Virtual Hard Disk prevent overwrite from Google Drive
Since Google Drive for Desktop in Windows doesn't support one-way sync, is there idea that I can tricky that app by revoking permission to overwrite any changes in my local directory that mounted by ...
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Large NTFS disks are causing Ubuntu 24.04 to hang during I/O operations
I noticed that while performing I/O operations on large NTFS disks, (say 1TB, 2TB), Ubuntu is freezing. SSH and Ping do not return anything from remote PC, and this PC does not respond to keyboard, ...
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