A hard disk drive (or HDD) is a non-volatile, random access device for storing digital data.
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Linux Mint partition is visible in Windows 8.1
I have recently made some changes in my partitions as follows:
Previously, I had 3 drives named: C 150 GiB, D 400 GiB, E: 450 GiB
I installed Windows 8.1 and a partition manager software (EaseUS) on ...
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Unable to mount 8TB external hard drive
I plugged in an external hard drive into my computer running Linux Mint 17.2. This NTFS formatted drive has worked before, but now I get the following:
Error mounting /dev/sdf2 at [DIRECTORY]: ...
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Both RAID hard discs are not readable in Windows
I have a small network backup device that does mirror backup to two HDDs. Recently the backup stopped working. When I check the hard drives in a hard drive reader, Windows caanot read the drives and ...
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laptop doesnt detect my hdd
im trying to do a clean install of windows 8 boot windows off 8gb flash drive i choose custom install it shows me a blank list of drives something with error
We couldn't detect any drives. To get a ...
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BASIC HDD TO BOOTABLE HDD
My computer has 2 drives (attached image).
One drive is a SSD with 3 partitions:
At diskmanagement appears as a "basic disk".
In the first partition (A:), I have the "System Reserved". At ...
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Can using old HDD (with bad sectors) in place of DVD ROM with caddy damage other components of the laptop?
I had a HDD with several bad sectors on it. It caused 100% disk utilization problem. So I put a new SSD and put old one in the place of DVD ROM using caddy. I installed clean Windows on SSD (keeping ...
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How to partition my hard disk while installing ubuntu and don't lose data on d,e&g drive?
This is how my current disk partition looks:
this is how my current hard disk image looks like on windows 7. I am installing Ubuntu 17.04 from USB stick. I cannot understand how to partition the ...
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Can I add a EFI boot partiton to a disk containing an installation of Windows 10?
I recently upgraded the HDD in my desktop, I left my old disk attached as I wanted to copy the files across. I booted from my Windows 10 installer USB key and installed Windows to the new disk. ...
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Windows doesnt recognize my hdd
I have one 250 GB SSD, one 1500 GB, and the last one is 4000 GB.
But last time the cables get unplugged. I fixed today and only say Disco 1 is a 128 GB disk instead. BIOS also detect the disk but see ...
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Drive now smaller after removal of partition in Windows 10
I have a Synology Diskstation with raid 6 drives in it. They are all 8tb Seagate NAS drives all the same model number and version number. I am replacing the drives with 10tb drives. I want to take ...
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Can't create a Windows 10 recovery drive. Some required files are missing
I have been trying to create a Windows 10 recovery drive with Back up system files to the recovery drive checked. When I first tried, it would fail giving me the message "We can't create a recovery ...
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Which hypervisor allows mounting and editing virtual disks inside host Windows? [on hold]
I want to be able to have a complete control on the virtual disks that my virtual machine is going to use. Which hypervisor allows that? VMware, VirtualBox, Windows Virtual PC, etc.? I want to be able ...
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External HDD pallate stops spinning [on hold]
My Seagate 1 TB Portable External hard disk was not working but i was getting some beeping sound hence I reset head from a guidance I have got from youtube video. After that hard disk is detecting in ...
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Windows 10 start up takes too long
Issue began when I put my laptop into sleep mode for almost 1 day.
Before this everything was normal, but now my Windows 10 has a very slow start up of almost 30-40 minutes or more.
My Windows ...
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Building a system step 1: spin up internal HDD with SATA-USB adapter
Hardware 101: I want to build a simple Linux server using an old internal HDD (Seagate Barracuda 7200.7) stripped from a PC tower. Originally, it was the booting drive of a factory-shipped HP tower ...
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Ultrastar He8 — ISE vs SE
I'm looking to buy a new HDD, it will be a HGST Ultrastar He8.
https://www.hgst.com/products/hard-drives/ultrastar-he8
The P/N Selector shows multiple variants: ISE, SE, BDE and TCG FIPS
I'm ...
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What causes 201xs HDDs to live less than 200xs ones? [on hold]
There is a common opinion (on forums and e-market aggregator websites) that nowadays HDDs live less than the ones from 200xs. I wonder
if this opinion is true;
are there any researches confirming or ...
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How to change the Windows Drive Properties Indexing Setting using the Command Prompt?
In Windows 7+8+10, Right-clicking a drive and selecting Properties in Windows gives an option that is checked by default:
"Allow files on the drive to have contents indexed in addition to file ...
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How to unhide drive?
I have tried everything, searched for how to unhide the drive but nothing worked. Drive C has its drive #,letter and label as shown in cmd but it does not appear in the explorer/my computer.
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Even a Vanilla barely used Windows 10 has very high Disk usage upon startup/return from standby [duplicate]
Got a new Asus laptop with Windows 10 is always getting pounded by Disk usage = 100% when starting, booting, and then at various points of the day.
I reformatted my windows 10 machine to try to fix ...
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Macintosh HD volume reduced after error during Bootcamp Partition
I was creating a new partition with bootcamp assistant, when this screen came up:
your computer restarted because of a problem
When the computer was on again, I checked my disk utility and the ...
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Failed to boot after merging unallocated space to windows partition
My harddisk partitions looked like this:
Unallocated space
ntfs {this is windows partition}
Unallocated space
ext2 {probably linux grub}
other {ext4 linux partition}
ntfs
Unallocated space
ntfs
With ...
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Hard drive not detected by Mac or Windows machine
I have a 6 month old WD My passport Ultra 1TB that connects to my PC/mac via USB 3.0 Ever since I updated my Mac Book Pro, the drive has become useless. This was four months ago. I have waited so long ...
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Windows 10 Education Failing to Boot
I have been in a bit of a loop for a while now, so hear me out please.
I have an HP Probook 4540s that has been with me for about 5 years now. I have an original Windows 10 Education installed on it. ...
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How I can figure out if my cluster is damaged
I have some problems with my hard disk and I was wondering if one the causes of the malfunction could be a broken cluster.
Do you have any idea if I can discover if that's the problem?
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Windows ssd upgrade with old hdd
I want to use Windows 10 with a Samsung ssd and a secondary internal hard drive. I just added the new ssd, but now the hdd can't be initialized and the ssd boot is so slow. I installed Windows 10 in ...
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Windows 10 slow disk access on fast pc + fast drives
I have a strange issue with disk access in Windows 10.
Here is the problem:
Regardless of drive or browser, selecting a file to upload/etc takes
about 5-6 seconds (sometimes longer) to appear once ...
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Laptop won't load windows - Windows 10 system reset or chkdsk/r?
I have a dell inspiron laptop running windows 10 that won't boot windows. It was booting to the screen before the password entry screen, where it would effectively freeze (though the mouse curser ...
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Excessive delete times on SSD
I made a professional case for upgrading the hard disk on my software development team's build server (Win7) with an SSD, on the grounds that it would speed the process up due to the large amount of ...
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Creating a Linux installation on external SSD with both 32 and 64 bit boot options
So, my old 60G SSD now lives in an external USB enclosure. I want to install Linux in it, but I want to have the option to run on older hardware if necessary, so I would like to have both 32 and 64-...
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Hard disk faintly clicking now and again, no performance issues to be seen
My current computer is running on a SSD, and has two HDDs in it which are usually turned off if not in use trough Windows power settings. Every now and then, I hear a very faint click coming from my ...
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hdparm error: SG_IO: bad/missing sense data
I'm trying hdparm in Kali Live to add a ATA password to my Micron M600 Self-encrypted SSD, I use: "hdparm --security-set-pass PASSWORD sda"
But I get:
sda: Issuing SECURITY_SET_PASS command, ...
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windows 10 : Inaccessible boot device
My i3 desktop started to be slower. I added SSD, made SSD first boot device and installed windows 10. Unfortunately OS loaded from HDD. The HDD had bitlocker on partition 3. I recovered data to ...
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Storage space “disappeared” on internal SSD of MacBook Air
After letting the FreeBSD installer to "automatically create an EFI partition" on my MacBook Air, there seems to be some problem with my internal SSD:
192:~ sunqingyao$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (...
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Can Windows 10 100% disk utilization be due to bad sectors? can this be solved by hard formatting hard disk? [duplicate]
I am in big trouble since last few weeks...
I am getting 100% disk utilization on my Windows, while I can see no process is significantly using the disk. The issue is faced by many as you can see ...
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Can't see hard disk after inserting it in again
I have inserted an old hard disk on my PC, but to do it, I took off the one that I usually use. After seeing that the old one was OK, I inserted again the one that was there before, but the computer ...
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Can you have hdd boot profiles that you can switch between?
So basically I have 5 Hard drives 2 of which have an OS on them on my primary Windows 10 os i want to access my 3 tertiary drives and on occasion i want to quickly boot my other os windows 8 stand ...
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How to partition an exfat formatted drive larger than 2TB on Linux?
How do we partition an exfat formatted drive on Linux that's larger than 2TB? It looks like fdisk doesn't allow partitioning above 2TB and, unless I'm missing something, parted doesn't allow exfat ...
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Why are 16 threads more efficient than 8 on an i7 with hyperthreaded 4 cores? (Robocopy)
In Windows 8.1, I am using Robocopy to save 2 servers' data onto a dedicated PC's storage space. The data volume is 147,314 files in 4,110 folders (66,841,845,760 bytes).
All 3 involved PCs feature ...
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Is it necessary to re-partition a hard drive when switching from Windows to GNU/Linux?
Consider a 500GB hard disk drive with two partitions, which were created exactly the same size, but have since then been adjusted (the first one slightly larger) with the diskmgmt.msc tool. The ...
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Can't see hard drives in disk management
I have several external WD hard drives, and I removed their cases and converted them to internal hard drives.
I see them in the BIOS, but when I go to Windows, I can't see them at all.
I checked Disk ...
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Loading up old IDE drive on SATA machine
I have an old IDE drive from my last machine. The drive officially died, but I never tossed it since it has some important data on it. I always hoped the day would come that I'd figure out how to boot ...
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What's the Proper Way to Shutdown / Restart a laptop, if it is not responding?
I came across a program that is not responding, and I don't know how to restart the laptop properly.
If you're thinking that I should long press the power button to turn off the computer, no! Yes, it ...
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Hard disk goes slow after idle time
Leaving hard disk idle for sometime reduces it to a snail's speed!
Making it go through a power cycle by Restarting or shutting down the PC restores its speed, but only until its in use. leaving it ...
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Clone windows drive from SSD to HDD (which already has 2 drive)
I need bring SSD to warranty so I want to clone Windows10 drive from SSD to HDD (which already has 2 drives). I want hdd after clone has C drive as SSD and can boot into windows.
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Which kind of hard disk is this? (7 cm × 9,5 cm, 48 pins)
My girlfriend has an old laptop-drive she wants me to grab data from. I want to buy a usb-adapter for it, but I have no clue as to which kind of disk this is. There are no text printed on the drive ...
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Can the transfer of numerous small files damage an external hdd?
my (rather new) external HDD (Seagate Expansion Portable) is slowly dying. It was used for backups of simulation results, that were written in thousands of small text files. Filesize was between 40kB ...
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A new drive gets a lot of space allocated after formatting - why?
I have a VM hosted on a Hyper-V server that's acting as an RDS host. I have added a disk of size 4 GB in order to place a paging file to it. When I format it, its capacity is reported as 3.97 GB, but ...
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Recover data internal hard disk?
I have an internal hard disk and I should recover all contents inside it. However I bought a USB SATA cable but when I connect the cable, it wants to format itself but in this way all the data that I ...
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How did I set up this USB multi-partition?
I have a Corsair Voyager GTX flash drive and I partitioned it to have four partitions, one of which I'm using for Kali Linux live, there other for my portable apps and portable gamestation folder and ...
