Tag: hard-drive-failure

31 Hard Drive suddenly became unresponsive, recovered on reboot. What to do next? 2017-11-12T19:09:57.680

24 How to prevent programs (e.g. Process Monitor) from killing my SSD in 2 weeks? 2011-04-02T10:58:12.880

19 How can I recover dead SSD drives? 2012-11-16T05:29:06.893

15 How to prolong the life of an external hard drive? 2013-05-29T11:27:55.860

14 Are SSD's really reliable enough for power users? 2011-01-26T17:10:39.247

12 Is my hard disk failing? 2014-11-03T08:03:44.730

10 Mean Time to Failure (MTTF): When disk manufacturers post this, how should you interpret their numbers? 2011-10-25T03:02:17.503

8 How do I fix a boot process that broke because of a failed hard drive? (Windows 7) 2009-08-19T14:55:11.913

8 External USB hard drive and risk of internal condensation? 2015-06-30T23:46:06.167

7 2TB Seagate External GoFlex external hard drive failure: Is there anything I can do? 2015-09-08T00:01:48.850

7 need to find out if my hard drive is broken - windows corrupted and wont boot 2016-05-28T17:13:00.647

7 What do the current, worst, and threshold SMART values mean? 2016-09-22T11:34:28.890

6 How many drives can I safely lose in a RAID-10 array? 2016-02-09T15:14:03.780

6 Reading data from a 23 year old IDE harddrive 2017-01-14T00:25:42.470

5 Whole working Windows 7 partition (on SSD) suddenly became "Unallocated Disk Space" 2013-01-31T00:18:42.417

5 SSD – smartctl – Status 2013-08-27T21:22:27.933

5 What is the fastest way to force hdd to reallocate bad sectors and discard the data? 2014-02-25T03:11:07.793

5 Computer doesn't boot up, shows PXE error and/or "operating system not found", "no bootable device", "insert boot media", or other similar error 2017-06-14T18:02:58.813

4 My harddrive failed SMART check and short drive self test. What should I do? 2011-07-26T12:20:17.023

4 Windows detected a hard disk p⁣roblem — what should I do? 2012-05-04T12:55:16.550

4 Anything I can do about erratic hard disk drive speeds 2015-05-25T22:22:26.583

3 Hard drive works intermittently but stalls on a specific sector 2012-01-16T00:56:35.050

3 Can drive encryption cause faster drive failure? 2012-02-06T16:47:12.393

3 Is this Hard Drive dead? 2012-05-17T02:24:25.477

3 Windows 7 hangs with 100% disk activity but only when online 2012-08-19T18:38:57.293

3 External hard drive clicks - doesn't read 2012-09-22T21:41:35.107

3 Recover data from one PV of an LVM mirror 2012-11-24T01:47:21.970

3 How to save data from a dying hard drive? 2014-02-11T12:26:00.343

3 Can't access external harddrive in OSX 2014-09-21T14:08:12.403

3 Is my hard drive faulty? 2016-03-25T04:43:23.043

3 Seatool's Short Generic test fails, but Long Generic test passes 2016-08-17T00:45:41.867

3 Windows 10 Storage Spaces recover data from 2-way mirror 2018-01-31T23:42:15.640

3 Are SMART Data Address Mark errors a concern on an SSD in particular? 2018-11-19T15:42:21.700

2 SSD testing equivalent of Memtest for RAM? 2012-02-01T16:16:06.307

2 How bad is my ssd disk? 2012-06-02T23:29:00.930

2 Software is showing that my hard disk has 3 days to live. Can I repair it? 2012-06-09T13:24:03.423

2 HDD Raw Read Error Rate over limit 2013-02-23T19:52:15.507

2 Is it true that a hard drive need to be used once in a while to stay alive? 2013-08-12T22:14:10.380

2 Power outage during disk wipe. What do I do now? 2013-11-02T07:19:56.923

2 In a RAID 5 disk array, does recovering a drive increase chance of another drive failing? 2014-01-26T00:52:53.700

2 SSD stopped working suddenly. Any chance of data recovery? 2014-02-02T16:00:16.683

2 How to determine which drive in a firmware RAID is failing 2014-04-22T03:55:33.650

2 What damage can vibration cause on hard-drive? 2014-06-20T08:49:12.873

2 How to check that drive is really OK? 2014-10-01T13:33:30.320

2 Does the following mean my SSD is about to fail? 2014-10-18T17:07:30.793

2 Disabling HP 3D driveguard? 2015-01-03T13:36:18.680

2 Hard disks: random vs sequencial access times for all uses 2015-01-30T11:46:10.383

2 Can a failed SSD have zero bad sectors? 2015-10-18T04:23:43.497

2 Lenovo Thinkpad HDD Error While Running Recovery Tool - Windows 7 OS 2015-11-28T14:52:15.980

2 How to prove Seagate drive failing for replacement under warranty? 2016-08-10T06:43:39.293

2 Hard drive clicking, is my hdd dying? 2016-11-02T17:47:37.487

2 Boot-loop, error code 0xc0000225, after full-drive encryption 2016-12-03T03:29:53.117

2 Failing hard drive or bad controller after hard shutdown 2017-01-13T09:00:28.180

2 HDD shows up as "no data" on it and can't be initialized in Windows 2018-04-04T19:07:00.337

2 HDD issue: Buffer I/O error on dev 2018-11-05T07:55:52.853

2 My Hitachi HDD cannot be read or written to, but SMART results & others are OK. Why? 2019-01-11T07:07:27.720

2 NTFS seagate ST31000528AS drive can be accessed from various linux distributions but not from Windows 2019-07-18T09:48:13.560

2 Should I re-install Windows 10 on my failing hard drive? 2019-11-17T14:29:02.543

1 Seagate hard drive, logic board fried. Desperately need replacement 2010-12-13T01:12:25.127

1 Seagate barracuda 2TB drive not loading/freezing system 2011-06-22T00:43:04.830

1 Something went wrong with external hard-drive, can I get my data back? 2011-07-02T15:00:56.760

1 Why is my Seagate desktop HD not being detected? 2011-07-18T08:39:03.890

1 Unix Utility to Constantly Read and Write Disk to Kill Clicking Drive? 2011-09-28T07:18:34.697

1 External HDD Failure: Fell on the ground and now only beeps 2012-02-06T12:24:43.423

1 ddrescue rescued "0 B" under current status? 2012-05-18T06:50:36.807

1 HD does not boot, but, can view files through enclosure, seems to copy very slow. Pics included 2012-06-26T09:35:25.077

1 Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 Failing Again 2012-08-22T20:03:59.660

1 No hard drive detected on compaq presario m2000 (IDE hard disk) 2012-09-10T22:59:33.393

1 Windows does not detect my hard drive 2012-12-28T00:32:44.003

1 Is my Hard Drive repairable OR can I get my data back (Picture)? 2013-01-20T14:39:01.127

1 Repeated Hard drive failure in Dell Inspiron N5010 2013-01-23T12:12:46.650

1 Failing hard drive false positive? 2013-02-11T15:09:04.933

1 Do 3TB hard drives have a high failure rate? 2013-03-08T04:52:27.677

1 Damaged disk, what are my options 2013-04-15T01:44:43.480

1 Difference between bad block, bad sector and bad cluster? repairing 2013-06-04T14:27:52.743

1 Reinstalling OEM Windows 7 Without Original Disc? 2013-11-24T17:57:58.903

1 What happens to a RAID 0 array if some of the constituent drives are unavailable? 2013-12-23T23:27:30.887

1 Recovering data from failing hard-drive using ddrescue 2014-05-19T12:03:31.880

1 Is this hard-drive beyond recovery? 2014-11-19T18:02:21.280

1 Shrink worn-out SSD to prolong lifetime? 2015-02-14T13:24:17.730

1 How do I find which disk (volume) is failing? 2015-04-23T13:45:53.020

1 Replacing an Imminent-Failure Drive in a RAID-0 with Clone 2015-06-04T20:23:58.747

1 Seagate hdd (internal) unmount/disappear after awhile i plugged in 2015-06-19T07:49:01.360

1 What does fsck mean with “Filesystem has n clusters but only space for n-m FAT entries. (m>0)”? 2015-07-10T02:46:19.187

1 Is I/O error sufficient reason to return SSD on warranty? 2015-09-05T14:21:57.243

1 How to tell whether the memory chips or controller have failed on an SSD? 2015-09-26T16:08:43.497

1 Would frequently reinstalling Linux distros affect the life of my hard disk? 2015-10-02T21:21:13.733

1 Which copy will be used when RAID1 loses a piece of data? 2016-01-13T16:26:36.387

1 HDD Failure? Seagate 320GB 2016-01-30T20:57:08.250

1 external hard drive can not be fornatted 2016-03-03T16:58:35.310

1 Defective hard disk: Software evidence of last functional activity? 2016-03-06T09:04:33.517

1 Is my hard drive dying or is it an OS issue? 2016-03-17T15:34:13.493

1 SATA hard drive has extremely slow write speed 2016-05-13T20:15:38.487

1 Laptop HDD Sparky Crackling Sound 2016-06-26T10:00:03.407

1 Synology NAS smart error 2016-10-26T09:22:15.727

1 HDD S.M.A.R.T. information 2017-03-12T14:52:39.470

1 Which of my hard drives are most likely to fail? 2017-04-24T21:50:30.240

1 Can't see hard disk after inserting it in again 2017-05-27T09:53:24.927

1 How should I store a spare HDD for maximum lifetime, when the disks in use may not fail for years? 2017-07-28T09:41:26.723