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A hard disk drive (or HDD) is a non-volatile, random access device for storing digital data.

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looking for a reality check on a severely corrupted user profile hive caused by an aborted sector shift. The Setup: Dual-booting Windows 11 and Ubuntu 24.04 (daily drive) on 2 NVMe drive. GRUB is the ...
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I am facing an issue with my external hard disk and would appreciate your assistance. A few days ago, all the Excel files on the drive started opening in read-only mode, even though the read-only ...
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I had a RAID5 external controller (MediaSonic HFR2-SU3S2 ProRaid) go bad but all 4 drives are healthy and I've dumped raw images of all 4 disks. I'm attempting to recover the data with UFS Explorer ...
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My HP EliteDesk 800 G3 is suffering from (repeatedly for months): [ 1069.566914] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x50 SAct 0xc SErr 0x4890800 action 0xe frozen [ 1069.566935] ata3.00: irq_stat 0x08400040, ...
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I am inexperienced in LUKS, but was using it successfully until recently. I provisioned a volume on external storage, using cryptsetup version 2.7.0, and used it successfully several times. Most ...
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Android 14 windows 11 unable to access files on USB drive. Have attempted a file copy and partition repair. Files come up saying unable to open files. Any idea of possible repairs or solutions to this ...
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I was connecting external SSD to my laptop, I left my laptop open and the laptop battery got discharged while the SSD still connected to it, I have 2 questions Is there is any physical/electrical ...
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PURPOSE OF POST Reallocated sectors count seems far higher than any of the other posts I see on here so I am guessing I am SOL, but I wanted to confirm as I am completely unfamiliar with hard drive ...
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I have an HPE Smart Array P440ar controller. Originally I had a 4x SSD RAID 10 array and everything was working correctly. I then tried to expand the array by adding 2 more SSDs so that I could later ...
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Recently my laptop HDD has been showing 100% disk usage from the moment I try and do anything with it. The read/write speeds are in the kbs so transfering any files takes hours. I have an SSD for my ...
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Recently, I checked CrystalDiskInfo on my HDD, which I use to store videos, files, and image files on my PC. The Health Status is shown as Caution. What does Caution really mean? After checking ...
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Specs - Laptop: ASUS ZenBook Duo UX481F (2020), Intel Core i7-10510U (10th gen), NVIDIA MX250 NVMe: Samsung PM981a (MZVLB1T0HALR-00000), 1TB (953.9GB usable), PCIe address 0000:04:00.0 HDD: WDC ...
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I have a Mac Pro running OS 10.13.6 with four internal hard drives and a external drive dock that I've installed DupeGuru on. I am a trying to eliminate duplicate files, mostly images, which are on ...
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I recently bought a new Samsung 990 PRO 4TB NVMe SSD. Unfortunately, I accidentally dropped it from about 1.5 meters onto a ceramic tile floor. So I ran several tests using Samsung Magician. The SSD ...
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SATA–USB docking stations for HDDs/SSDs typically specify a maximum supported disk capacity, but they often work fine with slightly larger drives. Can an older SATA–USB docking station cause issues or ...

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