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  1. Grayehz

    Solved I'm trying to install and partition this drive to my pc. Getting i/o error, even with confirmed functional SATA cables.

    hey so this is a seagate baracude 1000gb 7200rpm drive Model# st1000dm003. So i used a sata cable which i confirmed is working on another drive. The hard drive appears in disk management and device manager but does not in the bios. when i try and initialize i get an i/o device error any idea...
  2. O

    Solved Extreme Hard Drive Slowness

    Hi there, I've been using my computer as normal, the day prior, and even after that I was able to use it normally for a bit. Unfortunately, then my D: Drive started acting up, stuff started taking longer to load and apps that ran on my D: Drive started freezing constantly. Thinking it was...
  3. P

    Laptop pops up "no bootable device please insert boot disk"

    Its a Toshiba Satellite laptop, when turned on it pops up the message saying "no bootable device please insert disk", i went into the bios and its detecting the hdd, but keeps getting that message, the laptop had a fall some time ago so i thought it could have damaged something, so i opened the...
  4. Patrik Boháč

    Internal SSD disc showing as removable

    I did try the register change fix - didnt work for me beacuse there is no such folder named ''msahci''. Next fix option was to type into cmd exe add “HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesstorahciParametersDevice” /f /v TreatAsInternalPort /t REG_MULTI_SZ /d x where x was the bus number of my disc...
  5. N

    Internal HDD made into an external drive not working

    Hi, Recently I got an SSD and replaced my old HDD on my laptop. So I thought I will make use of the unused old HDD and bought this orico HDD enclosure. I plugged in the harddrive and it showed as 3 different drives ( I didnt do any clean wipe when replacing the HDD when it was inside the...
  6. bruh11

    Help! New 8TB hard disk not being initialized.

    Hey guys, I made my PC a year ago and it runs great. I had purchased a 4TB Toshiba X300 internal HDD for it and it works flawlessly. Recently I decided to add a new HDD in addition and went for 3.5'' Toshiba X300 8TB. But the problem is that my PC is not picking it up. It is being shown as...
  7. Leo_Close

    PC don't recognise my hard disk

    Hi, So my problem is that my hard disk in't recognised by PC. Yasterday it worked perfectly fine but today when i turned on my PC it's just not recognised while booting. I tryed restarting it several times and when it recognise my hard disk it says something like "Insert CD/DVD...". I tryed...
  8. Yakawi 王羊

    My PC is struggling to run with virtual memory

    Hello people, I have big issues witgh my pc, i'm gonna make a summary of the situation. During the past 10 month i bought a pc without ssd and i my pc was freezing when i was playing some games like csgo or gta 5, i looked to my task manager on my second screen when i was playing and i saw that...
  9. mapsk

    Can't inizitalize my SSD

    Hi, I bought a gigabyte ssd but I can't initialize it. When I try to do nothing happens. Also try the EaseUS Partition Manager, but the same thing happens (i hope spanish is not a problem).
  10. A

    Retrieving photos and files off an old hard drive

    Can I get some help/advice please? I have an old HP laptop that hasn’t worked for a while, I’ve been meaning to take it to a repair shop or such like to get it looked at but never seem to get round to it. I would like to know if it is at all possible to retrieve photos from a broken laptop? I...