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  1. M

    Solved External hard drive set up question

    Hi, Apologies if this is in the wrong place. I do a lot of video and photographic work and need to set up a large storage (and backup system). I wondered if the following is possible or whether there is a better way of doing it: I would like to get an Icybox and install four large HDDs. I...
  2. S

    Solved Video Games crashing. CPU at 100%

    AMD ryzen 3600X Asus Prime x570-P motherboard RTX 2080 Super Black Edition 32 GB RAM The other day after a windows update one of my hard drives failed. Since then I’ve been dealing with all sorts of issues with my computer. My computer works fine for things such as google, YouTube and work...
  3. J

    Custom HDD Eraser Build

    Looking for help or advice on building a device/devices that can erase multiple SATA, SAS, USB, etc. devices at the same time. Looking to build or create a system that can run Blancco or Kill Disk to securely erase multiple HDDs at a time. Something similar to the attached image apart from this...
  4. 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...
  5. R

    Solved Repost: Nearly every game keeps crashing

    I've been in this forum before, and some people might recognize me, because I made a thread about my problems with Assassins Creed games. I was frustrated then, but now I'm frustrated again, because now I can't play any game without it crashing. The games that crash: Skyrim, Assassins Creed (the...
  6. 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...
  7. P

    Cannot boot my new M.2 SSD with a Flash Drive.

    Hello, a few months ago i changed from my pre build pc to a new one, only the cpu and the m.2 remained. (i didn't even reinstall windows) But the m.2 is generally slow and also has "only" a health of 27% left. So I thought you just buy a new one. Now after I swapped the SSDs I plug in my...
    • Pinfroi
    • Thread
    • boot issue flash drive hard drive m2-ssd new ssd ssd problem windows
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Internal Hardware
  8. 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...
    • Pcgamerrtx
    • Thread
    • hard disk hard drive harddrive hdd hdd error hdd not detected hdd problems toshiba
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Laptop Support
  9. E

    External Hard Drive unknown and not initializing in Disk Management

    Since earlier this week, I haven't been able to access my external hard drive through File Manager, and haven't been able to make any headway in resolving the issue with any methods I've seen. I'm using a standard Inspiron 15 7000 laptop running Windows 10, and the drive is a WD My Passport 2626...
  10. P

    Solved Every new hard drive I put starts making clicking sounds

    So my hard drive about a month ago had been making clicking noises for a while and I thought nothing of it, until it completely died and stopped getting read. Now, 2 drives later, still facing the same problem where it’ll work for a bit then start clicking, and then eventually stop getting read...
    • Paasta
    • Thread
    • cables hard drive hard drive error internal hardware motherboard psu sata cables
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Internal Hardware
  11. L

    I set up my external hard drive as active and now my OS wont start

    Hi everybody, I'm not an expert about this, and I really need some help. I'll try to add as much details as I can about the problem. Thank you in advance! So, I wanted to transfer some files from my External Hard Drive to my PC but when I plugged the External Hard Drive on the PC (Windows 10)...
    • Leo
    • Thread
    • backup backup bios boot hard drive
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Windows 10
  12. 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...
    • NS07
    • Thread
    • chkdsk diskpart external hard drive external hdd hard disk hard drive hard drive error harddrive
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Laptop Support
  13. A Random Weeb

    PC not booting/boot looping when a hard drive is connected

    I've recently bought a second hand hard drive off of a local online store and now that I've installed it to my PC, the PC won't start unless I disconnect the drive from SATA. After about 5-8 restarts I got into my PC and HDD Sentinel found the drive and it had about 2300 days of up-time and 93%...
  14. firehawk12

    Solved Fixing a drive that is now detected as RAW with TestDisk

    So I may have suffered some kind of hiccup or power failure that caused an issue with the USB ports on my computer or hub. Regardless, I ended up with the issue where the drive is now detected as RAW and unable to be detected by Windows - it gives both the "Parameter is missing" error and asks...
  15. A

    WD external hard drive not found

    I have a western digital external hard drive that I can access on my old Apple computer, but not on my new windows 10 PC. I deleted everything off of it and used MAC's disk utility app to partition it. My selections on the partition screen: Partition map scheme: Guild partition table Format...
    • angelw23
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    • external drive external hard drive hard drive harddrive my passport western digital
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Internal Hardware
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    Solved Hard Drive not showing up

    Hi am super new to the pc scene, just finished my first ever build, and am having issues getting my hard drive to show up in disk management, but it shows up in device manager and BIOS Any help would be greatly appreciated, not sure what info anyone would need from me to help, so if theres...
  17. Vordermark

    Hard drive size mismatch

    I installed a new Seagate Barracuda 6TB hard drive as a secondary internal drive on an ACER Aspire M3203. My problem is that the program Disk Management only shows the drive as 596 GB. I have tried other programs such a Seagate Discwizard, and the command line diskpart and they see the same...
  18. M

    Old working hard drive unallocated space

    First post, so sorry if it’s not in the right category. I’ve had a hard drive sitting in a cupboard for quite a few years and recently have put it into my computer to check what data is on it. It was previously used in a home computer, however on Hard drive Manager (Win10) it appears only as...
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    Lenovo Legion y530

    Hi i my y530 has an sdd in it with 500 gb but i would like to upgrade to a little more storage. There is one slot avalibe were i can put in a HDD but i dont know what kind of hdd is compatible with my system... Also what kind of price range is there for 1tb compared with 500gb hdd? Thanks in...
    • Bulten
    • Thread
    • hard drive hdd laptop legion lenovo memory y530
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Laptop Support
  20. H

    Red Down Arrow Icon on hard drive

    As you guys can see, there is a red icon above "Disk 1". It's causing problems. How can I fix this. Please help.
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