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    Solved Corrupted Windows 10 I believe

    My computer‘s specs are intel Core i9 -9700k CPU @ 3.60GHz Gigabyte 2070 Super OC 32 GB of G.SKILL F4-3000C16-8GISB Z-390 a Pro Motherboard 1 TB Hard Drive 3TB Hard Drive 4TB Hard Drive 1 TB M.2 500W Bronze Power supply (I think) When i built this pc i had a 1TB hard drive from my old computer...
    • Penance
    • Thread
    • boot drive corruption hard drive error slow windows windows 10 boot issue
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Windows 10
  2. 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...
  3. Riiie

    Solved Trying to backup files from hard drive that Windows cant read.

    I'd like some help on how to backup my files from a hard drive that can be detected by windows. This red arrow on disk management shows up and I cant initialize disk, an error about "I/O device error" shows up. I've come to the conclusion that maybe the hdd is dead and I want to save the files...
    • Riiie
    • Thread
    • back up hard drive error
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Windows 10
  4. Alihioo

    Unllocated Hardisk disk 1 unknown not initialized data error cyclic redundancy check

    Hello everyone, I have an external 1 TB hard disk not used for a long time i tried to use but says " Unllocated Hardisk disk 1 unknown not initialized" and when i try to initialize it, says " data error cyclic redundancy check " do you guys know what is wrong with my hard disk
    • Alihioo
    • Thread
    • 1tb hard drive external hard drives hard drive error
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Laptop Support
  5. 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...
  6. B

    BSOD loop

    i’m going to get straight to the point my pc is stuck in a BSOD loop while trying to boot. The stop code is page fault in nopaged area. i’ve done a good amount of research and all i’m seeing is go into recovery mode and safe mode but it can’t even boot without blue screening. It’s my hard drive...
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    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
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    • cables hard drive hard drive error internal hardware motherboard psu sata cables
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Internal Hardware
  8. 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
  9. A

    Information PC Won't Get Past Windows After Latest Windows Update

    I updated to the newest windows version today, thinking it might help with crashing in Cyberpunk2077. After it updated and restarted I got a prompt saying my hard drive needed to be repaired. I went through that, and it took hours, way longer than its taken before when I had to repair it. Now my...
    • Aaron H
    • Thread
    • hard drive error windows 10 boot issue
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Windows 10
  10. DJVOX

    Steam won't install anything

    Ok so as the title says when i download my games on steam it never finishes them. I had this problem before but i was always able to fix them quickly by either clearing my download cache or verifying the game files. This time however, I've tried to install four games and all of them stopped...
    • DJVOX
    • Thread
    • download hard drive error steam
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Windows 10
  11. L

    I tried to add a RAM and a internal hard disk, then the computer factory recover itself...

    I thought it's easy to add a ram and hard disk to my beloved computer and now it's so mad it recover itself using its HP factory recovery backup hard disk. So I'm using the motherboard ASUS H81M-E, it has: 2 ddr3 RAM slots 2 SATA slots 6Gb/s and 2 SATA slots 3Gb/s Before adding thing, I am...
  12. asger2324

    Harddrive disappearing

    Hello, (sorry for bad English) so recently I found my old ps4 hard drive with 2 TB of space. I have now switched it out with my old hard drive in my pc. Now it just keeps disappearing. Sometimes it's there and then later it disappears.
  13. 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.
  14. francisgianfgm

    Hard disk error

    Hello, I bought seagate barracuda 1tb on the internet store (lazada.ph) then it arrived today, I installed some drivers and softwares everything went just okay... then I plugged in my external hard drive to install my back up games from steam and copying some movies from the backup drive to the...
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