Questions tagged [hard-drive]
A hard disk drive (or HDD) is a non-volatile, random access device for storing digital data.
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Can an older SATA–USB docking station cause issues or data corruption when used with a much larger modern drive? [closed]
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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How to deal with issues with Windows Server 2019 ESS and an LSI RAID setup?
I am trying to fix my server. Windows Server 2019 ESS running on a Supermicro X8ST3-F motherboard with LSI RAID 6 and 1.
OS looks like it crashed badly and I can only boot to BIOS or into MegaRAID ...
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How to unlock/erase BIOS password locked hard disks with the same laptop that locked it?
I have set an hard disk password on my Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook T4220 and I can't remember it.
The hard disk is in the same laptop that locked it.
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How to recover a FAT32 hard drive that has a broken Ubuntu install on it?
I wanted to install Ubuntu on a new laptop and it accidentally used an image storage hard drive connected to the laptop (FAT32).
I only realized this half an hour later when the install wasn't ...
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How can I get the addresses of reallocated sectors?
How can I get LBA addresses of reallocated sectors on a hard drive? SMART data reports the number of reallocated sectors, but not their addresses.
This can be useful to know when determining which ...
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How can I traverse to the bottom of a folder structure that repeated 23k times?
I was moving files from a laptop to an external hard drive connected via USB. It involved some "work" folder, which had a submission 01 and \_to be merged folders inside it.
In Windows ...
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How to make a partial forensic backup of disk on Linux?
I want to create a backup of the first 500MiB of space on my disk.
Backup
dd if=/dev/sda of=./backup.ddimg bs=1024 count=500
Change
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1000
Restore
dd if=backup....
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Which block size to give to fsck?
I'm busy scanning my hard drive's surface in parts, so I can't run fsck -c -c. Do I run sudo badblocks -wsv -b 4096 /dev/sdb1 ? ? > badblocks.txt (using physical blocks) or do I run sudo badblocks -...
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Odd looking setup on C: and D: volumes
I recently acquired a used laptop running Windows 10. Upon checking the storage found the C: drive had only 12% free space and the D: drive was100% free.
After checking disk management it showed:
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How to recover multiple NTFS partitions from disk with MBR completely lost?
My hard-disk's MBR(Master Boot Record) got overwritten by the dd command. Instead of dd if=myfile of=disk1, due to a mistake, dd if=myfile of=disk2 was supplied. Luckily, it failed after overwriting ...
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What can I do to deal with this type of hard drive failure? I don’t mind losing data if I can make my disk alive again
I've a dual boot 6 years old laptop with Windows 10 and Ubuntu. Several months ago I faced bad sectors on my hdd 500gb 5400rpm I came to the conclusion of bad sector because when ever I tried ...
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Why am I experiencing drive failure after opening a folder from IDE?
I was using Windows 10 before then changed to Ubuntu. After I open a folder from IDE I’m seeing:
Unable to access location
Error mounting/dev/sdb4 at/media/acc/Others1: wrong fs type, bad option, bad ...
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Compatibility between my M.2 SSD drive and enclosure/adapter
I'm trying to figure out if my M.2 SK Hynix SSD should work with my enclosure/adapter.
Going through the specs of both, it seems that it would but neither my Windows 11 or Linux Mint can access it. ...
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Why is it that since yesterday, 7 GB has disappeared from my hard drive? [duplicate]
I have Windows 10. Since yesterday, 7 GB has disappeared from my hard drive, even though I haven’t downloaded or installed anything new.
What could this be? What should I do about it?
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Did Windows 11 Break Diskpart? Or Am I Dumb?
I have several thumb drives that I've been playing with putting Linux distros on to experiment with my new Raspberri Pi. I've had problems using the Windows 11 GUI disk formatter and diskpart in the ...
