Is my hard drive dying?
Question: Hello everyone, Recently I started having problems with games and textures loading for a looong time, with huge chunks of texture missing (for example in Forza Horizon 4 there…
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Got a question about hard drives? You’ve come to the right place. This category is dedicated to answering the most common (and complex) queries about HDD technology.
Question: Hello everyone, Recently I started having problems with games and textures loading for a looong time, with huge chunks of texture missing (for example in Forza Horizon 4 there…
Question: Hi, I managed to get everything set up but I’m noticing that the HDD doesn’t seem to be in windows at all. It doesn’t appear in device manager, but…
Question: Problem: When I switch on my PC, after BIOS POST, a cursor is blinking for about 5 seconds and then I am getting this error message: A disk read…
Question: Can GPT format system recognised another MBR format drive ? Can two HDD one GPT(os) and another MBR (backup) be used together in one system? My Question is:- In…
Question: I have a USB hard drive that I’m planning on donating. ?Before I donate it, however, I want to be sure that it has been completely and unrecoverably wiped…
Question: What title says, the only problem my drive ever had since day 1 is being noisy, you can hear sort of a “blrblrlbrlblrblr” everytime the HDD has to write…
Question: My Google-fu has been useless here, and my knowledge of low-level storage details is terrible. Does a brand-new, right-off-the-shelf hard drive contain all random noise, or do they come…
Question: I currently have a 240 GB SSD as a boot drive and a 1TB HDD for storage. I’m upgrading this with a 2 TB M.2 SSD. The new SSD…
Question: I ran chkdsk on a drive and when it got to stage 4 (verifying file data), this message appeared for some files: Windows replaced bad clusters in file ######of…
Question: Hi everybody, i have windows installed on an SSD and some other files on an HDD, while i’m running Windows (on the SSD) can i format the other storage,…