Know if external hard drive dead?
Question: I’m an assistant editor and today one of our 10 TB G-Drives stopped working. Light turns on but disk does not spin, not readable by computers. I happened to…
Unallocated space at the end of HDDs
Question: Why Windows leaves some unused space at the end of some drives when creating partitions? Those drives are MBR, not GPT. Their purpose is to store user data, not…
Dying Seagate 3TB HDD
Question: So like 4 days ago my HDD wasn’t showing up in Windows one time when I turned it on, so I shutdown, checked the cables and turned it on…
Reallocate bad sector [Linux]
Question: I try to reallocate a bad sector. After reading this Question my understanding is, that the hard-drive tries to reallocate automatically. To trigger the process I tried to write…
Recovering data from RAW Harddrive
Question: I’m currently having a real hard time with a client’s external hard drive. From years of unplugging it without safe removal corrupted the drive. Usually Exploring the drive via…
Find hard drive volume number in Windows 7
Question: Read carefully: I need to identify the volume number not the serial of D:. This does not provide the volume number… vol D: The volume number for C: is……
Why does my SSD prevent my computer from booting?
Question: I have gone through 3 different WD Blue “3D NAND” SSDs. I have returned the first two because I thought they were defective. When the SSD is plugged in,…
Is there a way to retrieve data from a dead hdd
Question: I have an old hp laptop. I can’t boot it and suspect hdd may be responsible for this. If my hdd is dead, is there any way I can…
Hard drive has this tendency to just shut off
Question: I have this ‘new’ Dell work laptop for less than a month now. Something happened today that happened once on this laptop just recently before and also rarely on…
M.2 SSD
Question: Hello,I have a lenovo Sl700 M.2 128G SSD B&M key (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32818368817.html). I am looking for a connector to connect on my PCB board.I found some:https://www.te.com/usa-en/product-2199230-3.html ?https://www.te.com/global-en/product-1-2199230-6.html Answer:It seems correct.…