disk issues

Hello everybody, I've always used Windows (gaming, networking, etc.) but I was forced some time ago to learn linux. "Forced" is a big word but I wanted to learn linux and UNIX-based systems. At work, i'm using windows but more and more linux (server side). Linux is a great thing (open-source...

Hi, I shrank the windows 10 partition on my laptop which was using a new as in unused, but 10 year old hdd, it showed these errors, quite a lot, saying "Failed to rad disk, error 2453 LBA6495272 The software I used was called MiniTool Partition Wizard Is this a dud disk then? windows 10 finds...

Hello everyone, I have a PC with Windows 10, from my sister, that her son somehow messed up, so it cannot boot anymore. It just boots into the BIOS, where I plays around with various options, but with no success. There are 2 HDs inside. A small 128 GB ssd where windows resides And a big 1 TB...

Since upgrading to Windows 10 2004, I have encountered an issue with the tool Defragment & Optimize Drives. I am able to run the tool and it appears to run the optimization command properly but upon reboot it returns to the above "Never run" and "Needs optimization" Any suggestions on how to fix?

Hi. Windows 7 Ultimate x86 It was on my original 1TB Western Digital HDD. After several consecutive PC crashes it doesn't boot anymore. After the BIOS POST there appears a blinking underscore in the top left corner, and it stays in that state forever. (I don't want to perform a clean Windows...

Hello! I found after disk failure lot of corrupted pictures in folders. I'm not able to delete them manually for files count. Is possible to detect if is picture (or even any file) corrupted and search for them and delete? Even recursively? By any tool, by any way. Thank you for each help...

Hello I was working on my server didnt even touch the drives and it wont boot i have windows server 2012. I ran chkdsk and it found 7 errors says it fixed them but still wont boot ? blue screen says system wont boot ? could a old cmos be the problem ? I have a ssd samsung 850pro for main drive...

Dear Gurus: I have a HPElite8300sff with a DVD burner and HPEliteBook840 without a DVD burner. Both are running Windows 10 64bit, v.1803. I was able to install Adobe CS with valid 10- user license, with a good ISO file. Now. I want to install the ISO on a Dell, Windows 10 64bit v.1803...

Big problems today.... KB4465065 install. Said it would take some time, OK. Started d/l'ing. Took some time and then the reboot. Completed with a lot of disk thrashing. Then the reboot. Very long time and it said it would reboot a few times. Got to 27% slowly, with it staying at some...

A Windows system use an external drive N:. A programs that use the external drive give sometimes an error message like "Directory N:\datastore is not available". To test the continuous availability I write the next batch script. :loop @TimE /t >> N:\datastore\test_times.txt @sleep...

Hi. I created a new Password and added it to a Disk. I forgot the Password, but for an unknown reason, the Disk does not work. Any advice much appreciated. Thank you.

I've searched everywhere and did find a couple of answers, but none of the fixes helped. I'm still having trouble getting a 2009 disc to start, it just spins and stops over and over, but never actually starts up. I have it set to Auto-Play, but it didn't help. Before I bought this software, I...

Hi! I and my friend, my father have the same problem. We have high average response time on the disks, but just the updated windows 10 is the same in our pcs. So yeah, same problem on my intel laptop, on my intel main pc and on my old amd pc too. In my main pc and laptop i have ssd. The ssds...

My win10 machine wouldn't boot. I tried system restore but it failed. Three or four restore points to go back to and none of them succeeded. I ran Kyhi's usb and found macrium on it. I thought I had a macrium image so I ran it. The Macrium image wouldn't restore. 'read failed 22 invalid...

More than a few billion PC users around, yet the are NO answers for 100% disk problem. The problem has appeared a very long time and still NO one can help!

Hi my name is Ricardo and I recently bought my computer with w10 and everything but as 1 month ago my pc started to slow down and I researched several possible solutions and I ended up finding out that it could be a windows bug, so far I have not found nothing that would solve it. I try to do...

I need help, I have W10 installed Update 1709 and have not had any problems with updates until 1803 came out the update from Hell. It has downloaded 32 times and every time it failed. I contacted Microsoft Desk and they told me that I needed to do a clean install. I went and backed up...

when starting up windows it goes into batch operation then prints out error code 400d, ERR_READ_DISK_UUID and I'm stuck in this loop, tried bootrec /fixmbr, fixboot, rebuildbcd tried recovery essentials pro win 10 and hirens boot cd and windows 10 repair all failed I have access now only to...

I have had Windows 10 basically since day 0. My hard drive as crashed and have had to replace it. Unfortunately since the original win10 update I have lost, due to moving, the Windows 8 disk with the activation code. I have tried to reinstall Win10 from Microsoft's MediaCreation site with no...

Hey guys, idk whats going on, but a new install of win10 pro x64 has EXTREMELY slow read/write times on my HGST 3TB drive. This has only started happening since I reinstalled windows. What is the world is going on? *nix does NOT have this issue. stats: CPU: AMD FX-8350...