hard drive

In the video "Optimize Your Hard Drive and Extend Data Life," Dave from Dave's Garage demonstrates how to replace and format the hard drive in a PDP-11 minicomputer. He guides viewers through mounting the drive on RT-11 and RSX-11M operating systems. Additionally, Dave discusses the use of...

I was getting the error "The Recycle Bin on D:\ is corrupted" (external). Then, when I unplugged it and plugged it back in, it was unlabelled, and I can't access the files anymore. The error message says, "This volume does not contain a recognized file system." Yes, the disk shows good health on...

Hi, I have installed an SSD and want to use it for windows, current windows is running on an optical HD at this moment and was planning on leaving the optical as back up of things, but someone told me that wasn't so sure, but one could not just read, use or rescue documents inside win10 files in...

Windows 10 PC suddenly started giving blue screens, nothing I tried would get the PC to boot up properly, couldn't get into safe mode or anything. Tried to install from USB but that didn't work. I removed hard drive and using a reader I was able to access files etc....so hard drive is not...

Hello, I have some mini-PC problems, it started when Windows 10 kept pushing updates to flood my 32gb hard drives to a mere 100 mb's in my Asus VivoSticks TS10 making them inoperable. I had to keep deleting updates everyday and could not shut down the automatic updates in the policies no matter...

I had my old C: HHD drive replaced by an SSD, and moved to D: A new copy of Windows 10 was installed by the computer shop. Although I never used my D: drive since then, Windows 10 reads it upon waking from sleep for a few minutes - even when the drive was disabled and the drive letter removed as...

Hello everyone, I have a problem with NVME hard drives, 3 of them by now. I work with Windows 11 Pro, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz and I have done the data transfer with EaseUS Partition Wizard Pro. The NVME's are installed as follows: 1 x directly on the mainboard (MACHINIST...

Hello, I have encountered a problem on my (windows 10) PC which I am unable to fix and I need help. Below is what happened and what I have tried so far: It started when I opened multiple Twitch tabs on Chrome. My PC started freezing. After some seconds I entered the blue screen, saying to NOT...

I have an older Laptop that I use for travel. It was my wife's old laptop. It crashed and I had reload it with the OEM system after replacing the hard drive. Now it's running 8.1. I had previously upgraded it to Widows 10 when available. It I just bought a new Windows 10 download from Microsoft...

I have now windows server 2019 essentials as my primary OS. Now i want a dualboot with win 10 Pro. A few years ago I have used GAG- Graphical Bootmanager. But it's quite old, and probably will not support GPT based drives. My w10 Pro is installed on a second hard drive (using GPT, and NOT MBR)...

BLinitializateLibrary failed 0xc0000001 Error 0135: CPU fan failure Lenovo custom built gaming PC 2021 UEFI-nonCSM Legion T5 32GB DDR4 AMD Ryzen. PC worked well for 2 years, but now has 2 errors. Both errors happen when hard drive is connected or not. Reset CMOS with jumper, had no effect...

I have an ASUS laptop with a crippled hard drive. I was planning on cloning the hard drive to a new hard drive and then removing and replacing the hard drives. The problem is that I cannot install any new applications to the hard drive and so my plan to install the software on the existing hard...

Hello Steam or I have messed up my SSD Drive. I have steam installed on 2 drives and after installing a new game, steam put it on the wrong drive somehow. After moving a folder using cut&paste suddenly i have no disc space left. The original Folder that was moved from C to C is gone, but i have...

I have an old TOSHIBA laptop that hasn't been used in 5 or more years. It came with Windows 7. A HUGE mistake I made was to upgrade to Windows 10, in spite of warnings that the machine really can't handle the upgrade. Boy, the warnings were right. The computer became super-slow, I guess because...

There is a folder on the root of my external drive with three dots as the name which suddenly appeared mysteriously on my external drive this morning. This folder is on the root of my external drive, E:. I don't want t delete it unless I know its contents. I tried to move it and it said it was...

on my hard drive, I have three JOB files that have long numerical sequences after them. Each takes up 64 gigabytes on my hard drive. how do I reclaim that space? I have consulted AI and got nothing useful.

Hello everyone, my computer has been lagging notably for the last year or so. I can no longer play games online because it lags too much. I thought it could be a virus so I performed a factory reset with no luck at all. I also hear it making noises like it is struggling sometimes, not the...

I have a 2 year old computer that is running Windows 10. I made a new partition to dual boot Windows 11 about a year ago, installed Win11, tried it for a few days, and removed it because it was extremely slow. I figured I would give it another try a few weeks ago. It would install, and put...

Not the place... The image file on the Hard Drive. When I look for how to change the Lock Screen image, what I get is information for how to change the Desktop Wallpaper. I don't understand why Microsoft doesn't make a clearer distinction between them as these are two entirely different things...

I'v been trying to recover files from this other hard drive , now when i click on disk management . It is showing as wanting initialising ( its usually not showing at all ) .