hard drive failure

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    LBA errors on partition change

    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...
    • anotherwindowsuser
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    • chkdsk data recovery disk check disk errors error code hard drive hard drive failure laptop issues lba errors minitool partition change partition wizard read write storage management windows 10
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: General Computing
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    Windows 8 100% bad groups of sectors

    My wife has an HP laptop, model 14-1023cl if I can read the faded label correctly. If runs Windows 8 with one of the add-ons to make it look more like earlier versions. Maybe 8.1 instead? Sorry, I don't know. Avast runs daily. A few days ago it was very slow, and froze with a blank dull blue...
    • ChuckBradley
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    • avast antivirus bad sectors chunk sectors data recovery device manager disk issues file system freeze hard drive hard drive failure hardware issues hp laptop mbam process manager slow performance system faults troubleshooting usb adapter windows 8 windows 8.1
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Windows Hardware
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    Windows 7 External HDD to SATA fail

    Hello guys. So this is what happened: I had a new external HDD WD My Book Essential USB 3.0 (2TB) 6 month ago. All was good until two days ago. I rebooted my computer and I won't boot up. After disconnecting WD HDD it work perfectly But after I turned my PC off, and tried to turn it on...
    • bullinc
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    • amd chipset bios recognition boot issues data loss data recovery disk management external hdd fire hazard hard drive failure hdat2 liveboot cd mbr issues power connection s.m.a.r.t error sata connection tech support usb issues wd my book windows 7 wondershare
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Windows Hardware
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    Windows 7 Windows will not boot even with clean install, Windows repairs fail, Repair disc wont work. HELP!!!

    I have a Sony Vaio VGN-NW270F 15" laptop with Windows 7 (64 bit) Home Premium. 320 gb. Oh i'm also out of warranty. Problem: Computer always freezes at the point where it says "starting windows" and stays frozen. I even left it for alone for 24 hrs and it stayed on that screen. Things I've...
    • zaniac
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    • boot issue clean install computer repair error message freeze problem hard drive hard drive failure installation failure malwarebytes operating system registry clean repair disc safe mode sony vaio system restore technical support troubleshooting warranty windows 7 windows installation
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation

  5. Windows 7 Bad sectors and BSOD events

    I have for several weeks recently been plagued by BSOD's which randomly attributed the cause to different culprits. Early in the events the graphics driver was fingered and I spent good money on returning my costly graphics card under warranty for checking. It came back with a clean bill of...
    • grapher
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    • acronis backup software bad sectors bsod chkdsk data recovery disk errors disk health disk management graphics driver hard drive failure hdd performance ram storage issues system maintenance tech support troubleshooting warranty
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Windows Hardware