hdd issues

Microsoft says its August Windows 11 security update (KB5063878) is not behind the recent wave of reports alleging SSDs and HDDs have been rendered inaccessible or corrupted, but the episode has exposed gaps in forensic clarity and left many users mistrustful of a conclusion drawn without a...

A wave of community test results and vendor confirmations this week has put the latest Windows 11 cumulative update under a harsh spotlight: several SSDs can disappear from Windows during sustained, large write operations after installing the August 12, 2025 update (KB5063878), with a...

A sudden critical warning for a storage device can be a nerve-wracking experience, especially for anyone reliant on their PC or laptop for work, creative projects, or irreplaceable memories. In the Windows ecosystem, such warnings signal that immediate action is required to safeguard your data...

I use a USB3.0 enclosure case, brand and model Kesu 2530 and Orico 25PW1 black, i use 2.5" HDDs models and brands Seagate ST500LM030 and WDC WD10JPVX-08JC3T5, APPLE HDD HTS541010A99E662 In Windows 10 and others Windows there is an eject function (safely remove hardware) when this function is...

Hey guys, I connected my Old Laptops 500GB HDD to my gaming pc to use it as a secondary drive, I ran the clean all command on the diskpart in cmd and then used disk management to allocate memory for windows and everything went fine, I rebooted my system and the disk check started happening from...

Aloha ! Soooo my little Dell Latitude E5500 had a HDD crash and got a brand spanking new HDD... well, I had it in storage somewhere... This 'new' HDD is completely empty, not even a filesystem on it thus it was time for a clean install. I grabbed my official Dell Restore DVD, put it in but...

This issue is my friend's who has spent many hours building data using non-Microsoft apps. His laptop refuses to start up into Win10. Microsoft agent says the way forward is to do a custom install on the C: drive. There are three other drives that my friend has created on his 1TB HDD. He...

When I used 2.5" portable hard drives, they were connected to the usb hub and it caused the issue. All of them got the logical bad sector and I had to throw them. I began to connect them to the main port of my computer and the issue had gone. I am using laptop now and have several 2.5"...

So I am stepping in for my father who is having some issues with his laptop. For a few days now, he couldn't get into windows 10. Upon starting the computer, a big white rectangle would flash during POST, and then it would load for a second before going into the blue diagnostic screen like...

Hi. In the past few days I've been getting errors for my secondary (D:) Drive (HDD) from Windows. So, windows keeps telling me to restart my PC to fix drive errors. But when I restart, it does nothing, so I just ignored it because everything seemed fine... until recently... Ok, so about 2 days...

So for a while my computer would occasionally BSOD if I left it alone for too long (20-30 minutes), but inconsistently enough that it wasn't really an issue since I usually put it in sleep mode when I go somewhere anyways. Over the last week it's started doing it a lot more though, and starting...

Assume I have a rather new external (Toshiba) 3TB USB harddisk. During the last days I experienced a data loss because one of the data blocks on the hard disk seems to get damaged. I run a surface test with one of these hardidsk management tools like Minitool Partition Wizard. It shows...

Drive E 'main data partition which contains all my important files' becomes RAW (not NTFS) after extending OS Drive C using partition wizard 9 software which finished successfully without errors! (all details available below): MY HARDDISK WAS RUNNING WITHOUT PROBLEMS BEFORE USING THIS SOFTWARE...

I've been out of the PC market for a long time. Right now, I've got an old, assembled AMD/ASUS desktop from 2007, which my dad bought and helped me build for personal use. It's been running XP ever since and I've painfully upgraded the hardware over time. More recently, I've used Windows 7 at...

So my WD 'My Passport' (1Tb) died on me about 4 days due to a 'data cyclic redundancy error' or something along those lines. So I ran chkdsk, and just a few hours ago... My power tripped(of course). Now, I can't even detect the drive to run chkdsk on it as it says "cannot open volume for direct...

I have problem in windows 7 OS installation.Here are the details of the problems which i came across first of all for clean installation i deleted the existing OS and there is no existing OS in my laptop.I have 48GB of unallocated space but unable to use it to make a primary partition and I...

Discovered and issue with a Dell machine that turned out to be some bad sectors on th HDD that were found and repaired by seatools.Install of windows 7 was fresh prior to discovering the HDD errors, now it run fine, but widows update keep failing with the code: Code 8024200D on these two...

Hello fellow users, Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but my laptop's USB ports are faulty to the devices I connect. This happened mid-February, when I couldn't connect my wireless desktop receiver for my wireless keyboard and mouse, and it also happened with my external HDD...

Hi, I find myself in front of a very hard problem... random BSOD. I've had it for a long time now (changing HDD or RAM did not help). Specs: win7 x64 home premium sp1 avg free edition 2014.0.4259 ZoneAlarm Free Firewall version: 11.0.780.000 The funny thing is that I get the BSOD when doing...

The hard disk in my laptop Aspire V3-571G is faulty as I keep receiving error messaging warning me that my HDD is faulty and might fail anytime. Moreover the computer has really slowed down and for example takes like 20 mins to start up. I want to backup this current hard disk, buy a new...