hdd issues

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 all, I tried to do a clean installation of Windows 8 on my recently formatted computer. I have an 750Gb HDD on which I was planning to install them. I downloaded Windows 8 and used a USB Stick to boot it. Everything was going smoothly when at the second stage of installation "Preparing files...

I have a NB550D with windows 7 home 32Bit installed and but i am having issues with it. I usually put it to sleep all the time as i use it for school. I went to use it 2 days ago and it started to become REALLY slow. The hdd light was on all the time and doing anything started to take a very...

Seems like every day the PC either freezes or we see the dreaded BSOD. I've attached the following info, thanks for your help in advance!! I'm running an HP Pavillion, AMD 64 dual core. Nettle Mainboard. 3GB DDR2 RAM. (I had a 500GB HDD on it, but thought that was the problem and stuck in...

I've had a major crisis this morning using Acronis to reclaim an empty 8gb partition. The hdd from left to right, in disk manager was: 8Gb Empty (formerly page file) || D:\Data 210Gb Data || R:\Recovery 80Gb Recovery Using Acronis I expanded the 210gb to include all the 8Gb so now it would...

I have been upgrading my Vista HP SP2 for the past 72 hours. It hung for many hours at different points but this is by far the worst. It is on the last segment, transferring files and programs and has been stuck on 72% for the past 48 hours! HDD LED is still flashing ( about 1 blink every 20...

I have a custom build pc, with all new parts besides the HDD. I have been getting random BSOD an i can figure out why. I have the windows error report when the pc restarts. Also i can not upload the dump it says i dont have access to it. Problem signature: Problem Event Name: BlueScreen...

I have Windows 7 Pro installed on a brand new 1 TB HDD, itself in a new system which contains old HDDs. My homemade Tyan Tiger server/ workstation works it seems but for one important detail: it boots to the black and white screen of the "Windows boot manager". Only when I pick Windows 7 from...

some time after starting windows computer HDD will start to spin all the time (or at leasts that's what HDD LED says). This makes the system respond very slow or halt making it virtually useless - it can persist for quite a long time until the system crashes with blue screen or I reset it...

I have read most of the posts about Windows 7 and how it no longer has Boot.ini. I am having a problem with my pc and I have tried everything. So... now I am posting for help. Info: This is originally a Dell Desktop that came with Windows xp home edition. A few years back, we installed and...

When I attempt to restore an image backup the wizard cannot find it. The wizard insists on looking in the network. I can easily find the image using Windows Explorer. Why can't the wizard find the image? It is on a second HHD that is installed, internally, on my computer.

Hi there, I've just built this computer GA-H55M-S2H MOBO running the Intel i5-750, 4 GB (2X2gb) DDR3 1333 PNY. Here's the problem, when loading Windows 7 Professional 32-bit, like alot of people it seems to take forever, but in my case I only get to the starting setup and after 6-8 minuter there...

I'm trying to do a clean install of Windows 7 on a newly-assembled PC. Windows 7 boots fine, but it cannot find a hard drive, even though BIOS sees the drive. Here's my specifics: - I am using a Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H motherboard. - My LG blue ray player is connected to SATA2_0. It works fine...