I always tell people Hard Drives are like light bulbs. They are rated for so many hours of use, and then they just go bad. Sometimes they seem to last forever, and other times, they can just fail long before they are supposed to.
@target_relative Well, my analogy was more of a loose one. I used to refer to hard drives as light bulbs, because that was a common household item people were familiar with replacing on a seldom, but certain basis. If people think of their hard drives as something that is bound to fail over time, people are more open to put thought into backups. Rather than make plans to find how to make your drive last forever, think how you can recover from a hard drive failure, and how not to lose your most important files if you were to have one go.
Great vid. I was surprised but good old speedfan actually not only shows temps and lets you adjust speeds. But it reads your hdd/ssd data too. It detects my Kingston ssd just fine. It can "perform an in depth online analysis" and give you feedback on the health and what you should do.
My PC got 5 BSODs on one year with severe slowing and freezing until deleting bloatware caused my drive to become super fast… It’s now so efficient that it also gets trouble at some occasions
I had my all in one HP computer with SSD hard drive in it. So far it is still good. I got the computer in 2012 up to 2019. I say that is pretty good for HP computer. Once in a while I do the mother board test. It pass it every time. Thank you for the know how in testing the hard drive. I turn the computer off before bedtime to save on the operation on the mother board . It also prolong the battery and SSD hard drive inside my all in one computer . I am on the computer all day. Thank you for the information on when will the hard drive quit on the computer.
My hypothesis is that brown outs or sudden power loss then back to full power is a drive killer as well as complete system killer. I have battery backups on all of my electronics. I also have a whole house generator. The whole house generator protects you from power loss however the battery backups protect from the whole house generator. When a power loss happens the whole house gen takes about 10 seconds to restore power. Therefore the battery backups protect from that 10 second loss of power. The average system can benefit by using a battery backup. In my opinion the battery backup is the best protection for all electronics.
First of all Merry Christmas! Your video comes to be very useful to me... I have a C: and and a D: SSDs. C: has the OS. Last week, I got errors messages in Events viewer for D: The device, \Device\Harddisk2\DR2, has a bad block. Harddisk2 is D: OS is Win 7 Pro. D: is a Samsung 850 Pro 2 TB, 21236 hours (4 yo), 1446 power ons, total host writes is ONLY 588 GB . I did a right-click D: Properties, Tools, Error checking, with both options ticked, and the result was: Chkdsk was executed in read/write mode. Checking file system on D: Volume label is New Volume. CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)... 300800 file records processed. File verification completed. 83 large file records processed. 0 bad file records processed. 0 EA records processed. 0 reparse records processed. CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)... 307226 index entries processed. Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)... 300800 file SDs/SIDs processed. Security descriptor verification completed. 3214 data files processed. CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal... 34583816 USN bytes processed. Usn Journal verification completed. CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)... Read failure with status 0xc000009c at offset 0x1d69032000 for 0x10000 bytes.
Sometimes CHKDSK /f is enough to fix the problem. If you don't mind copying everything off the drive onto another and reinstalling the OS, you could try reformatting which will sometimes ignore bad sectors and allow you to use the drive without problems.
@@writerpatrick Thank you. Fortunately, this D: drive is only for the flight simulator; there is no OS on it. However, the flight sim also has addons management programs that are on C: and link to D:. I am not sure if copying everything on that D: to an external drive, then formatting D: , then re-copying everything from the external drive to D: would work, or not cause the simulator to fail... Mmhh...
My computer had no relevant issues and was running perfectly fine . Then one day I was playing a game and it crashed so I restarted the PC and it would not boot windows. Constant booting into bios , any fix or is it dead?
Have you tried reinstalling windows? If you cant reinstall windows through the bsod then try booting with a windows 10 iso image via your desktop/laptop manufacturer in the bios. I know Dell's is called SupportAssist OS Recovery which you can access in the bios. If you don't have that option then try getting an iso image with one of the tool applications suggested in the video using another computer, and then boot with that image on the computer with the BSOD. If windows is installed on the hard drive you think is dead then yeah, its dead. Pay attention to the specific BSOD errors that appear when you boot and try googling them.
Hard disk drives when aging are also suffering from poor contact oxidation between the pcb and the contact pins of spin motor or the contact pins of magnetic heads and position electromagnets.
Electrical contacts in computers are usually corrosion resistant (e.g. gold plated). In 25 years of computing I've never come across electrical contact issues.
Most of the time it is not actually the drive going bad, it losses its magnetic properties over time. What needs to be done is a Full Read/Write on the entire drive of course this will erase any data and you will have to reformat it too. Refreshing the magnetic properties will fix most errors. If you hear the Clicking sound then well your controller is going bad. Remove the drive from the old case and buy a new HD Case with the controller card. Done this with many drives over the years and saved them. Scanners do not do much good as I do not waste my time with them. Norton for DOS was the best Bad sector fixer. Hard to perform the right test while on the computer. SpinRite is the Best Software for renewing your HD, but it is not cheap.
Hi Brian,Merry Christmas and happy new year for 2020 to you and all your family, and many thanks for your hard effort teaching us about computing staff for helping CZcams fans. Thanks👍👍👍😊
Just seeing the Hard Disk Failure Signs, I knew something was wrong with my Internal HD. But I wanted to ask does having a dying hard drive also affect the overall performance of the PC. Because I've noticed stuff (when transferring a file 4-8GB) such as my games lagging/frame freezes, windows explorer crashing, internet/browser taking so long to load a a single/home page.) would you say this another sign?
3:38 I would recommend putting SystemRescueCD on the stick instead. Much more powerful and versatile set of troubleshooting tools. Linux-based, naturally.
Hi another nice vid. You have about 4 or 5 of these vids that go over SMART but no one has explained how the SMART report is read ther relationship between Current, Worst Threshold and Data . Just a thought
My Western Digital Black HDD was bought new in 2002. Yes I have the receipt. It has always been a noisey klunky drive from new. Its still running my gaming rig today. Ive just used CrystalDisk Power on cycles - 10,783 Power on hours = 48,093 hours. Health = Good Drive D: and F: are Seagates and are similar age and useage
If you only write chkdsk, it will only look for error in read-mode. Then, you will do the other option. I think it is the safest way to check the disk. There are report on how harmful it can be if too many bad sectors, thus data loss.
A few months ago (in August of 2019), my eleven year old Mac Pro kept shutting down for no obvious reason. Then it would not start up at all... and I realized that I had not heard the fan as I always had. Turned out that the man drive burned out. I’ve replaced it with an iMac Pro. The secondary drive held all of my images in my photography business but I can’t figure out how to enter it now. Fortunately I had been backing it up on two Passport drives so I am not pulling my hair out. All because I didn’t realize that the computer was so silent.
Could be many things that's causing your PC to shut down randomly could be a bad power supply or just about any other component in the PC. The only way to find out to troubleshoot the issue with no good working parts and see if the problem goes away. Hope this helps. Thanks for watching
Cheers great site Brian followed you years!,ok i had win,7 installed long time, ,i had probs like you have gone over,msg impending hd failure,so i backed up transferred all data to 2 external hds,everything ok,also installed another 1tb hard drive just in casei have msin os 1 tb hd was only 60% full,since doing this all been ok weird,i now installed full linux 19.3 os and erased drive no more win7,since doing this no probs hd. Any thoughts why hd is now ok?,btw linux mint 19.3 superb for win users easy use familar desktop,i am long time user all windows os over 30+ years. happy xmas.
My hard drive has half of these signs.. it also runs chkdsk often and I really think it’s failing now. It’s been used since around 2019 after I accidentally formatted my old one with Ubuntu.
I'm currently on the bsod and I got an error code called critical process died I got it from switching boot order then switching back any ideas how to fix it I'm in need of help rn
my hard disk corrupted and i can't check how much space it has and when i press it my file explore doesn't respond It also makes some of my apps unusable and i can't load the search bar or cmd anymore. Its like it wrecked something on my primary drive and corrupted some stuff on there too. Idk whats happening and even some of the windows programs are unusable like disk management task manager and some other important stuff
My File Explorer won't even show anything after one or two tries, and the green "load bar" at the top goes snail slow. I've tried everything, but I think it's a failing hard drive. It's strange, I can still access some folders, but it shows incomplete icons and won't allow me to open some of them, and none of the folders show any icons either. I can also access them when I'm uploading something to a forum or website, like a picture, but I can't go into File Explorer and find that picture. And my internet still works. Probably a failing hard drive. :(
I have freezing I have crashea and bsod I have some weired noise still not too high and I keep runningsfc tool for corrupted files and every time I boot win 10 it shows scaning and repairing drive c
İ have this problem,so i recently got this hitachi 1tb hdd and i checked the health and it's at 100percent without any bad sectors(via harddisk sentinel),no data transfer issues also not corrupt file yet but this hdd has this noise it's like clicking,i have another hdd 500gb at 27Percent health and it's really much more quiet,please answer if i should return it.
I've had my hard drive since 2006, and it stopped working today... It is making unusual scratching noises all the time. I have two hard drives, but I don't know which is which since they're the same... Someone know how to fix this?
I guess I have been lucky. Of all the hard drives I owned since 1992, I've only had 3 that did not last 10 years or more. One was a 1996 WD 3.5" 1.6GB IDE that died in 2002.Another was a 2005 WD 2.5" 150GB IDE external drive that had been dropped a few times. It died in 2013. The last was a 2009 WD 3.5" 500GB SATA "Green" that died in 2018. I still have a number of IDE hard drives from the early 2000's that still work up to now, including a 120GB Hitachi/IBM "Deathstar." I also bought a number of Seagate 3.5" SATA hard drives in the early 2010's. So far, they're okay with most at +5 years. I'll be happy if they last 10 years. Merry Christmas y tu!
My current C: drive. A western digital black. Bought in 2002. I have the receipt. I've just used CrystalDisk Power on cycles - 10,783 Power on hours = 48,093 hours. Health = Good. Drive D: and F: are Seagates are similar age and useage
HD Tune Pro - Error Scan shows how many bad sectors there is if its been new drive and later 3 blocks gone red - change drive, i rescan my drives every 6-12 months even tho i have 3 backups of files lol (12TB WD GOLD took 14 hours to check sectors, i never do fast scan)
Hi there! Someone asked me this question and I have no idea how to answer. So I told him I would check with my on-line guru - YOU! Large HD being used as THREE partitions, D, E & F. Common sense dictates when ANY portion of the drive goes bad... TIME TO BACK-UP AND REPLACE. So I already KNOW this. BUT, he has a relatively NEWish solid state 2TB, and is wondering if he can just sort of 'go with the flow' of understanding that the ONE partition is now toast, but just continue using the other two until he starts seeing some 'flakiness' of another, and THEN pop for another drive? Or will that wasted partition have some sort of negative impact with the other two partitions? Or at least any that YOU have known of or heard about? Again, he KNOWS he should just get another 2TB SS Samsung drive, but it is less than six months old and he thinks it is just a BAD sector or such. As always_ YOU DA MAN!!! ✨🤗✨
when it slowing down, even after reformat, thats the sign for me....i have this hdd jus died last year, i reformat it coz its dam so slow, but it didnt change anything and still slow.... after a month, it died.......it serve me for 10 years, 500gb Samsung brand
im here bcuz i think my d drive died because of a trojan virus, the last time i restarted it, it was just gone from my computer my files are gone (atleast it was just games) i also new how to fix it but it was too late the drive was just gone from my computer. now i tried to plug it out and putting it back in but... nope it didnt come back. if theres any way i could have it back pls let me know thanks!
Adata Ultimate sucked big time. I used 4-5 of them to friends machines (Windows and Macs) cause they were cheap and in one year one died and all others somehow managed to corrupt the installations more than once.
I feel bad for my 5 year old laptop I used to fall asleep with it and it wud drop off the bed, it makes a frog noises now every couple of seconds, the fan is faulty but still going and worse my laptop takes 20 minutes to start up now. What’s worse I can’t afford to change my laptop. It’s an Acer aspire 5742 i5
Hi, I need help here. On my laptop Dell Windows 10. I tried to use memory diagnostic and I am stuck keeps running non stop. Can anyone help please. I have drained the battery and pressed shift /f8. For longtime until I got Dell testing run that but than back again at non stop.
Hiii umm can someone help me out here sooo I’m use the hp 600 g1 sff with gtx 1650 and i7 4790 and my pci express port broke and bought a new one and it’s was saying error I was miss somthing from system32 and automatic repairing going to blue screen and soo I redid window and it fix… but I am getting performance issues now I wasn’t getting performance issues on my last windows. PLEASE SOMEONE HELP
Im very scared to scan my drive tbh I swear i dont want to know if its gonna die soon or not, because i know my parents wont be able to buy me another one.
Just in case you was bored this Christmas Eve, here is a video for you to watch. Merry Christmas🎁🎄
merry Christmas to you! aways essential information, Brian
Thanks, you to
Happy Holiday's!! Is that keyboard at the beginning a Bluetooth?
i want to ask,does keyboard and mouse not working are signal for hard drive death.
I always tell people Hard Drives are like light bulbs. They are rated for so many hours of use, and then they just go bad. Sometimes they seem to last forever, and other times, they can just fail long before they are supposed to.
I only used my hdd for 1 - 2 years
@@turkishonlinlingerie8305 my hdd is going strong , its been working for 3 years so far
@@DonaldRump. I bought an m.2 as a replacement I hope it will last more than my old 👴 hdd
I have an 11 year old HDD, it's showing symptoms. I'm doing a backup now
@target_relative Well, my analogy was more of a loose one. I used to refer to hard drives as light bulbs, because that was a common household item people were familiar with replacing on a seldom, but certain basis. If people think of their hard drives as something that is bound to fail over time, people are more open to put thought into backups. Rather than make plans to find how to make your drive last forever, think how you can recover from a hard drive failure, and how not to lose your most important files if you were to have one go.
R.i.p my hard disk you will be missed, and i am poor 💔
😭😭😭
Great vid. I was surprised but good old speedfan actually not only shows temps and lets you adjust speeds. But it reads your hdd/ssd data too. It detects my Kingston ssd just fine. It can "perform an in depth online analysis" and give you feedback on the health and what you should do.
Hope you and your family have a Merry Christmas and a Happy new year! Thank you for your help with the videos 👏
You're welcome and happy holidays
Blue screen of death kept occuring and my hard drive finally gave up the fight :(
I feel so sorry for you
My PC got 5 BSODs on one year with severe slowing and freezing until deleting bloatware caused my drive to become super fast…
It’s now so efficient that it also gets trouble at some occasions
Rip hard drive
I had my all in one HP computer with SSD hard drive in it. So far it is still good. I got the computer in 2012 up to 2019. I say that is pretty good for HP computer. Once in a while I do the mother board test. It pass it every time. Thank you for the know how in testing the hard drive. I turn the computer off before bedtime to save on the operation on the mother board . It also prolong the battery and SSD hard drive inside my all in one computer . I am on the computer all day. Thank you for the information on when will the hard drive quit on the computer.
I use CrystalDisc info.
My hypothesis is that brown outs or sudden power loss then back to full power is a drive killer as well as complete system killer. I have battery backups on all of my electronics. I also have a whole house generator. The whole house generator protects you from power loss however the battery backups protect from the whole house generator. When a power loss happens the whole house gen takes about 10 seconds to restore power. Therefore the battery backups protect from that 10 second loss of power. The average system can benefit by using a battery backup. In my opinion the battery backup is the best protection for all electronics.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR BRIAN!
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it is pagan religion and the worship of death aka killing tree.
First! Thanks for the useful information about harddrives and ssd.👍👍
Glad i could help.
To put it simple.
It get's slow, slower and then your system starts overusing ram.
But I advice changing it every once every two years.
Hi Brian. Great info as always. I have a dual boot problem. Can I ask you a question here or is there somewhere else to go to ask questions?
me too I also experiencing the problem but for me it crashes on the second boot
First of all Merry Christmas! Your video comes to be very useful to me...
I have a C: and and a D: SSDs. C: has the OS. Last week, I got errors messages in Events viewer for D: The device, \Device\Harddisk2\DR2, has a bad block. Harddisk2 is D:
OS is Win 7 Pro.
D: is a Samsung 850 Pro 2 TB, 21236 hours (4 yo), 1446 power ons, total host writes is ONLY 588 GB . I did a right-click D: Properties, Tools, Error checking, with both options ticked, and the result was:
Chkdsk was executed in read/write mode.
Checking file system on D:
Volume label is New Volume.
CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
300800 file records processed. File verification completed.
83 large file records processed. 0 bad file records processed. 0 EA records processed. 0 reparse records processed. CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
307226 index entries processed. Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
300800 file SDs/SIDs processed. Security descriptor verification completed.
3214 data files processed. CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
34583816 USN bytes processed. Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
Read failure with status 0xc000009c at offset 0x1d69032000 for 0x10000 bytes.
You're welcome
@@Britec09 Hugh??
Sometimes CHKDSK /f is enough to fix the problem. If you don't mind copying everything off the drive onto another and reinstalling the OS, you could try reformatting which will sometimes ignore bad sectors and allow you to use the drive without problems.
@@writerpatrick Thank you. Fortunately, this D: drive is only for the flight simulator; there is no OS on it. However, the flight sim also has addons management programs that are on C: and link to D:. I am not sure if copying everything on that D: to an external drive, then formatting D: , then re-copying everything from the external drive to D: would work, or not cause the simulator to fail... Mmhh...
I have switched everyone I know to SSd's. The oldest one is 7 years old and no issues. Boot drive of course. Long term storage I use a NAS in RAID 1.
My hard drive was new in 2002.
Still good today.
My computer had no relevant issues and was running perfectly fine . Then one day I was playing a game and it crashed so I restarted the PC and it would not boot windows. Constant booting into bios , any fix or is it dead?
Try changing your boot setting to legacy if its on uefi in the bios
same problem just replace it
Ded
Have you tried reinstalling windows? If you cant reinstall windows through the bsod then try booting with a windows 10 iso image via your desktop/laptop manufacturer in the bios. I know Dell's is called SupportAssist OS Recovery which you can access in the bios. If you don't have that option then try getting an iso image with one of the tool applications suggested in the video using another computer, and then boot with that image on the computer with the BSOD. If windows is installed on the hard drive you think is dead then yeah, its dead. Pay attention to the specific BSOD errors that appear when you boot and try googling them.
@@catswag878 same thing just happened to me 2 hours ago and it says no bootable device and there’s no legacy thing so i think my hdd is messed
Late to the video - I'm interested in the script, too - thanks for the great channel
Hard disk drives when aging are also suffering from poor contact oxidation between the pcb and the contact pins of spin motor or the contact pins of magnetic heads and position electromagnets.
Electrical contacts in computers are usually corrosion resistant (e.g. gold plated). In 25 years of computing I've never come across electrical contact issues.
Big bri in the house. Happy xmas mate
Great informative video. Thank you, Merry Christmas
Usefull tutorial, thank you again bro with this video
Most of the time it is not actually the drive going bad, it losses its magnetic properties over time. What needs to be done is a Full Read/Write on the entire drive of course this will erase any data and you will have to reformat it too. Refreshing the magnetic properties will fix most errors. If you hear the Clicking sound then well your controller is going bad. Remove the drive from the old case and buy a new HD Case with the controller card. Done this with many drives over the years and saved them. Scanners do not do much good as I do not waste my time with them. Norton for DOS was the best Bad sector fixer. Hard to perform the right test while on the computer. SpinRite is the Best Software for renewing your HD, but it is not cheap.
Great Video Mate, Live Long! Keep bringing good stuff.
Thanks for the support
@@Britec09 Hope to see your next video soon. Merry Christmas and happy holidays. Greetings from Pakistan. 😍
Merry Christmas
Hi Brian,Merry Christmas and happy new year for 2020 to you and all your family, and many thanks for your hard effort teaching us about computing staff for helping CZcams fans.
Thanks👍👍👍😊
You're welcome John, Merry Christmas
Just seeing the Hard Disk Failure Signs, I knew something was wrong with my Internal HD. But I wanted to ask does having a dying hard drive also affect the overall performance of the PC. Because I've noticed stuff (when transferring a file 4-8GB) such as my games lagging/frame freezes, windows explorer crashing, internet/browser taking so long to load a a single/home page.) would you say this another sign?
don't forget nearly all PC's will throw out the odd blue screen of death
Merry Christmas to you and yours mate
I knew mine was dying when windows kept getting corrupted over and over
Same. A ton of blue screen hdd errors and failed windows installs.
Same
3:38 I would recommend putting SystemRescueCD on the stick instead. Much more powerful and versatile set of troubleshooting tools. Linux-based, naturally.
Thanks for this!
Btw
Its pronounced Hee-ren not Hi-ren.
Merry xmas!
Good video Brian.
How can you tell? Windows won't shut up about it.
Sometimes a HD can be dying for years. It then becomes a question as to how long to keep using it.
Hi another nice vid. You have about 4 or 5 of these vids that go over SMART but no one has explained how the SMART report is read ther relationship between Current, Worst Threshold and Data . Just a thought
I transfer data from usb drive to laptop. The speed is 55kb/s, is my hard drive dying?
My Western Digital Black HDD was bought new in 2002. Yes I have the receipt.
It has always been a noisey klunky drive from new.
Its still running my gaming rig today.
Ive just used CrystalDisk
Power on cycles - 10,783
Power on hours = 48,093 hours.
Health = Good
Drive D: and F: are Seagates and are similar age and useage
Hard drives and SSD’s and M.2’s will fail, Very educational, thanks!
If you only write chkdsk, it will only look for error in read-mode. Then, you will do the other option. I think it is the safest way to check the disk. There are report on how harmful it can be if too many bad sectors, thus data loss.
A few months ago (in August of 2019), my eleven year old Mac Pro kept shutting down for no obvious reason. Then it would not start up at all... and I realized that I had not heard the fan as I always had. Turned out that the man drive burned out. I’ve replaced it with an iMac Pro. The secondary drive held all of my images in my photography business but I can’t figure out how to enter it now. Fortunately I had been backing it up on two Passport drives so I am not pulling my hair out. All because I didn’t realize that the computer was so silent.
Brilliant info brian,thankyou
Spinrite by Steve Gibson, one and done.
Used it many times
''The Age of HDD is over. The Time of the M2 NVME has come.''
Hard Drive is not dead and buried yet. M.2 NVME cannot replace 8TB drives and even if they could, they would be stupid expensive
@@Britec09 Yeah, that's right, but 90% of us don't need 8TB HDDs. A 250GB M2 NVME and a 500GB SSD in here, plus a 1TB external drive. And I'm fine.
That is no where near enough storage for me, but most should be OK.
@@Amonny tell that to mega gamers
The samsung magician software is only for Samsung drives?
Yes
Sudden shutting down without any warning or reason can be caused by a faulty harddisk
Could be many things that's causing your PC to shut down randomly could be a bad power supply or just about any other component in the PC. The only way to find out to troubleshoot the issue with no good working parts and see if the problem goes away. Hope this helps. Thanks for watching
literally having all those failure Signs and my windows takes 14 minutes to boot so I'm getting an new SSD this week
how many years it is ok to keep a pc just curious figured id ask 4 or 5 and upgrade sparingly
Thank you.Great content.
Cheers great site Brian followed you years!,ok i had win,7 installed long time, ,i had probs like you have gone over,msg impending hd failure,so i backed up transferred all data to 2 external hds,everything ok,also installed another 1tb hard drive just in casei have msin os 1 tb hd was only 60% full,since doing this all been ok weird,i now installed full linux 19.3 os and erased drive no more win7,since doing this no probs hd. Any thoughts why hd is now ok?,btw linux mint 19.3 superb for win users easy use familar desktop,i am long time user all windows os over 30+ years. happy xmas.
drive could be going bad
Britec09 too late I've gone bad! Beer Lol
its Christmas lol
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year😀
Same to you
@@Britec09 Thanks for the reply
But you don't have anything for MacBook/iOS! Do you have any suggestions?
I like the 'see through' pc, but where is the dust?
All my 2010 or older drives all still work ..no bad sectors ..all the newer drives are MUCH MUCH less reliable ..the new stuff is built crappy
My hard drive has half of these signs.. it also runs chkdsk often and I really think it’s failing now. It’s been used since around 2019 after I accidentally formatted my old one with Ubuntu.
Can you clone it?
Hard Drive has been freezing my computer for months until I figured out that was the problem (Living nightmare) But I’m transferring to an SSD.
Thank you!
Have you tried Spinrite?
Yes.
I'm currently on the bsod and I got an error code called critical process died I got it from switching boot order then switching back any ideas how to fix it I'm in need of help rn
When trying to install windows it won't boot and I have tried any solution. It gives me the "cynical data redundancy"? Is it any reason?
my hard disk corrupted and i can't check how much space it has and when i press it my file explore doesn't respond It also makes some of my apps unusable and i can't load the search bar or cmd anymore. Its like it wrecked something on my primary drive and corrupted some stuff on there too. Idk whats happening and even some of the windows programs are unusable like disk management task manager and some other important stuff
Chkdsk does it all for you... and it's built-in.
does this work on an external hard drive, since i have a 2nd hdd which i got from an old laptop
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My File Explorer won't even show anything after one or two tries, and the green "load bar" at the top goes snail slow. I've tried everything, but I think it's a failing hard drive. It's strange, I can still access some folders, but it shows incomplete icons and won't allow me to open some of them, and none of the folders show any icons either. I can also access them when I'm uploading something to a forum or website, like a picture, but I can't go into File Explorer and find that picture. And my internet still works.
Probably a failing hard drive. :(
very useful video thank you
I have freezing I have crashea and bsod I have some weired noise still not too high and I keep runningsfc tool for corrupted files and every time I boot win 10 it shows scaning and repairing drive c
If my computer just beeps and will not boot up does that mean the drive is stuffed
İ have this problem,so i recently got this hitachi 1tb hdd and i checked the health and it's at 100percent without any bad sectors(via harddisk sentinel),no data transfer issues also not corrupt file yet but this hdd has this noise it's like clicking,i have another hdd 500gb at 27Percent health and it's really much more quiet,please answer if i should return it.
Oh God my study work,all gone ?
My pc keeps restarting
Is that from the hard disk ?
*Does this apply to the server's hard drive? and does a server hard drive run on a computer?
My hard drive showed no signs of failure and just out of nowhere just died today :(. I’ve had it for 4 years. All my videos are gone
I've had my hard drive since 2006, and it stopped working today... It is making unusual scratching noises all the time. I have two hard drives, but I don't know which is which since they're the same... Someone know how to fix this?
I get tonsssss of bluescreens tons but it freezes to my pc is a 2011 elitebook 8740w
I guess I have been lucky. Of all the hard drives I owned since 1992, I've only had 3 that did not last 10 years or more. One was a 1996 WD 3.5" 1.6GB IDE that died in 2002.Another was a 2005 WD 2.5" 150GB IDE external drive that had been dropped a few times. It died in 2013. The last was a 2009 WD 3.5" 500GB SATA "Green" that died in 2018. I still have a number of IDE hard drives from the early 2000's that still work up to now, including a 120GB Hitachi/IBM "Deathstar." I also bought a number of Seagate 3.5" SATA hard drives in the early 2010's. So far, they're okay with most at +5 years. I'll be happy if they last 10 years. Merry Christmas y tu!
My current C: drive. A western digital black. Bought in 2002. I have the receipt.
I've just used CrystalDisk
Power on cycles - 10,783
Power on hours = 48,093 hours.
Health = Good.
Drive D: and F: are Seagates are similar age and useage
My WD sshd lasted for 4 years. My Samsung 980pro lasted one and im a bit tiffed.
HD Tune Pro - Error Scan shows how many bad sectors there is if its been new drive and later 3 blocks gone red - change drive, i rescan my drives every 6-12 months even tho i have 3 backups of files lol (12TB WD GOLD took 14 hours to check sectors, i never do fast scan)
Hi there!
Someone asked me this question and I have no idea how to answer. So I told him I would check with my on-line guru - YOU!
Large HD being used as THREE partitions, D, E & F. Common sense dictates when ANY portion of the drive goes bad... TIME TO BACK-UP AND REPLACE. So I already KNOW this. BUT, he has a relatively NEWish solid state 2TB, and is wondering if he can just sort of 'go with the flow' of understanding that the ONE partition is now toast, but just continue using the other two until he starts seeing some 'flakiness' of another, and THEN pop for another drive? Or will that wasted partition have some sort of negative impact with the other two partitions? Or at least any that YOU have known of or heard about? Again, he KNOWS he should just get another 2TB SS Samsung drive, but it is less than six months old and he thinks it is just a BAD sector or such.
As always_ YOU DA MAN!!! ✨🤗✨
when it slowing down, even after reformat, thats the sign for me....i have this hdd jus died last year, i reformat it coz its dam so slow, but it didnt change anything and still slow.... after a month, it died.......it serve me for 10 years, 500gb Samsung brand
im here bcuz i think my d drive died because of a trojan virus, the last time i restarted it, it was just gone from my computer my files are gone (atleast it was just games) i also new how to fix it but it was too late the drive was just gone from my computer. now i tried to plug it out and putting it back in but... nope it didnt come back. if theres any way i could have it back pls let me know thanks!
I always listen to your voice and hear Michael Cain.....
Adata Ultimate sucked big time. I used 4-5 of them to friends machines (Windows and Macs) cause they were cheap and in one year one died and all others somehow managed to corrupt the installations more than once.
Get to know to differentiate between a HARD DRIVE and a Solid State Drive, first.
Got this error /Harddisk1/DR2 has a bad block and I have had /Harddisk1/DR1
I feel bad for my 5 year old laptop I used to fall asleep with it and it wud drop off the bed, it makes a frog noises now every couple of seconds, the fan is faulty but still going and worse my laptop takes 20 minutes to start up now. What’s worse I can’t afford to change my laptop. It’s an Acer aspire 5742 i5
Hi, I need help here. On my laptop Dell Windows 10. I tried to use memory diagnostic and I am stuck keeps running non stop. Can anyone help please. I have drained the battery and pressed shift /f8. For longtime until I got Dell testing run that but than back again at non stop.
Hiii umm can someone help me out here sooo I’m use the hp 600 g1 sff with gtx 1650 and i7 4790 and my pci express port broke and bought a new one and it’s was saying error I was miss somthing from system32 and automatic repairing going to blue screen and soo I redid window and it fix… but I am getting performance issues now I wasn’t getting performance issues on my last windows. PLEASE SOMEONE HELP
I think my old adopted ten year old girl is dying. Worked amazing and now it’s slowed down and keeps crashing. Im the arrrrms of the angelllls
full of data OPTICAL MEDIA DVD R DL and BD-R NORMAL DL TL QL are more durable than SSD / HDD...?
Happy Christmas!!!
Im very scared to scan my drive tbh
I swear i dont want to know if its gonna die soon or not, because i know my parents wont be able to buy me another one.
Thanks for the help sadly my Xbox hard drive has died so I'll just have to get a new one
Exposer to magnets too
There are strong magnets in the hard drive
@@Britec09 yes but another magnetic wave off balences Reed and wright data heads crupts harddive i lernd it the hard way
I scared man, I don't want my hard drive do die :(
I literally have every failure sign in this video😐
how to fix it
Mine was dying, so I put two drops of Extra virgin olive oil sand now it's all smooth and quiet....it went from 5400rpm to 14000rpm. 👌🏽😌
Posted on Facebook , Bye for now Cheers
Thanks
this guy has the same GPU as my PC
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Can I use duct tape to extend the life of a hard drive?
you can use blow torch to extend life of an ssd.
😂 that's funny
duct tape fixes everything