hard drive

I switched out my pleb 2TB 5400rpm drive in my launch PS4 with a 2TB SSHD but I'm having an issue restoring the data from the external drive I used, formatted as exFAT. AFAIK FAT32 or exFAT should work fine... The backup data is about 600GB (full backup of all installed games, along with...

About half a year ago I realized that my external hard-drive that I bought on amazon was malfunctioning, I had noticed there was a connection problem even before that, it would connect and disconnect rapidly sometimes, but I didn't think much of it cause my files were still there. then 1 day...

Hello, I bought a WD external hard drive to shuck and even after taping the 3rd pin on the hard drive and using a molex to sata connector the hard drive wont show even in BIOS. Help?

Hi, I currently had a couple of external hard drives wired to a powered usb hub, which is wired to the usb port on my laptop I want to do one of two things, one of them is (probably?) easier. Either I want to wirelessy connect the USB hub to the laptop, or I want to wirelessly connect a single...

Does anyone know of any utility / program for Windows that would show which drives are spun down? or allow individual timeout spin down control for each HDD? Ideally i'd like a log of when my drives are spinning up / down.

Need a recommendation of software / program / scrip to test new brand new hard drive. What I would like is for it to make a write to every sector and report any bad ones, that seems to be most reliable. Any other additional technique suggestions are welcome. OS is Windows.

(note: i am running Windows 8.1 Pro on a Lenovo Thinkpad W540) several days ago i received a blue screen of death and my computer restarted. upon restart my computer acted like a new system (received the “let’s get you started” message, etc.), and though my data and programs were all intact my...

I have a 3TB Seagate hard drive that is about to die. Problem is there is ALOT of data on this thing I need to get off. I had it all backed up on a NAS but the backups on that thing got messed up. So I was going to just redo it. Reestablish the backup with a correct file structure. It was in the...

Ok I have been searching everywhere for days and cannot find an answer. I have 3 hard drives (Will Post Pics) And I need to format all of these to sell. I was looking for a good converter to plug into my laptop and such but everyone I ask On Ebay or Amazon say that my hard drive won't work with...

Had my larger hard drive crash on me over the weekend; I can no longer initialize the disk in Windows. The drive is no longer detected outside of specialized software and I get a general CRC error. I think the drive is toast, and I already have a replacement on the way, but what would be the...

I have a 2 TB Western Digital External Hard Drive (Model - My Book). A couple of months back, it suddenly stopped working. I was very busy then and so couldn't focus on fixing it. Now I want to resolve this issue and hence seeking your help. Current state of the drive - The LED switches on I...

I had a GTX 680 & it was over heating badly so i couldnt game, i bought a new GTX 1060 from MSI and it has this problem also. I then realized that my hardrive was also overheating badly! Please Help I cant seem to figure out whats up

I need an answer from an acer ownder . Question does the ES1-572 (2017 model) support an additional memory ram and an additional hard drive (SSD 2,5"). I want to buy one and upgrade its memory from 4Gb to 8Gb and add a SSD to boost it up. Thank you,

Hey all. I just got myself an 4TB external HD and i'm wondering if i would i have much luck in replacing the 1.5TB drive in an older Verbatim external enclosure with the new 4TB so that i could put the Verbatim drive internally into a new PC build? I'm being picky really, as i like the Verbatim...

I have a friend's Macbook Pro with a 160GB Fujitsu hard drive that doesn't want to cooperate. The OS never loads but the hard drive doesn't seem to be dead, at least not yet. When I used Disk Utility to scan and verify the drive, it appeared to be making progress right up until the error: live...

I read a review that having two drives is great for editing in Adobe premiere...why is that? Will a computer be faster somehow with 2 drives? the review doesn't explain why he thinks its better to have two drives (both are M.2 if that matters).

Hello, I recently built a new PC, and I keep getting BSODs that say DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION, and then when i restart my computer, when windows is about to boot up I get another error telling me to insert proper boot device. Then after restarting again my computer finally boots up. Sometimes when...