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Hello everyone, I'm Ivan. I don't remember when it started, but my OS SSD (C drive) constantly have a 50° Celsius temperature, even with my PC on idle. The other two SSDs have a temperature of 30°. (CrystalDiskInfo photo attached) The OS SSD is mounted below the HDD at the bottom of the case, in front of an intake fan. What should I do? Time to buy an NVME drive? Thank you to who will respond.
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SInce a few months my disk has been at a 100% usage all the time. at first I noticed that the LED in my case didn´t turn off during my session, but I dismissed it since it caused me no problems with performance. but this week my computer became absolute unusable. it takes 10 minutes to open davinci resolve and everytime y try to scroll trough the time line it frezees for a second, Devil may cry 5 takes three times longer to load and so on. when I open the task manager I found this. I really don´t know what causes this to stay like this 24/7. Thanks in advance for your help.
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Hey all, frequent video editor and gamer here, recently I found that my PC has been slow, and it's presumably because my boot SSD, will go long stretches of time at 100% use. I have tried defragmenting, disk cleanup, running with no programs, but almost at random the disk will spike to 100% use and tank all performance on the machine for stretches at a time. It used to happen sporadically for like a second at most, and I assumed it was normal, but now that its such a frequent occurence and a long lasting one, I am starting to get worried. Everytime this happens, the top process using the disk is "system." When the disk is peaking, no other devices in the performance monitor are noticeably correlated to it. The SSD in question is around 5 years old. I have both an SSD and an HDD, as far as I can tell, the SSD is the problem here. Any help would be appreciated! Specs: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI) ATX AM4 G.Skill Trident Z RGB Series 128GB DDR4 3600 SanDisk SSD PLUS 1 TB 2.5 Seagate IronWolf NAS 8 TB 3.5" 7200RPM EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8 GB EVGA G2 1300 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply -
This feels like a question better asked 40 years ago but I have run into a wall and feel like at least ONE person on this forum has experience with it. The drive is the Shugart 801 with an LSI PCB, supposedly meaning it does not need -5VDC compared to earlier models. The main problem is that the stepper motor works FORWARD but not backward, meaning the head can go all the way out but must manually be pushed back in. This means a disk cannot be read/written to effectively. The stepper motor seizes up when trying to go backwards. Everything else seems right to me based on the fact it is mostly working properly in DOS, minus the said problem. I have it going from a 34 pin floppy cable in a PIII system going to 50 pin shugart and Windows 2000 can even send signals to it. I found the service manual here (39025-1_SA800_801_Service_Manual_Mar82.pdf) which has been pretty helpful so far but does not state anything about the stepper not stepping backwards. If I had to guess, it is either a bad servo, a bad track 0 detector (making it impossible to go backwards) or possibly a failed component on the PCB, though every component looks to be in perfect shape. Hope someone can help, I have a lot of data I need to recover!
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Hi everyone, first time here. I was trying to set a Raid 1 on my dad's computer (first time doing that too) and I realised that the 2 drives need to be connected on the same way, but mine are m.2 and sata, so it didn't work. That was AFTER changing them to dynamic disks. I don't know if dynamic disks may cause some trouble, since microsoft doesn't recomment its use anymore, but it feels safer to come back to basic. The problem now is that I don't want any data loss, specially on the C: m.2. So I wanted to ask if there's some safe, free way to do that. The only way I can find is to copy all that data to my PC and format the m.2, but I don't if that may cause some problem with windows or any software, so I wanted to ask here first. thanks!
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Hi everyone, in desperate need of some help with my drive disappearing. I "upgraded" to windows 11 in Jan and my HDD connected via SATA is not on disk management anymore. Other SSDs arent showing up either. Pretty much anything connected via SATA (my m.2 drives are fine) - They show up on bios - Ive swapped out drives/cables ... still nothing - reinstalled / flashed bios - reinstalled windows! - downloaded chipset drivers etc. - bunch of other stuff. When loading windows 10 it shows up but not on windows 11 for some reason. I just finished installing all of my apps and dont want to downgrade to windows 10 and start fresh if it can be avoided. Microsoft cant help me (I just get "wait for an update" from them) Has anyone else had this issue or any ideas how I can get my drive back and have it show in disk management again. Thanks!! -
Today I had to install nvidia drivers, so I did a clean install since i only have around 2 gb left on my C:Drive. When I did that, it did the regular restart then nothing. I spent around 20 minutes trying to install drivers but to no avail. As of this point the only way I will be able to do anything is to fully clear my drive except for windows. I have an external harddrive that has all my games on it, but if i clear my drive, I dont want to have to reinstall everything as I have around 1TB of games from both steam and Microsoft store. I pretty much just want to remove documents and files but thats it, is there a way to do this? In conclusion I cant install Nvidia drivers (i'm running on no drivers)as something is wrong and I have no space and cant find anything to clear.
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If I download games in Steam at 550 MB/s and the SSD disk usage is at 672 MB/s, is this disk usage sequential or random write to the disk? What will happen if I download to a 5400 rpm HDD at the same download speed?
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Every time I turn my PC on it says 'scanning and repairing drive'. I am using a WD Blue nvme m.2 ssd and I do click shutdown when I turn it off not unplug it or anything. Can someone help please?
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Alright so i couldnt figure this out myself and google also didnt help, neither did a restart. What i did was try to shrink a volume so that i could add another partition in windows' 'create and format hard disk partitions' app. However after i changed the size i wanted, etc and clicked ok, the window froze. i left it for a good 30 minutes, and as i wasnt making that much of a change to a relatively small drive and as such would definitely not take that long, i closed the window and tried to reopen it and see if that would do anything. However it couldnt connect to the virtual disk service or something to that effect. Restarted pc, and now the drive in windows file explorer has shrunk to what i wanted, however in the partition window i used in the first place to shrink it, its showing the volume as not shrunk even though its not full capacity, will attach screenshot for reference. Is there anyway to resolve this without w iping the drive as i dont have any space on other drives to back up data. Hopefully its not just me being a moron. Thanks in advance for any help given.
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My PC is very space limited with two pretty old SSDs. I'm considering spanning a volume onto a another disk using Disk Management in Windows 10 Pro, having never done it before. I'd be doing this so that I can install PC games that are larger than 100GB. Currently I can only install games of 65GB or less on C Drive. My Current Setup: I'll make sure to create a full system image of all volumes beforehand. Can I created a spanned volume by extending the C Drive partition to D Drive while keeping the OS intact? Any other tips for this? Thanks
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I am facing one problem and looking for a solution. In my desktop PC I am currently, having: 2TB Western Digital 2TB Toshiba 1TB Western Digital 2TB Seagate All drives are connected to my MBO in desktop PC via SATA III connectors. Moreover, I am planning to buy a home NAS server with 4 or 5 drive bays. But, the problem is, as specified from the title and above, I have 4 different HDDs. How can I have a copy or clone all of them to I do not know if that's possible either? Planning for a long time to buy some NAS and have 4x HDDs (IronWolf Pro) with the capacity of 2TB (at least) and put them into a RAID 1 mode (if that's the good one I need?). But before that, I do not know how can I move or duplicate data from all of my 4x HDDs around? What software to use and how do do it without losing all of them in the process? Should I use Acronis software for that or what other? Moreover, I have not yet used it so I do not know much how to work with ti at all - have to try out on Virtual Machine first ... Also, would like to know if there is possibillity to have data in Cloud? If so, what are the costs of it? Moreover, I believe I would need a month to take to upload my HDDs to some cloud on my internet connection speed at home Any advice and information appreciate! Thank you! -
Hello all, I have SuperFetch (SysMain) disabled on my PC. I am running a Seagate 2TB HDD. Here are the Metrics for Disk usage. Is this Normal? I get pretty sub-par performance browsing the system, However, I get very good performance in ANY game I play. ie 115fps DOOM Eternal - 90fps Far Cry 5 - 80fps GTAV. Is this the effect of using an HDD instead of an SSD? my last PC had Windows installed to an SSD, with games loaded onto the HDD. That PC was MUCH snappier. uh anyway, Thanks in advance. I guess I just need to confirm if using an HDD for a boot drive actually makes that huge of a difference. ~Seven
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I have been using a Toshiba P300 7200rpm 3TB HDD along with a 1TB Samsung 850 Evo SSD for less than a year. I've always thought my HDD has been quite noisy and its increasingly worrying/annoying me and I'm wondering if I should consider getting it replaced while its still hopefully under warranty. Sometimes I'm not doing anything in particular but my Advanced SystemCare monitor tells me the HDD is at 100% usage even though there are no 'processes with high I/O'. When its at 100% for these few seconds, it grinds/scratches fairly loudly, its probably the loudest part of my build and I have 5 fans. The drive is less than 1/3 full and I do not use it heavily at all, it seems fairly random and can even be idle when it randomly shoots to 100% and gets noisy...perhaps its the antivirus or something running in the background when idle but I still wouldnt expect such noise or 100% usage. I don't know whether I should be worried because SMART doesn't detect a problem and I've not noticed any other signs of failure and its also not been through any of the main causes of failure, its always been like it but its either doing it more often now or Im just noticing it more and it annoys me. It isnt hot or slow or have corrupt files or anything like that...it just makes noise! It does seem like my model may just be a noisy one so if there are any other Toshiba HDD users, I'd appreciate knowing if you find yours loud too. Nevertheless, the noise does seem a little excessive/unnecessary. Advice?
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Hey, so If I sell my Xbox 360 console with games (on disks) i'm just making sure, will the new owner be able to access my saved games etc. without my Xbox Live account and after the console has been formatted. I'm pretty sure they'd need my Live account as save games are stored on the cloud and on the console's HDD; however I just need to be certain before I sell my games with the console. Thanks for the help.
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so I am currently trying to create a backup using AI recovery burner. The first disk worked fine, then it asked for a second blank disk so I inserted one and nothing happen... so I tried a different one, and nothing happened. windows 7 is not even asking me what I want to do with the disk (i checked and it should ask me every time) when I go into file explorer it will not let me open or format the disk. I tried formatting it on another computer and then inserting with the same results, AI recovery burner just sits there saying there is no media detected. any ideas?
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Hi, I have a question. Suppose I have an operating system installed on an extra hard drive. Now my question is if I connect that hard drive with another motherboard will it boot on the OS I have on my hard drive?
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I took this disk from an old receiver (It's a seagate 250gb hdd) been using it for around a year or so. It just went poof and I got pop up from onedrive saying the directory is missing. The first time I restarted it was still missing and the 2nd time I turned off the power supply and discharged the computer by pressing the power button with the PSU turned off and then went into the bios to check if it's there and it was...came right back now. (Those are actual disks and not partitions) Thing is, does anybody know what just happened?
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Hi, I've had my PC for almost a year now and my HDD was brand new for it. It is a 3TB Toshiba P300 7200RPM. I've always thought the HDD has been fairly noisy - and sometimes it makes more noise than others and it can make a variety of different noises. I don't think it can be failing since it is pretty new and not heavily used - I've only filled about 1/3rd of it and I thinking about resetting/formatting it soon. I'm pretty sure its always made noises but for some reason its bothering me more now. Is there anything I can do to reduce the noise or should I be concerned? My DVD drive is also noisy on startup and when in use but since it is not used most of the time, it does not bother me as much as the hard drive noises...its almost like a grinding sound occasionally! Thanks
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I have a HDD on my system that on every boot gives me a notification that its under performing and in the IRST dashboard the status shows at : at risk. it works absolutely fine, with good read and write speeds. 750GB WD black (laptop HDD) what could be the error ?
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Hello, My mother has given me a Mac to fix and I can't get around a problem. My little brother tried to put Windows on it, not for games, he's tied between platforms because of his studies. Every time I turn the Mac on I get presented with: "No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key" You are thinking "command - option" right? Well it's a stupid wireless keyboard which seems to be out of sync. I thought Windows keyboards were compatible but it doesn't even power on (Num-Caps lock lights dead). Is the only way to fix this now is to buy an apple wired keyboard? I have access to my PC and another Mac if there is another way. Thanks people
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For a little while now, my dell inspiron 15 has been acting up quite a bit. This is by no means my gaming rig, but I have this separately for work purposes, and I have found that lately the disk usage, even after a full reboot is stuck at 100%, and the system and other necessary tasks are at the at the top of the task manager, so I can't disable those. Any Idea what this could be? Windows defender hasn't detected any viruses nor have I ever downloaded from shady places. After roughly 10 minutes every time after a boot however, it calms down. Here are screenshots of the manager:
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Hello Internet, I used an Win10 install tool USB stick to "format" my hard drive and added a SSD. I went into the screen in the photo and just clicked Delete on both the drives and when i try to install Windows i get "Windows can't be installed on drive 2 partition 1.", and when i click it i get this message.
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FIXED, answer down below So i have been using this pc for a few years now, overcame many a hurdles but am generally really happy with it but is currently a nuisance to use. specs: When i start a browser and surf the web a bit my C: drive rockets to 100% usage but it's transfer speed drops to 0B/s I have been able to reproduce the issue many a times on chrome, torch(also chromium) and opera, but this doesn't not seem to affect steam(as of yet(steam is glorified web browser)) also all the other drives don't transfer anything anymore, i assume this is a software issue, as it doesn't happen with other applications(games(warframe,banished,witcher3,etc),torrents,visual studio or any other imaginable task that is not one of the previously mentioned browsers. notably though it still samples the USB bus and applications that do not read data from the disk at the time of the freeze still work fine-ish foobar still plays music and i can play and pause with my keyboard shortcuts(thus USB still responding) but i cannot move the window of the application. so audio still works usb still works CPU doesn't freeze up as it still executes threads but when a program tries to access a read or write function at the time of the freeze the program halts(waiting for read/write to finish?)(basicly everything in time starting with chrome and in a blink of an eye the windows ui too and slowly the other applications. the most interesting would be that not only the ssd stops reading/writing but so does the other drive but only the ssd is at 100% usage, my suspicion: chrome trying to write to a bad sector on the ssd? i highly doubt it is a sata controller hardware failure, as then it would happen at different applications too. so i wonder what do browsers do that other applications don't do? and why is steam not afflicted?
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I have a 1 TB hard drive that is showing only 297 GBs of total space, drive is brand new, and shows that value in both file explorer and the disk management tool in windows 10 Any idea why or how to fix it? (its Disk 0 in the picture)
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