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So today my PC had been having some issues. I got a new controller and I plugged it into one of my front panel USB ports. It was working fin at first, but I unplugged it and when I re-plugged it, it wouldn't power on. It does work when I plug it into my rear USB parts, however. Here comes the weird part. I go back to steam and half my games are gone (the ones downloaded on that drive). File explorer revealed to me that my 500gb SSD has vanished. The drive is discoverable in disk management, but it asks me to initialize the drive. I've tried re-initializing it but it gives me an error, saying that there was an i/o port issue. My front USB ports do power on my speaker without issues, but I figured they are just weak since I tested a USB drive on it and the new drive popup thing that windows has would appear, go away, then reappear. My main problem is finding out what is wrong with my SSD. Any help is appreciated

Ever since the win update that effect x570 motherboards, I have been try to keep my system from forgetting c drive. And now all my drives have the, "drive doesn't have space error," while forgetting where the os is installed at. My pc specs X570 aorus master wifi Ryzen 9 3900 16 gb ram 3 1TB m.2 drives ssd (os on m.2a slot) 2 1TB 2.5 drives ssd 1 10TB 3.5 drive hdd $1300 of drives now paperweights. This system was a b-day gift to me, after my previous system had a motherboard failure with the fx-6300 processor. With a 6-7 months gap between from one failure to the next system built.

Hi all, I am a long time viewer on LTT but very new to this forum, and I know vibrations kill hard drives. So I ordered a 8TB Ironwolf (non-pro) HDD on newegg and it arrived earlier today. When I got home, I tried to rotate the box to pick it up more easily. (I know it is the drive ATM.) To my great personal horror, it made a very large THUMP sound! So I opened it quickly, only to find this packaging.... The drive was sitting on a corner of the box with some loosly stuffed air pillows above it, with no measures to secure it. So it has been banging around the box for this whole time during shipping..... Of course I can't accept it. So I was contacting costomer help line, but the representatives keep telling me: a) I did not open it, and b) If it works when I open it they can not refund a full charge (+ original shipping + free return shipping), because this is technically "I don't want it anymore", and I cannot prove the product _may_ be bad, or it may suffer from pre-mature failures. Knowing hard drives, there is no way in freaking hell that I entrust my data to this sorry ass excuse of a "good" drive. Now, the way I see it, there are 2 ways for me to go: a) Waste hours of my time to find a reasonable representative who would take this drive back and issue a full refund + original shipping + free return shipping, or b) per the representatives I talked to, if the drive fails when I power it up, they will accept my claim. Now I can make sure it fails when it powers up and Seagate will blame Newegg's shipping dept. for it (you know how), but I'd rather not to, that just being a bad human being..... So if y'all know a way to fix this, or if some reasonable person from Newegg is reading this, pleeeeease, feel free to leave a comment or contact me to remedy this cluster f-up. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bottom line, I can not accept this hard drive and subject myself to data loss..... DUH....

Hello everybody, I've recently found out, that one of my drives is dying (Crystal disk info showing 98 reallocated sectors). After backing up all the data from the drive (HDD) and plugging it back into my computer, my computer started being slower than usual and the hard drive not showing up anywhere until i reconnected it. Here a screenshot of the drive data of the HDD in question: I do not understand why that is happening, so here's the question: Does anyone know why this might be happening? Any help is hugely appreciated and thanks in advance. Raiku_

Hey, folks...first time posting (long time viewer of LTT and its sister sites on YouTube)... I just experienced a failure on my three-year-old drive. This drive just stopped working "out of the blue" and I need to recover the data on it. I sent it to $300 Data Recovery in California, and they indicated that if it were a PRO they have tools to recover; there's a YouTube clip of someone doing data recovery from the PRO model, but the EVO model is at the moment not recoverable. In the same breath they tell me that the problem is not with Samsung but with their provider of data recovery tools; they have been waiting for an upgrade to the firmware for some time and have offered to hold on to my drive(s, including the recovery drive I sent them). The failure was cited as follows (and is why I'm writing here...): "The problem with your drive appears to be a firmware issue. This is a known issue for which there is no current solution (given your model)." They further write "Would you like us to hold onto your drive until an update is released? Note: we've been waiting for years for this update. So far, I don't think a solution is even on the horizon. Still, we have about half a dozen 850 EVO drives like yours here now, waiting for the day it finally comes (someone has to figure out how to break the samsung encryption for this model). In response to the email I sent them incensed at Samsung over this, they replied: "It's not Samsung, it's the developers of our data recovery tools." Is there any reality in which Samsung is NOT the villain of this piece? I find NOWHERE that I'm on notice that spending the extra $$$ for the Pro version of this drive would make it recoverable where the EVO version is seen to recovery tools as so much soup. And where would the "developers of <their> data recovery tools" NOT have to rely on Samsung for technical specs for the update they need to make the drives recoverable? I'm poisonously angry at Samsung right now, and somewhat at MYSELF for not covering my flank. I had used this drive as a repository for video files I'm immediately editing and working on, then to go to slower storage after the video is realized. Many of the files that were here ONLY resided here. I know now that this was careless practice but still find the facts herein extremely frustrating. I'd love any thoughts the brains our here might have for me, with many thanks. If someone knows of a different provider with more likelihood of success than $300 Data Recovery (I've worked with them before and they've been reliable) please let me know. I can't go crazy with recovery cost but these files are important to maintain goodwill with a client. Thanks to all. Jay from the Bronx, NY

I asked my cousin to bring his Seagate 3TB Internal HD if it could run on my UEFI system as he doesn't have the same. As soon as we plugged in and ran the Windows Disc Management it is detected as 3.86 GB Unallocated which is as weird as it gets (see the attached screenshot). Current Status - Creating GPT Partition (Taking forever) We tried using all the available Disc Management tools but none detected it (incl. SeaTools) Jumping into the RAID Configurator it shows that the drive is not functioning and ERROR NUMBER 7. While shaking the drive in hand it produces a screeching sound but not always. Are these the signs of Total Drive Failure ?? *Not under Warranty*

Hi all, long time lurker first time poster, ya get the idea... First off, this is going to be a longer post - want to include all of the troubleshooting steps I've already tried, and all of the thoughts I've had so far...so, sorry for the long post. Anyways... A few days ago I decided to force shutdown my machine (6700k, 16gigs ram, MSI h110m motherboard, msi 1070, Samsung 850 evo 500gb, windows 10 - not sure what update anymore). When I went to boot up the next day, it got past the motherboard splashscreen, and told me that it did not detect a boot device. So, somehow when I force shutdown, I killed my windows install. Ok, no worries, nothing mission critical, full backups from the night before, we're good. I'll make a windows flashdrive and reinstall. I'm going to list out the issues I've had so far, and the troubleshooting steps I've taken cause I fell that's easier. Made flashdrive, tried to boot - but it hangs at the windows spinning circles realize that somehow having the ssd plugged in is stopping windows from loading Take out old ssd (Samsung 850 evo 250gb) to try to boot to/install windows to it (it was an old install from a few months ago, same machine, should have booted fine) No dice. This ssd prevents boot as well Find old 250gb hitachi traditional drive, boot up, install windows. Update bios somewhere in there Turn on hot swap to prevent boot issues, and allow me to look at drives in windows without going through sata-usb adapters (these were causing naming issues in diskpart) Both drives are recognized, by name (Samsung SSD 850 EVO ___gb by device manager/devices and printers), but there are still issues Try to clean them using diskpart Works for 250 gb drive (which, by the way, is being recognized as a 500gb drive somehow by diskpart, drive manager, etc) Diskpart throws out errors about not being able to access file when I go to create a partition Diskpart now hangs even at startup, no command line options available. Drive manager hangs on opening, will not show list of drives Previously, both drives were able to be recognized in drive manager and diskpart, but could not be initialized with gpt or mbr. Does not work for 500gb drive - from this point on, this drive is unplugged because it seemed to be causing slowdown with diskpart and devicemanager/disk manager. Try to uninstall the device/driver in device management - hangs Drivers on both drives were updated around October when I cloned them. Other thoughts/information: 250gb drive was a known good device until today. It was simply cloned to the 500gb drive using the Samsung wizard software, and then left in my desk drawer for the past few months. Sata cables/sata power are known good All other hardware is fine, and windows is now bootable - but will still hang if EITHER ssd is plugged in - via sata or the sata to usb adapter. So, are there any other troubleshooting steps I can take, or should I just accept I now have two inexplicably dead ssd's (well, one is inexplicable, I know I f'ed up with the 500gb drive)? I really don't care about the data on them - it is all backed up. I plan to take them in to the IT guy for my department tomorrow to see if he has any ideas, but if I can get it fixed/figured out on my own, I'd like to. It really isn't his job to fix my personal gear. TL;DR: Forced shutdown machine, broke drive, somehow broke spare drive as well. Can see drives, but cannot wipe them. pls send help. Thanks in advance everyone. Let me know if this is in the wrong place or something, I'll happily move it.

So i uninstalled some stuff namely battle net and blizz games (really dont wanna get into politics right now just need help). i turn my laptop back on, it right away begins to repair the D drive my HDD, when it finishes and finally boots i appear to be locked out of everything on the C drive my SSD and my D drives comes back as RAW, cant check disk (obviously) but can't partition either and its says when i try to interact with it i have specified a drive that doesn't exist. i can still see all the files that are there i just cant get to them, the one on the C drive that is and my desktop is blank save the recycling bin, i was however still able to get into bitdefender and run a full scan for whats its worth, came back clean, but it also clearly missed alot of shit and as predicted didnt even notice a D drive, which by the way still shows up under disk management, just again, RAW. I am totally stumped and really concerned, please help...

Hey Guys first time posting on the forums, didnt know where else to go, It apears one of my 2 drives currently shoved in my computer is on the verge of failing as it has started making a consistent buzzing noise so I need to sort out an emergency storage upgrade. untill then ive got my computer off, but i need it going again asap, it has been acting as my server that contains a lot of valuable data as well as my gaming machine. I needed some advice for my storage upgrade keep in mind I am reasonable price constricted. I was thinking of setting up some sort of RAID configuration so I dont have to deal with this kind of stress again. Probably something like RAID 5. If I were to go this route, is it better to go for buying a hardware raid card or software raid? if I start out with software can I upgrade to a hardware raid controller later, without wiping the drives, to get a performance benifit? Also is it better to go for a dedicated NAS box or a hard drive enclosure, or some other route that I cant think of? Any reccomendations on hardware for me to go for? Bonus question, in the future am I able to add drives to a raid 5 without wiping the drives. Thanks for all your help

I have a Seagate BUP Slim 2TB Blue (STDR2000302) and the following irritating error is appearing since I installed Hard Disk Sentinel Pro 5.30: "Failure Predicted - Attribute: 5 Reallocated Sectors Count, Count of sectors moved to the spare area. Indicate problem with the disk surface or the read/write heads. There are 45144 bad sectors on the disk surface. The contents of these sectors were moved to the spare area. 396 errors occurred during data transfer. In case of sudden system crash, reboot, blue-screen-of-death, inaccessible file(s)/folder(s), it is recommended to verify data and power cables, connections - and if possible try different cables to prevent further problems. More information: https://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_case_communication_error.php Replace hard disk immediately. It is recommended to backup immediately to prevent data loss." I literally have no issues as such with the drive though. Read /Write speeds are exactly as they should be. Data is copying, pasting & moving perfectly. I have performed the Short DST test on SeaTools: Passed. Also passed the short test on HDS as well. What could be the issue? One thing more: The drive serial number shown by the Sentinel does not match the actual serial no. printed on the back of my hard drive (see attached screen). Why so ? (PFA) PS: I have formatted it to ReFS since the day I received it. Could this error be related to that?

Hi first time water cooling a PC. Ran great for 3 months. When I flushed the coolant and switched from barbs to compression fittings I ran into an issue iv never seen before. I have 2 Western digital blue drives in raid1. After the fluid change one of the drives kept dropping out. I had Western digital replace the drive. The new drive did same issue. After talking with my local store we thought the raid controller on the motherboard had issues so I replaced it as well . Still same issue. It wasn't until 7 days in to testing that I ran both drives outside of the case that I discovered the pump for my cooling system was creating a magnetic field that was causing the top drive to reset and drop out. I'm wondering if this is something anyone else has seen before or if this is unique. My pump was 1 inch above my drive. Gigabyte GA z170n gaming 5 it Intel 6700k 16gb corsair lpx ram Gtx760 Kingston hyper x 120gb SSD 2x WD blue drives Phanteks enthoo evolve it red Nzxt hue+ 140 mm xspc radiator Ek water pump EVGA 750w g2 gold

I will have some important information on the SSD raid 0 on my new GT72 Dominator (PRO) laptop and I will need to be able to still use the laptop if the x4 SSD raid 0 fails. I planned on to partition the other internal HD, half for a clone of the original SSD raid array, and the other half for more normal storage. Then I will use my external drive storage to make regular backups of the raid array. So the plan if the SSD raid fails will be to boot to the HD partition that was cloned originally and use the external drive to restore the data and continue with normal use until I can replace the failed SSD drive in the raid array. Is this a good plan and if it is I don't really know where to start. Thanks for the help. Any other ideas are also welcome.

Lets say I have 2 drives in a RAID 1 array, and one of the drives and the raid controller dies. Would I be able to recover all of my data from the raid array by taking the drive that is still working from that computer and simply connecting it to a different computer and accessing it in an operating system environment? The reason I'm unsure about this is because I know that with more complex levels of RAID, the raid controller dying means the data wont be accessible by just plugging all those drives into a different PC, however due to the nature of RAID 1 (it being just a mirror) I don't see how this would be an issue. Thanks

Hello friends, I have recently added two BarraCuda Pro 6TB drives to my system [ https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/BDVpnn ], configured in Raid 1 via Windows 10's two-way mirror. They are used as an auxiliary drive: Windows 10 is on a 250 GB Samsung 960 EVO M.2, and my other data is on a Samsung 1TB 850 SSD. Strangely enough, the HDDs make a very weird sound when the system boots up: it is not a clicky noise, it sounds more like a few 8-bitty notes from an old in-case 90"s speaker in rapid succession with increasing frequency. These sounds also occur every now and then when the drives start spinning after being idle for a few minutes. S.M.A.R.T. data is OK, and Windows Storage Spaces lists everything as OK as well. Write and read speeds are good as well. What could this be? Would it be helpful it I recorded the sound so you guys could listen to it, or is this a known phenomenon? Thank you for your help, and best wishes, Jens // edit: see the video here.