I recently built a new PC and wanted to incorporate my WD green 1tb hard drive that contains my film collection. Many of these films were hard to obtain and would take a lot of time to replace.
It is recognized in BIOS, but listed as 0GB? It is not recognized in Windows and I've tried all the standard troubleshooting methods...changing sata cables, ports, etc. It's definitely the drive :(
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posted by WhitenoisE
on Feb 1, 2013 -
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I'm looking for bus-powered portable Firewire drives that daisy chain correctly. Desired size is 1 terabyte.
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posted by alms
on Jan 28, 2013 -
6 answers
Sooo...my newish MacBook Pro is dead and I have a question about whether or not I can salvage the HDD and stick it in the new MacBook Pro to save a whole world of time.
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posted by dance
on Dec 30, 2012 -
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How can I get Windows 7 64bit to recognize my 3 TB SATA hard drive? BIOS sees it, it works fine under Ubuntu, but it doesn't show up in Win 7's disk manager / storage tool.
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posted by lord_yo
on Nov 27, 2012 -
4 answers
How common were 200GB hard drives in the mid-1980s? Would institutions like the USGS have had access to them? Would general readers even have understood the term?
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posted by col_pogo
on Feb 1, 2012 -
38 answers
How can I re-partition a 1.8" hard drive, connected to my laptop via a USB enclosure, when I can't get my computer to recognize that it's there at all?
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posted by cobra_high_tigers
on Jan 5, 2012 -
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I'd like to use a 2007 Macbook Pro + 2TB FW ext HD as a NAS setup, but the drive keeps falling asleep and slowing and causing video to hiccup. How can I prevent this and get smooth movie playback?
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posted by miomiomio
on Jul 9, 2011 -
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Let's say I want to buy a new external hard drive. I can pick a case with a particular interface (USB2/USB3/FW400/FW800/eSATA) and a mechanism with certain performance characteristics (RPM, latency, transfer rate, etc). Is there a straightforward heuristic that will tell me "if you're using interface X, don't bother buying a mechanism faster than Y."?
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posted by adamrice
on Feb 3, 2011 -
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NERDS! It's that time of year again. I need some replacement HD's. Let's say Western Digital versus Seagate. Let's rap anecdotal and tell each other which brand is awesome and which we should never use again.
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posted by cavalier
on Apr 16, 2010 -
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During Windows XP startup process, it keeps asking to press a key if I want to skip the disk check progress for the C drive. But if I let it check, it finds no errors at all. I do clean shutdown. Strange behaviour - how to restore normal one?
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posted by lion
on Aug 29, 2009 -
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Do any retailers have the Seagate Momentus 7200.4 hard drive in stock? If not, should I just give up and buy a 5400.6?
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posted by alms
on Apr 20, 2009 -
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How can I delete music files that are no longer used in iTunes, but are still present on disk?
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posted by fireoyster
on Jan 10, 2009 -
8 answers
Does it exist for consumer use? A storage device made by two (or more) twin synched separate hard disks, one for normal use and the other one for backup just in case something goes wrong? Or a software doing the same thing with two (or more) external hard disks?
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posted by lion
on Dec 15, 2008 -
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I'm using Terminal (Ubuntu 8.04x64) right now to overwrite a 500g external hd with random information. There's been no action aside from a blinking cursor (by itself on a line, not in front of any prompt) since I entered the command yesterday afternoon:
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sudo dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sdc bs=8m]
I understand it's going to take a while to finish. In the meantime, is there any way to monitor the progress of the operation?
posted by carsonb
on Nov 8, 2008 -
18 answers
How can I access my WD MyBook World Network Storage Drive from my new (Ubuntu 8.04) computer now that my old (WinXP) box is dead dead dead?
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posted by carsonb
on Oct 21, 2008 -
18 answers
Dead hard disk on a G3 iMac. Seemingly healthy 2nd-hand G4 iMac. If I try to access data on the dead machine via target disk mode, is there a chance—any chance at all—that I could screw up the healthy machine?
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posted by neroli
on Aug 3, 2008 -
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Inconsistent information about bad sectors on a hard drive -- what's going on, and what should I do?
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posted by puffin
on May 20, 2008 -
14 answers
I have an external firewire hard disk sitting on top on a powered monitor speaker on my desk here. Is this a terrible idea? Will it shorten the life of the drive? What's a safe distance?
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posted by armoured-ant
on May 9, 2008 -
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Highly technical hard drive filter: My hard drive failed. Came home, and PC was sitting at the "where's my hard drive" BIOS screen, to my great horror.
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posted by gjc
on Apr 27, 2008 -
9 answers
One of the disks in my hardware RAID 0 system drive array is failing, but it's still booting for the moment. Is there any tool I can use to clone just the failing physical disk to another identical one?
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posted by nnovik
on Jul 6, 2007 -
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I want to install a bigger hard drive to my laptop. How do I clone the current hard drive to the new one so I don't have to reinstall windows on the new disk?
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posted by Mave_80
on May 9, 2007 -
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So it's come to this - I see no other option than to ask a "help me fix my PC" question. After some troubleshooting the STOP errors seem to have been resolved, XP now boots successfully but is excruciating slow to the point of being unusable. Details and specs below the fold.
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posted by goodnewsfortheinsane
on Mar 4, 2007 -
25 answers
Hello! I have a backup strategy, which I think is okay but I would like some advice on whether my use of the external hdd is sensible. A little
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posted by mooders
on Oct 22, 2006 -
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OK, let's say I'd like to download this thing, but it's a 56 GB thing (well, it's a bunch of things, let's say, for educational purposes only, .par and .rar files). My hard disk is only 30 GB (about 11 GB of currently free space). But: I have a 250GB external drive (firewire) that I sometimes use to store stuff. Can I download the big file (it'll take, I guess, an entire day) straight on the external drive? Or is my Mac (G4) going to blow up for some reason? thanks!!!
posted by PenguinBukkake
on Sep 6, 2006 -
23 answers
My USB2 hard drive will only stay mounted if I keep accessing it. If I don't, within 5 hours or fewer, I can't access files on the drive or even do a directory listing. I can then unmount the HD, power cycle it, and it will mount again as if nothing had happened. If I keep accessing the disk, say by continuously playing an MP3 mix on it, the disk acts completely normal: uptime now (with MP3s playing) is something like 20 hours without the shadow of a problem.
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posted by rwhe
on Apr 18, 2006 -
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i lost a partition in a reformat, but the data is still on my harddrive. i want to get the data off. i have
r-studio, but not enough disk space on the existing partition to put the other data on it, and i thought i shouldn't create a new partition to put the data on, as that could mess up remaining data. i don't have an external harddrive. is there any way i can safely get the data off? thanks!
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posted by willmillar
on Apr 7, 2006 -
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I just got a new 250GB SATA hard drive and a SATA to USB 2.0 enclosure to put it in. When I plug everything in & hook it to my iBook, I get the following error: "You have inserted a disk containing no volumes that Mac OS X can read. To continue with the disk inserted, click Ignore" (3 options: "Initialize...", "Ignore" or "Eject"). How do I get it to work?
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posted by cg1
on Apr 7, 2006 -
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How do I best clone a hard disk with bad sectors, when the PC spontaneously reboots upon hitting said bad sectors?
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posted by kindall
on Oct 4, 2005 -
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