I bought a new 320GB SATA hard drive few months ago no recently when i try to copy something to the drive after about 20 seconds the all the partitions in the hard drive suddenly disappears.
The hard drive is not shown in either Disk manager or device manager. To get the HD work i have to restart the PC again.The same thing happens when i try to copy. Even when i play any audio or video after abt 5 minutes i get the same problem.
The drives are NTFS and im running Windows XP.. Xan some one please help me solve the problem??
did you check all the wires ? sounds like a disconnect of the wire somehow ... otherwise the hdd is broken...
The problem was the ide hard drive that i had connected, there seems to be a speed issue. Changing the ide to a different sata drive solved it
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I'm not sure if this is a duplicate, but every time I find a thread about corrupted USB, disk management is still at least able to recognize a drive. My USB is so bricked that when I try to use disk management, nothing loads. When I unplug it the other disks load fine, but once I plug it in and refresh the program hangs. Same things happens when I run diskpart and when I use any other third party disk managing software. Is this USB just completely FUBAR or can I raise it from the dead? Device manager recognizes a USB is plugged in, but that's about as much as Windows can do. I'm running Win10 64-bit version 1809 build 17763.1217. If there is any other info I can provide please let me know. Thanks for the help in advance.
I bought a 64gb USB to install Windows on since my version of Windows corrupted. When I download the ISO and try to drag it to my USB it says that the file size is too large (even though it's less than 5gb). I was wondering if I was doing anything wrong here and if anyone could help me. Screenshots: https://prnt.sc/lq8dy2 https://prnt.sc/lq8dpx
Thank you!
Edit: Wrong section, was going to delete this post but someone already posted an answer.
Is your drive formatted to NTFS? If it is Formatted as Fat32 and the file size is larger than 4GB it won't work, because Fat32 only supports files up to 4GB.
Try formatting the USB Drive to NTFS and see if that works.
Situation: New PC Build
- Windows 10
- Samsung Evo 970 256GB NVME
- WD Blue 1TB potato drive
- AMD Ryzen 7 2700X on Asus Crosshair VII Hero
- GTX 1070
One of the main benefits of Ryzen 2, for me, was the StoreMI feature that I really hope to get working. I watched AdoredTV's video of how he set his up, but unfortunately for me, I'm not having any luck.
Greyed Out no option to create Bootable StoreMI
I have gone into Windows Disk Management and made sure the drives are visible to the OS, and they are also visible in File Explorer.
Windows Sees the Drives
If I try to remove fast media, I get this message, and the program closes.
If I try to modify, I get nothing useful.
So...I need some help figuring out what I've done wrong. Could I have something in the BIOS I need to fix? Other? I'm at a total loss.
Edit 1) I may have another clue? One of my greyed out drives is the same drive as the drive that's selectable, and they're "both" in a Tier. Looking at the Disk Manager, it seems my "System Reserved" is for some reason on the NVMe drive when it should have...I would have thought...been installed on the same drive the OS was installed on. I know I didn't tell Windows to do this.
So maybe this is a clue? Can I move the "System Reserved" Partition over to the spinning rust? Would that help?
Same Drive occupies both tiers?
Ok, well AMD customer support never emailed me back. It's been about 48 hours now. Not counting the RTFM email which was useless.
So...I figured...Maybe I'll ask the people I learned the most about this from, either AdoredTV, or Level1Techs. So I went to the Level1Techs forum, and talked to Wendell himself. He diagnosed and suggested a fix (that worked) in about 5 minutes. On my Windows install, I selected the C: (slow) drive to install the OS on, however, the OS set up the "System Reserved" partition on the NVMe drive...even though I never said to do that...it never asked if that's what I wanted to do...It just did it. Effectively nullifying the ability of StoreMI to work.
Why AMD can't do what a youtuber can in 5 minutes is beyond me...and pretty inexcusable. But I digress...
What I had to do was start over. Backed everything up, inserted my Windows 10 installation USB, booted from that, and ****-F10 into a command line from there.
From there, I cleaned all my drives.
Next, I physically removed my NVMe from the motherboard, then went about reinstalling the OS on the slow drive...now the only drive in the system, so it was forced to partition that.
Once that was done, and the OS was completely installed, I shut down the system and reinstalled the NVMe.
Rebooted the system, and I was then able to configure StoreMI easily.
TLDR: If you are doing a new system build, with a fresh Windows install, and want to use StoreMI... My recommendation is to install ONLY one HDD into your system (AMD recommends the install take place on the slowest drive). Complete your Windows install, then install the remaining drive or drives (you can only use two drives with StoreMI), install StoreMI and configure.
I am running Windows 10 on 2 PCs.
They are both connected to a BT Home Hub which has a USB drive plugged in and the shared data that they use is on that drive.
I want to run a daily backup of that data from one or both PCs to backup the data onto a USB drive attached to the PC(s).
Is there an easy / reliable way to do this ?
I realise there are plenty of back up programs around, both free and purchasable, but the first 2 I have tried (Windows own, though for some reason it specifies itself as Windows 7, and Paragon HD manager free) don't pick up the USB drive attached to the Hub, though I can see it if I go to C / Users / Desktop, where I have a Networked link. I don't want to trial and error every App on the market if I don't need to !!!
I hope this is clear, I just want to back up that USB data in case of a problem, it doesn't have to be anything clever, incremental or even compressed, it's about 5GB of data right now and I have a 1Tb USB drive I can backup onto, so my user can manually delete old data every 6 months if necessary ...
Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions ...
OK, this can be closed now, EaseUS Free allows me to do this ... Trial & Error it was !!
I have little experience with macs so I thought I would ask a quick question before I go ahead with this.
My friend's 6 year old mac desktop died the other day, she took it into the tech guys at the apple store to find out if she can get her documents back and they said no because the hard drive is in a different code you can't take it out.
That sounds like a load of crap to me so I want to rip out the hard drive and plug it into my PC then copy everything over. I also have access to linux if I need to.
So is there anything I need to know before doing this?
Thanks!
Assuming the hard drive itself isn't dead, you can get your hands on something like Ubuntu and copy all the files onto a different hard drive. You usually can't do this from windows because windows uses NTFS file system and will not recognize the mac file system (HFS or HFSPlus). Most flavors of linux can recognize mac hard drives and copy the contents. There can be some tricks with ownership of the files so here's a good post on how to do this in ubuntu:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-852144.html
Hope that helps!
If your friend plans on buying a new Mac, you should keep the disk itself; with an external HDD enclosure, a new machine (or a new OSX installation) will be able to migrate basically everything from the old drive.
Late answer, I know, but I just rescued a broken mac disk using dd_rescue, booting Trinity 3.4 on a HP and cloning the broken disk to a working disk. Then I popped the working disk into a working mac and hey presto, the user got the files back.