Problem : My computer no longer boots Windows or the installed operating system. Instead, I may get this error: PXE-E61: […]
Tag: hard-drive-failure
What software to use to recover data from Samsung HD103UJ HDD?
QUESTION : I have a Samsung HD103UJ 1TB SATA HDD which is malfunctioning, but not a complete brick. If I […]
Seagate HDD burnt PCB
QUESTION : We’ve been experiencing a rather odd volume of Seagate Barracuda [7200.9 (80GB)] HDD failures that resulted in brown […]
Fujitsu Lifebook A514 Setup Warning Boot Failure
Problem : Day before yesterday, everything was working without a problem. My notebook (Fujitsu A514 Lifebook) was running Debian testing […]
How do I set a DCO on a hard drive over USB?
QUESTION : I dropped my hard drive (a 320 GB WD Scorpio Blue, model number WD3200BEVT) and I want to […]
How many drives can I safely lose in a RAID-10 array?
QUESTION : In a 4-drive RAID-10 setup, how many drives can I “safely” lose before the data becomes unrecoverable? It’s […]
2 new Caviar Blue hard drives failed within hours on new build
QUESTION : I made this standard desktop build for my father with an Asus AM1M-A mboard, Athlon 5150, 4GB Kingston […]
Disabling HP 3D driveguard?
QUESTION : Laptop model: HP dv7t-7000, 1TB 5400rpm Hdd First off, i know how to disable hp 3d driveguard protection, […]
Is this Hard Drive dead?
QUESTION : Okay, so I have a hard drive which I have run into problems with. I am dual-booting Windows […]
Seagate hardisk clicking and suspending access, but Seatools passes all tests. How to RMA
QUESTION : The drive access will periodically hang for 10-20 seconds at a time, it always gets there in the […]