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western digital hard drive: How to fix my WD10JMVW hard drive?

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 09:16:17 -0700

My usb connecter is broken and power pins are completely fine please help me repair it

⟐ Edited September 24, 2025 at 9:16 MST

Seagate Technology Hard Drive: My hard disk drive won't read though a few years ago it was just fine

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 23:31:36 -0700

My PC hard disk drive won't read even though it was OK a few years ago. I need to extract information. I have a working drive similar to it. How can I swap the reading mechanism like heads and everything besides the disks

⟐ Commented July 23, 2025 at 23:31 MST

Hitachi Hard Drive: Hitachi hard hts545032b9a300 is not connecting

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 21:47:13 -0700

The Hitachi hard drive is not connecting to the computer, although it makes a sound. It does not appear on the computer.

⟐ Commented July 11, 2025 at 21:47 MST

Hard Drive: WD Black P10 Game Drive 2.5 HDD Won’t connect to my x-box one

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 15:52:52 -0700

Won’t connect to my xbox one. I have tried restarting xbox, updating and messing around with how it was plugged in. This holds most of my xbox one games and I now cannot play them. The white light is on indicating the WD Black is turned on, so I believe this might be an xbox one problem? Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you!

⟐ Commented June 23, 2025 at 15:52 MST

Hard Drive: HDD only blinking not recognised

Wed, 07 May 2025 23:00:22 -0700

My Western Digital External HDD stopped working. It is formatted to NTFS. If I plug it in, the light on it is blinking, you can hear it spinning, but it is not recognised in Windows, and in the partition manager it is not listed.

If I plug it into a Mac, it is recognised but very slowly, I can see the file system and copy certain files, but many files fail to be copied. But even the copying is extermely slow.

Sometimes when I plug the drive into computers it is only beeping repeadetly (not clicking), I need to move the USB cable a bit at the connector of the drive to stop this.
Is is possible to repair this drive at home?

⟐ Answered May 07, 2025 at 23:00 MST

2.5" Toshiba SATA Hard Drive: Why is my toshiba sata hard driver not working

Sat, 19 Apr 2025 05:28:57 -0700

why is my hard disk not working when i connect it to external hard drive case

Toshiba External HDD: Why is my External HDD not working properly

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 19:30:27 -0700

While, I Installed some files directly to my external HDD
It was buffering and file extraction is not done by my External HDD

⟐ Commented March 31, 2025 at 19:30 MST

Western Digital Caviar Blue WD2500AAKX: I put an old laptop HDD in my personal computer

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 10:05:37 -0700

I put an old laptop hdd in my personal computer. But it is asking me for my old laptop password which I don't remember

⟐ Answer edited March 31, 2025 at 10:05 MST

LaCie Hard Drive: Thunderbolt 2 built in cable replacement

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:29:30 -0700

It is possible to replace a damaged built in Thunderbolt 2 cable in a LACIE Rugged SSD?

⟐ Answered March 25, 2025 at 16:29 MST

Western Digital Caviar Blue WD2500AAKX: Detect nhi ho rhi

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 07:23:39 -0700

Hard disk not detected

⟐ Commented February 11, 2025 at 7:23 MST

Hard Drive: PCIE drive dead, can I still get data off?

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:28:41 -0700

I have 3 drives in my pc, 2 with windows. The main boot drive is a pcie drive. I booted into the main drive, walked away from my computer, and when I got back, the computer was in the other drive and the pc isn't recognizing the pcie drive. Is there still a way to pull the data off?

⟐ Answered January 30, 2025 at 19:28 MST

Hard Drive: WD Blue 2TB disk making sound every couple seconds

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 09:24:24 -0700

Hey. Today my disk drive started doing some weird "beep-beep" sound every 5-ish seconds.
Windows doesn't recognize it. At first, it recognized the disk and said that the directory couldn't be accessed. Then I rebooted and updated windows and the disk didn't show up on the file manager neither on the disk partitions tool.
It has around 2 years of usage, and never gave any issues.
I have a lot of important data in it.
Is it cooked? or fixable?

⟐ Commented December 19, 2024 at 9:24 MST

Hard Drive: How to recover files from broken toshiba HDD?

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 05:36:08 -0700

I have a toshiba HDD but it was broken, i just want to recover all my files. what will i do recover my files?

⟐ Answered November 28, 2024 at 5:36 MST

Hard Drive: Mi pc no reconoce el disco duro interno

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 12:27:57 -0700

El mensaje de error "ERROR: No boot disk has been detected or the disk has failed" en tu PC HP con Windows 10 indica que el ordenador no puede encontrar un disco de arranque válido o que el disco ha fallado

⟐ Answered October 15, 2024 at 12:27 MST

Western Digital Caviar Blue WD2500AAKX: Hdd is not getting detected

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 06:07:31 -0700

When i turn on the pc harddisk turns on and then turns off after 10-15 seconds. I want to recover my data from that disk. I tried to contact manufacturers of that disk but they say that disk is a copy and not a genuine one. I also tried to connect that drive to other pc but there also not getting detected

What should i do ?

That data is very much important to me. Please help

⟐ Answered September 27, 2024 at 6:07 MST

Hard Drive: dropped external hard drive making clicking noise recovery?

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 02:07:11 -0700

I dropped my external off of my tower , it still installs drivers but it does not read , is there a way to recover the hard drive or the information ?

⟐ Answered September 27, 2024 at 2:07 MST

Hard Drive: Fixing a clicking hard drive

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 02:08:07 -0700

Hi, so my rage got the best of me and I hit my computer. When I did hit it, nothing happened, nothing changed, as the OS and the game were installed on an SSD, continued playing as nothing happened. But I needed to restart my computer for something and it took really long time for it to boot up and it made strange noise. I take out the hard drive and everything’s fixed, tried using an enclosure and the result was the same, it made clicking noise and slowed down my computer to a snail and it wasn’t recognized. I know the chance of fixing is small, but I just wanted to know if there’s anything I can try to bring it back or something. I don’t have anything important on it, but additional 1TB hard drive wouldn’t hurt :D

⟐ Answer edited September 27, 2024 at 2:08 MST

Hard Drive: Hard disk not detecting

Sun, 25 Aug 2024 09:59:53 -0700

My pc is an old pc I installed a hard disk

I used it some time after that the hard disk is not detecting

⟐ Answered August 25, 2024 at 9:59 MST

Hard Drive: Why is my external harddrive not showing up?

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 00:13:12 -0700

The harddrive can't initialize with an error message of I/O

⟐ Answer accepted August 13, 2024 at 0:13 MST

Hard Drive: Why is my external hard drive making this weird noise & not showing up

Fri, 09 Aug 2024 04:40:27 -0700

Why does my external hard drive keep making this weird noise when it is plugged in either my laptop or PC, both are Windows.

It was working the other day now it won't

Please help.

I have a recording of the noise if that would be better

⟐ Answer edited August 09, 2024 at 4:40 MST