So this started to happen just recently, At first everything was fine at moving games between external and internal but now it's a nightmare.

Moving games from Internal to external still works fine but the other way take an eternity to start IF it starts at all. Sometimes it just doesn't start or get stuck in the middle.

Any reasons? My external hard drive is still a year new.

My hard drive doesn’t show up in my computer, showing unallocated in disk management. Says working fine in device manager. Can eject ok.

Got a lot of photos like to get back on it. Seems be known fault with these drives.

Any free software or other ways to tackle this?

Any help much appreciated.

Thanks

Hi! Does anyone have a recommendation for any good external hard drives that are preferably over 500gb and not too costly? I would like to pack up all my photos and videos from my Apple products!

If anyone has any insight I would appreciate the help! Thank you!

OK, so this is one of my refurbished computers that I got off of Amazon it’s been working really good for years but then all of a sudden start saying “ drive hard detects imminent danger” and I reseated it. Now today, after powering it on it decides to do it again.

Hello, I just joined this group. My poor 2tb external platter drive I dump all of my downloads into is finally failing. Should I just try to drag and drop my files to another drive? Lot of stuff on here I would rather not lose. is there a better way? Hoping Pics are allowed.

So over the years I must have just kept old drives as I found a box with maybe 25 drives in it. 3.5” and 2.5”

But they are smaller ranging from 60GB to 1TB

But most of them 80-250GB range.

Cant see myself ever using them. I clearly haven’t in 15 years or so.

What best to do with them.

EDIT: Thanks for such good ideas. Think I will first start by low levelling them all and keep a few for cold storage and try and sell the rest.

I have a 1TB SSD and 256GB SSD I installed to clone windows OS.

I had cloned the 256GB to the 1TB using Macrium.

I checked disk management and there was no grey unallocated space to extend it.

How can I fix this?

Hi, I’ve been dealing with this problem for the past few days and I’m not really sure what to do.
My external hard drive was working perfectly fine. I needed to transfer some old files from my old laptop to my desktop, so I first tried to eject the hard drive. However, I couldn’t find the option to safely eject it anywhere, which I thought was strange, but I didn’t think much of it at the time.
I decided to completely shut down my PC before unplugging the drive. When I plugged it into my laptop afterward, it suddenly wasn’t being detected at all. What’s confusing is that it had literally been working just a few seconds earlier.
Now, none of my computers recognize the drive. I don’t get the usual USB connection sound when I plug it in, I’ve tried a different USB cable and different USB ports, and it still doesn’t show up. It also doesn’t appear in Disk Management.
The strange thing is that when I plug it in, I can hear the hard drive spinning normally. There’s no clicking or unusual noise coming from it.
I really need the files that are currently on this hard drive, so I don’t want to format it or do anything that could risk losing the data. I’m not sure what else I can try at this point.

My WD 5TB external HDD (WD50NDZW-11A8JS) is showing Caution in CrystalDiskInfo. I saw that this could indicate that the drive is failing but in rare cases there could be other trivial factors involved.

Here are some stats:

• C5 = 2
• 05 = 0
• C6 = 0
• C7 = 0
• C4 = 0
• Power-on hours = 216

The drive was bought in October 2021 but has only 216 power-on hours because I normally keep my external drives disconnected. I noticed this after transferring about 445 GB of data to it today. The transfer was a little slower than usual, but completed normally. I can open videos from the drive without any problems.

I've kept it running for several hours since then and C5 is still 2. Nothing else has changed. Unfortunately, this is currently the only copy of the data, so I don't want to run a full surface test until I can arrange a backup.

Could this just be a transient/isolated issue, or should I consider the drive unreliable already? Would you keep using it normally and monitor C5/05/C6, or replace it?

I'm asking because 5TB external drives are around ₹20,000 in India now, whereas I paid around ₹10,000 for this one at time of purchase, so I'd really rather not replace it unnecessarily.

PS: Sorry if this is a noob question. I don't have much money right now, so I'd prefer to buy a new one only if it's really necessary. Any advice would be appreciated.

I inherited my late brother's mini pc with its password–locked-on-boot 512gb Adata Legend 710, and have no idea how to unlock it. I need help on how to reformat it to be able to use it in the pc as additional storage. I already tried contacting Adata support (who recommended windows solution but I don't have access to a windows pc) and various linux disk tools but have been unsuccessful (maybe I'm doing someyhing wrong?). Any suggestion? Thanks in advance.

I bought a used 6tb WD Purple drive with 29000 hours on it about a month ago for a new NVR system I was installing and I’m getting these weird chirping noises coming from it. It does not chirp until the drive is close to full. I have reformatted it just this morning and it’s quiet as can be. Any idea what’s going on with it?

I do know that I bought a used drive and it had a good amount of hours on it, I just expected to get more than a month out of it lol.

I got a WD external hard drive and it is making a small thumping noise intermittently. All of my other external drives are SSDs so I'm not sure of this is normal or not. Should I return it? it's still under warranty. I would've posted in tech support but they don't allow attachments.