Questions tagged [hard-drive-failure]

In my 1.5 years at a fairly small company, I've dealt with 3-4 damaged hard drives (bad blocks mostly). Out of the 4-5 servers and 8 desktops, that's a very large percentage. Many of the drives were not past their lifespan - so the failures were…

My old internal WD 2TB drive (WD20EARX Jun 2011) which I mainly use for storage (not windows) failed yesterday while I was inside windows - the drive suddenly showed 100% utilisation and the utilisation never went down. I rebooted the pc to try to…

A friend of mine recently gave me an old WD MyBook mirror edition external harddrive. It's a 2Tb drive (2 1Tb drives inside) so it's quit a bit of space to be handed for free. Problem is, it doesn't power on unless I've removed both drives, but what…