r/HDD

I never used crystal disk ingo untill now bc i found my dads old hdd(2.5in 7200rpm 160gb) from his laptop back in 2007 and i wanted to see how good is it still, after 19y.

Is there any good reason to keep the HDD and the PC in general? This was my first time actually interacting with Windows Vista and all things considered, it is relatively responsive and smooth.

I had a bad dream about my HDDs, i dreamed a rock falling on both of them and they both broke, so I got scared and decided to turn them on and backup my data, one big 3.5" rusty drive worked and got 99.9% of the data back. (190Gb was recovered, only one 4mb image was currupted).

the other small 2.5" drive died on me the moment it showed windows 7 logo, i heard the click of the heads when a laptop turns off all of a sudden, and then the laptop refused to turn on untill i removed the HDD.

Now when i plug the 2.5" HDD using a USB adapter, the adapter's LED turns off, DOES THAT MEAN THE CIRCUIT IS DEAD ?
so I assumed so, and immidiatly ordered a new circuit, (it will arrive on 25 May).

I asked google ai, described the problem and it told me there was a short circuit and a diode was burned and i can remove the dead diode and try to turn it on, but it said that if the short happen again the the BIOS chip would die and my data will be LOST FOREVER!

-GUYS HELP ME WITH THIS ISSUE, TELL ME WHAT SHOULD BE MY NEXT MOVE, and WHICH CHIP CONTAINS THE BIOS ? SHOULD I BUY TOOLS AND SWAP THE BIOS CHIP MYSELF OR PAY A SPECIALIST ?

I really hope it’s not. All stuff I had on my PC is there.

Hey everyone, I think I messed up.

I was backing up my Windows (C:) partition, which was around 100Gb , instead of copying folder by folder, i got lazy and selected all and started bulk copying onto my hard drive .

Whole night it ran, it gave me the estimated time of a day or two and speed was god damn too slow sometimes it did reach around 110- 120MB/s, i was touching the pcb to check whether it became hot and yea it kinda did get hot, so I thought of giving it a break and I paused the transfer letting it cool I thought giving it a break would help, so I paused and resumed the transfer multiple times throughout the night to let it cool down.

In the morning it was around 93% and the transfer speeds were around KB/s and even bytes/s and there was only 6 GB left and then it started to sound like that . I waited a while and the progress bar wasn't moving and the hard drive was at idle with 100% usage making that noise so I decided to cancel. It did get cancelled but the drive was still making that noise and it was still showing 100% usage in task manager, so I tried to eject the drive but it wouldn't let me so I tried to shut down my pc and it wouldn't let me :/, so i did a forced shut down, now that my pc rebooted up the drive is making the same noise except there's no drive detected in the disk management, did I messed up bad?

Did I fry the PCB? Is the arm stuck?

It is a Western Digital WD10EZEX 3.5" drive i was using a sata to usb adaptor for transferring files. The drive had no bad sectors, and wasn't used much around 600gb was used out of 1 Tb

the port thing for my seagate 2 tb external hard drive was messed up so i got an enclosure for it. thing is these screws on the side are wider than the case. can i remove them or will that be bad? idk anything about this stuff

there seems to be a lot of positive reviews, however the prices seems to good to be true and i can’t find any other information about this product. i’m needing it for storage.

I asked if the back of the HDD was supposed to look like that, and mentioned that I’ve been using it like that for years. It said it shouldn’t even work and that if it does, it’s a "miracle of engineering".😭