CheckDisk may take time to complete the scan and repair if there are many errors, and you may have to restart your computer ...

In this case, you can try running a repair installation to fix it. If Windows sees the hard drive when running a repair install, the drive is probably not broken. If the repair install doesn’t ...

However, this is Hackaday, not HireSomeoneADay, so [Matt]’s video on do-it-yourself hard drive repair is just what we like to see. The video begins with plugging the non-functional drive into ...

If your hard drive is playing up on your laptop or desktop PC, see our expert guidance on how to check for errors Windows has a handy feature called CHKDSK (Check Disk) that you can use to analyse ...

When a new hard drive fails to show up in Disk Management, it usually indicates that the system isn’t recognizing the drive properly. This often happens when the drive hasn’t been initialized, ...

So, if there’s any even of misfortune, you don’t end up losing your data but can restore it fully from Repair Disc or an external hard drive. That said, things do not always work as expected.