Every time a customer brings a PC into my shop, I run tests on the HDD/SSD. More then half the time I find failing drives when customers say their PC is slow. Good informational video Brian. Keep it up brother!
Good to see good old CMD at the end of the video! Introducing people to the command prompt will help them loads in the long run as they get more comfortable with it. Cheers!
The WD Dashboard featured is out of date! It's changed significantly in the latest version. I've been using and building computers for 28 years, and I agree 100%. If a drive has any sort of problem, it's not worth risking your data on it! Drives are cheap. Data is valuable. I'm unfamiliar with the concept of "data loss?" 🤣 I DON'T run backups any more, and my data has NEVER been so secure! Instead, I use Synchredible to create 5 copies of my data across various media (3 x HDD, 1 x SSD, and 1 x USB Flash Drive). Data loss is nigh-on impossible, barring nuclear armageddon, or asteroid impact! 🤣 My data is "synced" (not backed up) weekly, on a 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 basis! Furthermore, whenever I leave my home, I carry two copies of my data with me! One of which is inside my key wallet on a Flash Drive!
Do you think you can do a video on how to move a program from one drive to another? I currently have a couple programs installed and I chose the option to have them installed on a drive other then my C drive. I did this because at the time I didn't have a ton of space on my C drive. But I just got a higher capacity drive 2 weeks ago and cloned my old C drive so now I'd like to move those programs over to the new C drive possibly without having to uninstall and reinstall the programs.
Yes I know Brian but Samsung (my preferred drives) in their wisdom have not made the NVMe drive I have in my main laptop non supported by their software and besides it is becoming ever more convoluted and hard to use. So there are options after all I'll give them a try mate great video by the way!!
Most people may be like me and install and then forget it, at least until they come across a video like this that reminds them. I usually don't check until I begin to have issues. I suspect that I need to be more alert. I have two non-Samsung drives in one PC and my other PC has a Samsung & a Corsair. It seems that I have to run software from each of these 4 drives sites in order to check them. A lot of work. Don't they make a universal program that check any drive?
I have a 2tb external hard drive which is not working anymore. I have a lot of old pictures and important documents in it. How do I fix the drive? Please help.
What is the website for windows keys to buy the key codes at this website that you have talked about in some of your videos? Can you please respond back to let me know what the website address? Thank you
When I try to run the check disk it stops at 16% and it freezes when I try to run other programs like disk genius I have really important data on it and I want to recover it any way I can do?
I just ran WD dashboard on a WD hhd that was not able to read half the files on it....dashboard showed drive was in tip top condition...no issues and in perfect good health.........CrystlDiskinfo however, showed the same drive as having multiple bad sectors !!!!!.....the drive is not reading files or accessing at all. So...just a warning that WD software is absolute rubbish and not to be trusted
Hello, I'm facing unexpected issue. Would appreciate If anyone can help. While my window 7 is booting, if i press any keyboard key, the boot is getting stuck and because of that, im not able to get in bios or boot menu. Gigabyte H55M-S2 MoBo. Award Bios. Any idea for that???
My Hard Drive has just been acting up, 1TB fresh hard drive, nothing on it....and whenever I plug in using my adapter, different usb ports, nothing seems to work, what could be the issue cause I've formatted it countless times already
@@gordonellissenanuziddah6202 If it’s a external enclosure you’re calling an adaptor, try with another one. I have had multiple failures on cheap enclosures. So I don’t buy cheap anymore.
WD Dashboard is fkn joke, and not a good one, 332MB for this is massive bloatware.!!! Would I suggest that you download it and use it if you think that you have a problem or need to update the firmware, yes, of course, whether you want to keep it installed is up to you, I have no personal experience with this, I am just astonished that their default HDD tool that they have used for years was 0.5MB, and the one witht he GUI was less than 10MB... What is the rest being used for.? Will it actually slow down a slow PC "if" it runs stuff in the background.? I do not know.! Would @Britec09 be willing to do a video comparing, contrasting, generally using and testing the various HDD/SSD test tool from their respective manufacturers, and in general.? . AS an FYI, I used to use the "WD Lifeguard" test tool for years to test Seagate Drives because their test tool was total poo... Prior to that, for years I used to use the Seagate test tool to test WD drives because the WD test tool would give an "OK" result on a clicking, Floppy Disk kind of slow drive.!!! Some of this must come down to trust, and I have learned that the test tools can AND can not be trusted... ALWAYS have a backup, and ideally have a totally offsite backup (different house, fires and thefts happen), but also CHECK your backup by attempting to recover a file to see that you have access, and if you have encryption, read VERY carefully the information relating to that.
Every time a customer brings a PC into my shop, I run tests on the HDD/SSD. More then half the time I find failing drives when customers say their PC is slow. Good informational video Brian. Keep it up brother!
Good to see good old CMD at the end of the video! Introducing people to the command prompt will help them loads in the long run as they get more comfortable with it. Cheers!
The WD Dashboard featured is out of date! It's changed significantly in the latest version.
I've been using and building computers for 28 years, and I agree 100%. If a drive has any sort of problem, it's not worth risking your data on it! Drives are cheap. Data is valuable.
I'm unfamiliar with the concept of "data loss?" 🤣
I DON'T run backups any more, and my data has NEVER been so secure! Instead, I use Synchredible to create 5 copies of my data across various media (3 x HDD, 1 x SSD, and 1 x USB Flash Drive).
Data loss is nigh-on impossible, barring nuclear armageddon, or asteroid impact! 🤣
My data is "synced" (not backed up) weekly, on a 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 basis! Furthermore, whenever I leave my home, I carry two copies of my data with me! One of which is inside my key wallet on a Flash Drive!
Do you think you can do a video on how to move a program from one drive to another? I currently have a couple programs installed and I chose the option to have them installed on a drive other then my C drive. I did this because at the time I didn't have a ton of space on my C drive. But I just got a higher capacity drive 2 weeks ago and cloned my old C drive so now I'd like to move those programs over to the new C drive possibly without having to uninstall and reinstall the programs.
Excellent PC maintenance video!
Thank you for sharing
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Yes I know Brian but Samsung (my preferred drives) in their wisdom have not made the NVMe drive I have in my main laptop non supported by their software and besides it is becoming ever more convoluted and hard to use. So there are options after all I'll give them a try mate great video by the way!!
Thanks much appreciated 😊
Most people may be like me and install and then forget it, at least until they come across a video like this that reminds them. I usually don't check until I begin to have issues. I suspect that I need to be more alert. I have two non-Samsung drives in one PC and my other PC has a Samsung & a Corsair. It seems that I have to run software from each of these 4 drives sites in order to check them. A lot of work. Don't they make a universal program that check any drive?
I have a 2tb external hard drive which is not working anymore. I have a lot of old pictures and important documents in it. How do I fix the drive? Please help.
What is the website for windows keys to buy the key codes at this website that you have talked about in some of your videos? Can you please respond back to let me know what the website address? Thank you
great video as usual....! thank you for sharing your nolige and giving us useful software and tips to use..... Appreciated🤪
Do you have any idea why there's a 30 second pause between my motherboard manufacturer and Windows 10 login screen? Started happening last week.
2:55) Only red = bad sectors,
3:25 moment even one appears hes gonna start backing up and prepping to replace ssd
2:50
5:30
I have an SSD made by Samsung but supplied with my Lenovo Legion 5 - I can't find any software that recognizes the drive (???).
When I try to run the check disk it stops at 16% and it freezes when I try to run other programs like disk genius I have really important data on it and I want to recover it any way I can do?
I just ran WD dashboard on a WD hhd that was not able to read half the files on it....dashboard showed drive was in tip top condition...no issues and in perfect good health.........CrystlDiskinfo however, showed the same drive as having multiple bad sectors !!!!!.....the drive is not reading files or accessing at all. So...just a warning that WD software is absolute rubbish and not to be trusted
how can enable test mode ON without watermarks on desktop, how it possible??
Hello, I'm facing unexpected issue. Would appreciate If anyone can help.
While my window 7 is booting, if i press any keyboard key, the boot is getting stuck and because of that, im not able to get in bios or boot menu.
Gigabyte H55M-S2 MoBo. Award Bios.
Any idea for that???
My Hard Drive has just been acting up, 1TB fresh hard drive, nothing on it....and whenever I plug in using my adapter, different usb ports, nothing seems to work, what could be the issue cause I've formatted it countless times already
Remove the adapter
@@Ulven3829 i need the adapter for it to work, that's the only way its read anything off the card anyway
@@gordonellissenanuziddah6202 If it’s a external enclosure you’re calling an adaptor, try with another one. I have had multiple failures on cheap enclosures. So I don’t buy cheap anymore.
Can fix bad sectors on ssd 🤔🤔
Anyway to repair health of ssd
Why not just use windows defrag?
If you want to destroy the SSD, then go ahead
WD Dashboard is fkn joke, and not a good one, 332MB for this is massive bloatware.!!! Would I suggest that you download it and use it if you think that you have a problem or need to update the firmware, yes, of course, whether you want to keep it installed is up to you, I have no personal experience with this, I am just astonished that their default HDD tool that they have used for years was 0.5MB, and the one witht he GUI was less than 10MB... What is the rest being used for.? Will it actually slow down a slow PC "if" it runs stuff in the background.? I do not know.! Would @Britec09 be willing to do a video comparing, contrasting, generally using and testing the various HDD/SSD test tool from their respective manufacturers, and in general.?
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AS an FYI, I used to use the "WD Lifeguard" test tool for years to test Seagate Drives because their test tool was total poo... Prior to that, for years I used to use the Seagate test tool to test WD drives because the WD test tool would give an "OK" result on a clicking, Floppy Disk kind of slow drive.!!! Some of this must come down to trust, and I have learned that the test tools can AND can not be trusted... ALWAYS have a backup, and ideally have a totally offsite backup (different house, fires and thefts happen), but also CHECK your backup by attempting to recover a file to see that you have access, and if you have encryption, read VERY carefully the information relating to that.