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HD failure questions

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Mar 15, 2026213 views
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I recently had one of my home PC hard drives fail. It was in a striped raid, so I had to rebuild the raid (no data lost, only the OS partition was there). Is there any way to diagnose exactly what went wrong with the drive? That is what caused the failure? Also, in general, what is a good way to di…

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I've heard good things about SpinRite for this sort of thing, but it's a little pricey ($90)

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