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What are the most common issues with hard drives?

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The most common issues with hard drives are complete failure and data corruption. Failure most commonly occurs when a machanical error has occured. You can actually hear a mechanical error, as it sounds like a grinding in the tower. If it is not mechanical, then it is most like a bad signal on the circuit board that causes the date to be corrupted.

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