please i need help about my hard disk

omegadavid

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hello i have a very serious problem on my hard disk that its freezing but i can still move my mouse and it sounds like its loading. i tried to firmware update and it told me failed and i today i noticed that when it went to try update it told me no controllers detected. do hdd need controllers and if they do how can i get them?
 

gamer2321

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Most probably windows is slowing down the drive .
Check the "advanced" section of your power settings to see how long Windows waits before powering down disk drives and adjust it to "never" if necessary.