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How do I mount a harddrive to my /home folder in OS X?
Im wondering how to mount my second HDD to my /home folder like you do in other *NIX systems, making the mount point just that folder and not a standard HDD.
I am aware of the method of copying my ...
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How to put an individual USB port to sleep?
I have a few external drives that i don't always use and want to be able to have them shutdown when i am not using them. They shutdown when the computer goes into sleep mode but I would like to be ...
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Did BitLocker drive encryption corrupt my disc?
I use my external HDD only with my laptop, which runs Windows 7. One of my friends tried to open it on another laptop with Windows XP.
The first two attempts, he faced an error saying "E: is not ...
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How do I restore hard drive permissions on Mac OS 10.5 Leopard?
I have done quite possibly THE dumbest thing I could have done and now I cannot boot past the white apple screen with the spinning progress wheel.
I was setting up FTP access on my computer and ...
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Windows 7 Home Premium internal hard drive swap
So I was dumb first off by not noticing that I had 2 SATA cords in my Mobo box (first time building a computer from scratch) so I hooked my New internal hard drive into my old computer to install ...
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Who added a drive to my pc?
One day I noticed a new K drive in my computer (Windows7). if I try to delete the files in that drive it says that the file is in use.
I scanned it with a few antivirus programs, it came back ok.
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Digital Signature by Chartered Accountant [closed]
I'm a Practicing Chartered Accountant. I want to know that 'Can we have digital signature."
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Windows 7: Unmapped Drive Letter Shows Up
As can be seen in the screenshots below, a weird drive letter shows up under "Computer" which however is not mapped in the Disk Manager. I guess it is some kind of service that creates this drive.
How ...
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Expand partition in Windows 7
I've a 250GB HDD with 3 drives, C:, D:, E:
C: (25 GB) 6.61 GB FREE
D: (25 GB) 21.0 GB FREE
E: (182GB) 179 GB FREE
But still I cant extend C or D drives. Some software is installed in D drive ...
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How do I prevent a partition on the hard drive from auto-mounting on boot?
I've tried this:
Having the UUID for the volume (seen on disk utilities) to hide during the mount process, from an admin account edit the /etc/fstab file:
sudo pico /etc/fstab/
Add a line with ...
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Install XP over Ubuntu. (Flash Drive)
My girlfriend needs to install Windows XP over Ubuntu on her PC, because she need to run some software that Wine and a visual machine can't handle as well as the 'real' thing.
Problem is, it seems ...
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What are the Windows G: through Z: drives used for?
In Windows you have a C: drive. The first things labeled beyond that seems to be extra stuff. So my DVD drive is D: and if you put in a USB stick it becomes F:. And then some people also have A: and ...
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Data transfer is extrem slow after partitioning extern usb drive
I bought an extern usb 3.0 drive with 500 gb capacity.
OS is Windows 7.
I use it with an usb 2.0 slot, no prob.
Initially I used it without making several partitions and it was fast as hell.
Then I ...
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How to slave a 3.5" 500gb SATA external hard drive (Western Digital) to my Dell Inspiron laptop
I have a 3.5" Western Digital My Book 500gb external hard drive. I gave it to a friend of mine, and he broke the USB port in it. I went to a nearby comp repair shop and had him solder the thing, and ...
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In MacOS X is there a way to create a shortcut to a folder on a readonly drive?
I have a partitioned drive with a different OS on my Mac. I can access this drive in readonly mode, but not write mode.
There is a folder on this partition drive that I often open, and therefore I ...
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Format USB Drive with FAT on Mac with different Allocation Unit Size
I've been asked to format a USB Drive with a larger Allocation Unit Size than the default. I'm using a Mac, Snow Leopard. In Disk Utility, I am unable to see anything to do with Allocation Unit ...
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DVD drive not detected in BIOS / Windows XP
My parents bought a PC (a old Hewlett Packard Bell Pentium 4) just to watch YouTube. It worked well for months but last week, the DVD drives (there a 2 dvd drives) are no more recognized by the BIOS ...
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Can you change the name of a flash drive on the boot menu?
I have two Staples brand Flash Drives. They work fine and they boot okay, but they have the same name on the boot menu, so when I have them both in the computer, I can't tell which one is the one I ...
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Is a mounted volume's UUID stored on the volume?
I have some OS X code that uses the volume's UUID for some calculations. I'm rewriting these calculations for Windows. I have the requirement that for a given drive, the calculations produce the exact ...
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USB Flash not recognised by Windows and BIOS, but works fine in Linux
I have a Transcend JetFLash 2GB USB Drive.It was working fine and I had been using it occasionally.
All of sudden it stopped working in all versions of Windows .
The USB Drive is also not ...
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SSH to drive letter in Windows 2003
I have a Windows 2003 server running a SSH server (WRQ Reflection), how would I ssh to it and specify a specific drive letter? (like the D: drive)
ex: from another workstation: ssh ...
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File extraction errors
I have a gigabyte 970 motherboard. A 64 gb SSD, a 1tb HDD and an AMD fx6200 CPU. Graphics AMD Radeon hd 6870. 8 gb ram. Nothing is overclocked, everything is stock. So I downloaded a few large ...
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Iomega Rev 35GB USB 2.0 External Drives differences for product number 31035401 & 31035402 [closed]
Does anyone know what the differences are between product number 31035401 & 31035402 of the Iomega Rev 35GB USB 2.0 External Drive?
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Hard Drive space not available when switching from Linux install back to Windows
About 6 months ago, I installed Ubuntu on my desktop onto a 2TB harddrive. After a while, I decided I would rather switch back to Windows. So I took my Win7 installation disk, popped it in and started ...
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how format a usb drive in the right way? (FAT 32 to NTFS)
last days i bought two usb drives (8 GB).
one of them is HP v245L - 8 GB and the other one is Silicon Power - 8GB.
their format was FAT32, so i reformat them to ntfs with my windows 7 without using ...
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Erase data from external hard drive forever [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Securely erasing all data from a hard drive
I (full) formatted my external hard drive. Now, before giving it to someone else is there anyway to make sure there is no way ...
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Moving Windows 7 to an SSD
I've done some research and the most common answer seems to be to just reinstall Windows, but I really want to avoid that.
I'm attempting to move my Win7 install, including applications, documents, ...
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How to un-partition a drive on windows 7
I bought this laptop used from a friend. The laptop has 500gb of storage; however, the drive is partioned. The C: drive has an allocated space of 50gb whereas the partition has 396gb allocated to it. ...
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How do I changes a USB drive letter without the Disk Management snap-in
I've got a user who wants to be able change the dive letter a USB drive is being assigned. Naturally, I'd use the Disk Management snap-in. However, my user doesn't have sufficient privileges to run it ...
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Detecting/diagnosing drive “pauses”. Any good tools out there?
Tonight, while working away on my PC, it started temporarily freezing. First, I'd hear a louder-than-usual click from the hard drive bay. Then, nothing would seem out of the ordinary until I actually ...
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What could be wrong with my CD drive and how do you fix it?
My CD drive hasnt worked in about 8 months. I was burning CDs in a hurry and pulled it out because it was taking too long (probably an average amount of time). Im running a laptop (Toshiba Satellite ...
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How do I connect NTFS Seagate External Drive to Airport Extreme via a USB splitter?
I recently bought an Airport Extreme v. 7.6 and would like to connect two external hard drives via a USB splitter. One is a Western Digital Mac formatted drive and one is a Seagate 1 TB FreeAgent ...
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did not find any hard disk
I just bought a laptop. It came with Windows Vista Home. I wasn't that happy with the performance so I decided to downgrade to XP. I used a USB to USB cable and formated the hard drive.
I booted from ...
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How to increase VirtualBox virtual drive actual size?
I have selected "dynamically allocated" mode upon creating virtual drive. I was thinking it will grow automatically up to maximum size. But it constantly has "actual size" of 4Gb and does not growing ...
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Have optical drive connectors changed in the last year?
In early 2010 my motherboard freaked out, and I was able to drop in a new board and connect my two DVD drives that were initially bought in 2005.
Tonight my new components arrived to build my next ...
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Tool to mount a zip/rar/* archive as a Win drive and be able to read/write as a normal device?
I'm looking for some tool that, given a zip/rar/tar/* archive file, mounts it as a new Windows drive. Some tools are WinMount or WinArchive, but I need one that allows me to write/create/delete files ...
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Blue screen error in Windows 7
I have Windows 7 Professional 64-bit and keep getting a blue screen error. I think it has something to do with my hard drive, but I'm not sure if it is failing or not.
Here is the .dmp debug:
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How to provide users with isolated drive letters in Windows 2008 R2 (Terminal Server)
I need to be able to host several RDP sessions on a Terminal Server, where users of group A see a drive X: mapped to a given folder of the server and another group B see the same drive letter X: ...
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Showing memory usage bar under drive icon LEFT in Explorer
So it is one nice utility I had in my WinXP that shows memory usage bar under the drive icon LEFT in Explorer:
Vista drive icon shows it like this:
It calls Vista Drive Icon. This also shows "!" ...
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After updating Fedora, my drives are switched between /dev/sda and /dev/sdb
I have two hard drives:
internal (SATA)
external (USB).
Before updating Linux (Fedora), the internal drive was in /dev/sda and the external drive in /dev/sdb. Now, after updating, those two are ...
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Is it possible to mount a volume to a custom drive prefix, e.g. “myDrive:\”?
Am I just a dreamer, or does something like this exist?
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How can I make logical drive/folder appear as virtual removable drive in Windows 8?
I want to test the "Windows to go" feature of Windows 8.
But I have no 16 GB drive.
How can I make logical drive/folder appear as virtual removable drive?
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Why does my drive show as 180GB used, but copies only 40GB?
My computer crashed, so I removed the drive (with Windows XP Professional 32-Bit) and put this drive in another computer running Windows 7 64-bit.
Booting with Windows 7, when going to My Computer ...
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How to remove permanent map of a network drive on OS X Lion?
Some time ago I mapped a network drive on my Snow Leopard Mac, which was upgraded to Lion.
The network drive is not active any more and I receive popups all the time with the error:
There was a ...
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Boot computer without ubuntu external drive
I installed ubuntu dual boot on an external drive, now I can only boot using the hard drive. Even in my boot says it first searches for my usual boot location, but it still gives me an error while ...
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My drive says “drive corrupt and unreadable”. How can I fix it?
My drive says "drive corrupt and unreadable" in Windows. In Linux it's not getting detected at all. I cannot access my drive. It has lots of important data on it.
Is there some way to fix this? when ...
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Removable drive permissions
İ have 1 TB external HDD. Using it on both: office and home PC. Both are working with Windows 7. Now the problem is, to open contents of drive every time i need to change permissions (especially ...
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What happens when an SSD wears out?
Since SSDs are still fairly new, there isn't a history of posts saying "I reached my writes limit on 10% of my SSD... – and here is what happened (I.e. I lost 3 directories of work files. The entire ...
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What's the difference between a disk, and a drive?
Would this make the term 'disk drive' a slight misnomer?
Also, I thought RAM was equivalent to the term 'volatile' memory, but apprently 'hard disk drives' are also RAM and not ROM.... any ...
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Mount a remote Linux hard drive as another Windows 7 partition during boot?
I would like to mount a hard drive on a remote computer (running on CentOS 6) as a Windows drive so that I can install programs to that drive. The primary hard drive for my Windows machine (which is ...
