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Getting files out of a NTFS-formatted system disk via USB
I have replaced an old SATA disk in my laptop with an SSD. Now I want to get some files (that I thought I backed up but I didn't) from the old disk. I have an external disk enclosure that connects the ...
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Trying to use two external hard drives on windows 7
I have two WD external hard drives. I want to use one for lightroom catalogue and photo storage and then back up to the second. To do this I need both plugged in at once.
I have assiganed a new ...
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External laptop-format device for desktop
i am looking for one specific device in the laptop format. This thing must not have an hdd, ram, cpu etc like in standard laptops. It's like a external wired keyboard, but with a screen and in a ...
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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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RAID1 External HD not working - shows up in Disk Utility but not usable. - MAC OSX 10.6.8 - What do I do?
I bought a dual bay enclosure from NewEgg I'm guessing 2 years ago to set up a RAID1. It's now a discontinued model but it is from Sans Digital. I put two Western Digital 1tb drives in it.
It's been ...
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External monitor goes blank after resuming from hibernation in Windows 7
I have a Dell Vostro 3450 laptop connected via HDMI to an external monitor. Windows 7 is configured to use only this external monitor, disabling and turning off the laptop screen.
This setup works ...
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External USB device is not working as boot device
I have a Toshiba A305 satellite laptop. My Windows 7 got corrupt, and I'm getting boot manager errors.
My laptop DVD drive is not working, so I bought an external one. However, it's not working as a ...
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Windows Server 2003 hangs when I plug in any external drive. How can I prevent this?
I have to back up a 50 gig file to an external drive weekly. If I plug it into USB, the server hangs (nonresponsive explorer etc). Tried 2 different drives with same result.
Googling suggests this is ...
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Is it possible to add graphics card to Toshiba L-300 model Laptop [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Can a graphics card (Nvidia) be added to a laptop?
external video card for notebook?
Is it possible to add graphics card to Toshiba L-300 model Laptop?
Are there any ...
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External Hard Disk is not empty but files are not being displayed
My external hard disk has data on it. When I right click and see properties it says has 189GB occupied, but I am unable to see any files in it. It is of NTFS format. Can anybody tell me what's wrong ...
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Download entire site for offline usage with wget (including external image servers)
OK, so I've got wget 1.12 on Windows 7, and I can do basic downloads of it.
The site I'm trying to download: http://www.minsterfm.co.uk
and all images on it are stored externally at ...
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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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Making Nvidia GeForce 8200M G actually recognize my TV?
I got a HP G60 with Nvidia GeForce 8200M G card in it. Awhile back I got a HDMI cable so I could watch Hulu etc. on my plasma. Was some messing around with settings for a few minutes first time I ...
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How to (re)use different-size external disks [closed]
I accumulated several external usb drives over time. Now, I end up with the following drives:
Western Digital 3.5" 1TB USB 2 (less than 1 year old)
Iomega 3.5" 320GB USB2 (2+ year old)
Custom built ...
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How to make laptop without an OS boot directly to an external monitor?
My laptop screen broke so I've been looking up methods to boot a laptop directly to an external monitor and many people say to use the FN+F4, which I have tried and it has failed to produce any ...
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Is it possible to make laptop turn off on mouse click?
I want somehow to have an extra turn off functionality on the laptop. Therefore, I am asking the question how to turn off the laptop from an external source (ex. Mouse click). I have seen some ...
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Can Firefox open some, but not all, external links in a pinned tab instead of a new tab?
I use the Trillian Gmail plugin and Firefox. The plugin checks my Gmail email and all POP3 accounts linked to my Gmail account, and notifies me about new mail with a popup in the bottom right-hand ...
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External DVD-ROM drive can't read discs on my PC but can on another PC
I'm newbie with computers and have little few experience with hardware. Yesterday, I bought an external DVD-ROM drive (Samsung, USB Slim Portable Optical Drive).
However the drive can't read any CDs ...
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Can the length of the USB cable be the cause of a non working external hard drive?
I have this old external hard drive, 80gb, nothing too fancy, that is powered entirely by USB. The problem is that it keeps disconnecting itself.
I remember that I tested it with a short cable (15cm ...
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Why is my 3.5" SATA hard drive not spinning up via USB?
I'm having issues connecting a 3.5 inch WD Caviar SE (WD3200AAJS) via a SATA to USB adapter. The drive is recognized, but it doesn't spin, so it just shows up with a capacity of 0 bytes.
Note that ...
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I want to mirror two external hard drives
We're pulling a bunch of things (GBs) off of our network storage and archiving it onto external HDDs. Copies are made of each external HDD so that one can go off-site and one can stay here. Is there ...
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Install windows on external harddrive and use it with my mac?
I know there is lot's of guides out there on the net, but I havn't really found a good one which explains step by step how it works :/ For that reason I hope some of you guys could give me some ...
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Buying a new power adapter for an external hard drive?
I bought an external drive a while back (this one) and now I seem to be unable to find the power adapter for it. Are power adapters more or less universal? Would there be an easy way to pick up a ...
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Assigning an external drive a letter in windows XP
I recenently reformatted my XP pro machine and now annoyingly cant access my external hard drive. In 'computer management' it shows up and says healthy but if i right click the assign a drive letter ...
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Hard drive file systems for use with multiple operating systems?
Where I work, we constantly switch between Linux, Windows and Mac OS X machines. We use a lot of external hard drives which mostly come preformatted as NTFS. This is a problem because Mac OS X by ...
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accessing IIS externally?
What do I need to do to allow external access to my win seven IIS webpage? My internal webpage is hiding behind a router and a firewall (Windows firewall) I need to be able to address certain aspects ...
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External hard drive takes long time to mount on Windows
I have a 2TB Western Digital external USB drive that I formatted to FAT32. It takes a minute and 25 seconds for Windows to recognize it when I plug it in. I've tried multiple computers. It only takes ...
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MySQL Database on external harddrive
I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 and I have already installed MySQL (default install using apt). I'd like to set up a database on an external USB harddrive, as it has a large amount of free storage. How can ...
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Windows XP can't find external harddisk
I have a Western Digital Elements harddisk, and a couple of weeks ago I plugged it into my desktop computer. It worked perfectly, then a couple of hours later I was going to plug it into my laptop, it ...
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HP using windows vista [closed]
Can anyone help me. I have a WD TB external hard drive and it shows unallocated in my computer but i cannot partition it. Im not very experienced with doing this. Is there any way i can veiw the files ...
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Why are my files being transfered at only around 4 MB/second to my external Harddrive
Why are my files being transfered at only around 4 MB/second to my external Seagate Hardrive which is using USB 2.0. Is it also normal for you to hear clicking noises from the external hardrive?
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Recovering Unallocated Partition on External Hard Disk, contained files
I have an external hard disk which is non-bootable, and by some issues of mine, I deleted the partition, which resulted in it showing unallocated partition. It contained a lot of files.
I followed ...
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Files have disappeared on my ext3 external hard drive
Yesterday, my external hard drive was working fine. Now, only the boot partition is accessible whilst the main partition with all my files on it is coming up as a raw, empty drive.
I had taken it to ...
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Partitioning an External HDD
I have an external hard drive and I want to partition it into 2 partitions which are EXT4 and NTFS.
Is that OK with this kind of partitioning and is there a problem with partitioning an external hard ...
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Western Digital 500Gb My Book external harddrive won't start
I have a Western Digital External Hard drive My Book 500Gb USB2.0
I accidentally put in my laptop power adapter (19V) instead of the Western Digital adapter (12V) so I most likely have fried my power ...
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Fat32 error on external hardrive
I have an external drive - drive F - when trying to pull the drive up, it comes up with FAT32 System F Dirty....it will not acknowledge my F drive - does anyone have an idea as to how to fix this ...
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Windows XP - Setting External Monitor as Primary
I'm having problems using two monitors. I can't set my external monitor as the primary, and extended my desktop to the one on the laptop. I does work if I DON'T extended my desktop to the laptops ...
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How to dual boot Fedora 14 on Macbook Pro 15" without CD/DVD, ie. .iso file bootable from external HDD
I have done quite a bit of looking around and have not been able to find a single walkthrough for doing this. I have:
MacBook Pro 15" with 20GB partition (of 500GB) which I want to install fedora ON
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What is the optimal volume when using external speakers with my Mac?
I was wondering whether there is an optimum volume I should set on my Mac when using an external pair of speakers. Should I set the Mac's volume to the max and then control volume with the knob on my ...
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Using External HDD just like a normal Internal one
is okay if I'll use an external HDD like a normal Internal HDD, for example powered-on and connected most of time I'm using my computer?
I'm currently working on a small game, and Im constantly ...
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boot-able flash drive mac osx86 [closed]
I want to create bootable flash drive of mac osx86 operating system.
I found the following tutorial
http://www.macgeekblog.com/blog/archive/2006/12/07/boot-osx86-from-pendrive.html
I don't have ...
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External Monitor Issues with a Dell Inspiron 1300
I just recently bought a high def tv and I want to use it as an external monitor. The tv tech support told me that the resolution settings that my laptop offers are suppose to work, but maybe my ...
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External graphics card for laptop?
Is it possible to hook up an external graphics card to our Dell Inspiron 1420 Vista laptop? The video card is messed up, and I know you can't replace the internal video cards for laptops since they ...
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USB soundcard, 192 kHz with Linux support
Is there a USB soundcard with Linux support and 192 kHz sampling rate?
It's pretty hard to find one..
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How can I connect to my Airport Extreme Shared Disk using Windows?
I have a shared disk attached to my Airport Extreme, which I can connect to remotely in OS X through the finder via command - k, and entering in the proper address:
afp://test.dyndns.org:1111
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getting an external ip address on a LAN pc through proxy
My office computer works on local office LAN and has ip address like 10.12.133.45.
i can access the internet through the office proxy(when i got to a site like whatismyip.com it shows the proxy ip)
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Time Machine/iMac loses all trace of external hard drive after a few days
First time posting, also a Mac newbie (recent windows convert) so I'm hoping I can get some help here :)
I have a Hitachi Deskstar drive in an external casing that I got from ebuyer. (its one of ...
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can I output 1080p onto an external monitor
I have an hp envy 14 and It has a native resolution of 1600 * 900. I am trying to buy a monitor which its native resolution is 1080p. can my laptop output 1080p to the external monitor?
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How do I access local computers through a network switch?
I have a switch connecting several computers with my ISP.
All the computers gets external IPs from my ISP. When tracing the route between two of the computers the traffic always passes through my ISP ...
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External hard drive no detected in a vista ultimate
I have created a partition in my external HD and later i am trying to install XP over Vista .
So i have entered into my DOS prompt and i choose the DISK TYPE and i choose external DD and i tried to ...
