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External hard drive only visible in System Profiler, doesn't mount, not visible in Disk Utility (Mac)
I have an external hard drive that does not mount to my Mac laptop, nor is it visible in Disk Utility. It is, however, visible in the System Profiler under the USB section. Any suggestions as to how I ...
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Repair or Recover data from portable external hard drive?
I accidentally dropped my 500gb Bufallo Ministation portable hard drive on the ground. It was still sorta working, just EXTREMELY slowly. I then ran the mac hard drive repair. It ran for about 5 ...
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Raid Enclosures for running VM's
I'm looking at getting a Raid Enclosure for running vm's on. I have noticed that the ones that I have found, only have 1 sata port on the back of them. I'm going to be running the hard drives in ...
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Hard drive size 'loss' using EXT3 Filesystem
We have an Ubuntu backup server with removeable hard drives in caddys.
They are standard IDE/PATA, it came to light that although the drives in the caddys are 160GB in size they where only ...
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External HDD Failure: Fell on the ground and now only beeps
My 3,5" portable drive fall on the ground from 40-50cm high.
I connected USB cable to computer. It ran (I heard rotation sound), but the disk not shown under My Computer.
Then disconnected it. While ...
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Portable HDD failure
I have a WD Passport 750Gb USB disk. It has recently refused to show up on any of my computers when connected. When I plug it in, its light goes on and I can hear it spin up but it does not appear as ...
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Finding a port number for an NAS resource on mac book
I have an external drive connected to a network using an Addonics NASU2 adapter. The adapter has Samba, FTP and media server capabilities. I can see the drive in a Finder window identified as ...
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Install Windows XP on a removable hard drive
I've got a hard drive connected to my PC with eSATA. I'd like to install Windows XP on it without having to reboot the computer.
What is the best/easiest/quickest way of doing this?
I plan on ...
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Is it still relevant to run a virtual machine from an external hard drive?
I'm running Windows 7 through Parallels 6 on a 15" Macbook Pro (2.53 i5, 8 GB ram) with the Momentus XT 7200 RPM 500 GB drive (it has the SSD hybrid). Would it run faster and give me better throughput ...
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Do I need to partition my external harddrive to use for both PC and Mac backups?
I have a Buffalo HD-CEU2 1TB external hard drive. I want to use it to back up my Mac and a Windows machine. If possible I would like to use the Time Machine software on my Mac to do this and just use ...
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Is DVDs safe to store data for future? [closed]
I've started collecting movies, which is the safest way to store the collected movies? Is it safe to store in DVDs or what should I prefer??
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How to stop Windows from needlessly requesting to format external hard drive?
I have Windows 7. My Freegate external hard drive runs via a Belkin 4-way USB hub shared with my Epson printer/copier. When printing, I am continually asked to format the drive. It contains 30 days ...
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Why do two HDDs with the same information have different amounts of free space?
I have two of the exact same 2TB external HDDs. I copied a bunch of information to one of them and then copied everything from the first to the second HDD and now their sitting at different amounts ...
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Clone External Hard Drive Without Leaving a Record on the Drive Itself
I have an external hard drive which I need to make an exact copy of, but I need to do so without leaving any trace of the operation on the original drive.
I'm primarily a Mac user, but I suspect the ...
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How to access encrypted external hard drive on Windows 7 Home Premium?
I encrypted my external hard drive using Linux Mint (Ubuntu) and password protected it. Now I can't access it on Windows 7 as it gives errors and won't mount. Is there a software that will allow me to ...
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Why TrueCrypt won't make a volume on a file in an External Seagate FreeAgentGoFlex HDD(Win 7 O/S)? [closed]
Tried to create TrueCrypt volume using a file(actually a subdirectory) on new 2TB Ext HD from Seagate(Free Agent GoFlex). Although I am the administrator, it said Access Denied and that Users only get ...
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Partition External Harddrive already using Time Machine?
I have a 1TB external that I've used to backup my Mac for the past year using Time Machine. Unfortunately, my hard drive is getting close to full, and I'd like to move some of the stuff off of my Mac ...
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External Hard Drive being incorrectly recognized as Internal Hard Disk
I have a 3TB Seagate GoFlex External HDD. When I first got the device, it would show up as Removable Storage in My Computer where I could right click on the drive and eject it when I was done. However ...
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WD “My Book Studio” 2TB - rpm? [closed]
The rpm rating of this drive doesn't seem to be listed anywhere. Not on the box, not in the manual, not online, not even on Western Digital's website. I even called them but they were evasive, ...
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Change the Internal Drive as a removal drive
I have a external USB HDD which is being displayed as one of the internal drives of my computer. It's not coming as removable disk. How to change this?
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External hard drive won't be recognized when plugged into the USB port in the front panel
I'm using a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1.5TB USB3.0 portable hard drive and my desktop computer uses a H55M-E33 motherboard. I've found that each time when I try to plug the hard drive into the USB port ...
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Why won't my drive boot over FireWire?
I have a brand new Western Digital MyPassport Studio, which I'd like to use as a utility drive. It will boot my Mac Pro over USB, but not over FireWire 800. Western Digital's support basically told me ...
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How to prevent applications from using external HDD?
Some applications write temporary files (such as updates) to my external hard drive instead of using the internal one. I want to minimize unnecessary reading and writing to my external drive. So, how ...
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Is is possible to bypass GPO on external USB drive? [closed]
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Temporarily remove Group Policy in Windows 7
I have an external drive that I need to get some source from, and the GPO is preventing me from using the drive. Is it ...
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How do I prevent unity/nautilus from opening a new window when I insert an external hd?
I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 with unity. Every time I insert my external hard drive a new file manager window gets opened with the content of my drive. How do I prevent that window from being opened?
I ...
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Anomalous Behavior in Gnome Disk Utility 2.30.2
I have recently been experiencing some anomalous behavior in regards to the interaction between my external hard drive and my OS. Hopefully someone will recognize this problem. In any case, some ...
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Is a SDXC card a viable secondary hard drive?
I have an SDXC compatible SD slot on my laptop that isn't doing anything and I saw a 128gb SDXC for around $150.
I was wondering if this could be use as a secondary hard drive?
If so, what would be ...
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unable to copy folder from desktop to external hard drive
I am on Windows XP and I am trying to copy a folder from my desktop to my external hard drive. Both drives are formatted NTFS. When I try to copy and paste the folder, I get an error message pop-up, ...
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Use primary or extended partition for external USB hard drive?
If I just want my external hard drive for storing data, is it wrong to be partitioned as primary, NOT as extended? Why?
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External harddrive not recognized when connected to asus laptop running Windows 7
I'm trying to connect a Beyondmicro 250 GB external USB NTFS hard drive, model number BMMDU2 with it's own power supply to a 64-bit versions of Windows Vista on an Asus laptop, the error message i'm ...
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Can I use a USB attached Hard Drive on Win7 for TimeMachine backup?
I have a Western Digital external USB hard drive. I would like to use this as my Time Machine backup HDD for my new MacBook. After a bit of research I've found that I can't simply share the HDD via my ...
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My external harddrive wont show up, what now?
I plugged in my roughly 3year old external harddrive which i havent used for maybe a month into my laptop. It does not show up in "Computer" with the other drives. I looked in computer management ...
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Connecting ordinary hard disk as external usb hard disk to laptop via scsi to usb convertor
I am in need of using an internal hard disk of a computer, dismantled from the original PC and connect to my laptop via SCSI to USB convertor. I basically want to use it as an external usb hard disk ...
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DIY DAS enclosure [closed]
I'm planning to build a "dumb disk enclosure" (ie containing just disks and power supply) for my home server. Both since I'm out of expansion space in my server case, and part because I need a new ...
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What's the use of windows hard disk write cache when the hard drive already has more than 8 megabytes of cache?
Doesn't a hard drive use its cache with high utilization? I see up to 20MB/s difference on file writes when I disable windows disk write cache. Does anybody know why cache size matters this much?
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Operation not permitted error when deleting as root
I got into a weird situation. I got a 1Tb portable HD filled with some contents. It was used in Windows and as always packed with virus. I tried deleting some folders as root. But the following error ...
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PCMCIA card is not detecting external drive, but mouse works
I'm using a Lenovo 3000 Y500 laptop. All four ports are not working.
I bought a PCMCIA card for USB. Through an USB charger I supplied power to the PCMCIA card.
Now it is detecting the mouse and pen ...
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Can I install Windows 7 on my Seagate Expansion (External) Harddisk?
Well, as you guys must be aware that harddisk prices are at peak these days and I don't want to buy a new harddisk at such an high price, so I am having Seagate Expansion 2TB harddisk, any ideas if i ...
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Need to prevent external drive from going into sleep mode
I have a hard drive in a caddy with USB and eSata connections and I have a smart TV. I would like to use the Hard Drive to record TV shows. When I plug the hard drive into the TV via the USB and press ...
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External Hdd is dying [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Recover harddrive data
Need help with one hdd that I have.. Its 2tb wd external...
When i connect it , it does show up in my computer but i cannot access it... It just ...
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Are USB hard drives really reliable enough to backup to?
I've been reading about backup solutions and have come across a number of people saying they use a USB external hard drive as part or all of their backup solution.
Are USB hard drives really ...
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Install XP on an external USB stick in a macbook without OS X installation damage
I have a macbook pro running os x lion and would like to play some windows xp games (grand thef auto san andreas, etc). Through vmware fusion or parallels it is quite slow and my disk is full so ...
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Harddrive fell; caught in mid-air; won't spin up
I have a SimpleTech 1TB external USB hard drive. I recently backed up my entire system to it, then formatted and installed Windows 8 Developer Preview.
Before restoring my data from the external ...
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Please explain wasted space on an exFAT formatted external hard drive
I recently bought a 750 GB 2.5" hard drive and put it in an external enclosure. It has Advanced Format Technology (AFT), but I use Windows 7, so I assumed I would be safe.
I decided to try exFAT, ...
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Suitable USB external disks for a home Linux server [closed]
I've been running Ubuntu Server on a mini computer (fit-PC slim) for a few years. This box takes a single 2.5" IDE disk and has USB ports. I'm currently at Ubuntu Server 10.04. I use it mainly as a ...
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Very slow usb 3.0 performance
I have a WD Passport 1tb drive, and a 3tb Seagate 3tb GoFlex drive; both are external, both are usb 3.0, and both are slow as molasses: the most I can get out of them is 30MBs.
I've tried copying ...
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WD SmartWare Drive Unlock, Western Digital?
I bought a 1TB Western Digital (USB3) some days ago.
I was using it without any problems, but now whenever I attach it to my laptop USB, the following window up and I can't use it at all.
The Drive ...
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Copy OS X from MacBook Pro to USB External Hard Drive
How can I copy my OS X to an external hard drive, so I may use the USB hard drive to start up my daughter's MacBook?
Her MacBook will not boot up, but instead shows a solid blue screen.
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IOMEGA 500GB hard disk data reccovery
Last year by November I bought an IOMEGA 500GB Prestige hard disk. Yesterday, unfortunately the hard disk fell down from my table. After that incident, when I connect my disk, Windows asks me to ...
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How to format External Western Digital hard disk when all NTFS boot sectors cannot be written to
I want to format my external hard drive which is a Western Digital 500GB, through cmd dos command. But it fails because all NTFS boot sectors are not writable. Here are the commands I gave and what I ...
