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How to boot from an external hard drive
I got an old compaq computer (5 years old) which came with windows vista. I made its recovery disks. Few days ago I took its Hard drive out to use it as a portable hard drive but now I want to install ...
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Formatting and Partitioning 1TB external hard drive [duplicate]
I just bought a 1TB external hard drive from Western Digital - My Passport.
I am planning to use it for couple of things;
Store my music
Store my videos
Store my pictures
Store my designs
Work as a ...
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External HDD partitioning - Mac OS X
I'm a Mac OS 10.8 user and I have a 1TB USB HDD partitioned before from my Mac in 3 parts. Now, I want to add another back-up partition but I'm not able to do it : I can't do anything on the HDD, not ...
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Internal IDE HDD used as external w/ usb adapter and suddenly 2 partitions were gone
I was searching through the internet trying to solve this problem and saw an answer in this site and it looked you really now about this subject. Of all the other webs I checked, this one seemed that ...
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Partition Small part of external harddrive
I am looking to format my computer and reinstall Windows 7 - I have the Windows 7 ISO file but no USB flash drive. I do have a terabyte hard drive but I don't want to wipe the contents.
Is it ...
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Why will only one partition on my external drive show up in Ubuntu?
I running an Ubuntu 10.10 server which I interact with through the command line. It has an external hard drive attached to it, which has two partitions. One of the partitions, which has about 250MB on ...
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Sharing external hard drive for backups and file exchange by Mac and PC through wi-fi
I've had problems using a BUFALLO 1T HDD for both Time Machine backups on the Mac (Intel based) and system backups on the PC (Win 7) as well as for file sharing for both of the computers via wifi ...
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Can I reformat an external hard drive to have the maximum amount space that was previously available?
I set up my external hard drive that had 1.5TB of space as a recovery drive, and afterwards it showed that I have 32GB of space. Is there any way I can get my space back?
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How to partion external HD on Ubuntu without erasing
I have an external HDD ADATA, 640GB.
I want Partitioning into two parts. The OS I am using is Ubuntu .
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What makes a Partition Table valid?
QUESTION:
What makes a Partition Table recognizable and valid to an operating system? (Linux specifically) ?
Optional Background Info:
I thought there was some sort of "signature" that defines a ...
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EFI System Partition and unallocated space?
I just got a 3 TB external hard drive (I didn't look closely enough and ended up buying one for Mac but I run Windows 7) and it came with a bunch of software I don't particularly want. I want to ...
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Why sizes are different, and what do they mean?
I have a 1 TB hard drive that consists of one NTFS partition which I use to back up my data (no operating system). The size of all the data in it is : 726 GB, size on disk: 728 GB, and the used space ...
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Windows can't see the external exFAT partition but Mac OSX Can
I have a 2TB external hard drive that was pre formatted as one giant NTFS partition. I used windows 7 disk utility to partition it into two 1TB partitions and then formatted as FAT.
The formatting ...
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Is it possible to set the logical sector size of a USB HDD?
I have two supposedly identical 3TB Western Digital USB HDDs. One contains nearly the full 3TB of data. I want the other to be a backup of that data. There are lots of small files, so running cp would ...
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How to partition a drive so it can be used for Windows and Mac OS X?
I want to use this 2TB hard drive with this hard drive docking station with Mac OS X 10.6.8 and Windows 7. What file system should I choose for the partition? I plan to do the initial partitioning ...
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windows 8 on external drive: how to make a volume bootable?
I want to install Windows 8 Release preview on an external drive.
When I selected a partition from my external HD, it displayed
Windows cannot be installed to this disk. Setup does not support ...
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how to make a bootable partition on an external hard drive? or solve my dynamic disk woes
I have a 250 gig external hard drive and I need to make a small partition on it and run Ubuntu live from it to recover files from a corrupt hard drive that Windows can no longer read. I want to make ...
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Would it better to partition my secondary drive?
I have a 2011 MacBook Pro (MBP). The main drive is a Solid State Disk (SSD) with OSX. I have removed the SuperDrive and replaced it with a 750GB Hybrid Hard Drive (HHD) (this is the secondary drive).
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How to partition and format a new HDD when it is connected via USB 3.0 (Linux)?
I just received a new unformatted 2.5" hard disk (1 TB) and an external USB 3.0 enclosure to use with my laptop (Thinkpad). I'm running Kubuntu 12.04 on my laptop.
How do I access and format this HDD ...
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Partition External Hard Drive 1.5TB which is on FAT32 format into 3 partitions of 500GB each in Windows 7
I would like to partition a 1.5TB external hard drive which is in FAT32 format into 3 partitions of 500GB each.
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If I partition a drive connected via eSata will it show different partitions when connected via USB?
I have an odd problem with an external drive. I'm formatting it connected to my laptop prior to connecting it to my router. The HDD enclosure has both an eSata and USB connections.
Generally, I ...
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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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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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Renaming OSX Lion partitions and mountpoints
I replaced the original hard drive within my Macbook Pro with a ssd to gain in speed. I kept my hard drive as an external hard disk mounted at /Volumes/Macintosh HD (got this name automatically, no ...
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sharing an ext3/ext4 partition on external drive
is there a way of sharing an ext3/ext4 formatted partition on an external USB drive between different users (uids) on different Linux machines without creating a group for this purpose, setting the ...
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Accessing 3TB Seagate Barracuda XT on different computer?
I have a 3000 GB Seagate Barracuda XT sata drive. It originally came in an external enclosure with a removable USB 3.0 interface as part of the Seagate GoFlex series of drives. When using this ...
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External hard drive with multiple pieces of unallocated space. How do I join them together?
I just got a 3TB external drive. When I first plugged it in, it showed up as a 2.7TB drive (as expected). Whenever I get a new external device I like to format it (and admittedly, I succeeded ...
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Partitioning strategy for a 2 TB external hard drive
I got a 2 TB Western Digital Elements hard drive, and I want to use it as a storage device to back up all my movies and songs and other Data.
Does partitioning the drive have any performance ...
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External USB Hard Disk detect as Local Hard Disk
Yesterday, I convert my External Hard disk from FAT32 to NTFS using "EASEUS Partition Master". Today, my external hard disk was detected as Local disk on my Windows 7 PC.
I can still use the drive ...
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Should I use the entire hard drive when I repartition it?
I bought a Fujitsu Celvin Drive D100 (external USB HDD) as new and now I want to partition and format it for Linux use. I noticed however that at the factory they have left some empty space before (1 ...
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Windows cannot access my external harddisk partition but all partition managers can
Some weird problem happened to my Maxtor 500GB external harddisk, it all started when it once freezed during some operation. Now when I insert the drive in a USB slot, Windows asks me to format it, ...
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How to “join” two partitions
I have a laptop hard drive that I'm using now as an external USB hard drive.
The drive has two partitions - I don't want this configuration and only want one partition. How can I join the partitions ...
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WD mybook Windows with Mac partition over the top. Is the windows information lost?
This is the worst technological day of my life, First my macbooks harddrive crashes. I try to use my friends Windows formatted hard drive (1.1TB used of 2TB) to make a mac partition to backup an image ...
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Backing Up Whole System Partition Onto External Source That Will Be Used As Spare System Partition
I am not talking about backing up to 1 file. I am talking about making exact copy of system partition on auxiliary external source that will be used as direct boot and not restoration source in case ...
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Make partitions on /dev/sdc, one of them bootable, and others for data
I have a 320 GB portable and external hard disk. Is there a way I can make partitions on it, just like we make partitions on the hard disk that comes already in our laptops?
Out of these ...
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Need to store and backup HD vid files. But need to access them a lot
I've had my 700 Gb HDD ever since I bought my computer so partitioning it is out of the question.
What I need is a place to keep my HD vid files so when I edit, I don't get a long load time in the ...
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Using old hard drive as an external
I'm using my old hard drive in an USB hard drive enclosure. When I connect it to my laptop it has two drives on it can I make it only have one. It won't safely remove is this because it has 2 drives ...
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Multiple partitions for an external USB hard drive used by Linux and Windows
I want to split a large external USB hard drive into at least 2 partitions.
I've heard that multiple partitions on a USB drive involves problems not associated with partitioning a regular IDE/SATA ...
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How can I add a new partition to my HD without reformatting?
I have a 640GB external HD that has one partition formatted as HFS+. It's attached to a machine running OSX 10.6.6. Now I want to split some of the HD's free space into a new FAT32 partition, without ...
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How can I unmark an external hard drive partition as being active?
I accidentally marked my external hard drive partition as active in disk management. I meant to change the drive letter but hit the wrong button. Whoops. What are the consequences of having done that ...
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My Western Digital 500GB Passport disk says “not formatted” when I plug it in Windows
When I plug my Western Digital 500 GB Passport disk in my Windows machine, it says "not formatted, do you want to format it" something. I started having this problem after I put it in an old desktop ...
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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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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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How do I make my external USB HDD be treated as a removable drive
I want to connect my external 2TB USB HDD that has 4 partitions, to be treated as a set of removable drives on Windows.
This is because I do not want Windows to create "System Volume Information" ...
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Is it best to partition a 1TB external drive?
OK – I've got the 1TB WD External hard drive from DSE (see post - http://forums.pcworld.co.nz/showthread.php?t=113070 )
Should I create some more partitions on it – from what I've read (not knowing ...
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Partition read/writeable USB drive between Mac OSX and Ubuntu
I am attempting to transfer a 6.1 GB file between a Ubuntu Linux 9.10 and a Mac OSX 10.6. As the file size is over 4GB I can't use Fat32 and I cant seem to format the USB drive to NTFS in either OS. ...
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Cause of lost partition replaced by 2 Raw partitions
I had a curious problem over the weekend... My 500gb WD hard drive all of a sudden could not be discovered by xp, then when I plugged in again via USB it was being discovered as 2 separate Raw ...
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Ubuntu cannot see portable hdd with 2 partitions
I don't know why but Ubuntu v9.10 isn't showing up one of it's partitions in my portable HDD.
Only the 2nd partition is shown, and I can't find the 1st one.
What might be a solution to this?
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Unable to see External HDD in Windows Explorer
I have bought a 320GB External HDD which I want to use with my Playstation3.
I know it will only work with a Fat32 file system so using some free HP software it formatted it, unbeknown to me it will ...
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Good solutions for using external hard disk anywhere
Ok, I often use my external hard disk in other computers than mine, and I use it with Time Machine. So I want a solution for being able to do that as good as possible.
Things to consider:
Time ...
