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What is the best filesystem for an external USB drive - 2 - 3 TB shared between OSX/Windows/Linux? [duplicate]

I have been using NTFS, but I recently took a drive which is normally attached to a Mac mini running Lion (using Paragon NTFS) and attached it to Windows 7 because the drive was disconnecting ...
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Bad sectors in external HDD

I've had this external HDD for around 3 years give or take 6 months. For the last month or so, it was pretty slow but it worked. A few files couldn't be copied onto my system but files could be ...
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Windows 7 laptop keeps restarting if external hard drive isn't connected

My laptop restarts whenever I try to start Windows without my external HDD connected - after I log in an error message pops up (one of those 0x... errors) but it reboots before I can read what it ...
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Is it safe to disconnect an external, truecrypted hard-drive after hibernation

I have an external hard-drive which has only one, truecrypted partition (I am not sure if it is important). If I have the drive connected and then hibernate my notebook, is it safe to disconnect that ...
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How can I browse files on a detached external hard drive with windows explorer [duplicate]

Windows OS related - Is it possible to browse external hard drives that have been detached from the system? Let's say I have an external drive and although I haven't attached it to the system I could ...
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Cannot access USB 3.0 external hard drive

I have a Seagate 1 TB USB 3.0 external hard drive. When I try to access it in my laptop, I get the following error: ~$WKMURSX.NFC The specified module cannot be found .. How do I solve ...
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Are USB2 external drives fast enough to run a Windows operating system from?

I'm interested in creating a portable Windows installation and my PCs only have USB2. I never did this kind of thing before so I am concerned about a USB flash memory stick or an external hard drive ...
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How can I maintain identical data on local & external HDD?

I recently bought a Corsair Voyager Air in order to easily work on the same projects from my desktop and laptop. I would like to be able to keep an identical (mirrored?) copy of the data both on my ...
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Why would ExpressCache.exe appear to be constantly using an external HDD?

I bought ASUS VivoBook S550CM with hybrid drive SSD/HDD. There are many pre-installed Asus utilities, ExpressCache included. Here is the problem: every time I connect any external USB HDD, the LED ...
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Is USB 3 backward compatiable?

If USB 3 is backwards compatible, why do they place USB 2 ports with USB 3 ports on motherboards? Also, do USB3 External drives not work with USB2 ports?
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What is the difference between “drive letter” and “volume label”

I am under the impression that "volume label" is available on linux, too whereas "drive letter" is windows specific. Where can I read that up?
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Any software can protect external hard drive from being browsed and copied?

Is there any windows software with media player that can protect media data on container level encryption? In other words, users who plugged this HD to a computer with any OS will not be able to copy ...
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USB HDD won't spin down automatically but can stay spun down

I have an external USB HDD connected to a windows 7 machine. Using HDDScan I can get it to spin down after a certain amount of time but this only happens once. The next time I use the drive it won't ...
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Checking files on an external drive to whole computer for duplicates

I'm looking to use an external drive for a new purpose and want to see which, if any, files on it are not already on my main pc. I've seen comparison programs that can compare folders or one drive to ...
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re-mount external USB hard disk after extracting it without physical access to it [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to “Un-Eject” a USB Flash drive — Eject is easy (safely remove hardware), but what about Un-Eject or Reconnect? It is possible to re-mount an external USB hard disk ...
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How do I prevent Windows from randomly spinning up a (green) USB harddrive?

Even if the powersaving feature of Windows is set to never shut down my harddrive, my external USB harddrives will still spin themselves down automatically after some period of inactivity. The problem ...
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Making a Win8ToGo external HDD Failed

I'm trying to boot and run Windows 8 from a Hitachi 320GB SATA External HDD, the HDD already has Windows 8 installed with a 100Mb boot partition. When i try to bcdboot c:\windows I get failure when ...
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External hard drive to work with Windows, OSX & Linux?

I have an 1 TB external hard drive and I'm going to use it with OSX, Windows XP/7 and Ubuntu, mostly for backup. I'm thinking of creating a bigger FAT32 partition to exchange files between the OS's ...
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How to reach files in a previously windows installed hdd

Here is the situation: My friend's windows 8 installed computer screwed up and we want to recover the data (hdd is working properly) We took the hdd and connected it to another windows 8 installed ...
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Western Digitial My Book: Can't access the data on the drive

My girlfriend has this external hard drive by Western Digital called a My Book. When the external drive is connected, it does not show it as an accessible disk drive on the computer. However, it ...
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Mouse pointer jumps with external HDD

I have a new (3 weeks old) WD My passport HDD 1 TB, and I use Windows 7. I run the HDD through a USB 2.0 port, since my computer doesn't have USB 3.0 ports. My mouse is connected via a USB port as ...
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Clone drive in Windows

I have two 2 TB external USB hard drives, call them HD1 and HD2. HD1 is USB 2, HD2 is USB 3. Each drive contains exactly one NTFS partition. I want to clone HD1 to HD2, because it's newer and much, ...
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Cannot copy files from external hard drive to desktop hard drive in Window 7

I'm trying to copy some old files from one of my external hard-drives to the hard drive of my desktop PC. Some files can not be copied but giving the error like 'Cannot read from source file or disk'. ...
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Is there a way to view Windows recycle bin information from Linux?

I have several Windows hard drives with various files in their respective recycling bin directories: '$RECYCLE.BIN' Is there a way to view information about these files to tell if they are no longer ...
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What Filesystem should be used for a 4TB drive for both Windows and OSX compatibility? [closed]

Note: I am aware of similar questions. The one's I seen here are for Windows, OSX, and Linux (which I do not need). I also can use Mountain Lion, which the other questions did not mention. I was ...
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My external USB drive was suddenly only visible via Linux but not Windows [closed]

I already solved my problem but felt it important to post it here since no one else on the Internet seems to list this issue or it resolution. After partitioning a new internal hard drive, I realized ...
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I found a some bad sectors with chkdsk. Should I be worried?

Yesterday I found a corrupted file in my external usb drive. Since I am using the drive quite often (I am running my vms over there) I decided to run the chkdsk on it This is the result 488384000 ...
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Unable to access external hard disk drive in Windows XP

Note: I can access a flash disk drive formatted as exFAT. Just not my external HDD. So, you can imagine I have installed the exFAT update for winXP. My external HDD was formatted in Mac OS X as ...
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Installing Windows from External HDD

I have external hard drive with some data (movies, music, apps, etc.) and I am wondering whether I can use it as bootable HDD to install windows from it, I have installer on my second PC and I am not ...
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How can I extract the Windows password hashes off of an old Hard Drive [closed]

I have an old IDE hard drive connected to my computer via an enclosure containing my old user account. I need the password from it. I know how to crack the hash once I have it in a text file, but how ...
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Encrypt Windows 8 file history

File history in Windows 8 is great, but it saves my files on an external drive without any encryption, and stores them using the exact same folder structure as the originals. If a bad guy gets his ...
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Access to a disk drive using volume ID instead of a drive letter in Windows

Can I access to a disk drive using volume ID instead of a drive letter in Windows? It could be very useful for external drives.
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External drive detects on linux but not on windows

I was copying a few files over onto a directory and suddenly I noticed that there was already a directory that I previously had! So I decided to delete it. Now something happened and I decided to ...
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Harddrive not showing up on my computer

I have tried to connect the hard drive with two different enclosures and it seems to be working because it installs all the drivers and says my device is ready to use. But after that it doesn't pop ...
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External WD drive not recognized

I have a friends WD hard drive, he has had it for about 8 years. I know, a long time. After recently picking it up after not using for a while, it seems that it will not recognize on the multiple ...
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In a batch, how to specify a path that use a volume name instead of a drive letter?

In a batch, is there a way to specify a path using the volume name instead of a drive letter ? (eg: something like \\RECOVERY\Docs\...) Or, if not possible, is there a way to check if a specific ...
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Windows External Harddisk drive letter after cloning boot partition to it

I cloned my windows 7 installation on c: to external hard drive. I applied usb patch using pwboot and i could successfully boot into windows. But My problem is even though i am booting in to external ...
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Mounting a drive that was formatted as NTFS on a different computer

I recently downloaded some files that were over 4 GB, but they wouldn't do a direct transfer to an external HDD. This was attempted on a separate computer called Computer1. My computer, called ...
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Why can't I edit files from certain programs, but others are fine?

My new router (Asus RT-n56u) has a USB slot and I popped my external drive into it. The router shares the drive and you can easily see it in Windows under Network. The other day, I wanted to edit ...
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Western Digital 1TB Hard Drive with Randomly Named Folders That I Can't Access or Delete [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Random directories in c:\ that I cannot delete I recently purchased a 1 TB Western Digital hard drive and today my laptop did 20 updates before shutting down. When I ...
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Use Junction to transfer folders to flash drives

I bought a 32 GB USB Flash Drive (made by HP) for the purpose of using it as a speedy hard drive for certain programs. Once I learned about junction (for XP) and mklink, I imagined giving my computer ...
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Cannot copy anything onto WD Elements 1TB External USB HDD

I have a Western Digital 1023 Elements 1TB External USB HDD. Recently, it has started an unusual problem. I cannot copy any file of any size on to that 1TB hard-drive, eventhough it has more than 400 ...
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Can a hp SimpleSave 2TB External Hard Drive be recovered thats possibly been infected by a Mac computer?

A hp simplesave 2TB external HD owner, recently lent it out. When it came back, it couldn't be used with Windows anymore They thought it may have become too full It went to the 2nd person again with ...
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How to limit access just for one user on external drive folder?

I have an external drive with one TB capacity, which is being used by others also to store their personal data. Usually the hard drive is being used with different versions of windows some times I ...
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Prevent Windows 7 from unpluging External HDD

I have installed Windows 7 as my media server. I pluged in 500GB external HDD via USB. I have changed power plan to Best Performance and changed advenced power settings to never turn off HDD etc. I ...
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Western Digital external drive issues

I recently bought an external drive from Western Digital, a My Passport Essential se 1TB drive; the smartware software continually says "discovering" and does not stop. On Windows, the operating ...
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Effective system to backup this setup? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Software to backup data and files on a Windows computer I currently have my development environment on a usb hd. It has things like portable xampp, virtualbox with ...
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Is time a substitute for Safely Remove Hardware?

In Windows 7, before unplugging an external hard disk or flash drive, you are ideally supposed to use the Safely Remove Hardware option to make sure there aren't any writes still pending. Suppose it ...
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NTFS external hard drive only usable on linux

My Dad has a 2TB Seagate USB external hard drive (formatted NTFS) that is about 3 or 4 months old and has begun acting very strangely. If the hard drive is plugged in when you are starting or shutting ...
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Windows wakes up my external hard-drive whenever a software opens directory tree

I have two different external USB hard-drives which goes to sleep mode when not used for a while. When any software program (or I, myself) opens directory tree, open/save dialog box or my computer ...

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