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Will installing windows format the disk?
I have a problem with my hard disk so I removed it, stripped off an external hard disk and inserted it into my laptop. Now i want to install windows 7 on this disk but the installation is not showing ...
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BOOTMGR is missing
While making partition on External HDD
I mistakely made the HDD as Active. I forgot to remove the active mode.So while shut down there were 3 active partitions 1. C:\ ,
2.Recovery 3.external HDD.
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Can't install win 7 off a external drive
To cut a long story short, i followed the steps here : http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-install-windows-7vist... so that i can install win 7 64 bit off my external HDD.
When i select to boot from ...
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HFS+ drive has unwanted NTFS partion table
I have 2 Iomega 1TB ext HDD's. They ran on OSX 10.4 fine for 2 years. At Xmas my son took them off and added to a Win 7 machine and ..... o dear!
Not visible on any machine. Have now got Active ...
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How to install Windows 7 from an ISO on my external hard drive?
I have read a few of the questions similar to this but they all involve formatting and using the external hard drive as the boot drive. I do not want to format or boot from my external hard drive. I ...
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Should symlinked programs be put on drives with fast write speeds?
When deciding where to symlink-move a program, should it be to a drive that has a fast write speed, in lieu of program's needing to cache/write to disk? OR, if/when a program needs to cache to disk, ...
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Cannot initialize 4TB external hard drive in Windows 7 64-bit using
I have a new 4TB drive, which I want to use as an external drive with my laptop (Windows 7 ultimate, 64-bit).
From all that I can read, my Windows version should support it, but I can't find anything ...
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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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Can I use Microsoft SyncToy to auto-backup my drives without me taking action?
Can I use Microsoft SyncToy to backup my drives without me taking action? I want to to back up often, like every 30 minutes.
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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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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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surround system + hard drive being too close = death
I bought a sound system of ~1000 watts for my HTPC and I was wondering:
how close should my computer and/or hard drives be from it in order to prevent sound and/or magnetic damage?
Thanks
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A Script/way to constantly read on an external Hard drive to prevent it from spinning down
Hey guys I have a problem here.
I think I got a dying 2TB seagate expansion here, it clicks when it reads something when I just plugged it in. The problem is, when I stop reading or writing from the ...
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Can a faulty hard drive - even when it's external - cause a Blue Screen of Death upon plugin?
So, my GF's Windows 7 notebook was getting frequent BSODs and the culprits were diagnosed to be a fried RAM module and a somewhat faulty hard drive. The RAM was replaced, the hard drive too.
The old ...
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Folder that was copied from one PC to a portable HD doesn't show in another PC
I have an HTPC at my living room and it has a 3TB Western Digital portable hard-drive that stores all my media files. The HTPC is running Windows 7 32bit.
Yesterday I connected the hard drive to my ...
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Am I using an incorrect USB cable with my external HD?
I recently had to replace the caddy for my external HD. I was successfully using a 5m USB mini to USB A cable to transfer data between the HD and my laptop (Win 7 64).
The new caddy has a USB A ...
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Windows explorer displaying wrong free space
I have a 1TB* external HDD which comes out at 931GB total space on windows explorer (run as admin).
When I look at free space it lists only 183GB free with 747GB used. However, there is not this much ...
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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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External HDD unrecognized [duplicate]
I have an external IDE harddrive. I plug the USB to the PC, switch on the power and I hear that the HDD is working(no scratch, no shar noise, just a smooth hdd is what I hear). My problem is, that the ...
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How do I get an existing installation of Windows 7 working from a USB 3 external drive?
I'm attempting to copy my existing installation of Windows 7 from my work laptop to an SSD of my own, and boot from it from an external enclosure via USB 3.0. I've used the laptop's internal SATA ...
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OSX Drive plugged into Win 7 via external
A friend of mine's Apple laptop stopped booting. HDD issues. So he popped out the HDD and gave it to me to see if I could recover any files.
I've done this with PCs multiple times. Even if an HDD is ...
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External hard drive in windows 7 is not ejectable
I used diskpart to create a new partition on an external USB hard drive, now the drive is no longer ejectable.
I formatted it as exFAT, on an MBR partition using the default byte/sector allocation.
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Can an external backup drive became uninitialized on its own?
I have a brand new Toshiba 3Tb external that I used once to store by back-ups while I gave my computer a clean state, (after a couple years she was starting to lag.) After backing up, I tested the ...
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Make Windows assign the same drive letter to a certain external drive
I use external drives containing music and video that are associated with programs/players and their media libraries according to the drive letter that was assigned to the drives at the moment of the ...
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Mysterious external hard drive activity
I have two external hard drives that, when left idle for a certain amount of time, will begin a flurry of activity. So far I've been unable to find any culprits.
I've been going through the post ...
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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 JM20339 Driver for Windows 98 be installed in Windows 7?
I have an old SATA adaptor for a external hard disk drive. It uses the chip JMicro JM20339. I searched all day for a Windows 7 driver, but it seems that it doesn't exist.
The only one I found was a ...
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Can I install windows 7 on a USB Harddisk? [duplicate]
I need to install windows 7 (or windows server 2008 r2) on a USB harddisk, is it possible ?
I want to be able to select a partition on the USB drive as a possible location for installation (or ...
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Portable Drive Permisions
My computer operating Windows 7 has gone down with serious problems, I have another computer with Windows 7 (Professional). With this later one, I try to access the files from the failing computer.
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Replicate Windows 7 Backups
Like many users, I'm cautious about losing data. My primary drive uses the built-in backup utility in Windows 7 to backup onto a pair of larger mirrored drives. I want to a way to automatically ...
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How to format an external hard drive as UDF on a Mac
I have an external USB hard drive that I'd like to format to UDF for cross-compatibility with Windows and Macs. I tried exFAT, but for whatever reason, because of the block size (56KB) of the format, ...
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External hard drive broke after using on Ubuntu
I have a 2tb external harddrive which I use mainly on Windows 7. I have 2 separate hard drives in my computer, one for Windows 7 and the other for Ubuntu. My hard drive was working fine until I tried ...
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What is the reason behind windows 7 going very slow and Kaspersky not detecting a single virus?
I have ubuntu 10.04 and Windows 7 installed on my laptop. The windows 7 was working well for a few years and suddenly it started giving problem and became unbearably slow. i suspected virus and ...
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External Hard Drive does not load on boot
My external harddrive works fine except for one thing, if I put my computer to sleep or restart it, the hard drive will not load automatically and I have to unplug it, and plug it back it, for it to ...
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copying from one external hard drive to another transfer rate 4MB/s
I've got two external hard drives and I'm copying the contents from one to the other. Both are USB 3.0 interface. The transfer rate is around 4MB/s and I have achieved much higher transfer rates ...
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Memeo Instant Backup from external drive to local drive
I just got a Seagate GoFlex external drive and would like to do something which is the opposite of what most people do: I'd like to do periodic backups from the external drive to the local drive. The ...
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Share HD between laptop and Panasonic TV
I have a 1TB Western Digital USB external hard drive, which I originally wanted to use solely with my Panasonic Viera TV for recording missed programs, etc. This setup was fully functional, but I now ...
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Is an external hard drive considered a USB flash drive? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I install Windows 7 from an external hard drive?
I have a StoreJet 25M3 (USB 3.0) external hard drive. Does Windows recognize it as a USB flash drive?
I ask ...
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Accessing a Macbook Pro in Target Disk mode over Thunderbolt from Windows
I have a MacBook Pro late 2011 with Thunderbolt booted into Target Disk Mode, as well as a Gigabyte motherboard model number GA-Z77X-UP4 TH running Windows 7. The MBP has two internal disks formatted ...
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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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First the hard drive then the PC bombes out
I am not sure what has happened! I went on holiday and left with nothing wrong.
I came back, started work and overnight the external hard drive packs up! Of course I had every intention of backing it ...
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External Hard drive not accessible [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Recover harddrive data
I've got a WD 500GB external hard drive. I've been using it for over a year now but suddenly ran into this problem where neither Windows 7, nor ...
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How to partition an external hard drive?
I have an external hard drive, and I want to make it into some separate partitions.
I tried to do that using my Windows 7, but can't find how.
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Unable to open WD external hard drive
I have a 500 GB WD external drive with 3 partitions on it. When I run a disk check, the computer shuts down. After that, I can't access the single partition I have important data on. When I try to ...
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External hard-drive inaccessible for PC
I have a Seagate HD 250GB (external USB, GoFlex). It is about year old wasn't used often.
I can't see or access this disk after I connect it to my Windows 7 PC. I also tried other PCs with no luck.
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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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Can I find out when a hard disk was connected to a Windows system? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find out WHEN a usb disk was removed?
Recently someone stole my external hard drive. I suspect a friend of mine might have done that – I have access to his ...
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Ubuntu says 993GB, Windows says 930GB. Which one to beleive?
I recently purchased an external Hard Drive with 1TB if storage capacity.
The only problem here is when I'm in Windows 7, it shows that it has 930GB available but on Ubuntu it's 993GB. The HDD is ...
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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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formatting ext3 to fat32/ntfs on windows 7
In a failed attempt to install Linux Mint on an external hard drive, I damaged the disk. Now, it does not show up in the 'My Computer' folder or in Disk Management. I speculate it might have to do ...
