This tag is for questions on external hard drives.
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Can't format external hard drive (“in use”)
I'm running (via Boot Camp) Windows 7 SP1 on my 32-bit MacBook, and I'm trying to format a new Western Digital My Passport external hard drive to use NTFS. It came formatted of course but I wiped it ...
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Recover NTFS partition back without formatting
If I try to chkdsk, I get the error
Unable to unable to determine volume version and state
I'm currently running a Partition Wizard Home Edition scan on the drive and it is
finding files and ...
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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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HP EliteBook 8540w doesn't start with GPT disc attached
I have an HP EliteBook 8540w but since I attached a 4 TB external GPT disc drive, it does not start anymore.
(It freezes during the BIOS startup.)
When I detach the disc, everything works fine.
I ...
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Western Digital My Passport 1TB HDD Failed - Any last ditch things I can do?
So two days ago now my USB 2.0/3.0 external hard drive would not come up in Windows. When I plug the drive in it spins up and Windows recognizes that a USB drive was plugged in (I get the sound, but ...
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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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Increasing iMac performance with external Thunderbolt + SSD drive
I am planning to put this external Seagate GoFlex Thunderbolt Adapter with a fast SSD SATA-III driver on my iMac (Mid-2011, 12,1; which has a regular hard drive).
My idea is to make this external ...
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RunDLL ~$WT.FAT error when accessing HDD
I can't access my hard drive. When I try to do it, I get the following error:
RUnDLL, there was a problem starting ~$WT.FAT The specified module could not be found.
My computer was infected with ...
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External HDD has corrupted NTFS, can't be mounted on windows. How can I fix it on linux? [duplicate]
I'm testing my friends external HDD, which can't be accessed on Windows 7 - it installs as USB device, but does not mount. On linux, SMART readings show, that the disk has too many bad sectors, but I ...
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Customize action when button is pressed on an external harddrive
I have a Transcend StoreJet external harddrive. It has a button on the outer shell which is used for synchronizing folders and files when it is pressed. There is a software that enables this function. ...
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Internal SATA hard disk to USB 2.0
I have 3 internal SATA HDD's - 500GB, 1 TB, 2TB respectively.
I am wondering whether it is possible/are there any devices that I can use in which I can plug in any of my HDD and make it work. Please ...
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USB mouse pointer lags when external HD is plugged in
So I just discovered the cause of my mouse's "random" lagging. I have a Microsoft 3500 USB mouse and a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 500 GB external hard drive. When the former is plugged in, everything is ...
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Trying to rescue data from WD My Book Studio II, raid 0
For a friend I'm trying to recover data from a Western Digital My Book Studio II external disk drive enclosure in raid 0 mode.
At first I tried to rescue the data under OSX, the OS used by the ...
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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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How to set an external hard drive to not be bootable?
When I connect my external hard drive to my PC, it tries to boot from it but is unable to do so because there is no OS installed. And rightly so, I only want to use it for dumb storage.
How can I set ...
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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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How to turn off USB drive activity light on Ubuntu 12.10?
I just loaded ubuntu 12.10 and after I have copied from the USB drive and I eject it the light on my USB drive or the External drive is still on(the blue activity light in USB drive).
I do not want ...
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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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Is it possible to use a laptop as an external storage device?
I want to use my laptop as an external storage device with my PC. Is this possible? Is there a way to keep a backup of a file on my laptop hard drive and is there any software that can keep the backup ...
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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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What is the exact capacity of 1000GB HDD?
1 GiB = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 bytes
1 GB = 1000 * 1000 * 1000 bytes
That is easy!
I don't want to talk about this!
I have laptop which should have (according to seller) 1000 GB. That is 1000 000 000 ...
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External hard drive unplugged while running iTunes…Corrupted files
I have nearly 2TB of Movies and TV Shows copied to iTunes on an external hard drive. Last night, I was unplugging a cord behind my desk and I accidentally unplugged my HD. Well, when I plugged it back ...
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What is the tolerable magnetic field (in Tesla) for a hard disk?
I was wondering what would be the safest magnetic field for a hard drive so that the data inside it is safe and not wiped off?
For example I have a 2.1 home theatre system and when I take my android ...
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Hard drive fell to the floor
I have recently bought a 2 TB Seagate external drive. Sadly, it was the kind that also needs a power cord, not just a USB cable and my foot got tangled in those cables and the drive flew off the desk ...
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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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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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2.5 inch vs. 3.5 inch drive reliability [closed]
A few days ago I started getting the famous "Spinning Beach Balls" when read/writing to disk on my Mac (this isn't really a Mac specific question but it will refer to Mac tools, FWIW). In any case I ...
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Can't locate files copied to an external hard drive
I recently purchased a 1TB Western Digital portable external hardrive. I copied many of our desktop's files over to the drive (word processing files, excel files, pictures and music tracks - mostly ...
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Western Digital Passport HDD 1TB
I have a 1TB Western digital and all of a sudden it stopped being recognized by my pc( I was trying to install drivers for my laptop from the drive), tried different ports and even PCs. But nothing ...
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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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SAS 15,000rpm RAID 0 slower than external eSATA single 7200rpm drive. Why?
I've got two internal 135GB SAS drives in a RAID 0 array making a 270GB logical volume talking to my Dell Precission T5500 motherboard via a Dell supplied SAS 6iR controller.
Writing Speed
I SaveAs ...
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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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How to mount an external drive (in fuseblk) as ext4 file system?
I bought a 3TB WD Elements external hard drive. Now I want to mount it to my Ubuntu server (which runs inside WinXP/VMware), so that I can move Mysql database to it.
It was auto-mounted under ...
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Can storing my HDDs airtight damage them in anyway?
I have lost many electronics that I keep unused for a long time before due to the near sea (high humidity area) area that I live in. I learned this the hard way, so in order to protect hard drives ...
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What could I use to recover lost/damaged files from a Mac hard drive? [closed]
We frequently use the software GetDataBack (for FAT32 and for NTFS) to recover overwritten or lost files, sometimes from a faulty hard drive.
But is there something like this for Mac hard drives? ...
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All the files on my external drive have been replaced by a single shortcut which can no longer be opened
Here is what happened after I used Malwarebytes Anti-Malware:
Before I used Malwarebytes Anti-Malware I could still open that shortcut. I know that a virus made that shortcut and so I tried to ...
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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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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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How to use my new external HD for Time Machine backup
I use Mac OS X 10.6.8. I have a brand new external portable hard disk, a Seagate 1 TB, formatted as NTFS. I want to use it as backup drive for Time Machine.
When I open Time Machine, it does not ...
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Which external USB drives work with Windows 8 Storage Spaces?
First, a bit of background:
Microsoft brags about how the new Windows 8 Storage Spaces support any interface (including USB) for attaching drives to add to a Storage Pool:
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How to ensure longevity of hard disks
I have a few external hard disks (two 1.5 TB ones - with the same data on them for redundancy and two 3 TB ones - ditto) on which I have stored lots of photographs and home movies. I want to do a ask ...
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External hard disk not working in windows 8
I am unable to access my external hard disk of seagate in windows 8.
It is a company laptop and i am logging from admin account.
Model: HP (Elite Book 8470P)
I can see both drives when ever i plug ...
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Windows 8: Cannot access external drives. “Location is not available” “Access is Denied”
Background Information
Our office is running a pilot of Windows 8 on a 100 machines.
As I've been using Windows 8 at home since the Consumer Preview, I put my name into the pilot. My laptop was due ...
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External 1 TB HDD needs 42 hours to reformat. Halfway through, my system crashed. Thoughts? [closed]
I have an external Samsung USB 3.0 1 TB HDD on Windows XP. It needs 42 hours to reformat. Halfway through, my system crashed.
Why would it take so long?
Could the system freeze (a hard crash – I had ...
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OS X installation on an external HDD
I am planning to install a second OS X on an external HDD, I was wondering when I boot in external HDD will it in any ways affect my first OS X installation? Will it have the permissions to write or ...
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Optibay drive ejects after 10 minutes
I have replaced my optical drive in Macbook Pro mid 2012 with Optibay disk - Hitachi Travelstar 5K1000 1TB internal harddrive (6,4 cm (2,5 inch), 5400rpm, SATA III). I have formatted it to Mac OS ...
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USB 3 drive not mounting when TRIM enabled
A bought a brand new SSD and installed it into my 2012 macbook pro. I enabled TRIM support right after that and realized that my external usb 3 drive is no longer mounted. When I disable the trim ...
