This tag is for questions on external hard drives.
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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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Dual boot drive via USB3, is it a good idea?
I would like to have a dual-boot laptop, but there is not enough space on my internal hard drive.
In terms of performance, is it possible and a good idea to have an external system installed on an ...
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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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How to trigger a script when unmounting a hard drive or restarting?
I've recently installed NTFS-3G through Homebrew in order to access NTFS drives from OSX. There's a slight problem with it: after unmounting the drive, if you take a look at /Volumes/, you can still ...
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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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What would happen if only one of the Y-Cable usb connectors is connected?
I own an external HDD and it is shipped with a USB 3 Y-Cable, (pictured below).
I know that the auxiliary branch is to provide sufficient power for the device to work properly. My question is what ...
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Configure western digital essential 3TB to work with boxee box
I have a new western digital "my book elements" 3TB external harddrive. When I plug it in via USB to my boxee box it is not recognized.
Based on feedback from boxee forums I have tried:
GPT ...
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Backup data from a faulty external hard disk
I'm using a 1TB USB 3.0 HDD from Western Digital. Since last month, the hdd has been so slow that it takes almost 30 minutes for my laptop to recognize the device! Opening a folder is a 10 minute ...
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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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External drive corrupted or inaccessible in Windows XP, but works on Linux
Today I connected my Western Digital 1 TB HDD to my Windows XP system and discovered that in Explorer, its name was changed from My Passport to Local Disk K which shows 0 KB and is inaccessible.
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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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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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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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Can't do anything with Ext. HDD, “.Trashes” is probably the boogyman. (On a MAC!)
I bought a external Harddrive today, A Samsung. But I'm not able to do anything with it A few notes on that.
I can't put anything on the harddrive. It keeps on 'preparing copying
files'
I can ...
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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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Broken external hard drive [closed]
My external hard drive fell on the floor. The exit on the hard drive where the USB wire is attached snapped off, so I can't get any power to it!
Do you know of any companies who receives broken ...
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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 ...
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Drive not detected in Windows 7 but Ubuntu detects it
I recently bought a Seagate Expansion 3TB (STBV3000300) external hard drive and tried running it on my computer with Windows 7 installed on it. It is not being detected by the computer. I tried ...
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How determine when last time usb hard drive was plugged in?
I have usb hard drive formatted in exFAT which last time was plugged in Windows 7.
Now I'm on OSX, but it's not so important..
- is there way to figure out when it was last plugged in ?
wikipedia ...
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Clicks or ticks every minute when HDD is idle [duplicate]
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Clicks or ticks every minute when HDD is idle
My HDD is a My passport... It's 2 weeks old. I hear this tick or click followed by another one about 8-9 secs later, and ...
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New Hard Drive beeps once when started
I just bought a new SATA hard drive (the Samsung HN-M101MBB) and connected it to my pc via a external drive reader (the Sharkoon Quickport), when I turned the docking station power on the hard drive ...
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HD sectors pending increasing very quickly. time to scrap?
Yesterday my ext HD (500 GB capacity) was having problems so I looked at its SMART data and it showed 20 sectors pending (and dozens reallocated). I spent the day running a chkdsk /r and it did fix ...
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Hard Drive not recognised by BIOS and no visible damage on PCB
An external IDE harddrive that I have has recently stopped working quite suddenly, when tried in other computers it is not even recognised by the BIOS or by a Linux recovery disk. I assumed that the ...
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HD has one bad file that it won't fix
there is one particular file that my external hard drive always freezes on when I try to read. Since I know a bit about HDs and RAID, I would have thought it should try to automatically perform error ...
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How to automatically take daily HDD backup?
I think my HDD might have crashed. I don't want to lose data if this happens again. I have dual boot Windows/Ubuntu system. What is the best way to backup data and other software settings in Ubuntu? I ...
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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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Repair BAD Sectors or Buy a new HDD? [closed]
I have a Seagate internal hard disk drive. I recently opened up my laptop [Dell Inspiron N5010] [Warranty has expired], cleaned it and it worked normally after waking up from hibernation. However, ...
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copy from NTFS to exFAT but “size on disk very” is very bigger than “size”
I tried to backup from my NTFS external hard drive to new exFAT external hard drive when my copy finished I saw that I have very little free space remained. I checked my file size and I saw that the ...
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How to set permissions on external hard drive in Windows 7
How do I set permissions/ownership on my external USB hard drive in Windows 7 in such a way that I have write access to it at any Windows 7 machine?
Current situation is quite strange to me - the ...
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WD My passport space problems
I have a new MY Passport hard drive 1 TB, Model: WDBBEP0010BBk-EESN.
I checked the properties of the hard drive when I first plugged it in, the used space was 320 MB, though the total size of the data ...
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iTunes redirecting music location to 'localhost'
I store my music (thousands of tracks) on an external hard drive, and every so often iTunes adds /localhost/ to the file extension, so it cannot find the original file.
I know I can delete the music ...
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Windows 7 - cannot access my own external disk
I use Windows 7 Home Premium and external USB disk with NTFS partition.
I cannot write-access the my own files on it, even as a member of Admnistrators group!
Is there any way how to go around this ...
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How to bypass WD external HDD hardware lock?
I have a Western Digital MyBook Essential 2TB 3.0 USB external HDD which I've set a password a long time ago. I was using the same windows and I've tried to remove the password.I had access to the ...
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External Hard Drive reformatting and data
I have an 100Gb external HD with bunch of stuff that was originally formatted to windows XP.
I now have a mac and want to re-format the external to work with my Mac but dont want to lose the valuable ...
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Is there a specific Asus RT-N56U External HDD Format?
Tonight I setup my new Asus RT-n56u dual-band router. I love the thing. I can successfuly connect my two external HDD enclosure (containing 2x1TB drives) to the router. Unfortunately the router only ...
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Windows 7 rMBP external USB hard drive
I installed windows 7 on an external harddrive on a rMBP using the method described here:
http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/win7onusb
It was booting well the until I installed the Bootcamp drivers. ...
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How to fix external HDD bad-sector?
I can access the HDD, and I can copy/cut/paste files, until I reach some place in the HDD (I think around the 60GB mark), and I there are also bad sectors at other places.
HDD Regenerator didn't ...
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External HDD is always in use when trying to safely remove
I have a WD 1TB Elements external hard drive and every time I use the Windows 7 "safely remove" feature, it gives me a dialog telling that a process is using the disk.
Using Sysinternals Process ...
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Can a loop mount a partition that is on the device I will be mounting from?
For example: I have an external HDD and wish to mount the "backup data" partition so that it appears as a separate device, just for coolness.
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Moving an external hard drive while running
I mean physically moving the drive around. I've never dealt with external hard drives before. Just plugged this wd mypassport to test the transfer rate. At one point I 'safely ejected' the drive. A ...
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External HDD 1 Terabyte - exFAT or NTFS [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why should I use exFAT over NTFS on removable media?
So yeah, i'm looking for the best/FASTEST/SAFEST File System known..My OS is Windows 7 (possibly Windows 8 Pro in ...
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Access denied to external USB disk; update access rights fails in Windows 8
I use to work with 2 laptops (Windows vista and Windows 7), my work files being on an external usb disk. My oldest laptop broke down, so I bought a new one. I had no option other than take Windows 8. ...
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How to delete undeletable long-filename file from HD?
I have 2 files from internet saved pages that have an extremely long name in my external HD. I can't delete those. I tried schedule deletion on boot but it didn't work. Any idea?
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How do I recover data from a HD? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I recover lost/inacessible data from my storage device?
Today I tried to read an external HD, and it was dead. The only way it could be re-detected by the system ...
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Lost HDD partition to clean command, testdisk unresponsive
I accidentally cleaned my external HDD by the clean command in Diskpart and got a full sized heart attack after that. I did some research and I have tried a number of tools already. To name a few:
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WD Passport Won't Mount
My WD Passport won't mount. However, it turns on when plugged into my macbook and doesn't make any strange noises. It took a small fall (just a few inches and it was on my couch) and I'm very ...
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Why is my portable WD My Passport drive not recognized?
My Western Digital My Passport portable drive is not recognized in OS X. It used to be recognized, but not anymore. It does not appear in /Volumes.
The hard drive is recognized by a Linux machine. I ...
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External HDD as bootable device
My laptop's internal HDD has crashed so I have ordered for a new one. The company authorities said they will be delivering it within one week and I had a very urgent work to be done.
I have an ...
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Toshiba external hard drive is read-only on MacBook [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to Copy Mac files to external NTFS hard drive?
I have a Toshiba external hard drive that works fine when connected to my Dell Windows 7 laptop and also to my Ubuntu ...
