This tag is for questions on external hard drives.
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External hard drive. USB Device Not Recognized
After not-safety external hard drive extracting I get USB Device Not Recognized error. How can I recover?
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Hard drive uninitialized when switching enclosure
I have a 3TB SATA drive which I've been using in an external USB enclosure. Today I upgraded the enclosure in order to take advantage of USB 3.0 speeds. However, in this enclosure I am unable to ...
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What power cord does a WD16001032 hard drive use?
I have a Western Digital 160GB My Book USB external hard drive (WD16001032), but I can't find its power cord (or, at least, figure out which one it is in my box of cords).
It might be that only one ...
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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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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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Cross-platform usable filesystem with large file support
What is the best filesystem to use cross-platform (Linux, Windows, OS X) which supports disk sizes of at least 2TB and file sizes >4GB?
I'm planning to use it on a USB drive on different computers.
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Ubuntu - Automatically mount external drives to /media/LABEL on boot without a user logged in?
This question is similar, but kind of the opposite of what I want. I want external USB drives to be mounted automatically at boot, without anyone logged in, to locations like /media/<label>.
I ...
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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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Corrupted NTFS Drive showing multiple unallocated partitions
My external hdd with a single NTFS partition was accidentaly plugged out (kids!)... and is now corrupted.
Iv tried running ntfsfix - with no luck - output below..
When I look at the disk under disk ...
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If my eSATA drive (in case) works with 1 USB power, do I need both?
I'm using a 2.5" SATA disk, via an enclosure for eSATA on my laptop.
It came with a USB powered adapter, which has two USB ends.
Since I don't have an eSATAp port, I need the power from the USB ...
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Recovering damaged external hard disk by installing internally
I had a 1TB Western Digital (My book series) 3.5" USB3. One day, the SATA to USB3 converter board was damaged and has not worked since.
I decided to open the cover and use the HDD as an internal ...
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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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USB Hard drive mounting as Read-Only
I've been having a problem with my Raspberry Pi: it keeps mounting my USB hard drive as read-only. I've been mounting it with sudo mount -t ntfs -o umask=000 /dev/sda1 "/media/My Book" but for some ...
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Booting Linux from USB 3.0 External Hard Drive [duplicate]
When I boot my computer, in the boot manager, I have the option to click "Windows 7" (my default OS).
When my External Hard Drive is plugged in to USB 2.0, it boots Linux (when I click on "Windows ...
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Recovered Files with TestDisk, but File Names and Folder Structure is Bad
I used TestDisk to recover files from an internal hard drive which I connected externally to another PC. With PhotoRec all the file names are wrong and the original folder structure doesn't exist.
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How can I find out how many hours my external WD hard drive slept over night?
Under Win OS, a user can specify sleep policy for HDD. e.g. sleep after 240 minutes.
If a user wants to find out the impact of antivirus and other background processes, how many hours did the HDD ...
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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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How to stop Windows from needlessly requesting to format external hard drive?
I have Windows 7. My Freegate external hard drive runs via a Belkin 4-way USB hub shared with my Epson printer/copier. When printing, I am continually asked to format the drive. It contains 30 days ...
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External HDD incorrectly detected as internal - how change to enable hot swap/eject?
I have
win 7 x64 Home Prem.
The HDD is a seagate barracuda, 7200.7 ST3120827AS. 3.5", Serial: 3ms006n6, Firmware: 3.42 (no further updates)
NexStar CX External case (drivers installed).
I have ...
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Repair or Recover data from portable external hard drive?
I accidentally dropped my 500gb Bufallo Ministation portable hard drive on the ground. It was still sorta working, just EXTREMELY slowly. I then ran the mac hard drive repair. It ran for about 5 ...
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Can I run Windows 8 dual boot on a mac using an external drive instead of having both OS's on the internal drive
Basically, I want to keep Mountain Lion on my MacBook Pro's hard drive only, I don't want to partition the drive to install Windows 8. I'm already using Win7 and WinXP in Parallels Desktop ...
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What to do with an NTFS external hard drive that can be read on Linux but not Windows?
My USB external hard drive with NTFS format works just fine on Ubuntu Linux, but when I boot the same machine as Windows Vista, it no longer recognizes the drive (it used to work fine on Windows). ...
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How to get write access on External Hard Disc (USB) [duplicate]
On my computer because of domain level group policy, i can read/copy content from external hard drives(USB) but, i don't have rights to write content to external hard drive.
Can you please tell me ...
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Why is my 500GB hdd not readable after dd'ed on a different 500GB hdd?
Accidentally formatted an important external 500GB hdd yesterday. Not an SDD, 2.5".
(Quick) formatting occured while installing windows xp on it. I had the wrong usb drive plugged in. ~600MB are ...
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External HDD not showing in explorer, only have “Delete Volume” in Disk Management
my external hard disk is not showing up in Explorer. In Disk Management, all of the options are grayed out except for "Delete Volume".
I tried right-clicking on the Disk and selecting "Convert to ...
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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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USB hard drive with 2 connectors; can I plug one into the wall for power?
I've got a USB 2.0 hard drive enclosure which came with a cable with 2 plugs on it. I know that this is done so that it can draw more power if necessary.
If the hard drive can't draw enough power ...
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External Mac harddrive read errors
I have an external drive (500gb WD Passport) with some data on that I would like to access. The disk is formated with Mac OS Extended (journaled, case sensitive), ignoring file ownership.
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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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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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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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Why SMART is passing while it indicates failure for RAW read error rate?
I have an external USB disk (WD Elements Caviar Green 2 To, WD20EADS-00W4B0) that started to fail (slow reads). My system logs didn't show anything unusual, this definitely indicates some supposedly ...
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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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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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Reading files from external HDD is very slow
I have here an external HDD (closed cage). Now the drive or the controller seems to have a problem. If I connect the drive via eSata the hard disk indicator (LED) is lighting up all the time. Normally ...
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Slow Transfer Speed Between USB 3.0 Devices
I have an SSD installed, and when I'm transferring to or from an external HDD via USB 3.0 I get speeds of upwards 100mb/s.
However if I'm transferring between 2 external HDDs both on 3.0 I get a ...
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How to backup on a external hard drive that is not always connected?
I am looking for a backup software that detects if my USB-Hard drive is connected and then starts a backup.
Windows 7 can backup on external hard drive, but if the hard drive is not connected it just ...
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Ejecting one drive locks disk utility
I have two external USB drives connected to my mac. If I use Disk Utility to eject one then Disk Utility locks-up until the external drive wakes from hibernation (unparks, spins up). Why?
This is ...
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Networking an external hard drive
Hi I want to buy an external hard drive for my macbook but I was wondering if it is possible to connect my external hard drive to a network. the external hard drive is: SEAGATE BACKUP PLUS DESKTOP 4TB ...
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My external HD turned to RAW - How to recover my data?
I have an external HD (WD MyBook Essentials) with all of my backups (1TB)
for some unknown reason, when I try to connect the drive (Tried several interfaces: eSATA/plugged it into my PC/USB)
I get ...
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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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How much time until an unused hard drive loses its data?
Do you guys know how much time needs to pass until the data stored on a hard drive starts to degrade?
To keep the data intact for long periods of time, I heard you need to periodically rewrite it on ...
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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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What kind of connector is this (WD Elements external HD opened)
I opened my WD elements in the hope of finding a SATA disk with a removable SATA-USB adaptor, but unfortunately it appears the USB is soldered on the board, and there's no SATA connector. There is, ...
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Setting up a Networked External Drive with different filesystems
everybody and thank you for taking the time to read this. I have an external hard drive with partitions for Time Machine (HFS+), Linux storage (Ext4), Swap Storage (Fat32), and Windows Storage (NTFS). ...
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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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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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Autoplay for USB drive keeps popping up
I have a Seagate external 2TB USB drive that when I leave it plugged in, the Autoplay dialog asking what to do with the drive pops up about once every 30-60 minutes. No matter how many times I tell ...
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Installing Windows 8 onto an external hdd without affecting the MBR
I wish to install Windows 8 on a laptop's external USB HDD.
Is this the best and safest way to do it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo27iz1Q3x8
