This tag is for questions on external hard drives.
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No power save on external hard drive - How to implement?
I recently bought a new 3.5" USB external hard drive which I thought had a power save feature on it, but it turns out that it doesn't. So whether it's being used or not, it spins, which wouldn't be a ...
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Arch Linux on an external HDD GPT-Partitioned
I have an Alienware M14x-R1 and had an Arch Linux System installed on its 750Gb HDD, everything working fine, GPT-partitions (on BIOS, not EFI) and GRUB bootloader.
Then I bought a new Corsair SSD, ...
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Seagate external hard disk does not power down
When my computer is off, this external hard disk remains on, consuming power. It is permanently warm, and inside components are active (perhaps the fan?).
I have a UPS for the system so a complete ...
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Hard Drive Caddy corrupting drives
Something very funny is going on with my External Hard drive Caddy. I am running Linux Mint 14.
I had a laptop breakdown just before Christmas, removed the drive and placed it into a 2.5" SATA ...
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External HD Hitachi XL1000 doesn't work
I have an External HDD Hitachi XL1000. I use it on Debian Wheezy and Windows 7, both worked perfectly. After backing up my files to format Win7 PC, the HD don't work anymore.
When I plug in the ...
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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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mounting a multi-drive USB enclosure in linux
I have a OWC Mercury Elite 2-bay USB drive enclosure (OWCMEPT934AL2C). I have it set on "individual" settings for the disks, so the 2 disks show up as two separate drives on my Mac (no raid, or ...
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Windows can't see the external exFAT partition but Mac OSX Can
I have a 2TB external hard drive that was pre formatted as one giant NTFS partition. I used windows 7 disk utility to partition it into two 1TB partitions and then formatted as FAT.
The formatting ...
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External hard drive won't mount on Mac
Anyone had problems mounting an external hard drive on a mac? It shows up (dimmed) in disk utility and all is fine according to first aid, but it just refuses to mount. It simply says "The disk My ...
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MacOSX: Truecrypt partition on HDDs with larger sector size than 512 bytes
I have an external USB 3.0 HDD which uses a sector size larger than 512 bytes (4kB). In Linux, I created a truecrypt encrypted partition on it, which works fine on any Linux or Windows Computer. ...
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Setting up two external USB hard drive as RAID 1
Is this possible in Windows 7? I know I can periodically sync my files using software like SyncBack but I'm looking for mirroring on the fly. Is there a similar method like RAID 1 that can achieve ...
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WD SmartWare Drive Unlock, Western Digital?
I bought a 1TB Western Digital (USB3) some days ago.
I was using it without any problems, but now whenever I attach it to my laptop USB, the following window up and I can't use it at all.
The Drive ...
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Force unmount on OS X Lion
I have a WD External hard drive that I believe is defective. Every now and then it simply hangs and its unresponsiveness makes finder stop responding. It will not reset itself until I disconnect the ...
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Best external USB drive with transparent Raid-1 support
I am in the market for a new NAS/backup system, and came across the interesting TonidoPlug
.
My last USB external drive (SimpleTech SimpleDrive 1TB) has met its demise, and so I'm trying to figure ...
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Problem detecting external hdd on ubuntu
I have two HDD on my Ubuntu machine. One is a Maxtor 320Gb and the other is a Verbatim 1.5Tb. While it automatically recognizes the first one as sdb1 it doesn't recognize the latter. I can't see it on ...
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Ubuntu cannot see portable hdd with 2 partitions
I don't know why but Ubuntu v9.10 isn't showing up one of it's partitions in my portable HDD.
Only the 2nd partition is shown, and I can't find the 1st one.
What might be a solution to this?
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Internal IDE HDD used as external w/ usb adapter and suddenly 2 partitions were gone
I was searching through the internet trying to solve this problem and saw an answer in this site and it looked you really now about this subject. Of all the other webs I checked, this one seemed that ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Copied C drive contents to external HDD, half of the content is not there, but content size says otherwise
I copied my C drive onto an external HDD. The folder which holds this shows that it has about 20GB of data.
However, when I open the folder, and check the sum of all contents, it only adds up to about ...
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Seagate External USB 3.0 HDD doesn't register when connected?
I've got a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk 2TB External USB 3.0/2.0 Hard Drive that I use for backups.
I previously had issues with USB ports not supplying sufficient power to the drive, but that was ...
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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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copying a large video file from iPhone to external hard drive hangs
I connected my iPhone 4S as well as my Toshiba external hard drive to my Dell Windows 7 laptop. For relatively small files I can use Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V to copy directly from the iPhone to the external ...
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Seagate 3TB hard drive loses format information
I have a Windows 7x64 Ultimate, 6 GB memory, 1 TB HD. 3TB Barracuda XT HDD. The HDD is installed on a StarTech 4 bays external enclosure
I had troubles so I converted to a GPT, created 1 partition and ...
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Resume interrupted multiple-file disk images created with dd?
This is the effort to recover a failed hard drive containing several important research works. To sum up: with the method I tried (described below) I could not resume failed multiple images created ...
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Sleeping external hard drive slows down program search in Windows 7
I am running Windows 7 and have a couple of external hard drives attached via USB. The external hard drives are configured to spin down when not used for a while.
The downside of this is that when 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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Toshiba External Hard Drive freezes computer
I bought a Toshiba Canvio Basics E05A032BAU2XK Portable External 320GB 2.5 Hard Drive: My computer has two Os's on it Win7 and Win XP. I need both. The main one I use is XP. When booting my computer ...
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How to format External Western Digital hard disk when all NTFS boot sectors cannot be written to
I want to format my external hard drive which is a Western Digital 500GB, through cmd dos command. But it fails because all NTFS boot sectors are not writable. Here are the commands I gave and what I ...
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1TB ext. HDD suddenly stops working - does not show up on desktop - Lion OS X
I'm really annoyed right now. I brought this 1TB external HDD (brand: WD elements) about 3-4 days ago. I put two partitions onto it, one Mac journal partition (for Mac) and one for PC to be able to be ...
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Folders Of External Hard Drive being are behaved like Protected Operating system Files
Some days ago I mounted my External Hard Drive to the Friend's Laptop (WinXP), Then all Folders on the Hard's root have been hidden (on all Windows Versions).therefore to access them you should know ...
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Disable External Wester Digital MyBook from spinning Down
I have this external hard drive for my cloud; and it constantly spins down. I do want it to do so. How do I disable this at the hardware level? I am able to disable this on my seagate drives at the ...
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Will Thermaltake Muse R-Duo Raid reset lose data?
I have a Thermaltake Muse R-Duo Raid chassis with two drives installed and DIP switches set to Raid-1. However, only the left lights are lighting up and I have data on the drive. I'm guessing it is ...
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Windows 7 won't show SATA Hard Drive in My Computer
I know this is a duplicate, but please don't delete it. I am stuck and do not have the option to assign a drive letter. When I right click on the drive that option is grayed out.
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How can I connect my LG env 2 cell phone to XP to explore it like an external drive?
Sorry about the long descriptive title
So I got a new phone and I was wanting to transfer some of the stuff off of my old LG env 2 cell phone to my computer. I have the usb cable but I'm not sure how ...
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Move itunes and iphoto library to external hard disk
I'm running out of space on my MacBook Pro and would like to move my itunes and iphoto library to an external hard disk.
What are the steps involved?
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Install Ubuntu 10.04 On An Expresscard Drive On MBP
I have a macbook pro (4,1) and an external SSD that is in my expresscard slot on my macbook pro. I would like to install Ubuntu 10.04 on the SSD and be able to boot into it from my macbook pro ...
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.AVI file plays to a point, but can't be copied (USB hard drive)
I have an .avi file (DVD encoded to MPEG4/DIVX ACS) that has a problem - or maybe it's the disk. The file is on a hard drive that I am accessing via a USB adapter. I can't copy the file to my local ...
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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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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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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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Mount external HDD created on Toshiba Regza TV from PC
I created a HDD from my Regza TV (E-Sata) and put some videos on it but it is not recognized / impossible to mount in Windows 7.
Is there a way to mount it from Windows?
Would it be better to use ...
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Why does my USB hdd returns SG_IO: bad/missing sense data?
I am able to boot and run commands from external USB hdd; the message in question appears for about 45 seconds then booting continues. GRUB2 is installed on internal HDD. When choosing to boot ...
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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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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 ...
