Questions tagged [external-hard-drive]
A hard drive designed to be connected to a computer via an external interface such as USB, eSATA, Thunderbolt, or IEEE 1394.
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Copying from External Hard Drive problems
I am trying to copy some files from my External Hard Drive back onto my PC using Windows 7.
Some files copy with no error or issue, but there are a few files that refuse to copy and I get a cannot ...
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Mac OS X - Problems with file permission into NTFS usb drive
I can read/write files within an NTFS external USB drive.
I have some problems with large files like AVI/MKV stored on an NTFS external drive. Those files appears greyed into Finder and, always using ...
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Windows Server 2003 won't let me reformat a 2TB USB drive
I have two Hitachi XL2000 2TB external drives for nightly backups of a Windows 2003 server. BackupAssist recommends formatting the drives as NTFS, which was done with no problem when I purchased the ...
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Is there a sort of SVN for files from laptop and external HD?
I have a collection of files on laptop, with many folder and subfolders.
At the same time, I'd like to do a backup of this collection on my external HD.
But browse both path every time is ...
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Seagate barracuda 2TB drive not loading/freezing system
A day ago, the drive would fail to copy certain files and had thought that this was a problem of the OS; later however, the system would only recognize the drive at certain times and so had to ...
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Western Digital external drive set to read only?
I have a Western Digital Passport drive which I bought for using with my Windows Vista machine - however I now use it with OS X, but for some reason I cannot delete files off the drive. When I GetInfo ...
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What to do with a USB hard drive that is not recognized by any computer
I have a USB HDD that was disconnected from a computer in an improper way. Since than, connecting this disk to any computer has almost no effect: the only thing that changes is the HDD's blue LED ...
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WD My Book on Windows 7 disappears after a certain amount of time
Recently (<2 weeks) bought a WD My Book 2TB USB3 external HDD. After a seemingly random amount of time, when not in use, the drive will disappear.
I have checked under computer management -> disk ...
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Reuse drive after it's been in a Drobo
I have a Drobo 4-bay (2nd generation) which was originally filled with 1 TB drives. Over time, I've replaced the 1 TB drives with 2 TB drives, and now I want to re-use one of the 1 TB drives for ...
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NTFS and FAT32 Drive not Writable
I am using Mac OS X 10.3.3+, and an external USB drive. I have partitioned the drive into the following:
200gb - NTFS
32gb - FAT32
8GB - NTFS
40 - NTFS
This takes up the entire drive. When I connect ...
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How to install Windows 7, Windows XP and Ubuntu to an external hard drive from a Mac?
I have Macbook Pro. I have a portable USB hard drive and I want to install
Windows 7
Windows XP
Ubuntu
on that portable hard drive.
Does anybody know how to install all three operating systems on ...
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How do I password protect an external-hard-drive? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Password Protecting Partitions on an External Hard Drive
Yesterday I bought an external hard drive, an ADATA 640 GB superior sh 93, but it does not include any hardware or ...
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Install Windows 7 from an external hard drive
How do you install Windows 7 from an external hard drive?
I don't have a DVD ROM drive, so I copied my Windows 7 DVD (which is bootable) onto an external hard drive from another PC. However after ...
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Corrupt File on External HDD
I have an 1.5TB WD External HDD, which I purchased in December 2010. Every few weeks, Windows stops being able to read it, and I have to fix it with a chkdsk /f. Now this is a little annoying, but not ...
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How to power a 3.5in drive from a laptop?
I have an Asus S96S and the screen went bad. So i want to make it a desktop.
I want to add a nice big hard disk thats relativley cheap. I don't want to use external power.
So basic question is, where ...
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Change default drive letter assignment
I have a server running SBS 2011, and we have a rotating disk backup solution using Comodo Backup. The backup is configured to back up to the H:, however, two of our five disks ALWAYS have a drive ...
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How to "join" two partitions
I have a laptop hard drive that I'm using now as an external USB hard drive.
The drive has two partitions - I don't want this configuration and only want one partition. How can I join the partitions ...
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External-Harddisk drive couldn't run unless in safe mode
This is the strangest thing ever happened to me...
I have an external harddisk drive (ext-HDD), bought around 2 years ago (don't know whether this is an important issue or not).
Here, I have a video ...
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How to mount and unmount hard drives under Windows (the unix way)
On my work computer I have two USB hard drives that I use rarely. They have a power save mode that sends them into sleep after a couple of minutes of them being idle.
Whenever I open a context menu ...
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Installing Linux to external hard drive without burning a CD
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I'm at a loss for where my USB sticks/CDs are. I want to install Linux on an external hard drive connected via USB without burning a CD/finding a flash drive.
This seems like it would be ...
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Windows Won't Recognize More Than One USB Storage Device
Recently my Dell Studio 1550 laptop running Windows 7 x64 has started having problems with USB devices. I have two devices I typically connect: a Western Digital external HD and a SanDisk compact ...
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WD mybook Windows with Mac partition over the top. Is the windows information lost?
This is the worst technological day of my life, First my macbooks harddrive crashes. I try to use my friends Windows formatted hard drive (1.1TB used of 2TB) to make a mac partition to backup an image ...
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What is the Seagate GO Flex External HDD standard and how does it differ from USB? [closed]
I am looking at the specs for seagate 1 TB 2.5" external hdds. I see there are two variants of external hdd. One says USB expansion another is Go Flex. What are the technical differences between these ...
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Is a USB Key an SSD? [duplicate]
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Why are USB flash drives so much slower than solid-state drives?
Hello, i was reading this article: http://www.pcworld.fr/2011/06/06/materiel/stockage/super-talent-usb-3-0-...
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Formatting : The volume is too big for FAT32
Formatting an external 500GB HDD took almost >6 hours that I started like:
D:\>format /FS:fat32 F:
The type of the file system is EXFAT.
The new file system is FAT32.
Enter current volume label ...
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Low Voltage USB Ports and USB External HDD Problem
I'm facing a low power USB port issue on my desktop PC. I have a USB 2.5" external harddrive and it does not work with any of the USB ports on the computer case except for one.
Also if I use a ...
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Where did my backup folder go on my external drive?
I've been successfully using a Seagate FreeAgent Go to backup my files for some time now.
Last night I moved a folder to this drive and may have unplugged it before safely ejecting it from Windows. ...
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Virtual Machines + External Drives
I'm currently testing a setup with a Macbook Pro, using a VMWare Fusion Windows 7 VM from an external USB drive. The external drive is 7200rpm but is a tad slow. I would like to know if getting a ...
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"You need to format your disk in drive X" message on my external hard drive
I have an external hard drive which worked fine and it is my backup harddrive. There are also some files on it that I would really want to keep. It's a 400GB Freecom drive in FAT32.
All of a sudden, ...
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Backing Up Whole System Partition Onto External Source That Will Be Used As Spare System Partition
I am not talking about backing up to 1 file. I am talking about making exact copy of system partition on auxiliary external source that will be used as direct boot and not restoration source in case ...
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How To Backup System To External Source And Then Use Boot From It?
I know Windows 7 has built-in backup facility and i also am familiar with 2BrightSparks' SyncBackSE utility.
I have questions about backing up sensitive information to external source and booting ...
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Photoshop, please let go of my hard drive!
For some reason Photoshop is preventing me from ejecting my external hard drives.
None of the drives are set as a scratch disk
No files are even open. This is on a MacBook Pro, Photoshop CS5 and an ...
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Can daisy chained external hard drives all be bus powered?
Say I have two (or even more!) Firewire 800 bus powered external hard drives. Will all of them be fully powered (and not require an external power source) when I daisy chain them onto my computer? Or ...
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How can I move RAID 1 hard drives from one enclosure to another or retrieve the data another way?
I have a Fantom G-Force Mega Disk MDN 1000 dual drive hard drive enclosure with two 500 MB hard drives setup in RAID 1 mirroring mode. Unfortunately, the enclosure/controller has failed, for the ...
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I'm getting a Stop 7B error, but only when I have additional drives connected
A few days back, I got a nasty piece of malware which I am fairly certain I managed to remove. Initially the main problem was that the computer would halt with a Stop 7B error, but after lots of hair ...
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Boot Sector Missing in External hard drive
Yesterday I needed to copy some data from my girlfriend's laptop to mine. To do so I just copied my whole data from my external hard drive to my PC and used the hard drive for data exchange. After ...
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Make partitions on /dev/sdc, one of them bootable, and others for data
I have a 320 GB portable and external hard disk. Is there a way I can make partitions on it, just like we make partitions on the hard disk that comes already in our laptops?
Out of these partitions,...
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Security of hardware encrypted HDD's? [closed]
E.g.:
http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/gbweb/LenovoPortal/en_GB/catalog.workflow:item.detail?GroupID=38&Code=57Y4400
My Opinions:
- Are there any hardware encrypted HDD's that ...
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iTunes music on internal drive vs. external drive?
If I have a 2GB internal drive, and a 500GB iTunes library, are there any disadvantages to keeping the iTunes library on my internal drive? I would also have all my personal files, etc. on the ...
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Installing Windows 7 from external hard drive?
I built my first gaming rig. It's on the way. My school gives us access to MSDN which has bunch of OS on there and we can download it for free. I don't have any blank DVD discs with me here. Is it ...
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Seagate harddrive unmounted, gives "daemon inhibited"?
I've got a Seagate HD 888GB which I use with a Macbook Pro. This week it stopped working.
It is shown as "unmounted" in Disk Utility. I tried it on Windows 7 as well but it's not working there ...
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Is a seedbox dangerous for an USB hard disk?
Given the fact that most probably my previous issue is due to a hardware failure:
Linux Arch on ARM - Random USB drive "freeze"
It seems that the malfunctioning started when I had a lot of ...
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My western digital harddisk does not get detected on my macbook pro and imac
I accidently pulled out my western digital harddisk and ever since its not getting detected on my macbook pro and imac. The error msg which pops up says "The disk you inserted was not readable by this ...
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Laptop gets GRUB error 21 when turned on without external hard drive (w/ Linux) attached
I have Windows Vista on my notebook's internal hard drive and Kubuntu Linux on the external hard drive.
My notebook has lost all portability because it cannot boot into Windows without the external ...
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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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Recovering files on external disk caught in OS installation
I was installing Ubuntu to the internal disk in my main machine, with all external drives unplugged for safety - then discovered I had accidentally chosen the external drive and it wasn't unplugged. ...
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Repair (or relocate to new enclosure) a failed disk array
I now have 2 failed external hard drives that won't mount. They are well past warranty. Opening one reveals two 3.5" HDDs...connected to the controller via SATA. (haven't opened other one so not sure ...
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How to quickly and effectively wipe a Win7 x64 hard drive
I have a Windows 7 Enterprise x64 system and need to wipe the 1.5TB hard disk drive quickly and effectively. Quick, I guess, is a relative term; so more quickly than I've seen with some wipe utilities ...
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How to format the remaining disk space as FAT32 from Windows 7/Vista
I want to use my external hardrive in my PS3 but it needs to be formatted to FAT32. I've tried, but only 30GB was formatted so how do I format the remaining space?
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External hard drive takes long time to mount on Windows
I have a 2TB Western Digital external USB drive that I formatted to FAT32. It takes a minute and 25 seconds for Windows to recognize it when I plug it in. I've tried multiple computers. It only takes ...
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