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Reset SMART on Hard Drive
Yes, but it may need a it of effort to find a tool which you can use for any specific brand.
For example, you can try reset SMART on HGST, IBM, Hitachi, Toshiba drives using the free Victoria for ...
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Formatting an external HDD stuck at 70%
So I used windows tool and performed the format (not quickly) however
at nearly 70% it stuck.
Then I decided to perform a low level format with lowlevel. Again it
stuck at 70%.
Both tools do about ...
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Windows 10 does not recognise second external hard drive
With help from @Netspud2K I got this problem sorted. I shifted my data onto my internal hard drive, and did a full reformat of both SSDs.
After this I noticed that, when hovering over the drives in ...
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Force spin-down of external hard-drive on linux (raspberry pi)
I did some changes to the otherwise nice script posted by user300457.
Changes:
When calling the script, add the drive as parameter ("sdb" for
example). This makes it possible for the script ...
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Cross-platform usable filesystem with large file support
exFAT is now supported as R&W by Android (via the Linux kernel), macOS, and Windows. I believe that that amount of support is able to be reasonably construed as support by every important OS.
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External hard drive "too big" for file transfer
Having no documentation whatsoever for the Steris operating room camera, my first guess is that it does not recognize the GPT ("GUID Partition Map") partition table format that is used on ...
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Connecting interal SATA HDD on eSATA connector
Its whatever the cable equivalent of a paperweight is - the physical connectors for esata and esatap are different from regular sata and the cables are fairly cheap.
In theory you could find a sata - ...
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