Questions tagged [external-drive]
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Why should I use exFAT over NTFS on removable media?
So, basically I always format my removable mass storage devices as NTFS by default, but someone told me I was better off using exFAT. Now I've been looking around google, but can't find any good ...
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Is it possible to put a full installation of Windows 10 on a USB flash drive?
I have a laptop in which the internal drive bay has been destroyed, but the rest of the laptop works fine. I was wondering if it's possible to do a full installation of Windows 10 on a USB flash drive....
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USB 2.0 and USB 3.0, how can you tell the difference?
I know the speeds would obviously be a key factor, but is there any spot on way to tell if a device is USB 2.0 or 3.0 such as a USB flash drive?
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How to recover file system access after losing non-mirrored MFT records?
After I unplugged my external drive after a phony safe removal on Ubuntu, two sectors are destroyed. The important sector contained records 4 to 7 (which is $AttrDef, $ (root), $Bitmap and $Boot) of ...
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How to preserve diacritics when cross-mounting drives to Windows7 and Linux
A friend backed up an in accessible Windows 7 partition to a big (close to 1TB) external USB drive using KNOPIX. Unfortunately the umlauts and accents in the file names of his extensive music ...
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