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Windows does not mount USB NTFS superfloppy
I have a Transcend Storejet external USB hard disk. This is not an SSD, but a mechanical disk with rotating plates. I have formatted the whole disk, without partitioning, as NTFS. I have used mkntfs ...
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How can a MBR formatted hard drive exceed 1.81 TiB capacity?
I recently purchased an external disk drive with 3 terabytes (2.72 TiB) of storage capacity.
Now according to Wikipedia's article on MBR, the maximum addressable storage space on a disk formatted ...
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Is it possible to set the logical sector size of a USB hard disk drive?
I have two supposedly identical 3TB Western Digital USB hard disk drives. 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 ...
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How can I add a new partition to my HD without reformatting?
I have a 640GB external HD that has one partition formatted as HFS+. It's attached to a machine running OSX 10.6.6. Now I want to split some of the HD's free space into a new FAT32 partition, without ...
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Multiple partitions for an external USB hard drive used by Linux and Windows
I want to split a large external USB hard drive into at least 2 partitions.
I've heard that multiple partitions on a USB drive involves problems not associated with partitioning a regular IDE/SATA ...
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How do I make my external USB HDD be treated as a removable drive
I want to connect my external 2TB USB HDD that has 4 partitions, to be treated as a set of removable drives on Windows.
This is because I do not want Windows to create "System Volume Information" ...
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My Western Digital 500GB Passport disk says "not formatted" when I plug it in Windows
When I plug my Western Digital 500 GB Passport disk in my Windows machine, it says "not formatted, do you want to format it" something. I started having this problem after I put it in an old desktop ...
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How can I unmark an external hard drive partition as being active?
I accidentally marked my external hard drive partition as active in disk management. I meant to change the drive letter but hit the wrong button. Whoops. What are the consequences of having done that ...
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Is it recommended to partition an external drive used as storage?
I'm going to buy a 1TB external hard drive to use it as storage (not backup) and I'm not quite sure if any partitioning at all would be good in this case (i.e. System/Data scheme does not apply).
So.....
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Is it best to partition a 1TB external drive? [closed]
OK – I've got the 1TB WD External hard drive from DSE (see post - http://forums.pcworld.co.nz/showthread.php?t=113070 )
Should I create some more partitions on it – from what I've read (not knowing ...
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SATA hard drive partition not recognized after replacing to different external enclosure?
I have been using an ST2000DM001 hard drive with an old G3 Station SATA-USB 2.0 adapter (JMicron JMB509 controller), the HDD has one ext4 partition.
After putting the HDD into a newer, SATA-USB 3.0 ...
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Can I delete Microsoft Reserved Partition in Hard-Drive?
Currently, I need to install Ubuntu on my laptop (originally using window 10) to run Drone robotics Studio. But I have only 10GB left, so I am planning to install Ubuntu on my external hard drive.
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Partitioning an external hard drive [closed]
I have just purchased a 1Tb external hard drive, the reason being I am moving jobs and changing computers. I thought I could install all my personal programs and data on the external drive instead of ...
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Cannot initialize 4TB external hard drive in Windows 7 64-bit using
I have a new 4TB drive, which I want to use as an external drive with my laptop (Windows 7 ultimate, 64-bit).
From all that I can read, my Windows version should support it, but I can't find anything ...
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Accessing 3TB Seagate Barracuda XT on different computer?
I have a 3000 GB Seagate Barracuda XT sata drive. It originally came in an external enclosure with a removable USB 3.0 interface as part of the Seagate GoFlex series of drives. When using this ...
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