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Windows network shares slow only with external drive
I have two windows (updated) 10 machines connected to my wifi. Both get excellent speeds for both upload and download. Speeds are also good when copying files using the built in windows file sharing, ...
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Windows cannot search my external hard drive whilst it is indexing it
Windows cannot search my external hard drive whilst it is indexing it. If I want my hard drive to be indexed on Windows, I can only search it after it has been indexed.
I don't want to remove my ...
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SanDisk Extreme external SSD stopped being listed by Windows 10
The drive used to work (up to yesterday). Now when I plug in the drive I hear the regular Windows 10 sound, but the drive doesn't show up in any listing - including in Disk Management (!). When I ...
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Win10 installed on external hard drive: can I use game capture?
I am running Windows 10 on my Mac Mini using Bootstrap, except I've installed Windows on an external hard drive rather than the mac itself.
Originally I had Windows installed on my Mac, and could use ...
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Cloning windows 10 to SSD NVMe without a reader
I just bought a new SSD NVMe and I want to clone my existing windows 10 with all the softwares installed and configurations to the new SSD. The problem is that I don't have an SSD reader to connect it ...
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Make Windows 10 show hard disk as internal
I have used an USB to SATA cable to connect a new SSD to my notebook and copy files to it. Now, when putting it into the DVD-bay using an appropriate adapter (as second drive) it still shows up as ...
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Unsure of how to 'access' the HDD on my Razer Blade 15
I recently purchased a Razer Blade 15 base model from Amazon (link here). I'm decent with computers but one thing is stumping me. The laptop is advertised as 128 GB SSD and 1TB HDD. However, I can ...
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Windows 10 - Mapped Drive Issue - Keep losing connection
I have a mapped drive on my home network that is getting some strange behavior this last week. I did take the Windows 10 2004 update on 6/17 and wonder if it is related.
I have a drive on my home ...
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Is there a way to fix usb hard drive not detected by Windows 10?
The history is like this :
I have a 2TB Seagate USB 3.0 Hard Disk Drive (HDD) full of movie files which recently was very slow to open the folders in it (also slow to load the file when opened).
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Make existing Windows installation bootable from USB3.1gen2 adapter
Background:
I have an nvme-SSD with Windows 10 installed, this was my default drive in the system.
Yesterday I swapped the wi-fi card in the system and with it a new nvme-SSD that contains Linux.
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Delete "last opened" metadata on files on external hard drive
So I messed up. I was about the upload a file to my friends external hard drive when I saw a folder called "funny party images" - I opened it. And yeah - it wasn't party pictures! It was something ...
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USB hub often disconnects entirely when transferring data
I have a standard non-powered 4-port USB hub connected to a Surface Pro 4.
I have 3 devices plugged into the hub:
Transmitter for keyboard/mouse
Powered 3tb HDD
Powered 10tb HDD
Every so often, on ...
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Is it safe to leave an external HDD plugged into USB but unplugged from power outlet?
I have an external USB 3.0 HDD that I only use for weekly backups. I usually just leave the usb cable connected to the computer and plug it into the power socket when needed, do the backup, then eject ...
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External Western Digital HDD not working
I've an external Western Digital HDD that suddenly decided to make problems.
I have 3 computers and this is the behavior:
Laptop WIN10 - formatted to exFAT and it works.
PC WIN10 - is detected by ...
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External HDD only shows on clean startup of Windows
my Lenovo laptop with Windows 10 does this weird thing:
If I connect my external USB 3 hard drive to my USB 3 port and the computer is not completly turned off, the disc won't show up in Windows. ...
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Hard disk doesn't show up on Windows 10, but it shows up on Windows 7 - Symbol of deactivation
Since yesterday my hard drive doesn't show up on Windows 10, only on Windows 7.
In Device Management, in correspondence of the hard drive item, there is the symbol (circle with inside a black arrow ...
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Black screen with only a cursor and security options when I plug my external hdd in
I recently dropped my external hard disk and it wouldn't spin after that and would only make some beeping sounds.
So, I searched on YouTube on how to fix it and opened it up and did this.
But, after ...
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One Partition Data Loss in External HDD - Windows 10 OS
I can't able to see the data that I have transferred on my external HDD on yesterday.
Today I have plugged my external HDD again and I got surprised, I got nothing from those I have transferred ...
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Connect Outdated DiamondMax Plus 9 160GB via USB
I am attempting to get the files off of a very old DiamondMax Plus 9 160GB HDD via USB (I think it dates to around 2004/2005). When I plug it in, there is no 'ring' to indicate Windows is even ...
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File size mismatch by a huge margin in properties?
I have this single file on my HDD and it shows that its size is 150bytes but in properties tab it shows as 850 GB, What's happening here ?
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Why is my WD My Passport has a Seagate Device Description?
I bought a brand new WD My Passport 2 TB.
When I'm installing the provided WD Backup Software, it doesn't detect my drive. The setup said "No backup targets found"
This is the WD Backup Setup
I ...
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Can't access data on a hard drive
The screenshot in the link below really says it all. I have an old laptop hard drive that I've been using with a USB enclosure as a specific backup for certain files that I want to keep. As the ...
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How to unmount a blocked usb external HDD in Windows 10?
I have an external HDD connected to my PC using Windows 10, which is used to a daily backup using Acronis True Image 2019.
Many times after the backup is finished, I can't dismount it.
Even removing ...
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HardDrive Access denied
I have a Sony HD SL1 External hard drive. It works on my Samsung TV, and I can view all my data but on my Windows 10 laptop, I am unable to access it. It is displaying "Access Denied" if I try to open ...
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Grant locked external HDD access for another PC
I was trying to mess around with permissions for my external HDD. I've managed to lock it for everyone aside for my own pc with the following settings:
External HDD security settings
As you can see, ...
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Copying files from Android device to External HDD is terribly slow
I am trying to backup files (pictures, videos) from my Android device (Nexus 5X) to my external HDD using my Windows 10 laptop.
However, when i try to copy a folder that's inside my DCIM directory ...
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Accidentally deleted upperfilter in 4d36e967-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318 and now external hard drives wont register
One of my external hard drives wasn't working so I tried a bunch of things to fix it and one thing said to delete upperfilters and lowerfilters in 4d36e967-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318, so I did that. ...
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HDD "unknown", "not initialized", no capacity, no nothing. But physically working and showing up in the device manager
It's a
WD hard disk.
I'm using its original PCB and the disk turns on, is physically running, and the
WD software diagnostic shows "PASS".
It appears in
the device manager, but in the disk ...
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"Access denied" on public shares belong to an external hard drive
I have two drives, C: and D:. C: is the main hard drive, and D: is my external hard drive that is connected via USB.
On my computer, I'm able to access both \\localhost\c$ and \\localhost\d$ fine. ...
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Error: "Could not find this item" , but file is there
I have a fat32 external drive, copied some working files in it around a year ago. now when I want to copy back them to the PC (Win 10), I'm getting this error for SOME of files:
I tried some ...
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