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Why is Task Manager using my USB drive?
After using the answers to this question: Can Windows tell me what is using my USB drive?, I found from Event Viewer that Task Manager was using the drive:
The application \Device\HarddiskVolume5\...
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Why is my newly formatted (NTFS) 4 TB external hard drive has a Total Reserved Clusters of 4.7 GB?
I just bought a new external HDD (WD My Book 4 TB, it's my 3rd of the 4 TB variant).
As per usual, I formatted it using NTFS with 4KB cluster size because I'm using Windows 10, but then when I checked ...
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Bitlocker decryption stuck at 82.1% (No disk activity)
📢 TL;DR: Bitlocker decryption of a 4TB USB HDD stuck at 82.1% with 0% disc activity for hours. No errors found on the drive, files still fully accessible.
I have been decrypting BitLocker on my USB ...
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How to format an unrecognisable external HDD?
I have formated an HDD in linux and my laptop died mid-formatting.
The disk cannot be recognised by windows now.
Output from USB Device Viewer:
[Port2] FailedEnumeration : Unknown USB Device (...
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Deleting or copying file: File to big for destination file system
I've got a Windows 10 pc, with an internal (S:/) and external (I:/) hdd. Both are formatted to NTFS. I've made copies using bvckup 2 in the past.
Today I found a small error for copying new files to, ...
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How To Make My Portable Hard Disk / USB Drive Undeletable and Uneditable?
I have a portable (external) hard disk and I use it on many different computers/laptops.
I want to know if it is possible to make the files and folders in my hard disk undeletable. So no matter who ...
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Windows Defender won't let an external drive (WD My Book) sleep
Well, the topic title says it all. I recently purchased a Western Digital My Book 8TB and no matter what I couldn't get it to stand by/sleep. I tried everything: messing around with USB power options, ...
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Accidentally removed all access for authenticated users to an external hard drive. Is it possible to revert this change?
I was trying to restrict access to my G: hard drive for guests and accidentally removed all access to the hard drive for all authenticated users. I am not able to access the drive or take ownership of ...
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'File or directory is corrupted or unreadable' in Windows 10 only; works in 8.1/7?
I can't seem to access my external hard drive in Windows 10 systems, producing the error said in title. I tried it other Win 10 PCs to same results.
However, when I plug it on 8.1 or 7, I can access ...
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Git files corrupted 50% of the time when shutting down
My git files are 50% of the time corrupted for no reason. I have no idea why, and hope one of you knows how to solve this.
I currently have a External SSD (Samsung T5, connected via USB, being seen ...
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I'm unable to browse an external HDD on a Windows 10 laptop but can mount and view the files on Ubuntu & Android
The NTFS formatted hard-drive shows up ‘Local Disk (F:)’ in Explorer. When trying to open it, the error window states:
F:\ is not accessible.
The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.
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UEFI Install of Windows 10 on external SSD/Harddrive
The question of installing Windows on an external harddisk has been answered here before. But the answers posted here go like this: create a single NTFS partition on the external disk (MBR partition ...
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External HDD not recognized on one computer
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I have a 3.5" HDD that I put in a USB enclosure (powered by its own brick). It works great on my laptop, but not on my Windows 10 desktop computer.
The HDD LED blinks red for a bit and the ...
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SSD HD works for 10 seconds and shuts down
I used Samsung MZ7LN256HCHP SSD Hard-Drive for quite a while. Yesterday it broke.
It didn't turned on the operation system (windows 10) and just stuck on loading.
On rare cases it did turned it on, ...
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Frequently getting message about corrupt recycle bin
I keep getting the error message the recycle bin on E is corrupt and asks if I would like to delete it. Regardless of what I choose, the error message popsup every 10 or 15 minutes. E: is an external ...
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How to delete ProgramFiles x86 and Windows folders (external hard drive)
I’ve upgraded an old HDD on a laptop to an SSD (the SSD has already windows on it, last update, drivers etc, so the laptop is fully operational).
I’d like to delete the ProgramFiles, ProgramFiles (x86)...
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Drive name greyed out in safely remove hardware option and no eject option present
The option to eject is not present and the drive name is greyed out.
I tried RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll in Run and it is not able to stop there as well.
I tried unmounting ...
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How do you wait for a drive to load before running a startup script on Windows 10?
I have a program in an external drive, and I want to run it at startup, but putting it in the startup folder causes a file not found issue, because the drive had yet to be online. Is there a way to ...
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Explorer.exe and System prevent the ejection of an external hard drive
I have an external hard drive that I could not eject despite all programs being closed.
I followed the instructions explained in this answer to check which process was preventing the drive from being ...
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Batch file or similar to automate disconnecting/spin-down multiple external hdd's
How to create a batch file, or some other 'automated' method that will allow me to safely spin down multiple external HDD's so that I can switch off their power strip(s) when I am done accessing them?
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USB disk always mounted as offline. Anything that I can do about this?
My 2 TB 2.5" USB 3.0 external disk is never found by my TV. When I plug it to my Windows 10 Pro, it is mounted properly (Disk Management can see it), but "offline" (i.e. without any ...
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Disk recognized in docking station but not external enclosure
I run Windows 10. I have a new 16TB Seagate Exos disk which works when in an Orico docking station but not when placed in any other external enclosure (I've tried two different WD My Book Duo ...
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How to backup my Google Drive for Windows files onto an external backup drive
I'm on Windows 10, and trying to organise my file system and backups. I would like to have all of my "main" files (documents, etc.) on Google Drive, so I can access them across different ...
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Recovering data and fixing RAW format on Seagate Backup Plus 4TB External Hard Drive
I need some help from you.
I'm on Windows 10 with a 4TB Seagate Backup Plus External Hard Drive and it seems to be in RAW format. I say "it seems" because it is really hard to try to load/...
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Can't access folder on external drive
I'm in a pickle. Yesterday, I was looking for a couple of old photos I had taken years ago. (I'm an armature photographer and over the years I've accumulated many terabytes of RAW images, edits and PS ...
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External HDD Plugged into SATA shows uninitialized
I checked my Seagate external drive, or tried to, but it just wouldn't open up in Windows Explorer. (It had been plugged into the PC's USB for months, but I had not bothered to access it in this ...
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Windows 10 backup stuck at 97%
I was backing up my ssd to an external usb hard drive, and it was almost over being done. It says Creating a system image of windows (C:) but its stuck there for an hour. The green bar thingy is also ...
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Seemingly random ISO files won't copy to USB HDD
I have had a handful of iso files from different sources; different vendors, custom bootdisks, with entirely different contents, and of varying sizes that simply won't copy to my external HDD. I have ...
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UGREEN M2 SSD External Hard Drive Keeps Connecting and Disconnecting
I'm facing one of the biggest problems in my life, I have UGREEN USB M2 External Hard Drive. It had no media for the first time but when I upload the framework 'Asmedia ASMT-2105 Firmware (ASM1051, ...
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How to forcibly disable (spin down) an external USB hard drive?
Let me start by listing what does not work:
Windows power options, disabling indexing for the drive or disabling the page file.
There’s a similar question here:
How to forcibly disable (spin down) an ...
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