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Is there that can I create a virtual disk image out of my old laptop hard drive?
I have an old 2TB laptop hard drive from my old HP 15-da0061cl notebook. The notebook suffered from internal screen damage as well as the case breaking down due to fall damage. Due to my warranty ...
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How to find what programs are using an external SSD?
After buying a Samsung Portable SSD T7 shield I connected it to my Asus computer (running Windows 10) and then opened a setup file and followed the steps to install and put a password on the drive. ...
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HDD suddenly disappeared from Explorer
I have an older Seagate 120 GB HDD, that I'm connecting to my laptop with an IDE/SATA to USB adapter. The drive is easily 15 years old, but when I connected to the SATA/USB adapter (which is powered),...
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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 not appearing in Optimise Drives (Windows 10)
Running Windows 10 with two 16GB pen drives (mapped to F: and P:) and a larger 4TB WD external disk (mapped to W:). All drives work correctly, appear in Windows Explorer, Disk Management, you can ...
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Preserving Quick Access Pins and Libraries with Robocopy
So I've had an external drive that I kept plugged into my laptop that later started having connection issues. I decided to use Robocopy to transfer the files over to a new drive with (effectively) the ...
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Why does Windows 10 Task Manager say that my LaCie 750GB Rikki external hard drive's capacity is 4.5 TB?
Windows 10 Task Manager say that my LaCie 750GB Rikki external hard drive's capacity is 4.5 TB. See below. Why?
Disk management confirms that the LaCie 750GB Rikki external hard drive is 750 GB, i.e. ...
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My external hard drive not detected from my Windows pc despite can be detected from my Samsung tablet
I have an external hard drive Seagate model: SRD0NF1 size 1TB and it is not being detected on my Windows PC.
The PC specs:
Windows 10 Home
64bit
ASUS rog GL752VW
When I say its not detected, it means ...
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unable to unlock advanced settings of bios in haeir y11b laptop
I have Haier y11b laptop. it has two drives. one drive capacity is 30gb which has windows installed. the other drive capacity is 465gb. as the 30gb drive capacity is too low for other software to be ...
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External Seagate Ultra Touch HDD lags computer and can't be mounted correctly on Linux or Windows 10
On Windows 10 it at least (sometimes) shows the overall directories on the HDD, but Linux can't even do that anymore.
I'm fairly sure that up until a couple weeks ago my Linux PC could read the drive. ...
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Can I recover accidently deleted files on an SSD External Drive running Windows 10 Home?
I accidently deleted files from a WD external SSD hard drive. Running OS is Windows 10. I have scanned the drive with two separate on-line file recovery (Stellar & Recoverit) packages and both ...
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Unable to copy any file to external HDD
I have WD My Passport 4TB External Hard Drive. When I try to copy any file to WD HDD, it gives me error: "Cant read from the source file or disk". But I can copy any file in HDD to my laptop....
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No drive letter assigned to USB, "Device not ready" on initialize attempt
I have a Toshiba 1TB external USB drive that I haven't used in a few years, but I'd like to use it now. Windows detects the USB, but doesn't assign a drive letter when I plug it in, regardless of ...
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Why does the file size of the a being transferred depends on how much free space the external hard drive has, and how can I avoid that?
I transfer some files from a GoPro (connected via MTP) to an external hard drive. I notice that for the file size of the file being transferred depends on how much free space the external hard drive ...
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What is using my external hard drive, without my permission, and how can I stop it?
I've noticed for a while now that my WD passport (2TB) blinks by itself, so I looked into the issue and checked in Resource Manager to see what's going on. In Resource Manager I saw that almost every ...
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Windows 10 does not recognise second external hard drive
After a RAID drive failure I am left with two identical 500GB SSD 2.5" drives which appear to be in good working order (fortunately I've recovered my data from the RAID drives). I have bought two ...
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After hibernation, USB SSD shows under "remove safely" but not in file explorer - until reboot
Usage scenario:
Arrive at work, wake PC from hibernate-to-disk, plug in my WD Elements USB SSD.
See it's not shown in file explorer nor disk management, but it does show up in the systray USB icon ...
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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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Computer hardware
I have question related SSD. My laptop is HDD, Window 10 . I need to download a IDE which is not working in my laptop and it is continually hanging, when I asked my teacher he said this IDE will work ...
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Eject/dismount a drive using PowerShell
I would like to eject/dismount an external USB drive via PowerShell.
Meaning, I want to replicate exactly the behaviour of these UI actions (Ejecting drive via Windows UI):
Currently I am using this ...
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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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Wiped and Reformatted external hard drive says it is completely full and windows cannot access it
I had a 1TB external HDD that developed an unresponsive folder. I used the errors checking tool on the properties tool tab, and that repaired the folder. I then moved the data off to a replacement ...
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Having problems with file permission on windows 10
This problem started when I put my HDD on another computer that has my OS. Some of my programs won't open because I don't have sufficient privileges. The message said to contact the administrator of ...
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Does CHKDSK have any volume size limitations?
A colleague of mine mentioned he thinks CHKDSK, since it's so old, probably doesn't support very large target volumes. For example, if you wanted to run CHKDSK on a single, super large volume like say,...
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Toshiba external hard disk 2 tb undetected by pc however blinking [duplicate]
Suddenly my TOSHIBA EXTERNAL HDD fall down a small distance later i tried to connect it to pc but it keeps blinking or flashing and the windows makes sound like recognizing usb but it’s not showing on ...
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Which conditions/factors cause this "The old drive letter will not be available for assignment until you restart" warning to appear?
On my Windows 10 laptop, I sometimes need to change the letter of my external hard drives in Disk Management. Sometimes, but not always, I see the warning in Disk Management:
If you continue, the new ...
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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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How to get boot from USB only when present to work on Windows machine?
I have a Windows 10 laptop that I'd like to use to boot directly to an external USB SSD (Ubuntu), but only when it is present (physically connected) at power-up. Presently, I can only boot to the SSD ...
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BIOS cannot see Kali Linux boot option after external drive containing it is unplugged
I successfully installed Kali Linux onto an external HDD and after the installation was complete I was able to boot back into it without pulling out the HDD. After that I went into Windows (which is ...
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find software driver for old external maxtor hdd for win10?
i have old hard drive, 160gb from Maxtor company 'black armor', it's old and apparently based on other answers on forums it's incompatible on win10, it's compatible in win7,8.
https://www.seagate.com/...
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Basic data partition vs. primary partition
What is the difference between primary partition and basic data partition?
I formatted two spare drives I have and am confused that the lower one says "basic data partition". How do I format ...
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External Hard disk not showing in disk mangement but show in device manager
Yesterday when I was copying over over 130gb data from my internal hdd to external hdd using my laptop, the copying stopped at 20% says that the external hdd is not found. Then I tried unplugging it ...
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How to cleanly convert hardrive with existing windows installation to external harddrive for storage?
I recently replaced my laptop with one that has an absurdly tiny hard drive. However, I still have my old laptop, which is no longer functional but does have a functional HD. Thus I decided to ...
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USB device showing 'Insert a disk' message [duplicate]
Here is the story. I got this usb today and I did format it with default settings (only changed its name). Then I copied some files into my usb. Without ejecting it (I think), I disconnected the usb. ...
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Windows 10 install on USB disk
I have created system backup of Windows 10 installation using Aomei Backupper and restored it external USB drive, however i cannot boot from external drive, how can i fix it?
Perhaps problem is that ...
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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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When external HDD READ speed only varies dramatically with 100% active time, is this a logical or physical issue?
I have a WD Elements 8TB External Hard Drive that I purchased six months ago. During the past few weeks, it has been experiencing difficulties with its read/write speed, so I decided to investigate. (...
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D:\ Drive Missing after Windows 11 upgrade
I have recently upgraded to Windows 11 from Windows 10, on a 'HP Pavilion 590-p0063na' Desktop. Since doing this, I have been unable to locate the 'D:' Drive. This absent drive, is also preventing ...
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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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Disable desktop.ini files on external drives
I've read through the solutions discussing disabling desktop.ini files globally, but I'd just like to disable the creation of desktop.ini files on my local machine. My work policy is to not allow ...
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Blue screen after connecting to additional monitors when using external USB to run windows 10 on mac
I am using an external USB hard drive to run windows 10 on my mac. Everything works fine until I connect external displays. The system just crashed and it remains a blurry blue screen even I manually ...
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Option to extend volume on windows 10 disk management greyed out for no reason
Alright, I was trying to use this external 4TB HDD as a live disk for Linux, it worked but now I have to reformat it. However Disk Management, in it's infinite wisdom, has decided to grey out the ...
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How to update windows 10 installed on a flash drive?
I have Windows 10 installed on an external ssd. This worked fine until I recently was prompted from some programs, that I need to update my windows version. But the updater did not show any updates.
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Why does my Bitlocked External HDD go read-only after I unlock it?
Windows 10, AD-managed environment, WD My Passport external.
We had a new external HDD enter circulation, which per policy has to be bitlocked. This being new, policy is also that it be fully ...
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Should I replace My internal hardisk to a new external one? [closed]
My old internal 1TB HDD becomes so slow suddenly, and I'm afraid that it's about to die, so I will try to copy my data to external HDD.
I have two Questions:
What's the best tool to copy all the HDD ...
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I have had 500gb HD this whole time but my system has only been showing 250gb on my Windows 10
So basically like the title says I have had a 500GB Hard disk this whole time but my C drive has only been showing about 250GB in total. I only noticed this because I opened my laptop and saw the Hard ...
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How to check if external hard drive is spinning or in sleep mode through the command line?
How can I determine through the command line whether or not an external drive that is connected to my system is awake (spinning) or sleeping?
None of the answers here have helped. The Powershell ...
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Turned old SSD into USB external drive - But not working
I recently upgraded my PCs SSD storage from 500gb to a new 1tb disk. I've removed the 500gb and placed it within an external SSD enclosure.
When plugging it into the USB port it's not recognised as a ...
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Is Windows unable to re-mount USB Attached SCSI (UAS) devices after removal, or is this just a defective drive dock?
I purchased a SABRENT EC-HD2B 2.5" & 3.5" Black SATA I/II/III USB 3.0 USB 3.0 to SATA I/II/III Dual Bay External Hard Drive Docking Station It works, but appears to be impossible to re-...
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