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How to run Windows 10 from an external hard drive? [duplicate]
I am currently able to boot from an external drive or multiboot USB. Taking this concept one step further, I have 3 questions:
1) Is it possible to install and run Windows 10 on a portable external ...
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Windows 10: No option to Eject External HARD DRIVE (NOT USB Stick)
When I plug in my external hard drive (again, NOT USB stick), and right click on the icon in This PC, there is no option to eject the drive.
There is a system tray option to "safely eject" it, but ...
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How to access an APFS volume on Windows machine
I have a Lacie 4TB external HDD which have 1.5 TB of data but I am not able to access it as it looks like the the file system of the volume which contains my data is Apple's File System and I cant ...
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Can't eject external USB hard drive in Windows 10
First, I must state that it is not that "ejecting" the drive always prompt the "This drive is still utilized by etc." message.
It is that there is simply no option to "eject" it in the first place in ...
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Remove System Volume information folder from external drive
I have currently found out that System Volume information folder on my external HDD takes around 124GB of space. Hence I decided to delete it to free up some additional space. But for now everything ...
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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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Message "file too large for recycle bin" on any file on external HDD Win 10
On my external only-files (no Windows) NTFS 2TB HDD Win 10 raises a "file too large for recycle bin" message on any file I delete.
I formatted the HDD with the onboard Windows partition tool and the ...
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Can't safely eject external hard drive on Windows 10. How to Solve it?
Whenever I am trying to eject my external hard drive I am getting "Problem Ejecting USB Mass Storage Device" alert and it is not allowing me to eject the device safely.
(System : Windows 10 ...
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Can you run Windows off an external SSD via USB-C?
I have a 2017 Touchbar Macbook Pro, so has 4 USB-C Thunderbolt 3 ports.
Rather than running bootcamp and splitting my inbuilt SSD drive into a MacOS partition and a Windows partition, I am ...
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Western Digital HDD Active Time 100 percent
Needs some advice with someone that has some experience with this.
I have a Western Digital My Book 4TB External Hard Drive about 2 months old that is not performing well, what I have noticed is ...
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Windows Disk Management incorrectly detects USB 3 drives over 2TB
Problem: Windows 10 Disk Management does not correctly detect drives over 2TB connected via USB 3.0 to SATA adapter.
Instead of the correct size, it shows 16380GB (aka 16TB) no matter what drive I ...
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External USB HD does not get recognized after Windows start - only after plugin it out and in first
When I start Windows, my external USB hard disk does not appear at all:
When I unplug and plug it in again, it appears normally and stays that way:
What I checked already is that Windows does a ...
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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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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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Updating windows 8 "to go" to windows 10
I have an installation of windows 8 on an external hdd. When I try to update to windows 10 the update fails with the message that windows on usb drives cannot be updated. Is there a way to update this ...
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