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Assigning an external drive a letter in windows XP
I recently reformatted my Windows XP Pro machine and now I can't access my external hard drive. In computer management the drive shows up and says it is healthy. If I right click the assign a drive ...
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Windows XP could not load installer for volume (HDD)
I bought a new external hard drive (WD Elements Portable); after plugging it into my Windows XP SP3 machine (a Dell Vostro 1015), the following message pops up:
Windows could not load the installer ...
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How to install Windows 7, Windows XP and Ubuntu to an external hard drive from a Mac?
I have Macbook Pro. I have a portable USB hard drive and I want to install
Windows 7
Windows XP
Ubuntu
on that portable hard drive.
Does anybody know how to install all three operating systems on ...
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How to use external hard disk in both Windows and Mac OS X? [duplicate]
I have one external hard drive (Seagate 320 GB). I have used my hard drive in a Windows XP system and it works fine (Read and write). But when I used it on a Mac, I couldn't write any file on the disk ...
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How can I connect my LG env 2 cell phone to XP to explore it like an external drive?
Sorry about the long descriptive title
So I got a new phone and I was wanting to transfer some of the stuff off of my old LG env 2 cell phone to my computer. I have the usb cable but I'm not sure how ...
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Windows XP can't find external harddisk
I have a Western Digital Elements harddisk, and a couple of weeks ago I plugged it into my desktop computer. It worked perfectly, then a couple of hours later I was going to plug it into my laptop, it ...
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Run a Windows XP Virtual Machine from an external disk via FireWire 800
I have a 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro with 4GB memory. I have a 120GB SSD but it only has about 25GB of free space.
My Windows XP Virtual Machine currently uses just over 20GB of disk space. I ...
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Boot from USB HDD
I've bought a new SSD for my notebook.
The old hard disk (with old OS) is now in an external case which is connected via USB to the notebook.
I hoped that I can simply connect the old HDD via USB and ...
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My Hard Drive isn't Working
I never use Safely Remove Hardware with Windows XP.
It has been working for me for years with my SD card, mouse, hard drive and memory stick. My hard drive has a USB cable and power cord so I can ...
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External USB HD issues with a twist (works on Windows7 but not XP)
I have this older external USB HD, 160 GB. I was using it to copy my Steam games to another computer. On the source computer, Windows 7 64-bit, everything worked fine. Drive reported no errors, had ...
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Fat32 error on external hardrive
I have an external drive - drive F - when trying to pull the drive up, it comes up with FAT32 System F Dirty....it will not acknowledge my F drive - does anyone have an idea as to how to fix this ...
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BSOD "STOP 0x0000007B" after installing WIndows XP on external HDD
I got a bsod saying:
STOP: 0x000007B (0xF78A2524, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
I know this seems to have been asked multiple times, but Í think I'm a different case. I just installed winxp ...
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Boot loading surgery
Ok I think I think I've much work to do, I want to dual boot windows server and xp, but I've linux and grub installed. But before I begin I need to ask some questions.
The current situation:
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Installing XP to external hard drive for another PC
I have two laptops, and have removed the harddrive from laptop number one and formatted it. Is it possible to install Xp Pro (from CD) onto the harddrive (using external usb cable) from laptop number ...
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is there is any upper limit for portable HDD size on my PC
I have a PC at my home with Intel P4 2.4gz CPU, 512 MB RAM and the OS is WinXP.
I am planning to buy a portable HDD. I see lots of different sizes ( 256 GB,512 GB etc.) available in the market.
I am ...
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