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HDD External can't be recognized on office PC
So don't know what's wrong
Before it works fine
Now I can't access HDD external from office PC
I try to use 2 different PC not work(windows 10)
I try at home with my laptop it's work (windows XP)
WD 4 ...
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Make a System Image of an Old Windows Computer as a VHD file
I have computers with Windows XP, Vista, and 7 installed. I have some ideas that I would like to use these computers for but I would need to backup everything on them first. I'm interested to know if ...
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Can you stop a chkdsk operation on a usb drive? [duplicate]
This is an external WD 1TB drive. It is attached to a Dell Optiplex 745 running windows xp, sp 3 with only 4 GB of RAM. is there anyway to stop chkdsk on this drive without hurting the file structure ...
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Recovering files from old internal disk without windows authentication [duplicate]
So I have an old hard drive which ran Windows XP. The rest of the computer was scraped. I can't recall the login password for the user on that hard drive. I want to recover files from this hard drive.
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Windows XP don't recognize external disk formatted in windows 10
I have an external 2TB disk which I formatted on Windows 10 laptop and made one big NTFS partition. But when I connect the disk to the Windows XP laptop (SP3), it doesn't see the NTFS partition. This ...
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How to use a 3TB (3000GB) USB backup HDD (Hard Disk Drive) On Windows XP 32 bit?
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How to use a 3TB (3000GB) USB backup HDD (Hard Disk Drive) On Windows XP 32 bit?
Before I buy a 3TB+ USB drive...
Can I format this 3TB USB drive with Window 7 as 2 partitions?
2TB + 1TB = 3TB
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Is it possible to install an OS on external hard drive using another computer
Yes, i am aware this is a duplicate of this, but it was never directly answered and instead given an off topic answer, but in my case, the host computer cannot format the partition using the ...
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How is it possible for the contents of a single folder on an external harddisk to become corrupt?
I have a Seagate External hard drive. We use this to store images (.img) of machine states. Windows embedded XP is the OS of the machine these images originate from AND the OS of the station we use to ...
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How to use a 4k byte sector external hard drive on Windows Xp
I'm used to backing up data from my Xp computer to external usb hard drives every now & then. Recently I bought a new 3TB WD external hard drive but once I plugged it to the usb port, strangely ...
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How to transfer data from WD Hard Drive to Computer using Sabrent
I had very old computer that stopped working(don't really know the reason). Got(detached) hard drive from it and wanted to open it on my new computer as an external hard drive. I bought Sabrent USB-...
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Generic USB Hub propagates Vendor/Product ID of 0000 to Win XP?
I am trying to use a Apacer portable USB HDD, which is USB 3.0, with Windows XP, and have some trouble on this machine.
First, when I connect the USB HDD directly to XP, it gets recognized as a ...
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File copying much slower than rated Firewire speed
While copying a lot of files to an external hard drive using Firewire I notice that the copy speed is a lot slower than the Firewire data transfer rate. The supposed transfer rate for Firewire 400 is ...
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Windows XP not recognizing my 4TB WD harddrive
Just now got Western Digital 4TB hard drive. WD4003FZEX. I have Windows XP and I know there is no straight forward solution in XP to make use of entire 4TB. Is there any workaround in XP to make use ...
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Is there a way to make an external hard drive appear as internal in Windows XP?
Title says it all, how can I make Windows XP treat my external hard-drive as an internal (system) hard drive?
I'm trying to install an application that will only accept an internal hard drive but I ...
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Will a 4TB external hard drive work on Windows XP?
I'm still on XP, and was wondering will a new external hard drive still work on XP? I heard XP can only handle up to 2 TB.
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How to use testdisk on external hard drive that freezes whenever connected?
I've been trying to recover files from my WD external hard drive, and nothing has worked so far. I've heard of testdisk but I can't use it because as soon as I connect my external, it freezes the PC.
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How to recover files on dead WD 1TB External Hard Drive? [closed]
I accept defeat. This piece of crap is dead. Is there anyway to recover the files on it? Stupid me for never backing up on cloud, DVD's, etc.
Please I need those files. :(
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WD 1TB External Hard Drive keeps freezing
My WD External Hard drive started messing up yesterday when it would lag my PC and then altogether just freeze my PC. Every time it's connected, it freezes. And then when I unplug, the PC starts ...
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Can a USB power surge cause on one port cause damage to another device?
I recently discovered that an external hard drive is giving a "device not recognized" error. It has been plugged in and in use for several years.
A couple days before realizing that the hard drive ...
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Windows XP SP3 Cannot delete a randomly generated folder in an external hard drive
I just plugged a Toshiba 1.5 TB External hard drive in and found a new folder that wasn't there the last time. It's titled "311700553bbab72ec1b0" with a subfolder titled "update". I am the owner, ...
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Can I transfer data from an old Dell laptop to an external hard drive and then be able to transfer it to a new Apple laptop
My daughter has a new Apple laptop. Her old laptop is an older Dell Inspiron. It runs Windows XP. The Dell has pictures and videos of her son (my grandson), we want to transfer to an external hard ...
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Why is my USB drive treated as an internal hard disk drive?
I have a 8 GB Sandisk Cruzer USB drive that I just purchased a few weeks ago. I use two systems, viz Windows XP and Windows 7 Professional. When I connect my drive to Windows 7, it'...
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Unable to write to WD external hard drive from centos 6.1 system
I have a WD 2.5 T My passport ultra external USB drive. I attach it to centos 6.1 system on lenovo E430 laptop. The centos has the latest ntfs-3g packages.
The external drive is recognized and its ...
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Not able to see my hard drive in windows explorer?
but when i go to computer management and open the external hard drive(drive H) it opens from there
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After using external HDD in Windows 7, it stopped to be readable in Windows XP
After using an external hard drive with Windows 7 (Prof), it stopped to be recognized in any Windows XP (Prof), telling (in XP that it is not formatted and should be formatted for using), though it is ...
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Running an XP install on a physical disk on vmware
I have a solution I need to solve using XP, I have VMWare Workstation on my Win7 laptop - can I use an external hard disk that has an XP install on it, rather than having to install XP on a vmx ?
I ...
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Changed access permission & ownership but still cant access files & folders
HDD from an old Win XP laptop is usb-connected to a Win7 laptop. I have changed the permission as well as the ownership of the drive and its sub folders, YET I can't access the content of the files ...
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Windows-based external HDD won't show up as any hardware on any OS
I gave my 2 TB Seagate external HDD to a fried who tried attaching it to her MacBook Air. She gave it back saying That nothing happened. So I read up a bit about NTFS and FAT32, etc, and didn't worry ...
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External 1 TB HDD needs 42 hours to reformat. Halfway through, my system crashed. Thoughts? [closed]
I have an external Samsung USB 3.0 1 TB HDD on Windows XP. It needs 42 hours to reformat. Halfway through, my system crashed.
Why would it take so long?
Could the system freeze (a hard crash – I had ...
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Windows XP doesn't recognise 2 TB Seagate external drive
I recently had to re-install Windows XP after a failure, and now my 2 TB Seagate external hard drive is not recognised in My Computer. All data is still on the drive, I just can't access it.
I went ...
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