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How to setup Windows from an external hard drive?
Is it possible to install Windows from an external hard drive?
I have Windows XP installed on my laptop, and I want to remove it and install Windows 7.
My Windows 7 installation is in an .iso format ...
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Formatting 1TB External Drive - Mac/PC
We have 1 mac user in a PC environment... and I have bought a 1TB WD external hard drive and need to format it so that both PC and Mac can read/write to it. Doing this from the mac should be easy, but ...
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How to spindown(sleep) a SATA hard disk drive under Windows?
I am using a 3.5" SATA HDD from the eSATA port of my laptop. The HDD is powered with another ATX power supply. Each time I unplug the eSATA, I cannot make the HDD spindown before I power off the ATX.
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Sharing external storage between different operating systems?
I just received a Lacie 1TB external usb/firewire/esata drive. I have 2 machines. A macbook running osx 10.6 and a desktop running windows 7. I would like to rip my dvd collection to iso and store ...
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How can I redirect my iTunes library to an external hard drive?
Right now, I have all my music on my internal hard drive, but it is running out of space.
So, I bought an external hard drive, copied all my music over and went into the advanced preferences in ...
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Error disconnecting a USB external Hard disk, how can this be fixed without restarting the computer?
Sometimes I can't remove the external USB hard disk because of the error in the screen shot below when i try to safely remove the hard disk. There does not appear to be an application using the hard ...
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Prevent a hard drive from being formatted?
I have an external hard drive and I partitioned it in 3 partitions. I want do something on one of these partitions, so nobody can format it (its data is important to me).
What should I do?
I use ...
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Formatting an external Hard Drive for Windows using Mac OS X
I have an external Hard Drive I'm selling. I'd like to be able to deliver to the hard drive to the buyer for it can be used on either Mac OS X OR Windows.
Is it possible to do this using the Mac ...
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How to boot Windows XP on a Mac from an external drive?
I have an external drive that uses the GUID partition scheme, and has the partition info mirrored to an MBR as Macs are won't to do. The drive does FireWire and USB, and Ideally, I'd like any solution ...
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