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Can't access folder on external drive
I'm in a pickle. Yesterday, I was looking for a couple of old photos I had taken years ago. (I'm an armature photographer and over the years I've accumulated many terabytes of RAW images, edits and PS ...
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No Space on Internal Hardrive C: want to run computer through external hardrive :D
Okay so I have the newest Macbook Pro, and I made a windows partition a minute ago with I forgot how much storage but definitely not enough. Every time I want to download something it says C:/User/J1/....
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Boot vhd that is located on external drive
I followed this article https://www.hanselman.com/blog/less-virtual-more-machine-windows-7-and-the-magic-of-boot-to-vhd, but got error 0xc000000e. External drive is connected through usb 3.0.
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SATA to USB adapter disconnects, reconnects, disconnects, reconnects, etc. when plugged in... how do I fix it?
I've got a Weme SATA/PATA to USB adapter and it works fine on every computer (tried 3 or 4) except my laptop. On my laptop it just connects, disconnects (USB bing-bong, bing-bong) ad infinitum. I ...
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What to keep in mind when partitioning external hard drive with both encrypted ext4 and unencrypted NTFS?
I have an external hard drive that will be partitioned with two partitions, using GPT:
ext4 filesystem on a dm-crypt-encrypted partition
NTFS filesystem on an unencrypted partition
The ext4 ...
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Is it good to use external HDD with a USB 3.0 7-Port Hub (TP-Link UH700) which is powered by a power adapter?
I have a USB 3.0 7-Port Hub (TP-Link UH700). It has a power adapter to power the USB Hub. And also I have 2 external Hard Disk Drives. My question is, I am plugging my 2 HDDs to USB Hub. So is it safe ...
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Some folders and/or files on external HDD are accessible on Linux but not on macOS and Windows
I have saved some videos on an external NTFS drive that my Linux system can see just fine.
When trying to use a macOS for the same purpose a folder I was looking for was simply missing. I didn’t have ...
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External HDD unexpected failure, ddrescue not working
Today I connected my external HDD to transfer a file. Everything seemed to be working fine - it wasn't slow, all files were showing up. In the middle of transfer of the new file, it suddenly ...
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External USB drive does not appear in Windows Explorer when connected to the front panel of the PC
External drive does not appear in Windows Explorer. The problem arose unexpectedly with the USB ports on the front panel of PC.
All specified USB ports are version 2.0 and initially everything worked ...
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What to do when USB hard drive suddenly became raw?
On June 2020 I made a similar post about my USB hard disk failure in here.
So, last July 2020 I bought a new 2 TB Seagate Slim USB hard drive.
The hard drive is full with HD movie mkv files.
The hard ...
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Offline button is not active in Disk Management
I have a loptop with 2 hard drives , The original one is sata and I added SSD drive to it after I purchase it. with windows 10 installed on it on SSD drive. I offline the sata disk from disk ...
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Why do identical folders on two different hard drives of the same file count and file sizes, take up a different size on disk? [duplicate]
Both have
216,540 files
52,103 folders
Size: 278 GB (299,363,715,785 bytes)
But for one hard drive the size on disk is 278 GB (299,672,182,784 bytes) and for another it's 278 GB (299,672,211,456 ...
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Eject button is greyed out for external hard drive on Windows 10 [duplicate]
When right clicking my hard drive in This PC, there is no Eject option on the context menu.
Also the Eject button on the ribbon toolbar is greyed out so it won't let me click it. It only appears in ...
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Windows cannot search my external hard drive whilst it is indexing it
Windows cannot search my external hard drive whilst it is indexing it. If I want my hard drive to be indexed on Windows, I can only search it after it has been indexed.
I don't want to remove my ...
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Preventing Windows from accessing Linux drives
I currently have two hard disks connected to my computer, one internal and one external(via USB3). The internal one has Windows 10 installed while the external one has Debian. All my important data is ...
