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Tagged with external-hard-drive partitioning
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TestDisk - rebuild NTFS partition on dead WD Elements [from macos]
I have a 5TB WD Elements external USB disk, which was formatted as a single 5TB NTFS partition without about 4TB of files. It's not a bootable disk. It stopped mounting, so I pulled it apart and ...
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Unable to merge all partitions (including the Recovery partition) in my Old Laptop hard drive turned external drive
I have the hard drive of my laptop that was replaced with a SSD so I wanted to use it as an external storage space by combining them all into one. There were 3 partitions previously that I formatted ...
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What are options to set up a new portable SSD for newer and legacy Windows computers?
I bought a new 4TB M.2 NVME and an external M.2 enclosure for it. I want to set this up to be used like portable storage (used like "flash" storage), so that it can be used on a new Win 11 ...
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Linux Internal HDD Cloning/Backup Issue [closed]
I have installed Manjaro XFCE in my Laptop, that also has Windows 8.1 in a dual-boot format. The Windows 8.1 was installed earlier than Linux. But, in terms of disk partitions, between two partitions ...
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Different partitions listed by lsblk and fdisk
I'm having issues mounting an external WD 4TB USB HD. It has two 2GB partitions, one NTFS and the other exfat. This has been my backup disk on a RPI4 and worked well for over 5 years until yesterday ...
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No drive letter assigned to USB, "Device not ready" on initialize attempt
I have a Toshiba 1TB external USB drive that I haven't used in a few years, but I'd like to use it now. Windows detects the USB, but doesn't assign a drive letter when I plug it in, regardless of ...
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Setting up Raid 1 with multiple partitions
I am Setting up two (2) new identical hard drives (14TB each), in a OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual external case, using RAID 1. Going to be creating 6 partitions. My question is:
Do I partition the first ...
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Note: fdisk truncates, sfdisk truncates, fields missing. Now what? [closed]
A drive was purchased.
WD (Western Digital) M.2 sata 1TB 2280
drive is raw from store
drive is not partitioned
drive is not formatted, no filesystem, yet
with kubuntu 22.04
lsblk --version
lsblk ...
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External HDD detected but not working
I took out an HDD from my old laptop which was working fine and never had any issues. I bought a casing for it and started using it as an external HDD. After a few months, I plugged in the HDD as an ...
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External hard drive "too big" for file transfer
I recently purchased a Samsung T7 Shield with a 4TB capacity to transfer surgical videos to from a Steris operating room camera. My computer is a MacBook Pro. I have been unable to transfer the videos ...
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A single HDD stops working in USB 2 enclosure
I have a WD hard drive that simply refuses to be read when put in a WD enclosure for SATA to USB 2. The drive shows up in macOS, Ubuntu and Windows, but appears uninitialized/unpartitioned.
Here are ...
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How to make best use of only good sectors/partitions on a semi-faulty HDD?
Some time ago, I've been given a Toshiba 1TB external USB drive for free.
The reason for this giveaway was that the drive allegedly stops copying/reading at random and is therefore too faulty to use. ...
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How can I create an external HDD using a dual booted internal HDD?
I had an old laptop that I dual booted with ubuntu and windows 10. So I decided to use its internal hard drive as an external hard drive and bought the enclosure and everything needed.
The problem I ...
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Toshiba external hard disk 2 tb undetected by pc however blinking [duplicate]
Suddenly my TOSHIBA EXTERNAL HDD fall down a small distance later i tried to connect it to pc but it keeps blinking or flashing and the windows makes sound like recognizing usb but it’s not showing on ...
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Cant format, mount or list external hard drive
So I have a 1TB internal Samsung M.2 SSD and a 1TB external SSD and i wanted to install gentoo on it. I installed gentoo and wanted to format the external hard drive but now, on my Mint system, the ...
