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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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Create an EXFAT partition on a NTFS external HD
Is it possible to create an exFAT partition on a NTFS external HD? I just wanna backup stuff from an old macbook, so I thought maybe I can just create a new exFAT partition instead of full ...
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Hard drive showing 333 MB of used space even though there are no files?
I've been using an external hard drive for quite some time, and recently I've upgraded to an internal drive and therefore moved all of my files from the external hard drive to the internal one.
Now my ...
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How risky is to install windows on external hard drive?
i have a hp laptop which currently has no HDD installed into it,so i decided to install windows to my Western Digital my passport 2TB external hard drive.
i found two article on how to install ...
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Why does my 3TB external drive show as "unallocated" when installed internally? [duplicate]
I have a Seagate 3TB drive with a USB 2.0 interface on it. I took it out of the case and installed into my PC (SATA). Physically, it’s like any other hard disk drive.
But all that Windows wants to ...
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Shrinking fat32 partition takes 24+ hrs in Paragon hard disk manager
I'm trying to shrink a fat32 primary partition from 500GB to 450GB in order to get 50GB unallocated space before the partition. The external disk has approx. 380GB data in it and connected via usb 2.0....
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External drive installed internally shows as RAW, how to fix?
I have (had) an external drive (Hitachi Touro Desk 2TB) that I have installed internally, plugged into the motherboard via a SATA cable.
The drive shows up in Windows, but cannot be accessed, as it ...
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Windows can’t find hard disk drive after hard resets but drive works via a USB enclosure
The drive in question is a 3TB SATA Seagate (ST3000DM001-9YN166; Firmware: CC4H) hard disk drive and my system is Windows 7 64-bit.
I had some GPU trouble a while back and required to hard-reset a ...
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Why I can't format 500 GB drive as FAT32 under Windows 7? [duplicate]
What can cause Windows 7 to prevent me from formatting 500 GB (actually 465 GB) external USB disk as FAT32? No matter, what I did (Windows Explorer, Disk Management), the only options I was presented ...
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Hard drive working on TV but not on computer(s)
I have Seagate external powered 1TB hard drive. Its around 5 years old.
Around 1 year before I brought Samsung LED TV which supports USB drives to watch media content. After that I use to switch that ...
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Windows didn't recognize my External HDD properly, should I replace it?
Some details:
External HDD: WD Elements Portable 1TB
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, SP1
The External HDD was working fine except sometimes when I eject it, windows says the device is in use. the ...
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How to password-protect an external hard drive or an external USB drive [closed]
I've got:
1 external 120GB USB hard drive (TrekStor DataStation pocket capa)
2 16GB external USB drives (EMTEC)
2 32GB or 64BG external USB devices (SanDisk, one is USN 2.0 and the other USB 3.0, I ...
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Complications with External Hard Drive after using partitioning Tool
I have ran into a snag with my external hard drive. Last night I was attempting to shink my 1TB hard drive into a 400GB and a 600GB partition (approx). I was using: MiniTool partition Wizzard Home ...
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Cloning a drive with DriveImage XML renders the clone unbootable
I have a computer that I would like to completely transfer to new (better) hardware. I have an external hard drive, and I am attempting to clone the entire C: drive to it, making it bootable. The ...
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HDD Bad sectors Regeneration
I've been trying for few days to figure this out and eventually I need some help. All suggestion gathered by the software are like 'get new hard drive'.
My 2nd HDD got some troubles runing normaly and ...
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