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Internal 2.5" HDD of old laptop connected via external USB SATA enclosure but no letter assigned, no way to access it
I open disk management in windows 7 and it is listed as a basic drive online with 75GB RAW (It is actually FAT), 243MB Active Primary partition and the bulk in a separate partition.
If I right click ...
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WD USB HDD not recognized: Elements 10B8 [duplicate]
Any idea what could be the problem and how to solve it?
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HDD: WD Elements 2TB (P/N: WDBU6Y0020BBK-05)
When first connecting the device to my ThinkPad T420si (4174-E37), a
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Western Digital My Passport doesn’t show up on My Computer
As the title suggests, my WD external hard disk doesn’t show up on My Computer in Windows 7. Yesterday it worked perfectly but today it doesn’t. I plugged in the hard disk and the light is blinking ...
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External HDD unrecognized [duplicate]
I have an external IDE harddrive. I plug the USB to the PC, switch on the power and I hear that the HDD is working(no scratch, no shar noise, just a smooth hdd is what I hear). My problem is, that the ...
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How to stop Windows from needlessly requesting to format external hard drive?
I have Windows 7. My Freegate external hard drive runs via a Belkin 4-way USB hub shared with my Epson printer/copier. When printing, I am continually asked to format the drive. It contains 30 days ...
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"You need to format your disk in drive X" message on my external hard drive
I have an external hard drive which worked fine and it is my backup harddrive. There are also some files on it that I would really want to keep. It's a 400GB Freecom drive in FAT32.
All of a sudden, ...
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