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How to find what programs are using an external SSD?
After buying a Samsung Portable SSD T7 shield I connected it to my Asus computer (running Windows 10) and then opened a setup file and followed the steps to install and put a password on the drive. ...
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HDD suddenly disappeared from Explorer
I have an older Seagate 120 GB HDD, that I'm connecting to my laptop with an IDE/SATA to USB adapter. The drive is easily 15 years old, but when I connected to the SATA/USB adapter (which is powered),...
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How to delete ProgramFiles x86 and Windows folders (external hard drive)
I’ve upgraded an old HDD on a laptop to an SSD (the SSD has already windows on it, last update, drivers etc, so the laptop is fully operational).
I’d like to delete the ProgramFiles, ProgramFiles (x86)...
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Drive not appearing in Optimise Drives (Windows 10)
Running Windows 10 with two 16GB pen drives (mapped to F: and P:) and a larger 4TB WD external disk (mapped to W:). All drives work correctly, appear in Windows Explorer, Disk Management, you can ...
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Preserving Quick Access Pins and Libraries with Robocopy
So I've had an external drive that I kept plugged into my laptop that later started having connection issues. I decided to use Robocopy to transfer the files over to a new drive with (effectively) the ...
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Why does Windows 10 Task Manager say that my LaCie 750GB Rikki external hard drive's capacity is 4.5 TB?
Windows 10 Task Manager say that my LaCie 750GB Rikki external hard drive's capacity is 4.5 TB. See below. Why?
Disk management confirms that the LaCie 750GB Rikki external hard drive is 750 GB, i.e. ...
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My external hard drive not detected from my Windows pc despite can be detected from my Samsung tablet
I have an external hard drive Seagate model: SRD0NF1 size 1TB and it is not being detected on my Windows PC.
The PC specs:
Windows 10 Home
64bit
ASUS rog GL752VW
When I say its not detected, it means ...
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unable to unlock advanced settings of bios in haeir y11b laptop
I have Haier y11b laptop. it has two drives. one drive capacity is 30gb which has windows installed. the other drive capacity is 465gb. as the 30gb drive capacity is too low for other software to be ...
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External Seagate Ultra Touch HDD lags computer and can't be mounted correctly on Linux or Windows 10
On Windows 10 it at least (sometimes) shows the overall directories on the HDD, but Linux can't even do that anymore.
I'm fairly sure that up until a couple weeks ago my Linux PC could read the drive. ...
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Can I recover accidently deleted files on an SSD External Drive running Windows 10 Home?
I accidently deleted files from a WD external SSD hard drive. Running OS is Windows 10. I have scanned the drive with two separate on-line file recovery (Stellar & Recoverit) packages and both ...
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Unable to copy any file to external HDD
I have WD My Passport 4TB External Hard Drive. When I try to copy any file to WD HDD, it gives me error: "Cant read from the source file or disk". But I can copy any file in HDD to my laptop....
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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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Why does the file size of the a being transferred depends on how much free space the external hard drive has, and how can I avoid that?
I transfer some files from a GoPro (connected via MTP) to an external hard drive. I notice that for the file size of the file being transferred depends on how much free space the external hard drive ...
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What is using my external hard drive, without my permission, and how can I stop it?
I've noticed for a while now that my WD passport (2TB) blinks by itself, so I looked into the issue and checked in Resource Manager to see what's going on. In Resource Manager I saw that almost every ...
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Windows 10 does not recognise second external hard drive
After a RAID drive failure I am left with two identical 500GB SSD 2.5" drives which appear to be in good working order (fortunately I've recovered my data from the RAID drives). I have bought two ...
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