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Can't access HDD External
So I have 2 HDD external that can't be accessed
Both showing at devices and printer
But doesn't show at computer
In devices and printer it says BUP portable and expansion but I can't access both
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HDD External can't be recognized on office PC
So don't know what's wrong
Before it works fine
Now I can't access HDD external from office PC
I try to use 2 different PC not work(windows 10)
I try at home with my laptop it's work (windows XP)
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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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External Hard Drive Going to Sleep CONSTANTLY
External Hard Drive Going to Sleep CONSTANTLY:
I've been a tech 30 years, I've NEVER seen this before. This is not a question I have ever encountered. Toshiba Canvio (Nightmare) external 3tb drive ...
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USB External Hard Drive with Windows 7 crashes
I have a USB external hard drive with Windows 7, but, when I get to the OS itself, the computer crashes with code stop code 0x0000007B. Is there a way to fix it? I have tried doing stuff like ...
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Windows 7 : How to remove option to "Save Windows on external hard drive" upon plugging the drive
Small question for an annoying issue :)
I have an external 3TB hard drive I use for storage (Western Digital). I use it with an older PC, Asus, on Windows 7.
When plugging the drive, there's a small ...
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Why isn't my External Hard Drive getting backed up by Backblaze?
My External Hard Drive (8 TB Seagate External Hard Drive mounted as disk letter F) isn't backed up. by Backblaze? See demo below. Why isn't it getting backed up?
I read https://help.backblaze.com/hc/...
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Very slow file transfer on external drive
I have this external drive that has some serious transfer speed issues. It starts off fast, but it quickly dwindles down from 180mb/sec to less than 10 mb/sec eventually going all the way down to 1 mb/...
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How long does it take Windows 7 to scan and repair an exFAT external drive that was incorrectly unplugged on a Mac?
It's been over 24 hours now and there is no progress bar to know what is going on. Cancel is greyed out and I'm afraid that force quitting will damage the drive. Context: Plugged in an almost full 4 ...
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TV cannot see USB drive since Windows 7 ran repair tool
I store media from Windows 7 to a portable NTFS USB drive and watch on my LG TV (circa 2015 model).
One night I booted Win 7 with the drive already connected. Windows detected something wrong with the ...
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Booting from an old internal HDD via USB without formatting
So I've been trying various methods over the past few months with no success. I have an old laptop hard drive from a spent laptop. The HDD is good and it contains a copy of some software which I ...
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How to resolve Hard disk failure with new external SSD
BIOS Boot Order
I have an error message on startup (SMART Hard Disk Error has detected an imminent failure, run the Hard Disk test in systems diagnostics). I can't even get to the login screen. I have ...
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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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Why don't external hard drives have capacitors?
In Windows when you plug in some external hard drive there's like 90% chance you won't be able to unplug it safely. Half of the time you get the message that some program is using it even though it's ...
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External Western Digital HDD not working
I've an external Western Digital HDD that suddenly decided to make problems.
I have 3 computers and this is the behavior:
Laptop WIN10 - formatted to exFAT and it works.
PC WIN10 - is detected by ...
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