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If I move a hard-drive from one box to another, will I still be able to boot from that drive? [closed]
If you open the bios on a machine, and tell it to boot from an external hard-drive, but the device drivers (graphics, card, etc...) are all wrong, will it usually work well-enough/ long-enough to ...
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External eSATA HDD nowhere to be found in Windows 7 Explorer, Disk Management, but visible in Device Manager
I have an external HDD using enclosure. It has both USB and eSATA interface.
The USB interface works well, the autoplay shows and the drive is visible from Windows Explorer.
I would like to use the ...
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External HDD nowhere listed in Explorer / My Computer, but listed in Device Manager
I recently bought a cheap external HDD case to use with a laptop HDD, so I can have a cheap and simple backup external HDD.
Unfortunately the HDD does not show up in My Computer and Windows Explorer (...
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Can't install wireless drivers to Windows 7 on an external drive
Today I installed Windows 7 to a 1TB external USB hard drive. Everything worked fine, set up Windows and went to install drivers so I could connect to my LAN. My primary OS is Ubuntu, so I booted into ...
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WD Elements 1042 usb 3.0 not recognized by Windows 7
I have a WD Elements 1042 with usb 3.0, Windows 7, Lenovo notebook and My Computer can't see it. Anyway, it's visible in Hardware and Sound -> Devices and Printers -> Elements 1042 Properties -> WD ...
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Can JM20339 Driver for Windows 98 be installed in Windows 7?
I have an old SATA adaptor for a external hard disk drive. It uses the chip JMicro JM20339. I searched all day for a Windows 7 driver, but it seems that it doesn't exist.
The only one I found was a ...
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External USB attached drive works in Windows XP but not in Windows 7. How to fix?
Earlier this week I purchased this "N52300 EZQuest Pro" external hard drive enclosure from here.
I can connect the enclosure using USB 2.0 and access the files in both NTFS partitions on the MBR ...
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Drivers not installing and drives not being recognized
Dell optiplex 755 running win7-32
Two problems, not sure if they're related
1: Two drivers are missing when viewing device manager, PCI serial port and PCI Simple Communications Controller, I've ...
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