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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)
WD 4 ...
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Make a System Image of an Old Windows Computer as a VHD file
I have computers with Windows XP, Vista, and 7 installed. I have some ideas that I would like to use these computers for but I would need to backup everything on them first. I'm interested to know if ...
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Can you stop a chkdsk operation on a usb drive? [duplicate]
This is an external WD 1TB drive. It is attached to a Dell Optiplex 745 running windows xp, sp 3 with only 4 GB of RAM. is there anyway to stop chkdsk on this drive without hurting the file structure ...
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Recovering files from old internal disk without windows authentication [duplicate]
So I have an old hard drive which ran Windows XP. The rest of the computer was scraped. I can't recall the login password for the user on that hard drive. I want to recover files from this hard drive.
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Windows XP don't recognize external disk formatted in windows 10
I have an external 2TB disk which I formatted on Windows 10 laptop and made one big NTFS partition. But when I connect the disk to the Windows XP laptop (SP3), it doesn't see the NTFS partition. This ...
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How to use a 3TB (3000GB) USB backup HDD (Hard Disk Drive) On Windows XP 32 bit?
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How to use a 3TB (3000GB) USB backup HDD (Hard Disk Drive) On Windows XP 32 bit?
Before I buy a 3TB+ USB drive...
Can I format this 3TB USB drive with Window 7 as 2 partitions?
2TB + 1TB = 3TB
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Is it possible to install an OS on external hard drive using another computer
Yes, i am aware this is a duplicate of this, but it was never directly answered and instead given an off topic answer, but in my case, the host computer cannot format the partition using the ...
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How is it possible for the contents of a single folder on an external harddisk to become corrupt?
I have a Seagate External hard drive. We use this to store images (.img) of machine states. Windows embedded XP is the OS of the machine these images originate from AND the OS of the station we use to ...
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How to use a 4k byte sector external hard drive on Windows Xp
I'm used to backing up data from my Xp computer to external usb hard drives every now & then. Recently I bought a new 3TB WD external hard drive but once I plugged it to the usb port, strangely ...
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How to transfer data from WD Hard Drive to Computer using Sabrent
I had very old computer that stopped working(don't really know the reason). Got(detached) hard drive from it and wanted to open it on my new computer as an external hard drive. I bought Sabrent USB-...
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Generic USB Hub propagates Vendor/Product ID of 0000 to Win XP?
I am trying to use a Apacer portable USB HDD, which is USB 3.0, with Windows XP, and have some trouble on this machine.
First, when I connect the USB HDD directly to XP, it gets recognized as a ...
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File copying much slower than rated Firewire speed
While copying a lot of files to an external hard drive using Firewire I notice that the copy speed is a lot slower than the Firewire data transfer rate. The supposed transfer rate for Firewire 400 is ...
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Windows XP not recognizing my 4TB WD harddrive
Just now got Western Digital 4TB hard drive. WD4003FZEX. I have Windows XP and I know there is no straight forward solution in XP to make use of entire 4TB. Is there any workaround in XP to make use ...
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Is there a way to make an external hard drive appear as internal in Windows XP?
Title says it all, how can I make Windows XP treat my external hard-drive as an internal (system) hard drive?
I'm trying to install an application that will only accept an internal hard drive but I ...
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Will a 4TB external hard drive work on Windows XP?
I'm still on XP, and was wondering will a new external hard drive still work on XP? I heard XP can only handle up to 2 TB.
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