Questions tagged [external-hard-drive]
A hard drive designed to be connected to a computer via an external interface such as USB, eSATA, Thunderbolt, or IEEE 1394.
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Symlink Messages Library Data
My hard drive is completely full on my mac, mostly due to my extensive Messages archive. I have an external drive and would like to move the data over to it using a symlink (or other solution). When I ...
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Are disks in multi-bay enclosure seen as individual disks or one?
I have only experience with single disk enclosure, so sorry for naive question.
Let's say I buy 2-bay disk enclosure and put there 2 disks. Will I see them as two separate disks (this is what I would ...
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Is it possible to use a PC to simulate an external hard drive?
What I would like to do is to divide a hard drive into partitions, and connect my PC to other devices. While connected, I want the other device to recognize a partition of the hard drive as if it were ...
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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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Why does my external USB hard drive (bus powered) keep making noise long after it's unmounted?
Why does my external USB hard drive (bus powered) keep making noise long after it's unmounted? I am using macOS 14.3.1.
The noise is very similar to, or the same as, that the drive makes when writing ...
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Can a faulty motherboard kill external HDDs?
Last year I got a new external HDD (drive 1) which failed without warning in less than 2 months. I got it replaced with a different but also new external drive (drive 2), and now four months later it ...
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MacOs, Ext. Hard drives killing computers?
in the same week, I’ve had 3 computers fail to turn on when being connected to my two external HDDs. The drives are a LaCie 500Gb and an IBM 250 Gb in an OWC case. Both connect through Firewire 800 or ...
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How can I test external HDDs after 3 computers fail to turn on after using external HDDs?
In the same week, I’ve had 3 computers fail to turn on when being connected to my two external HDDs. The drives are a LaCie 500Gb and an IBM 250Gb in an OWC case. Both connect through Firewire 800 or ...
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File Transfer of ISO files using ROBOCOPY and Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V
I have these two products:
Virtual iODD External Encrypted Enclosure Virtual
Samsung SSD 4TB
I have a Sabrent SATA Driver Enclosure on the side connected to my main computer, with a Windows 10 OS. ...
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Why is my WD HDD making a curious sound?
I've tried to access an 3.0TB Hard-Drive from Western Digital (Model WD30EZRX).
The hard drive is not being shown by the operating system and it creates the following (repeating) sound:
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REALLOCATED SECTOR COUNT 4948. Request for advice
I felt need of testing because some of my stored games were failing to boot properly. Quick test from HD Tune Pro app displayed 3 red blocks in one of the test runs and a full test always reports 3 ...
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How can I use the full 6 Gbit/s mode on my SATA HDD?
I am using an old WD My Book (don't know which version, but it's most likely the one from the video How to open a WD my book case) with a WD 2 TB HDD. It is connected via mini USB b <=> USB A to ...
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WD External Drive Stopped Working - Are there any Non-Destructive Diagnostic Options? What's the Best Course Of Action?
I'm having problems with my Western Digital My Passport 4TB External Drive.
This model, specifically: WDBYFT004BBK-0A
I was in the process of cross-backing-up data between my live setup (laptop), my ...
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Should I be worried about my SMART values of my drive?
From what I gather, this is really really bad. I should probably replace my drive. But could I get verification that I am correct before doing so?
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
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Problems with usb3 attached drive ERROR: Transfer event for disabled endpoint or incorrect stream ring
I have a HP Microserver gen8 that I'm using for testing and some minor backup.
This machine has a debian 9 installation, I'm planning to upgrade it to debian 12 when I will have some time, the machine ...
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