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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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
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How to recover lost data through transfer?
I have made a terrible mistake when transferring photos from a microSD card to an external HDD.
I connect the microSD card and the external HDD to my iPad. I could see all the photos from SD card. I ...
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Copying large video files to external hard drive (connected via a SATA III to USB 3.0 hub) universally causes file corruption
The files are perfectly fine on my server's local SSD, but when I try to copy them to the ext4 logical volume I have set up on top of a volume group that contains only this HDD, where the size of the ...
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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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Hard disk recognised but doesn't show up
I have this strange issues with my Seagate external drive that has important data. When I connect my HDD via usb, I can see the device appear in the tray as seen below:
But however, it doesn't appear ...
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Upgrading Mac OS 10.14.6 (Mojave) to Mac OS Ventura having the installer stored and running from a external drive
I'm trying to upgrade Mac OS on my Powerbook. It is currently running Mojave. I've tried a regular (in-place) upgrade but it requires a ridiculous amount of free space on the MacBook Pro disc. The ...
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Linux Internal HDD Cloning/Backup Issue [closed]
I have installed Manjaro XFCE in my Laptop, that also has Windows 8.1 in a dual-boot format. The Windows 8.1 was installed earlier than Linux. But, in terms of disk partitions, between two partitions ...
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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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Is it possible to make a RAID of multiple WD elements external drives
I have about 10 2tb WD Elements 2.5 WD green external hard drives (WD20NMVW). I want to know if I could make something useful out of them.
The best would be to be able to use them for a data archive ...
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What are some ways to debug/troubleshoot faulty USB ports?
I am using an ancient Gigabyte motherboard (GA-M720-US3). I noted within the last few years that one by one, the USB ports (2.0, perhaps earlier version?) fail to connect my large external hard drives ...
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Connecting four 2.5" external USB HDDs with a 48 watts powered USB Hub
Need to access four USB HDDs simultaneously while having only one available USB3 Type A port in laptop...
Found a 10 port 48 watts hub "Orico AT2U3-10AB" where I thought of keeping 6 ports ...
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If I remove SSD from laptop and put it in external enclosure, can I boot same laptop from it and access files?
My laptop (Thinkpad P51s) is no longer seeing its NMVe SSD (apparently some connector issue). I'm planning to use an external enclosure to retrieve my data, but I'm wondering whether it's possible to ...
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How many AMPs can a powered USB hub output to a 3.3V NVMe drive (USB 3.0 & 3.2 Type A)
It is my understanding that powered USB Type A 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2 switches have over current control and will only output 4.5 watts around 0.900ma unless the output port is a type-c non pd port on the ...
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External USB Hard Drive Disconnects When Unused
I have a "TerraMaster D2-310 USB Type C External Hard Drive RAID Enclosure USB3.1 (Gen1)" that works fine, except if it not used for a while it becomes invisible to the PC, even if the PC is ...
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