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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How to use an external harddrive as the main harddrive [closed]
What I mean by this is that I hope to eliminate the use for an internal hard drive since I'm having some issues with it that I'd rather just leave behind
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How can I make three 10TB external hard drives act as one 30TB hard drive?
I have a huge collection of videos I am using for a book. I have over 30TB of data. When I am searching for and downloading new videos for my research, it is a huge benefit for me if I do not download ...
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Forgot password for external hard drive
I created a password for WD Elements 2T USB 3.0 external hard drive and I just forgot it. Is there a way to retrieve it or a workaround?
My operating system is OS X Yosemite
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External power for 3,5" HDD with USB-C charger
I'm trying to use one of my 2 HDDs (requiring 0,75A and less on both 5V and 12V) as external drive for storage. I tried using UGREEN Sata to USB-C adapter, but it has not enough power.
I know, that 3,...
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How do I get an external USB hard drive recognized in Windows PE environment (WinPE running off disc)?
I'm running WinPE on a disc. I believe it's PE 2.0. It's being run on a laptop with USB 3.0 ports, as I'm sure that may matter. I want to connect either a USB thumb drive or USB hard drive but it's ...
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Cannot convert physical disk to vhdx (Hyper-V)
I have used Hyper-V Manager for more than two years to backup my two-partition external HDD to my computer (~600 GB [BitLocker encrypted] + ~100GB [unencrypted]). Here is a step-by step tutorial, on ...
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Understanding the Relationship between Device IOPS and Throughput
I'm trying to understand the relationship between device IOPS and throughput. I used AmorphousDiskMark to gather some information, and I have one question:
My SSD disk is based on 4KB per block. So, I ...
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Offline button is not active in Disk Management
I have a loptop with 2 hard drives , The original one is sata and I added SSD drive to it after I purchase it. with windows 10 installed on it on SSD drive. I offline the sata disk from disk ...
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Accidentally deleted upperfilter in 4d36e967-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318 and now external hard drives wont register
One of my external hard drives wasn't working so I tried a bunch of things to fix it and one thing said to delete upperfilters and lowerfilters in 4d36e967-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318, so I did that. ...
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Accessing a Macbook Pro in Target Disk mode over Thunderbolt from Windows
I have a MacBook Pro late 2011 with Thunderbolt booted into Target Disk Mode, as well as a Gigabyte motherboard model number GA-Z77X-UP4 TH running Windows 7. The MBP has two internal disks formatted ...
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Windows Drive Name Is Permanently Renamed?
When I plug in any external drive, the drive name keep showing as E: PANDORY, which I did rename one drive to in the past, but they used to show up as the blank name of the drive manufacturer, how do ...
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System Image Recovery: can't find my backed up image
Summary: On a PC with Windows not booting, I want to restore my files with System Image Recovery, but it won’t find the backed up image.
My Desktop (Windows 10) won’t boot to Windows anymore (...
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How to interpret SMART Reallocated Sectors Count (WD Elements)
Update, 23 later: the drive failed, most data can't be read, even though the SMART values did not deteriorate a lot. I wanted to replace it in two weeks, since I was busy. Don't fall into a "this ...
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External hard drive freezes everything
When I insert my external hard drive my computer freezes. By freezes I mean :
I can't open the hard drive, when I try to windows explorer freezes and it forces me to end process, when I do that whole ...
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"Device not configured" after external HD improperly unmounted
I accidently unplugged my external HD before the eject was done :-/
/Volumes/Red is still there and can't be deleted.
The HD still mounts but as /Volumes/Red 1.
How can I remove /Volumes/Red?
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