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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Why is Task Manager using my USB drive?
After using the answers to this question: Can Windows tell me what is using my USB drive?, I found from Event Viewer that Task Manager was using the drive:
The application \Device\HarddiskVolume5\...
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Why is the free disk space on an external drive varying wildly while copying files on it?
I'm using Windows 8.1 Explorer to copy image files from my Android mounted as media device, onto an SSD connected via a USB 2.0 drive enclosure (NTFS).
While the copying goes on, the free disk space ...
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Insanely slow USB harddisks on Linux in 2019
We use a simple backup system at work: Every day we connect an external USB harddisk to our Ubuntu Linux server, which then calls a backup script (cronjob) at night to perform all the backup.
Next day ...
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Seagate External USB 3.0 HDD doesn't register when connected?
I've got a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk 2TB External USB 3.0/2.0 Hard Drive that I use for backups.
I previously had issues with USB ports not supplying sufficient power to the drive, but that was ...
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Is there a way to use an Android mobile phone for "isolated storage"
Recently, manufacturers have been introducing Android mobile phones on the market with internal memory capacities of 256Gb, 512Gb, even 1Tb.
Since that is more than enough for all my "phone needs", ...
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Why is my newly formatted (NTFS) 4 TB external hard drive has a Total Reserved Clusters of 4.7 GB?
I just bought a new external HDD (WD My Book 4 TB, it's my 3rd of the 4 TB variant).
As per usual, I formatted it using NTFS with 4KB cluster size because I'm using Windows 10, but then when I checked ...
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fsck_exfat: Could not update main boot region: Bad file descriptor - Mac OS X - external hard drive
My external hard drive (seagate barracuda with good SMART status insidev erbatim 4TB store 'n' go) has 3 main partitions:
1) ntfs
2) hfs+ for time machine backup
3) exfat to transfer files between ...
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Bitlocker decryption stuck at 82.1% (No disk activity)
📢 TL;DR: Bitlocker decryption of a 4TB USB HDD stuck at 82.1% with 0% disc activity for hours. No errors found on the drive, files still fully accessible.
I have been decrypting BitLocker on my USB ...
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Do magnetic HDDs gradually lose their data?
I read that magnetic HDDs can lose data with age as the magnetism weakens in spots.
I have a more than 1 TB and growing archive copied onto several magnetic hard drives (each drive has the whole ...
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Can I mark an entire partition as "bad sectors" to prevent a device from formatting the whole thing?
Update: My HDD did not support HPA. All well, I'll just stick to using it as a true external drive with folders for both PS3 and Xbox.
I have a large HDD that I'd like to partition and use half on my ...
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Combining two disjoint ddrescue backup images
I have a 3 TB drive which recently started to malfunction. I was using the ddrescue utility on Debian to read data off the disk to a different external hard drive. However, after 2 TB of data had been ...
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How to hide Eject Button in Mac OS X for the permanent external drive like JetDrive
How can I hide the Eject Button for a certain external drive in the Mac OS X?
Because usually the external drive like JetDrive or StorEdge, does not need to be removed (I want to extend the disk ...
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Can't access external harddrive in OSX
For some reason i can't access my external HDD anymore. It's not showing up in Finder, although i can see it in the Volumes folder and in Disk Utility app.
When i access the HDD from terminal and try ...
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Why is my 500GB hdd not readable after dd'ed on a different 500GB hdd?
Accidentally formatted an important external 500GB hdd yesterday. Not an SDD, 2.5".
(Quick) formatting occured while installing windows xp on it. I had the wrong usb drive plugged in. ~600MB are ...
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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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