Questions tagged [portable-harddrive]
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Reallocated sectors count keeps growing and hard drive occasionally creates grinding sound [duplicate]
I have a relatively new portable hard drive (only ~420 hours so far). But it already has some reallocated sectors issues and occasional creates scary grinding sound. I am not sure if this has anything ...
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Windows 10 0xc000021a error after booting from external Windows 11 USB flash
I can't boot into Windows 10, it shows blue screen with 0xc000021a error code. Then tries to autorestore, but fails. I tried to restore it from Windows 11 on USB drive with DISM, but it shows me an ...
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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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Do modern USB external disks need parking or "safe removal"? What is the recommended way to turn them off?
I am trying to turn the off when I do not use it, as Seagate 3.5-inch USB drives never seem to lower the spinning speed even after I have not accessed the drive for hours.
I would like to use the &...
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If I mount a portable hard drive as a folder in Windows 10, can I still use that drive as a portable drive on another computer?
I'm running out of space on my desktop computer's hard drive, mostly due to my photos and Lightroom catalog. I would like to move the photos and catalog to an external drive, but would still like it ...
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WD External Harddisk turning on and off repeatedly
It's a 5yrs+ old 3TB external harddisk running fine until a couple of months ago when I had a power outage.
After that, it stopped functioning properly. It stays on (with all the data intact), and ...
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Does the 5TB Seagate Backup Plus external hard drive support hardware encryption?
In SeaTools, the Drive Information feature shows:
Encryption Support: Self Encrypting Drive
Security Mode: Supported
I cannot find any encryption-related options in the relevant Seagate software (...
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Seagate Backup Plus portable USB HDD beeps and won't mount
About two years ago, I bought me a Seagate "Backup Plus" Portable HDD, 2 TB capacity. Model: SRD00F1. And indeed, I filled it with some content. It's not critical material, but - it's the only copy I ...
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How do I diagnose/check USB HDD read breakdowns?
I have a Seagate Backup Plus portable drive.
Recently, reading from it has started to break down. It makes tick-like noises, and apparently retries stuff. My dmesg log has this kind of messages:
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How to know if the External Hard Drive is dead? If confirmed dead, how to recover the data?
We have a 5TB Seagate Backup Plus Slim Portable that was bought on November 2018.
The person using it asked me to check it because suddenly he couldn't access it from his Computer.
So as the IT guy ...
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Linux fuse changed from ntfs, 1TB portable disk
How can I change the fuse file system type to NTFS on portable disk?
The portable HDD was working on Windows but when I plugged it to Linux Ubuntu Windows does not recognise it.
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Powering External Raid disk via USB
I want to buy external RAID 2.5" drive. I am looking at Lacie Rugged RAID Pro: https://www.lacie.com/www-content/datasheets/pdfs/rugged-raid-proDS1975-2-1805US-en_GB.pdf
They state, that it can only ...
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My HDD is NOT logically visible in enclosure (portable HDD setup), but IS hardware-visible
I have a Lenovo Ideapad 320 running Windows 10 and am using it to attempt to solve this issue.
I have a physically undamaged 2.5 inch HDD (ST1000LM024 5400RPM 1000GB), I took it out of a broken ...
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Password protecting/Encrypting a 4TB Seagate portable HDD
I want to password protect a 4 tb portable hdd i frequently use and travel with. I've read how password protecting isn't safe, but I'm not concerned about someone tech savvy trying to break in and ...
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Wireless portable peripheral hub instead of wireless portable peripherals?
I'm having difficulty finding such a device, probably because I don't really have the right search term for them or they don't exist.
I have tried:
Wireless usb hub,
Bluetooth usb hub,
Portable usb ...
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