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HDD External can't be recognized on office PC
So don't know what's wrong
Before it works fine
Now I can't access HDD external from office PC
I try to use 2 different PC not work(windows 10)
I try at home with my laptop it's work (windows XP)
WD 4 ...
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External Hard Drive Going to Sleep CONSTANTLY
External Hard Drive Going to Sleep CONSTANTLY:
I've been a tech 30 years, I've NEVER seen this before. This is not a question I have ever encountered. Toshiba Canvio (Nightmare) external 3tb drive ...
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Windows 7 : How to remove option to "Save Windows on external hard drive" upon plugging the drive
Small question for an annoying issue :)
I have an external 3TB hard drive I use for storage (Western Digital). I use it with an older PC, Asus, on Windows 7.
When plugging the drive, there's a small ...
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Booting from an old internal HDD via USB without formatting
So I've been trying various methods over the past few months with no success. I have an old laptop hard drive from a spent laptop. The HDD is good and it contains a copy of some software which I ...
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How to resolve Hard disk failure with new external SSD
BIOS Boot Order
I have an error message on startup (SMART Hard Disk Error has detected an imminent failure, run the Hard Disk test in systems diagnostics). I can't even get to the login screen. I have ...
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External Western Digital HDD not working
I've an external Western Digital HDD that suddenly decided to make problems.
I have 3 computers and this is the behavior:
Laptop WIN10 - formatted to exFAT and it works.
PC WIN10 - is detected by ...
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Hard disk doesn't show up on Windows 10, but it shows up on Windows 7 - Symbol of deactivation
Since yesterday my hard drive doesn't show up on Windows 10, only on Windows 7.
In Device Management, in correspondence of the hard drive item, there is the symbol (circle with inside a black arrow ...
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xHCI causes "USB device not recognized" until reboot
When I enable xHCI in my BIOS, I get three times faster speed (90 MB/s file copying in Windows Explorer) with my external hard drive, but paradoxically I get the message "USB device can perform faster"...
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External USB hard drive momentarily disconnects when additional external hard drive is plugged in
On a Windows 7 laptop with one USB 3.0 port and two USB 2.0 ports:
Whenever there is already an external hard drive plugged into the USB 3.0 port, and then another external hard drive is plugged into ...
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Mirroring a system in a virtual machine
I have an “old” desktop computer that runs Windows 7 Pro, with a number of hard drives, where the C: drive is >500 GB.
I have a new laptop that runs Windows 10, with a solid-state drive with a 200 GB ...
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Difference between benchmark and windows copying in external HDD speed
I just got a new external USB 3.0 HDD (Seagate Expansion 6TB), formatted as NTFS. When writing large files to that HDD via the Windows 7 Professional explorer, I see very slow writing speeds according ...
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BitLocker takes days on an empty external disk / Is "Encrypt used disk space only" available on Windows 7?
I have Windows 7 x64 and a brand new USB external 2 TB hard drive. I formatted it and I confirm it's empty.
I enabled BitLocker, and two things happen:
It is about to take at least 10 hours or even ...
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Why large number of files wouldn't copy to an external hard drive with enough space?
I have 4 TB Western Digital my-passport drive. When I copy a folder with large number of files, the copy (or move files) dialog just sits there forever without returning but no further copying takes ...
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Sharing External Hard drive on Network
I got problem when I try to share the external hard drive over the network. Basically the hard drive are connected using USB port and having 3 partition. My machine work on Windows 7.
When I ...
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Differences in unplugging an external hard drive from USB2 port vs USB3?
On a Win7 laptop, when I plug in any external USB3 platter-based hard drive into a...
USB3 port, and then click on the Eject option in the system tray (and receive the Windows message that it safe to ...
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