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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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How do you mount your physical hard drive to VirtualBox?
I have a physical two terabyte laptop hard drive that I want access. The hard drive itself contains a Windows 10 Home OS that used to belong to an HP 15-da0061cl notebook. I used to own that notebook ...
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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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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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Eject/dismount a drive using PowerShell
I would like to eject/dismount an external USB drive via PowerShell.
Meaning, I want to replicate exactly the behaviour of these UI actions (Ejecting drive via Windows UI):
Currently I am using this ...
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HDD suddenly disappeared from Explorer
I have an older Seagate 120 GB HDD, that I'm connecting to my laptop with an IDE/SATA to USB adapter. The drive is easily 15 years old, but when I connected to the SATA/USB adapter (which is powered),...
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Drive not appearing in Optimise Drives (Windows 10)
Running Windows 10 with two 16GB pen drives (mapped to F: and P:) and a larger 4TB WD external disk (mapped to W:). All drives work correctly, appear in Windows Explorer, Disk Management, you can ...
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Windows 10 fails to assign drive letter to external USB hard disk drive on plugin
I have a correctly formatted (Master Boot Record, FAT32) 500 GB SATA 2.5 inch drive in an external hard drive enclosure, connected by USB chord.
This drive automatically mounts flawlessly to my ...
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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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Unable to copy any file to external HDD
I have WD My Passport 4TB External Hard Drive. When I try to copy any file to WD HDD, it gives me error: "Cant read from the source file or disk". But I can copy any file in HDD to my laptop....
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What is using my external hard drive, without my permission, and how can I stop it?
I've noticed for a while now that my WD passport (2TB) blinks by itself, so I looked into the issue and checked in Resource Manager to see what's going on. In Resource Manager I saw that almost every ...
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External HDD not assigned drive letter on Windows
I have an external 5TB drive (Seagate Expansion Desk). It has 2 partitions (FAT32 & NTFS) with valuable files. I may have unplugged it before without doing it "safely" on Windows 10. It is now not ...
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Computer hardware
I have question related SSD. My laptop is HDD, Window 10 . I need to download a IDE which is not working in my laptop and it is continually hanging, when I asked my teacher he said this IDE will work ...
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Does CHKDSK have any volume size limitations?
A colleague of mine mentioned he thinks CHKDSK, since it's so old, probably doesn't support very large target volumes. For example, if you wanted to run CHKDSK on a single, super large volume like say,...
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Toshiba external hard disk 2 tb undetected by pc however blinking [duplicate]
Suddenly my TOSHIBA EXTERNAL HDD fall down a small distance later i tried to connect it to pc but it keeps blinking or flashing and the windows makes sound like recognizing usb but it’s not showing on ...
