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Windows 10: No option to Eject External HARD DRIVE (NOT USB Stick)

When I plug in my external hard drive (again, NOT USB stick), and right click on the icon in This PC, there is no option to eject the drive. There is a system tray option to "safely eject" it, but ...
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2 votes
1 answer
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Western Digital HDD Active Time 100 percent

Needs some advice with someone that has some experience with this. I have a Western Digital My Book 4TB External Hard Drive about 2 months old that is not performing well, what I have noticed is ...
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HDD "unknown", "not initialized", no capacity, no nothing. But physically working and showing up in the device manager

It's a WD hard disk. I'm using its original PCB and the disk turns on, is physically running, and the WD software diagnostic shows "PASS". It appears in the device manager, but in the disk ...
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Updating windows 8 "to go" to windows 10

I have an installation of windows 8 on an external hdd. When I try to update to windows 10 the update fails with the message that windows on usb drives cannot be updated. Is there a way to update this ...
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