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External HDD Plugged into SATA shows uninitialized
I checked my Seagate external drive, or tried to, but it just wouldn't open up in Windows Explorer. (It had been plugged into the PC's USB for months, but I had not bothered to access it in this ...
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Windows does not open my SATA HDD when connected with USB
I changed PC recently. I had 2TB Seagate SATA drive that I connected with USB to my PC.
MyPc doesn't show it at all, and the COMPUTER MANAGEMENT only shows this - changing the disk letter doesn't ...
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Windows Thinks Internal Hard Drive Is Removable
I have an SSD and a HDD on Windows 10 Home prebuilt desktop PC. Windows is on the Samsung SSD. My internal Toshiba HDD shows up as removable:
I am trying to make this no longer be the case, without ...
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Windows freezes when accessing optical drive when SATA mode is set to RAID
I have a Asus X570-E motherboard with a couple drives connected in raid on the SATA bus. I've set the SATA mode from AHCI to RAID, and configured the raid successfully.
However, today when I ...
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Ability to selectively boot Windows 10 from two separate drives on same PC
I have an ASUS Maximus XI Hero Wifi Motherboard with three drives attached: a m.2 Samsung 970 EVO, a SATA Samsung 860 EVO, and a big SATA WD Red old fashioned spinner. The m.2 970 EVO has my Win 10 ...
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Cloned windows to SSD, but not in boot sequence and no OS found
Machine is a Dell Optiplex 380 (refurbished) with Windows 10 preinstalled.
I installed a Drevo SSD and since I moved the DVD sata cable from it's slot in the motherboard and connected the SSD there ...
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Access old laptop HDD from PC
Background;
Laptop HDD was designated C, is at least 10 years old and runs XP (I believe), password protected at login (not boot)
My computer is very new, runs windows 10
I am attempting to recover ...
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Hard drive in a notebook doesn't seem to work inside an adapter (optical drive replacement)
I have bought an SSD for my notebook (Aspire E5-571G, 2014 model), but because I didn't need a disc drive, I bought a cheap adapter/caddy (it didn't have a package or model number) where I could put ...
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Host system dead. How do I read data stored on a RAID 1 drive/pair?
I have looked for similar questions and I probably don't know the proper phrases to find an equivalent question if it exists here on SU. I have seen a couple questions from 6-plus years back that ...
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SSD not recognized in bios after Ubuntu crash
I install zorin os on my hdd but due to some mistakes my hdd crashed along with zorin...when I bought a new SSD and replace it my ssd is not being detected..and my battery light keeps blinking...I ...
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Can't change SATA mode from RAID to AHCI in Windows 10
I am trying to install Ubuntu in dual boot with Windows 10, but after many failed attempts I realized that I have to change SATA mode to AHCI.
I have tried literally everything I have read online, ...
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Windows 10 can not see HD SATA after ssd installation
I had a setup as below
1 SATA 160 gb Bootable (windows 7)
1 SATA 160 gb
1 SATA 350 gb
1 SATA 500 gb
I decided to buy an Samsung evo 256 gb SSD in order to replace the bootable disk
and i performed a ...
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Why is my SATA Harddrive not being detected by Windows?
I recently upgraded my Windows 7 PC to windows 10 which caused all sorts of problems. I've solved most of them, but my WD10EADS-00M2B0 Western Digital Caviar 1tb 7200rpm 3.5inch harddrive is not ...
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Windows 10 setup won't recognize HDD in Travelmate laptop
Just bought my new laptop, it came without an OS, so I went about installing Win 10 on it from USB. Everything is fine until I have to choose where I want the OS installed, and the list is empty. I've ...
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Asus P5Q Pro - hard drive shows up in BIOS but not in Windows 10
I have Windows 10 installed on an SSD connected to one of the two SATA 6G ports. All SATA 3G ports are used up by hard drives. I'd like to add another hard drive, but when I plug it into the remaining ...
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