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How did I set up this USB multi-partition?

I have a Corsair Voyager GTX flash drive and I partitioned it to have four partitions, one of which I'm using for Kali Linux live, there other for my portable apps and portable gamestation folder and ...
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Why is a USB 3.0 external hard drive is performing faster than internal hard drives? [closed]

Why is my USB 3.0 connected external hard drive transferring files quicker than my two internal drives? I am using Windows 10. Internal Primary: 1TB NVMe Samsung SSD 960 (PCIe Connected) Internal ...
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External hard drives do not show up on Windows

My system: Windows 10 Home Drives: WD and Seagate 4TB USB 3.0 external hard drives Several days ago, I bought a Western Digital Passport 4TB USB 3.0 external hard drive. I plugged it in and did ...
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Windows 10 fails to boot without recovery disk

Every time I boot up my PC, I see this message after the BIOS splash screen: boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible 0x000000f From then, only Windows 10 will only boot when a ...
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Windows 10 thinks it's a USB install

At my work I used my hard drive with a sata to usb device to see if a computer would even boot, it did but now because of that Windows 10 believes it's a usb install and I've been having more hangs ...
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Recover data from old laptop HDD: device not detected

A little backstory: My girlfriend's laptop has become useless after taking roughly 10 minutes to perform any action, like opening windows explorer. The device is old and should be replaced anyways, ...
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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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Extremely slow USB 3 HDD transfer rate on one PC but not the other

I have this Transcend Storage Jet external HDD. I was using it with my desktop Win 10 which supported USB 2.0. The transfer rate was satisfactory over 15MB/s. However, when I tried it on my new Lenovo ...
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External hard drive forgets new data independent on dismount

I have two computers: A laptop for work and a personal computer at home. I also have an Intenso USB 3.0 external Hard Drive keeping them in sync. Both computers have been set up by myself and should ...
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How to transfer data from WD Hard Drive to Computer using Sabrent

I had very old computer that stopped working(don't really know the reason). Got(detached) hard drive from it and wanted to open it on my new computer as an external hard drive. I bought Sabrent USB-...
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The via USB connected SCSI (UAS)-device for mass storage cannot be stopped

Since I bought a SSD Case, I am not being able to unplug my SSD. When I want to safely remove the ssd from my computer, windows just says: Original in Dutch: "Kan apparaat Via USB aangesloten SCSI (...
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External Hard-Drive Not Showing Up

My "WD My Passport Ultra" (2 TB) isn't showing up whenever I plug it in. My case seems to be slightly different than all the other cases posted on this site: What's going on: The unit is getting ...
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Windows 10 anniversary update powering off USB hard drive enclosure

After updating to Windows 10 anniversary my Mediasonic ProBox HF2-SU3S2 4 Bay 3.5" Hard Drive Enclosure powers off after about 15 minutes. I had the same issue in Windows 10 1511 but was able to fix ...
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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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SSD HD works for 10 seconds and shuts down

I used Samsung MZ7LN256HCHP SSD Hard-Drive for quite a while. Yesterday it broke. It didn't turned on the operation system (windows 10) and just stuck on loading. On rare cases it did turned it on, ...
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