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please insert a disk into usb drive after rufus [duplicate]
I used rufus to install windows on a fresh pc and after the install was finished I booted into windows, removed the usb drive. When I restarted and plugged the usb in it can't detect any media on it ...
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8 TB Disk dying - or is it the Controller?
During the last copy operation of my Seagate 8 TB disk (connected via USB 3.0), the speed of my disk dropped dramatically (from 90 MB/s to 100 kB/s). So I took CrystalDiskInfo to check the SMART ...
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Turned old SSD into USB external drive - But not working
I recently upgraded my PCs SSD storage from 500gb to a new 1tb disk. I've removed the 500gb and placed it within an external SSD enclosure.
When plugging it into the USB port it's not recognised as a ...
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Using Windows 10, how to "sync" documents, pictures, videos... folders with USB drive backup?
I have a backup of the documents, pictures and videos folders on a large external USB drive which took many hours to create. - Hey, even cloud services can lose files, as I found out to my cost 😏
I ...
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Is Windows unable to re-mount USB Attached SCSI (UAS) devices after removal, or is this just a defective drive dock?
I purchased a SABRENT EC-HD2B 2.5" & 3.5" Black SATA I/II/III USB 3.0 USB 3.0 to SATA I/II/III Dual Bay External Hard Drive Docking Station It works, but appears to be impossible to re-...
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How do I make Windows spin down my external HDD before cutting power to it when I shutdown?
Whenever I shutdown my laptop, my external HDD make a loud "click" sound when the power is cut. Even if the hard drive is idle, it spins up for a few seconds before being forcibly turned off ...
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USB harddisk does not get recognized by Windows anymore
Just a few days ago, Windows did recognize my quite new USB disk (also on my second pc and smart tv) - with some issues however: External USB HD does not get recognized after Windows start - only ...
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Hard disk drive is visible via USB 3.0 but not via SATA
I have connected and initialized(as GPT) a new 3.5 3TB hard disk drive via USB 3.0 (using this Orient UHD-523 adapter with external power supply), moved my data from two old 1TB hard disk drives into ...
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Prevent external hard drive from sleeping Windows 10
I have Windows 10 Pro on MS Surface go 2.
The external HDD is connected with USB3.0 hub.
All works fine, but once the HDD is for like 10 sec inactive, it's going to sleep right away.
I haven't found ...
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Why would changing USB ports fix "hardware issues" with an USB hard disk?
The request failed due to a fatal device hardware error.
This BS showed up for my 8-year-old external USB HDD. Then I demounted it and simply hooked it up to the same computer with a different USB ...
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UGREEN M2 SSD External Hard Drive Keeps Connecting and Disconnecting
I'm facing one of the biggest problems in my life, I have UGREEN USB M2 External Hard Drive. It had no media for the first time but when I upload the framework 'Asmedia ASMT-2105 Firmware (ASM1051, ...
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How do I get rid of these weird folders and files? Preferably without formatting the drive
After copying some files onto both my 16GB Micro SD and my 3.7GB USB drive, come of the folders got corrupted and I can't get rid of them. Windows gives an error, and seems to not be able to do ...
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The option to select whether to connect a USB drive to Host Machine or Virtual Machine upon plugging in gone
I used to be able to select whether to connect a USB storage device (HDD or USB drive) to my host machine or virtual machine but the popup doesn't come up now. And now I am unable to connect my HDD or ...
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HDD being detected but not able to read anything from it
I got here from this post but it's not my case so I wanted to make sure I am doing everything in my hand to help my family with an oldish HDD.an oldish HDD
Initially I recommended them buying ...
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HDD won't let windows boot
First my system:
MB Gigabyte ax370m gaming 3
Ram 2x g.skill aegis 8gb
Cpu ryzen 5 1600
Psu corsair cx 600
Gpu msi gtx 960 2gb
1ssd ocz trion 256gb
1HDD seagate 1TB
The problem:
After a restart i made ...
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Are forensic USB write blockers OK to use during data backup? (On Windows 10)
I've long been looking for a way to write protect one USB drive, while backing it up to another USB drive. And also to be able to mount USB drives as read-only to be confident of their contents ...
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Some USB devices not working properly on a new W10 x64 machine
Can you help me with a problem that I have with some USB devices not working properly on a new built machine.
I hope you will be able to help me, being myself a power user, but here a little lost in ...
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Extending C drive with external storage
I have a very specific use case in which I have a internal SSD that has 120GB of free space after a fresh install of windows 10 and manually removal of as much bloat as possible (I also compressed the ...
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Format USB Disk Using DiskPart Yields "No volume selected" Error
I use the following diskpart.exe sequence. I want to specify the disk number and then format the disk.
C:\>diskpart
Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.18362.1
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.
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Windows completely destroyed my USB
I own a 32GB USB stick. 2 years ago, when I was transferring files from my Windows 7 computer to the aforementioned USB my then computer got completely stuck. I hard reset the computer, and this ...
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Any ways to repair a HDD which cannot be formatted and write-protected? (+Disk error: CRC)
For a few months, I used the 3.5 inch WD Blue 500GB HDD and a SATA to USB docking station so that I can connect the HDD to my Raspberry Pi, to be used as a small version of NAS.
However, in some days,...
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How to safely turn off USB-connected, ATX PSU powered 3.5" hard disk drives built as internal?
I have a bunch of internal, 3.5" HDDs which I connect them to my laptop using an adaptor which converts SATA/IDE to USB 2.0. I can choose the "Safely remove storage" option in Windows 10 and it ...
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What is "launch efi shell from filesystem device" from the boot manager?
Im trying to boot my laptop from my USB Flash drive with its USB Legacy disabled and the internal Hard Drive has no Operating system (clean). After i entered the "launch efi shell from filesystem ...
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Using external storage as primary partition
My PC is a Laptab and hence has very low internal storage. i.e just 32 GB that is totally not suitable for a device running windows 10, cuz OS files itself are eating up more than half of the storage. ...
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Windows 10 doesn't react when I attempt to eject a disk?
I'm dealing with a problem that is making me wonder whether I should just give up and reinstall the OS. I have a Windows 10 PC that absolutely will not eject any device. No, this is not the typical, ...
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Laptop restarts when I plug in a specific external hard drive
I have a Western Digital WD Elements external hard drive. When I plug it into my laptop, the laptop behaves like there has been a short circuit and restarts immediately. After the restart, everything ...
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BitLocker encrypted drive doesn't work on other PCs
I have a BitLocker encrypted 1TB USB drive which is usually always connected to my work PC, and it works perfectly:
However, if I try to move the drive to another PC, it will always say that the "USB ...
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How to force system detection during boot: Inaccessible Boot Device Error
I have a Windows 10 disk from a computer, which I cloned. I plugged the disk into the USB port of the original computer, pressed F11 to get to the boot menu, selected the disk plugged into the USB ...
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Issues with USB Devices and Hard Drives
Few weeks ago I built a new PC (Spec below). Nearly everything worked fine so far with that pc, but when I first wanted to use the Hard drive from an older PC I noticed, that it didn't show up in "...
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SATA hard drive not spinning up when connected to USB port
When I connect a SATA HDD out of a fat Playstation 3 to a USB port on a laptop using a sata to usb converter board and cable the HDD does not spin up, however I know the cable and board are not bad ...
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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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How to use your USB External drive as primary drive?
I would like to use my main Internal drive to install software's but use my external USB drive to saves my files. Sound simple but I want it to be done automatically, like exchanging My Documents, ...
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If I Install Windows from from USB, will Ubuntu be removed from my harddrive completely?
I need Ubuntu gone from my harddrive, is it possible that if I install Windows from USB that Ubuntu will be gone and Windows will just overwrite and replace it?
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Hard disk recognised by laptop but can not copy/past data from it
I had a hard disk, the main disk that came with the computer.
Due to power failure my computer shut down and the drive was not detected.
So, I replaced it.
Now I have the old drive and as I have ...
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How can I create a valid partition to install Windows 10 on it?
I have a problem with installing Windows 10 on my computer. I have only an empty HDD (I want to install windows on it) and bootable USB with windows plugged into my PC. When I get to the window where ...
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USB Drive not usable after Windows 10 update
After an automatic update in (not to) Windows 10 my external USB drive is no longer visible in explorer. It is visible in Disk Manager but I can't assign it a drive letter (it says that it can't find ...
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