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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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Basic data partition vs. primary partition
What is the difference between primary partition and basic data partition?
I formatted two spare drives I have and am confused that the lower one says "basic data partition". How do I format ...
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How to cleanly convert hardrive with existing windows installation to external harddrive for storage?
I recently replaced my laptop with one that has an absurdly tiny hard drive. However, I still have my old laptop, which is no longer functional but does have a functional HD. Thus I decided to ...
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USB disk always mounted as offline. Anything that I can do about this?
My 2 TB 2.5" USB 3.0 external disk is never found by my TV. When I plug it to my Windows 10 Pro, it is mounted properly (Disk Management can see it), but "offline" (i.e. without any ...
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When external HDD READ speed only varies dramatically with 100% active time, is this a logical or physical issue?
I have a WD Elements 8TB External Hard Drive that I purchased six months ago. During the past few weeks, it has been experiencing difficulties with its read/write speed, so I decided to investigate. (...
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Option to extend volume on windows 10 disk management greyed out for no reason
Alright, I was trying to use this external 4TB HDD as a live disk for Linux, it worked but now I have to reformat it. However Disk Management, in it's infinite wisdom, has decided to grey out the ...
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