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Is there any way to transfer programs between laptops?
My old laptop that I do a lot of work on is starting to die. I have a lot of really important programs on there that would suck to lose.
Is there a way to perhaps copy these programs and allow them ...
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Seatool's Short Generic test fails, but Long Generic test passes
I've got a new Seagate Expansion External hard drive, model STEB5000100 (5TB) from Amazon. It is connected to a computer via USB 3.0
Even though it is brand new I decided to run Seatools tests.
It ...
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external hard drive can not be fornatted
While I was formatting my external hard drive (this one: http://nl.transcend-info.com/Products/No-284), another program that was running caused a failure that aborted the formating. Since then, I have ...
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Can I move a hard disk platter to another hard drive?
My hard disk just started making a ticking sound, and then it stopped spinning. I checked the inside and saw that the r/w head is broken.
Can I just move the platter to another hard drive or will it ...
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Using an external drive from Seagate with an HDD from Samsung
I have been running my external drive Seagate STBV20002004.5 for 2.5 years until it started showing read errors. I disassembled it and replaced the HDD with a Samsung HD501LJ (which, I am sure, is ...
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External HD stops working while transferring files
I was moving some files into my external HD (WD Elements 4TB) when it suddenly stopped working, on the copy window i had a message saying that the destination was not available. When i touched the HD ...
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2TB Seagate External GoFlex external hard drive failure: Is there anything I can do?
I have a 2TB Seagate External GoFlex—which has a Seagate 2TB 9VT156-570 installed—that I’d like to recover the data from. It was working and I was going to make a backup. I bought a SATA docking ...
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External USB hard drive and risk of internal condensation?
Apparently you can kill a USB hard drive by moving it from a cold to warm environment and powering it up. The killer being internal condensation.
Q1: How real is the risk? What kind of temperatures ...
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Will keeping my external hard drive plugged into AC (but not USB) wear it down?
I am planning to move my backups to an external USB drive, the reason being that the backups are using about 90% of my home server's space and I am not able to obtain a hard drive larger than 85 GB (...
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Is this hard-drive beyond recovery? [closed]
A family member dropped a couple of their external hard drives as they were swapping to a new computer.
Needless to say both drives have been ruined, but with different symptoms; the first drive works ...
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Can't access external harddrive in OSX
For some reason i can't access my external HDD anymore. It's not showing up in Finder, although i can see it in the Volumes folder and in Disk Utility app.
When i access the HDD from terminal and try ...
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Western Digital Elements 1TB USB3.0 Spins up and then beeps?
Well, today, I unplugged my WD external HDD from my laptop so that I could move it to a different port. I was not using any program that would be accessing the drive at the time. However, when I ...
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Old HD not botting, now external drive, can't get files
SO my old hard drive wouldn't boot anymore, I think the error had something to do with MUI not being full or something? So I bought a new computer and pulled the drive from my old computer and put it ...
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Is it true that a hard drive need to be used once in a while to stay alive?
I have heard someone saying that someone else said hard-disks need to be "moved" once in a while, meaning it has to spin or data has to read or written to once in a while or something like that.
I am ...
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How to prolong the life of an external hard drive?
In ten years, across several different machines, different companies, and different operating systems I've noticed a trend that external hard drives die long before their internal counterparts. ...
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