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What are options to set up a new portable SSD for newer and legacy Windows computers?

I bought a new 4TB M.2 NVME and an external M.2 enclosure for it. I want to set this up to be used like portable storage (used like "flash" storage), so that it can be used on a new Win 11 ...
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Cant format, mount or list external hard drive

So I have a 1TB internal Samsung M.2 SSD and a 1TB external SSD and i wanted to install gentoo on it. I installed gentoo and wanted to format the external hard drive but now, on my Mint system, the ...
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External hard drive's data+ and data- cables shorted and hard drive is showing unallocated

When I was trying to connect my external SSD to my computer, the usb socket accidentaly shorted while PC was reading data inside and connection to SSD instantly lost. Now when I fix the short circuit ...
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Windows 10 could not read disk, could not format as well

I newly bought an NVME 1TB M2 SSD and would like to replace this with my laptop's 128GB M2 SSD (Main HDD for boot). After cloning the disk with MiniTool Partition Wizard, it seems that the disk is ...
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How to prevent external HDD from losing partition on power loss

So I have the following setup: Desktop running Linux Mint An external USB 3.0 Hard Drive Enclosure (specifically this one) a 2 TB hard drive in the enclosure (specifically a Seagate Barracuda 2 TB ...
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Can't format SSD drive

I have an SSD drive I bought some time ago for using in an old Mac laptop, replacing the slow, spining disk that was inside. Eventually I bought a new laptop and wanted to use this SSD with a case as ...
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Corrupted hard drive in external hard drive bay

I did something very stupid and unplugged my USB3 Hard drive dock from my machine while it had a Samsung SSD attached. Unfortunately the drive seems to have some tables corrupted. When I run chkdsk ...
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How to get access to unaccessible SSD drive and weird partition volumes?

I bought a ASUS S46CB a month ago, and it boasted, among other features, two hard drives: a 20Gb SSD and a regular 1Tb hard drive. After booting, I saw that the 1Tb disk was splitted in half and ...
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HDD Bad sectors Regeneration

I've been trying for few days to figure this out and eventually I need some help. All suggestion gathered by the software are like 'get new hard drive'. My 2nd HDD got some troubles runing normaly and ...
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