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My external hard drive not detected from my Windows pc despite can be detected from my Samsung tablet
I have an external hard drive Seagate model: SRD0NF1 size 1TB and it is not being detected on my Windows PC.
The PC specs:
Windows 10 Home
64bit
ASUS rog GL752VW
When I say its not detected, it means ...
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External USB drive does not appear in Windows Explorer when connected to the front panel of the PC
External drive does not appear in Windows Explorer. The problem arose unexpectedly with the USB ports on the front panel of PC.
All specified USB ports are version 2.0 and initially everything worked ...
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Partitions on external backup drive - are they useful?
I have PC with Windows 7 and two drives: SSD 256 GB (system, 1 partition), HDD 3 TB (data, 3 partitions - 1 TB each).
I have also second HDD 3 TB in external HDD case which is using USB port to ...
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Volume label on 2TB Seagate Backup Plus Slim external hard drive does not appear in Windows Explorer (but is visible in Disk Management)
I've been experiencing some weird things with my Seagate drives. I think this happened when I tried to "vaccinate" the drives with Panda Free Anti-Virus. My WD 2TB and my internal hard drives worked ...
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What is windows 7 secretly putting on formatted USB drives? [duplicate]
Initial actions:
I wanted to copy some files that were very close in total size to the USB stick memory size (<8G).
So I checked size of all files vs available space. A few more KB were needed for ...
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What is the difference between "drive letter" and "volume label"
I am under the impression that "volume label" is available on linux, too whereas "drive letter" is windows specific. Where can I read that up?
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How do I prevent Windows from randomly spinning up a (green) USB harddrive?
Even if the powersaving feature of Windows is set to never shut down my harddrive, my external USB harddrives will still spin themselves down automatically after some period of inactivity. The problem ...
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Cannot copy anything onto WD Elements 1TB External USB HDD
I have a Western Digital 1023 Elements 1TB External USB HDD. Recently, it has started an unusual problem. I cannot copy any file of any size on to that 1TB hard-drive, eventhough it has more than 400 ...
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Is it safe to plug out external usb harddisk when logoff?
I've tried to eject an external drive but it just won't be ejected. I know it is safe to pull out the external drive when the machine is shutdown but this is a fileserver and I can't shut it down just ...
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Seagate Expansion Hard Drive (Portable) is not recognized By Windows!
My Seagate Expansion Hard Drive is not recognized by windows. When I connect it to the computer I do not see "Mass Storage Device" Under "Universal Serial Bus Controller". I already check the ...
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