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I have added two Samsung M.2 NVMe SSDs in a RAID1 configuration to my ThinkPad laptop . Unfortunately the Samsung Magician tool now cannot find the SSDs for firmware update any more. Also I have a ...
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The problem isn't new, the ever so often sneaky permission or file in use, but I have always found a way to deal with such files. This is different, this file is in superposition... It both exists and ...
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Problem Message "There's a problem with this drive. Scan the drive now and fix it" after connecting external storage. (Often, but not always) Scanning: After clicking on the above-...
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I am searching the driver for the old Iomega UltraMax dual drive enclosure visible here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEI7WCLJP98 Mine is labeled Model HDD2H and P/N 31660000 and I want it to use ...
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I bought a Samsung External DVD Writer Model SE-S084D second hand in order to replace my older setup for reading and writing discs. The cable was missing so I bought a replacement one (male Mini-USB-B ...
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General problem: I want to restore deleted file from Garmin Watch. I have Garmin Epix Pro Gen 2. Activity file seems to be deleted by the software itself. It was there fully functional, just not ...
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From a broken laptop computer, I removed the SSD and installed it in an external drive enclosure that supports NVMe and PCIe and attached it via a USB cable. I briefly looked at the directory ...
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I've bought a new SSD (Acer SA100 480GB MAS0902+3D NAND SATA 2.5 inch). I want to clone my older HDD (running win10) to the SSD. I've also purchased a SATA to USB connector (Cablet 2.5 Inch SATA USB 3....
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I am running Windows 10 on a HP EliteBook 650 G9 laptop. I plugged in a Vantec NexStar DX external 5.2" enclosure. It doesn't show up in Windows Explorer. I used Disk Management to see that it ...
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My goal is to create a disk partition that my Windows computer recognises as a removable device, but is actually a virtual hard disk.
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I can't boot into Windows 10, it shows blue screen with 0xc000021a error code. Then tries to autorestore, but fails. I tried to restore it from Windows 11 on USB drive with DISM, but it shows me an ...
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i grabbed this hard drive from my laptop thinking it was a lost cause, now i've found out that i MIGHT be able to save my data but... when it came out of the laptop it had an aluminum cover on it... i ...
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I first got the desktop from the scrap bin at my old job, it had no ram or internal hard drive. Just got the ram sticks in mail and now it goes to the recovery menu. I have a win 10 and a win8.1 ...
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After I unplugged my external drive after a phony safe removal on Ubuntu, two sectors are destroyed. The important sector contained records 4 to 7 (which is $AttrDef, $ (root), $Bitmap and $Boot) of ...
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I have encountered a very strange behaviour I do not know how to solve: the action permissions depend on where the command is executed. My situation: I set up a Nextcloud server on a Raspberry Pi 4. ...
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