Questions tagged [external-hard-drive]
A hard drive designed to be connected to a computer via an external interface such as USB, eSATA, Thunderbolt, or IEEE 1394.
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How can I traverse to the bottom of a folder structure that repeated 23k times?
I was moving files from a laptop to an external hard drive connected via USB. It involved some "work" folder, which had a submission 01 and \_to be merged folders inside it.
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I spilled coffee on my WD My Passport Drive Plus (4TB, WDBZCD0080BBK-0B) external hard drive. Is it okay to plug it in after drying for a few weeks?
I had a coffee spill (with milk and sugar) onto a WD My Passport Drive Plus (4TB, WDBZCD0080BBK-0B) external hard drive that was plugged in. It was a significant amount, like it spilled directly on it ...
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Why is my external hard drive not detected by Discs in Fedora 41?
I have been having this problem where a Seagate Expansion external hard drive is not detected by Discs (Only the main computer's device is visible).
I tried rebooting the machine and running dmesg -w ...
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Why does my HDD keep spinning and seeking when I power off the computer?
Why does my HDD keep spinning and seeking when I power off the computer?
I have two identical USB HDDs, namely the 1 TB model WD Elements 2621. And both were connected to the USB ports of my Lenovo ...
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Trouble initializing an external hard drive / hard drive boots when plugged in but doesn't appear / hard drive hardware errors
I'm having some difficulties with my external hard drive, and I'm a bit stumped. I have a WD My Passport 2626 (WDBPKJ0050BBK-0B), which I bought not too long ago. I opened it, formatted it to exFAT, ...
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Am I interpreting my new Seagate Expansion 24TB hard drive’s health correctly?
I just bought a Seagate Expansion of 24TB today, It seems to be running fine, I did not pass any surface test yet but It caught my attention some info retrieved with CrystalDiskInfo and HD Sentinel.
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Why is the lock suddenly missing on my hard drive?
I have a Seagate One Touch 2 TB portable HDD. It has password protection. I was using it, and suddenly it stopped. Now, when I am trying to open it, the following message appears - "Unlocker ...
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Corruption on Seagate Backup Plus Slim [SRD0VN2]
switched to ntfs3 drivers on linux since I'm pretty sure I was using ntfs-3g beforehand, but after I started and decided to extract a 7z archive, it hanged for like 30+ minutes, which even though ...
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Doing Hexdump (like linux utility) on Physical Disk using Windows 10 Pro
I bought a Kingston 960GB A400 SATA3 2.5" Internal SSD SA400S37/960G
And I had Made several partitions in order study them doing Hexdump with Linux; but I needed to remove the Linux OS due lack ...
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If a hard disk is mounted in a powered USB enclosure, when is it safe to turn off enclosure power? Does it properly park heads?
If a hard disk is mounted in a powered USB enclosure, when is it safe to turn off enclosure power?
One particular concern of mine is, how do I know if the HDD head is parked? I don't think it would be ...
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How do I copy files from a Macintosh hard drive to a Linux server?
I have a client who will be bringing her Macintosh PC over in a few days for me to get all the data off her hard drive onto her new computer. Like many users, she does not know much about her PC ...
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How can I install Linux in an external storage (HDD) while retaining the stored old data?
I want to install the Linux Mint on my HDD that I'm currently using as external storage. But the thing is that, I just swapped out this HDD from my laptop and put an SSD on its place, and installed ...
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External Hard Disk USB 3 Power Port Requires Cable to be Pressed Against it for Hard Disk to Get Power
I have an external WD 4TB USB hard drive. Hard disk gets power only when microusb 3.0 type B end of cable is pressed by force of hands against microusb 3.0 type B socket of external hard drive. If ...
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Power went out while writing to a 12 TB external hard drive: Should I do a full format or quick format?
I strictly use Windows and the external hard drive (mechanical) file structure was set as ExFat.
Now it was writing when the power went out. So I ran a chkdsk on it, and a huge number of files have ...
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How to deal with a degraded, half-replaced BTRFS cluster?
I have a BTRFS cluster that's in really bad shape right now:
Original setup:
5-Disk BTRFS cluster: system, data, metadata in RAID1 profile.
One of the devices (/dev/sda) was producing recoverable ...
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