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  1. Costa24

    Solved My external drive isn't working in Windows 11

    Hello everyone! My external hard drive has stopped working. The disc is no longer readable. When I connect the drive to my computer, the system asks me to format it. It's an HHD drive that was in FAT format, but now appears as RAW in the disc manager. I have important files on the drive. Can...
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    (Steam) My external hard drive cannot download steam games without completely crashing steam.

    I bought a 1TB external hard drive (SAMSUNG) in hope to make some storage space for games. On steam, I've set it as a steam library folder, but whenever I try to download anything onto the external harddrive, my steam completely freezes up, before closing itself. I have no idea what to do...
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    Solved Can Macrium Reflect Clone/Backup Multiple drives to one Drive?

    I just purchased a 14TB external drive. I would like to clone my OS drive to the external drive, then create backups of the other drives I have in my sytem to that same external drive. Can that be done, and if so do i have to create separate partitions on the external drive for each clone and...
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    WD external hard drive not found

    I have a western digital external hard drive that I can access on my old Apple computer, but not on my new windows 10 PC. I deleted everything off of it and used MAC's disk utility app to partition it. My selections on the partition screen: Partition map scheme: Guild partition table Format...
  5. R

    External Hard drive unknown , not initialized & no Space

    External Hard drive WD1600BEVS/160GB unknown, not initialised and no space showing in windows 10 How can i solve and safely get all the data? Please kindly help, Tank you in advance In devices & printer i troubleshoot There are problems with some PnP devices. Windows will take additional...
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    BitLocker Settings for External Drive

    Not sure if this is the right place to post this but, I have BitLocker enabled on a external HDD. Everytime I plug it in two windows pop up basically sayng the drive is not accessable. Then I have to close them and go in This PC, click on the locked drive to get the Window to enter my password...
  7. Kiredoryor

    Moving 'Backup' from C to external hard drive.

    Just noticed that the backup folder on my old Dell Studio takes up over a third of the (nearly full) hard drive capacity. Can I move the backup to an external hard drive? If so, can I just drag & drop it there?