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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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    SEVERE problems with external hard drive

    Hello I, hope you're having a good day. For the past 2 or so hours I've had problems with my external hard drive, a 1tb portable seagate expansion drive. I worked just fine just earlier in the day, but then I opened a game (on steam, installed on my computer's interal drive, not the seagate...
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    Solved Images Missing ?

    I have a folder on my PC entitled 'Art & Photography' in which there are (or should be) 1160 images in alphabetical order. However when I tried to access the folder today only images up to the letter 'F' were visible. When I click on Properties it says there are only 753 images but then the...
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    Internal HDD made into an external drive not working

    Hi, Recently I got an SSD and replaced my old HDD on my laptop. So I thought I will make use of the unused old HDD and bought this orico HDD enclosure. I plugged in the harddrive and it showed as 3 different drives ( I didnt do any clean wipe when replacing the HDD when it was inside the...
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    Installing Mac OS (legally) on an external drive

    Hey everyone. First post here, so please don't slam me if my question is dumb because I'm kind of a noob and also new to this community :D . Anyways... I'm running Windows 10 on a reasonably powerful and new gaming laptop and recently got myself a 2 TB external hard drive for some additional...
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    Looking for encrypting software!!

    Hi I want to encrypt an external hard drive and set a password on it. At this moment I use Microsoft bitlocker but the problem is that I want to access my files on Android as well. In addition, I need a software which doesn't need to be installed on every Windows desktop (Portable version or...
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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...