external drive

My old laptop died. The Primary SSD (Windows 10) is still fine, and when I attach it to my new laptop via USB it opens and shows all programs. BUT when I click on one program (Adobe Photoshop) it gives me an error "can't find MSVCR110.dll. The DLL is present, I see it, but it won't run. Is there...

I was getting the error "The Recycle Bin on D:\ is corrupted" (external). Then, when I unplugged it and plugged it back in, it was unlabelled, and I can't access the files anymore. The error message says, "This volume does not contain a recognized file system." Yes, the disk shows good health on...

Hi, I have a HP Z4 G4 xeon 64 gb RAM, and was thinking about to use my Samsung 980 SSD PCIe 3.0 NVMe M.2 - 1TB as a external drive. Because i already have this in a 3.1 usb cabinette. Wil there be any difference in performance if i run it this way? Or should i plug that drive inside the computer...

I am trying to back up contents of my "Documents" folder which is on my C: drive of a Dell Win10 laptop, by copying the entire "Documents" folder onto my Seagate 2TB USB external drive. But something looks very odd with the result. When I compare the size of the "copied-from" folder to the size...

Good afternoon I recently had to have Windows 10 reinstalled on my Acer laptop which fixed all my problems. The engineer replaced the HD and it the old HD which still contains all of my files is now acting as an external drive. I can open individual files via the relevant apps but I cannot...

Dear Anyone. OK, I know I should know the answer to this but I don't.... I've only got a small C drive. Downloaded from cloud storage a big .RAR that I knew was too big for C, so I had an external drive D: and downloaded it to that. Tried unzipping it (OK - unRARing it!), had 300gig spare on...

OS2Go Pro creates custom Windows 11 stick, but it never boots, no matter if I download from MS server, or use my own ISO manually downloaded from MS web. Tried both 2TB NVMe external, 64GB stick. Does not boot on 2 PC UEFI-nonCSM x64. Does not boot automatically, or show up in UEFI temporary...

I have a Dell Optiplex 3020 PC with a 1TB SSD. I bought a Toshiba 1TB external HDD to back up my files and apps. I've never used a backup system before. I set up EaseUS Todo Backup Free to perform a backup of my files which total around 600GB. I noticed in File Explorer that my internal SSD...

When I click on one of a series of videos within my external drive. it will play, but at the end it stops and does not go on to the rest of the videos. Yeah, I have many of them on that external drive. I'd like to see them play one after the other, but they stop after one play. Is there some...

There is a folder on the root of my external drive with three dots as the name which suddenly appeared mysteriously on my external drive this morning. This folder is on the root of my external drive, E:. I don't want t delete it unless I know its contents. I tried to move it and it said it was...

Hello Dear Sir, How are you doing??? Thanks for helping everybody out of their PC problems. I have a final trial for your exceptional capabilities. Let's see how do you handle something real important??? Something I have been failed to trouble shoot own my own even I have tried all...

Hello everyone, I am needing assistance since it's been quite some time I have had to deal with this. I have a current user who's mailbox (O365) business standard is almost full. So, I wanted to export one of his folders to a PST which I already did. The pst folder is on an external HD so, I...

I have macrium in my pc and on an nexternal drive. When I installed Paragon B+R and created but image it wiped the external drive of everything. I have another external drive and when I add photos, music and images there is no issue. Why did Paragon wipe the drive? Is it b/c it formats the...

I upgraded from Windows 10 Pro to Windows 11 Pro on Dell XPS 8940 purchased 2 years ago. I upgraded a few months ago when Windows Update said my computer was ready. The upgrade went smoothly with no issues. I frequently attach a USB external drive to the computer and back up large files to it...

I upgraded from Windows 10 Pro to Windows 11 Pro on Dell XPS 8940 purchased 2 years ago. I upgraded a few months ago when Windows Update said my computer was ready. The upgrade went smoothly with no issues. I have a Network Attached Storage (NAS) unit attached through my router with gigabit...

Every time I try to copy "You'll need to provide administrator permission to copy this file " I am trying to copy large .TIB files image files from my C: drive to an external drive connected directly to the PC. I AM admin on this computer but am not using the Administrator account. The actual...

Hello guys. I have a server running windows 2012 R2 backup services. The server has a Hyper-V with 3 VMs on it.(C drive) The E Drive has 2 VM's. I want to do a bare metal backup with a externa HD with 3.7TB size available. My drives size are: C: 1.8TB available 150GB E: 650GB available 270GB...

Hello, I have been struggling to resolve an issue I am having attempting to view two Logitech webcams simultaneously on my Dell XPS13 9350 laptop when connected to a 4-port USB-A hub. Problem is I can only view one camera at a time when both cameras are plugged to the hub. However, if I plug...

I have had desktops from around 1978 until my last one in 2010, an eMachine EL 1333g, that still works. I it slow and Windows 10 updates take all day and for some reason my Internet speed has decreased from 100+Mbps to around 15-Mbps. I suspect conflicts with WS software. But, I am going to...

I get an error message "The system cannot find the file specified. (0x80070002)" The file it relates to is my Pictures file. Could this be because my pictures are uploaded to One Drive? If so how do I transfer them to an external drive? Thanks in anticipation of someone's help.