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    Windows 7 were to buy a Samsung Spinpoint M9T 2.5 for my PS4

    so my understanding is that drive isnt sold outside of an external enclosure ? im hunting for a 2tb internal drive for my PS4 it needs to be ether 9mm or 12.5mm iv narrowed the search down to this external drive i believe from what i can tell there USB controllers arnt embbeded for this one - i...
  2. SPYRUS Delivers High-Capacity 256GB Microsoft Certified Windows To Go 8.0 and 8.1 Drives

    SPYRUS today announced the world's first 256GB high-capacity versions of their Microsoft certified Portable Workplace, Secure Portable Workplace, WorkSafe, and WorkSafe Pro portable SSD live drives for ... Link Removed
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    Windows 7 Disconnect network drive WITHOUT assigned drive letter?

    I setup successfully a remote cloud storage as WebDav network drive. In WinExplorer it appears WITHOUT a drive letter !!!) as webdav.mediencenter.t-online.de I can read and write from that drive. Now I want to disconnect/remove that drive from WinExplorer. The "usual" method is to go to...
  4. Another RAID 5 fails?

    i have googled the web but could not come up with any answers. I have a windows softwareraid "5" (yes plz hate me for this) with 3x3TB disks, one disk recensently failed. I have just replaced the bad disk with a new one. But i have still no way to add the new disk to the "old" raid, and the bad...
  5. Windows 8 System Image Backup

    Win 8.1 Pro The system allows system image backup done on either external hard drive ( which I do every week ), or on DVDs. Why it does not allow USB flash drive ? I tried to use a 32 GB flash and it refuses to do backup on it.
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    Windows 7 Is this possible

    Hi guys and girls so here's the thing. Ive found my old desktop in the loft about 8 years old and took the HDD out of it. I bought a IDE to usb cable and can see the files that were on the old HDD so doesn't seem like theres much wrong with it apart from being clogged with a few years of...
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    Windows 7 How to turn an external USB GPT into MBR hard disc? Get full capacity

    I have got a 3TB hard disc which contains a 750 GB GPT partition. It is not my first main hard disk but an external USB hard disk. My first main hard disk based on MBR. With a tool like Easeus Partition Manager I deleted the existing GPT partition on the new external USB hard disk and turned...
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    Windows 8 Recover lost data

    I had to clean install yesterday and rightfully so, i lost all of my date from drive (D). Now, i would like to know how to recover any of this data after formatting? (How do i make my internal HDD become a slave and therefore readable and able to recover data?)
  9. Windows 7 Error opening zip file on a networked drive, but works fine when local

    I have an NAS (Network Attached Storage) but I recently set up. (It replaces the old NAS I left turned off for three years. The drive is unchanged from the old machine, it simply has a new machine around it.) There are a lot of zip files I have stored on it. Every one of them, if I dry to...
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    Windows 7 wd 500 blue

    i have drive with two partition, C working fine, D is system reserve E put following problem chkdsk report is attatched after chkdsk E drive show no label and ask to format when try to open what to do Chkdsk was executed in read/write mode. Checking file system on E: The type of the...
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    Windows 7 Need help with data transfer

    My wife's laptop broke. Sony Vaio running windows Vista. I took out the hard drives. (It has 2 of them) I plugged my SATA/IDE to USB adapter to one of the drives and I got a message saying I must format the drive before I can use it.im running a toshiba laptop with windows 7 64 bit. I plug it...
  12. Windows 8 External Hard Drive Persmissions Problem

    Alright, here's the story. My original hard drive died a few days ago in which I just replaced. Once everything was back up to what it was before, I found that my external hard drive had some issues to permissions. I couldn't access any files on it and so I went in and tried some things...
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    Windows 8 How do I transfer dropbox files to a pics folder in Win 8?

    I don't understand this at all. Why did they take away this VERY important function? You can no longer drag and drop pictures to and from dropbox to a folder on your computer! This is so aggravating that I feel like throwing my computer in the trash. I cannot use skydrive. It won't link to it...
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    Windows 7 Win Vista 32 to Win 7/64 bit OS install

    Greetings: I have a faulting disk that needs replacement. I am considering replacing the disk with a SSD/HDD Seagate 750GB, 7500 RPM disk. I also want to install Win7/64 bit to replace the original Vista 32 bit OS. And upgrade the memory from 3 to 4 GB. I am not computer savvy, but learning...
  15. Windows 7 Using Junctions (symlinks or Symbolic Links) to protect your save files

    Have you ever lost ALL of your saved game data because something terrible happened? Well, recently, we have seen advancements solving this problem with the likes of Steam Cloud. Steam Cloud allows gamers, who are increasingly using Steam Powered games, to automatically store their saves online...
  16. Windows 7 Critical Data - A Safety Net

    Link Removed I felt like mentioning this cause maybe some Folks aren't realizing it. People might hear about Clouds Services & off-premise data storage; to most average users/consumers would mean little, if anything. Some people have more than 1 drive or partition in their machine & may or...
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    Windows 7 Hitachi Touro USB 3 connection issues

    Hi, I brought a Hitachi USB 3.0 Touro Desk Pro external HDD a few months ago. It's never been smooth sailing with it, and I've finally given up and am asking for help. The drive I have is here: Touro Desk Pro | HGST, a Western Digital company The issue is that, when I connect it up, the...
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    Windows 7 Not able to create new data partition

    Please help. Ive bought A lenovo g580(?) with 7 pre installed. There is four partitions preinstalled on the hdd. I've understod that You can not delete any of these, in order to keep the recovery system working. Four partitions is the Max number of such. Is it possible to Get an extra data...
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    Windows 7 Transferring Data From Old To New

    I have an externally connected (by way of USB) samsung hard drive from my dead HP Slimline Vista connected to my newer HP Slimline Windows 7. The old drive powers and runs and the new computer recognizes it in printers and devices but I can't open it to access files etc. I know the old drive was...
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    Windows 7 Backup User file and settings

    I have joined this forum in the hope i can get help and advise in deploying windows 7, I have been deploying windows 7 for the last 7 months as a contractor for two different clients. Both clients have had different ways of doing the deployment, however both have the same concerns about data and...