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    booting to external drive

    For years I’ve used Clonezilla on external drives to create and manipulate drive image backups like this: First, using Gparted I make two partitions on an external drive, first partition 300MB fat32 for Clonezilla live boot, and the balance ntsf partition to store the images. Next I use...
    • skrambam
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    • backup booting clonezilla diagnostics drive image external drive fat32 gparted ntfs partitioning restore tuxboot usb issues wd my passport windows 10 windows 7 windows 8 windows 8.1 windows vista windows xp
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Hardware

  2. Windows 8 External hard drive broken, help please!

    So my WD 'My Passport' (1Tb) died on me about 4 days due to a 'data cyclic redundancy error' or something along those lines. So I ran chkdsk, and just a few hours ago... My power tripped(of course). Now, I can't even detect the drive to run chkdsk on it as it says "cannot open volume for direct...
    • SacredVolt
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    • chkdsk cyclic redundancy data loss data recovery disk management error messages exams external drive hard drive issues i/o error initialization power failure technical support uninitialized drive wd my passport
    • Replies: 20
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 8 BSOD whenever I PLUG in my 2TB External

    I've had a 2TB WD My Passport external drive for a couple of months now without any problems. However, now when I plug it in to my computer, it gives me a BSOD with the message "MEMORY_MANAGEMENT." I'm not sure what to do about this, and I really need my files on this drive. This is very...
    • Mudkidd
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    • bsod data recovery external drive file access memory management technical support troubleshooting usb drive wd my passport windows error
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)