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Discussions about WD Passport external drives on WindowsForum.com cover a range of issues including booting from the drive, data recovery after errors like cyclic redundancy check, BSOD when connecting the drive, file permission problems when copying files, restoring Windows 7 disk images stored on the drive, verifying USB 3.0 connectivity, and troubleshooting copy failures. Common themes involve using the drive with Windows 7, managing partitions, and resolving access or detection problems. Users share experiences with both the WD My Passport and Passport models, often seeking help with drive recognition, initialization errors, and data transfer issues.
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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 boot clone diagnostics disk image external drive fat32 gparted ntfs partition restore tuxboot usb issues wd passport windows 10 windows 7 windows 8 windows 8.1 windows vista windows xp
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Hardware
  2. SacredVolt

    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 message exams external drive hdd issues i/o error initialization power issues tech support uninitialized drive wd 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...
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    Windows 7 Permissions? Cannot copy files from USB drive to c drive

    New W7 machine, just trying to copy files from old XP machine via a WD Passport drive. I have turned off User Account Control, but that doesn't help. I have wasted about 2 hours on this issue so far, reading many, many posts that do not solve it. Have tried changing owner of files to my...
    • iamjohngalt
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    • administrator error message file copy file transfer owner settings permissions usb wd passport windows 7
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 trying to restore win7 disk image stored on WD my passport drive

    Hi, I have a compac (HP) laptop (CQ61-41us notebook), running WIN7 home premium, 64 bit. Aside from the normal file backup via the western digital software, I have several windows 7 generated iso images of my laptop stored on my external WD drive. Using windows repair disk, my computer does not...
    • Splinterd1
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    • backup compac data recovery disk image external drive file access home premium image files iso images laptop operating system recovery repair disk storage system restore technical issues troubleshooting wd passport western digital windows 7
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 How to find out if the USB connection to external device is using USB3 or USB2

    I connect an external device that supports USB3.0 to an USB3.0 port on the computer/mother board using an USB 3.0 cable. I can see in the device manager that there are (intel) drivers that support USB3.0. The external device (WD mypassport) advertises USB 3.0 support. Is there a way to find...
    • Andr
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    • device manager drivers external devices transmission speed usb usb 3.0 wd passport windows 7
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 Can't Copy Files To HDD

    Hey guys, I own a WD Passport (320GB). I'm having problems in copying files from my PC to the HDD. It was working fine a few days ago but I can't seem to copy any file though I can easily read the files stored at a very high speed. But the problem is probably with my computer since I can copy...
    • Rafay Shaukat
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    • computer issues data transfer external drive file copy hdd read speed storage troubleshooting wd passport windows 7
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 Win 7 does not see files in USB hard drive

    WE have implemented our 1st Win7 machine overall it's working pretty well. However we have 2 WD passport drives, the machine will discover and open the files on one but not the other. I also tried to access an ide drive through an adaptor and it would not recognise that either. This is a brand...
    • mikeval
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    • adapter dell external drive file access ide drive recognition issues storage issues usb wd passport windows 7
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  9. OdDjOb

    Windows 7 Troubleshooting Jump List Issues After Hard Drive Replacement and Icon Changes

    Hi I wondered if anyone could provide a solution to the following problem or even if you are having the same problem. I had a problem with my jump list about 3-4 days ago and I assumed that it was something to do with a registry file i had run. However i had a faulty hard drive so i had to send...
    • OdDjOb
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    • file icons file types hard drive jump lists registry settings tech support usb wd passport windows 7
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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