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Windows 10 Re-Imaging Issue >> How to Install Driver?
Hi, Windows is having trouble finding the image on my Western Digital My Passport Ultra external hard drive. It asks me to install a driver for it. Should the driver already be on my computer, or do I need to download one from WD web site to get this to work? I can see the external drive in...- jmbtexas4
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- backup drivers external drive file explorer installation passport reimaging troubleshooting western digital windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Explorer now freezing
Thank you for the help with my prior topic, but a new issue has arisen. I walked away from my computer for a while. When I got back, Chrome had frozen up, and it was so bad I couldn't even get Task Manager opened nor explorer responding in general. The other couple of windows I had open were...- ChazzK
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- antivirus chkdsk chrome diagnostics explorer freezing keyboard issues malwarebytes mouse functionality response issues sfc system clean system files task manager troubleshooting western digital windows windows cleanup
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- Forum: Windows Software
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Windows 7 Confused and Frustrated
So i bought a 1T Western Digital hard drive from Best Buy today and copied the contents of my old hard drive onto my new one using Acronis Disk Director. It was running fantastic afterward, so I decided to add another partition to dual boot on. After coping the data and restarting the drive it...- Jeremy Wolfe
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- acronis bcm boot issues data recovery disk issues dual boot hard drive linux live disk mounting partition redundancy error unallocated space usb western digital windows installation
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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Windows 7 I Can Not Install No Operating System
Hello ! I tried to install a myriad of DVDs or USB sticks Widows 7 that in the pc of my friends all go perfectly, in my case initially installing it goes, but then I get the following message: "FILE OR DIRECTORY D: DAMAGED AND NOT READABLE. RUN THE UTILITY 'CHKDSK " If I install another...- dav78
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- boot issues chkdsk diagnostics dual core gigabyte hard drive hardware installation linux mint live linux memory test ram system repair tech support troubleshooting ubuntu western digital windows 7
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Windows 7 HELP hard drive fail
I got a western digital 1.5 TB hard drive and when i turn on my computer windows starts trying to repair the hard drive and i let it stand like this for 48 hours and its still trying to repair. What should i do? Picture down below my win language is Norwegian.- lol lolsen
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- data recovery failure hard drive norwegian repair storage troubleshooting western digital windows
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Windows 7 BSOD stop code 124 after replacing HHD
I recently bought and installed a new HDD in my desktop. The HDD is a Western Digital 1TB Caviar Blue 64MB 7200RPM drive. After installing this new HDD and reformatting my computer I am continuously running into a BSOD. I myself am not extremely tech savvy, my computer knowledge is limited to...- acasualgamer
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- bsod caviar blue desktop dump files hdd installation reformat stop code tech support western digital
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- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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Windows 7 Computer freezing every few seconds/minutes
I have the problem where my PC is stalling repeatedly at random. I was running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit before, but I formatted and reinstalled Windows today. I have run Malwarebytes Anti-Malware full scans on both my C: Drive and my D: drives after I reinstalled Windows, where I backed up...- MC10
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- antec computer diagnose freezing hardware intel malwarebytes mse msi pc build performance radeon ram reinstall specifications stalls tech support troubleshooting western digital windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 WD's PWL & Silkstream technologies
The prices have come down to the point that I'm thinking of buying another 3TB hard drive for video archiving. I was thinking of the regular 5400 RPM green label drive, which is what I already have several of, but looking at the description of the WD30EURS, something caught my eye...Silkstream...- seekermeister
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- 3tb 5400 rpm archiving av products compatibility data transfer efficiency hard drive intellipark intelliseek performance power consumption pwl technology silkstream static files storage streaming video capture video encoding western digital
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Windows 7 Windows 7 Won't Recognize USB HD
I am pulling out hair by the hand full! I have an external USB HD that I have used in the past and it also works perfectly on a Windows 8 laptop. BUT, it is acting very strange on my Win 7 PC. Here is the story: It shows up in Control Panel > Devices and Printers as: USB mass storage device...- hawkeye62
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- control panel data recovery device manager disk management drive letter external storage file explorer file system hardware issues storage devices troubleshooting usb drives western digital windows 7 windows issues
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Can't install Bluestacks..?
I'm hoping someone can help me with this as I've been trying for hours now.. When I try to install Bluestacks the process gets to about 95% (creating app shortcuts) and then fails due to a Adobe Reader X (10.1.7) could not be installed 1603 error. I've tried deleting Adobe Reader, reinstalling...- miseryguts
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- adobe reader bluestacks computer error 1603 gaming gtx 670 hyperx i7 3930 installation performance samsung 840 software tech support troubleshooting update western digital windows 7 x64
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 HDD formatting problems
So Ive just gotten my PC back from repair; everything is working perfectly, except for a HDD. I have 3 drives, one being a SSD with the OS on it, the other two being WesternDigital 1TB drives. The problem is that one of the two HDDs is recognized, but not intractable. The repaired PC came...- RobThaRobba
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- asus bios device manager disk recognition disk services dynamic disk formatting gpt hdd pc repair power supply repair sata ssd storage storage issues volume management western digital
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Windows 7 My Book Live (western digital) cant be found
hi, im tring to connect "My Book Live" WD network drive. i did as order by connect the network cable to my router and downloaded the setup software that has no option but clicking next after the cable connection. in the instruction it says that the drive light need to by solid green and...- fibola
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- connectivity drive light external storage home network my book live network drive router setup program troubleshooting western digital
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- Forum: Windows Networking
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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...- igloo01
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- computer detection connection issues data recovery device compatibility disk management drive configuration external drive hardware issues hitachi initialization my computer storage touro desk pro troubleshooting usb usb 3.0 user help western digital windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Windows 8 Problem with Mapped Drives? Help, Please!
So, I have a Western Digital My Book 1.5 TB hard drive connected to my Asus RT-N66U router, and it seems to be losing connection? Under Windows 7, it mapped perfectly, and was always accessible, but now after upgrading to Windows 8, it won't stay mapped. I'll restart my router and computer...- iRide113
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- access issues asus rt-n66u connection issues drive letter hard drive kaspersky local device name mapped drives network issues network settings router storage devices troubleshooting western digital windows 7 windows 8
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- Forum: Windows Networking
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Windows 7 Is a 1 TB partition too big? Advice on re-partitioning requested
On my 64 bit Windows 7 desktop, I used to have two Western Digital 500 GB drives, each with one partition (C: and D: respectively). But recently those two drives both started failing their self-tests; so I am replacing them with two 1 TB drives. So then I'll have two partitions, C: and D...- tazenda
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- 1tb backup bloatware data management disk management file system hard drive hardware partition performance repartitioning storage western digital windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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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 recovery repair disk storage system restore technical issues troubleshooting wd passport western digital windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 BSOD while running chksdk and scanning the HD for errors
I have tried the western digital lifeguard tool, but it is unable to run the tests it simply crashes every time. The quick test throws up this error FAIL Test Error Code: 06-Quick Test on drive 1 did not complete! Status code = 07 (Failed read test element), Failure Checkpoint = 97...- LotsofJam
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- bsod chkdsk diagnostics error hard drive smart test failure troubleshooting western digital windows
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- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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Windows 7 BSoD when Gaming - Windows 7 Pro
Hi all, I built this PC about 8 months ago and have not had many problems with it until the last month or so. I am getting BSoD when playing Counter-Strike:GO, Darksiders 2, and also once while playing League of Legends. I initially thought this was an problem with my RAM, so this morning...- nurdfest
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- asrock bios bsod counter strike crash darksiders ddr3 diagnostics drivers gaming gtx 560 intel league of legends memtest nvidia pc build performance ram western digital windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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Windows 7 Troubleshooting Corrupted File Downloads After HDD Replacement and BSOD Issues
So recently I had to purchase a new HDD due to massive BSOD's due to an unknown corruption or trojan. Today I installed a brand new Western Digital BLack Caviar drive and everything worked flawlessly until I started downloading files (specifically those for my security, i.e. avast, norton...- Octose
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- avast bsod caviar black computer issues corrupted files corruption download error extraction hardware hdd installation malwarebytes microsoft norton security software trojan troubleshooting western digital
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Problem with SSD and Sata Drive under Windows 7 (64 Bit)
Hi, I have run into a problem when upgrading my current machine to use an SSD as the main boot device. I restored a backup of my original Sata drive on to the SSD and I am able to boot from it ok. My problem is that when I connect the original Sata HD to the machine it appears in the BIOS...- 2Mr
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- backup bios core 2 duo data recovery disk management gigabyte hard drive hardware intel partition sata ssd storage issues troubleshooting upgrade western digital windows 7
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Windows Hardware