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The disk drive is stuck on my dell dimension

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Hello, On my Dell Dimension 9100, the disk drive (the thing that reads DVD's and CD-ROMS) is stuck. It will not open no matter what I do. The light...

6 replies Last reply on 20 Feb 2016 by
KoalaWithAComputer

Hidden system folders visible

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Hello, I'm facing with sth strange here,and as always it's annoying.it's sth that makes the hidden system folders visible,I go to my external hard a...

2 replies Last reply on 19 Feb 2016 by
Hyper

How to unhide particular folder from my seagate external hdd

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Hello Sir/Madam, I have some problem regarding my external hard drive. I am using 1TB capacity drive. On that 700 GB is used space & 300 GB is ...

1 reply Last reply on 18 Feb 2016 by
dominik123123

New computer will not recognize my hard drive

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Hello, I have an old external HP hard drive with all my my data on. I have a new computer and it will not recognize my hard drive, says it s USB dev...

4 replies Last reply on 25 Jan 2016 by
Bouddicca

Re-format wd hard drive, not recognized on pc

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My son connected a western digital 2tb hard drive to his X-Box 1 and formatted it. Is there any way I can get it to be recognised on my PC using Windo...

4 replies Last reply on 25 Jan 2016 by
Boogieman_WD  

External hard drive iomega

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Hello, The external drive is visible in My Computer and has a drive letter G: The fault indication was "disk currupted and unreadable" I tried c...

2 replies Last reply on 11 Jan 2016 by
R2D2_WD  

Hdd on sata 2 undetected by os

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Hello, I bought a new 1Tb HDD and the BIOS detects it, but the computer management doesn't scan it. I've tried different SATA port and wire, nothi...

2 replies Last reply on 1 Jan 2016 by
Guillaume

My drive e: shown as empty but contains files.

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Hey I'm new here, and I really really need some help. I got a problem with my drive, I found out that my drive E: folders was hidden and then I did t...

2 replies Last reply on 22 Dec 2015 by
ridwanrf

Free spaces does not increase when i delete files

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Hello. My laptop is a hp15 notebook pro, Windows 8.1 , 64_bit Operating system .I used to have a free space over 200 gig but then I got new movies and...

3 replies Last reply on 22 Dec 2015 by
Boogieman_WD  

Hard drive not showing up, windows 10

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Alrighty, so I have a small Ps3 and wanted extra space, so I got a 1tb Seagate harddrive. I then deleted the partition and then installed SwissKnife V...

2 replies Last reply on 27 Nov 2015 by
larnni

Hard disk not detected

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Sir, My newly bought 1TB hard drive is not being detected in my Win7,WinXP or Ubuntu 14.04 pc's. I used to see movies and files from the HDD in my ...

6 replies Last reply on 24 Nov 2015 by
R2D2_WD  

Recover data from crashed drive no boot disk

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Hello, The only post I found for a Crashed Hard Drive involved basically three methods: 1. Remove the drive and get the data off with another PC ...

2 replies Last reply on 7 Nov 2015 by
wildchild1954

Hdd isn't even showing up in bios anymore.

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Hello, earlier tonight, my computer wich is on the ground, felt sideways. It made some really bad fans noises. I putted it back up, and when looking a...

6 replies Last reply on 31 Oct 2015 by
JasonMLeblanc

Hdd not present

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Hello, I was playing rust all of a sudden when my game crashed and I tried to turn off my pc by pressing the power button then it wouldnt turn off...

2 replies Last reply on 13 Oct 2015 by
Jevon

Accessing files on a hard-drive when it is slaved

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I'm not technical at all, but I'm attempting to recover my own files from my hard-drive before reinstalling all operating systems on my laptop. I have...

2 replies Last reply on 17 Sep 2015 by
Khatton

External hard drive not showing up

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Hello, i removed hard disk from one of my old laptop which is Accer and I brought a case for it and made it external so that I can connect to may ...

5 replies Last reply on 15 Sep 2015 by
Claude

External hdd((transcend)) problem

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Hi All, My External hard disk is not opening. At first, it seeks a format. But, after trying to format it says, windows failed to format. The e...

2 replies Last reply on 5 Sep 2015 by
nkl

My flash drive isn't working and i can't connect it on the compu

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I'm using a regular Windows XP [no numbers it's really old] and I looked into the computer and my flash drive doesn't show up [its brand new I haven't...

1 reply Last reply on 3 Sep 2015 by
jollym124

External hard drive showing not accessible

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Hi. I am having trouble with my external hard drive. It was showing up correctly today, but now it turned into E:\ saying that it is not accessible an...

2 replies Last reply on 1 Sep 2015 by
Eman15

Sata hdd not detected :(

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Hello, i bought a new seagate sata hdd 160 and gb 1.5gb/s operations.....my motherboard is of asrock model-775i65g...my hdd is not at all detecting...

6 replies Last reply on 29 Aug 2015 by
doogle

Partitioning hard disk

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Hi,I am Harikrishnan. I have a 260 GB hard disk.I am going to partition it.I heared for installing windows the partition must be NTFS type.And I did i...

3 replies Last reply on 18 Aug 2015 by
Ambucias

External hard drive accidentally reformatted and partitioned

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Unfortunately my WD external hard drive was still attached whilst helping a friend to reset his windows 8 laptop to factory settings. It would appear ...

2 replies Last reply on 18 Aug 2015 by
kanikatie

Cannot manage partitions on external drive

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How do I delete partitions on an external hard drive? I have never tried to do this. Thanks for any help.

7 replies Last reply on 16 Aug 2015 by
kieferschild

Hdd not showing up in my computer - answer to this question

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Hello, I found the easiest answer to all the issues of HDD not showing up in My Computer. Go to Disk Management and your drive will show 'offline'...

1 reply Last reply on 13 Aug 2015 by
xpcman

Wd 1 tb hard disk

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The hard disk is working. There's a small light which proves it is but i'm not able to see any files or folders on it. Actually speaking i'm not able ...

3 replies Last reply on 13 Aug 2015 by
Killerbee123

Laptop sony vaio light blinks for 2 seconds then it turns of

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I have a sony vaio laptop , actually yesterday I had a problem: I try to turn it on but the light blinks for 2 seconds then it turns of , I tried to r...

2 replies Last reply on 29 Jul 2015 by
AN

New hard drive is not saving window

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hi dear friends, I am using HP 7800 system, I have installed 80gb hard drive previously, now I have installed another 500GB WD sata hard drive, the 50...

1 reply Last reply on 25 Jun 2015 by
xpcman

I'm get a report on my computer for my hard drive

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Hello, My partition hard drive is can't display because is a RAW how can i change to NTFS

2 replies Last reply on 19 Jun 2015 by
Computertech

External harddisk stops working

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I have a Seagate Bkup+ 1TB Harddisk..it works fine all the time..but when i connect My Android Phone to my windows computer trough USB port the harddi...

2 replies Last reply on 5 Jun 2015 by
apoorvagora

Boot problem

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Yesterday, I was using the computer and it was running on low battery, then the screen started to get black and the computer was going to auto shut do...

5 replies Last reply on 22 May 2015 by
seif_tounes

Do i need to format my wd external after i buy it online

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Hello, do i need to format first my WD My Passport WDBPGC5000ABL 500GB External hard drive before i can use it? thanks Configuration: Window...

4 replies Last reply on 21 May 2015 by
lanie

External hard drive problem

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Hello,i have a problem to my WD element 1tb external drive, the drive appears and in the device manager the drive is not online it is Read Only it dis...

18 replies Last reply on 18 May 2015 by
Boogieman_WD  

Printing pictures

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Hello, I have a bit of a conundrum. I am attempting to print off pictures in a store kiosk (the instant print stations at places like Walmart & RiteAi...

10 replies Last reply on 12 May 2015 by
Ambucias

Laptop is not showing any drive connect

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Hi I have a segate hard drive. Whenever I connect it to the laptop it shows no response. Help me out pls.

2 replies Last reply on 3 May 2015 by
CG1990

The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable

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Hello, I have a problem with my Portable HDD. I have all my important document on and I need to save them. I've already tried with > and is said that ...

16 replies Last reply on 23 Apr 2015 by
Engr.A.M.Zubair

External hard drive

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Hello, dear sir i need help i m using window 8..so i connect my external hard drive bt i cant create new folder and copy paste file..plz give me ins...

3 replies Last reply on 23 Apr 2015 by
Computertech

Scondary hardware not shown on computer

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Hello, secondary internal hard disk detected but the computer does not show mah

13 replies Last reply on 15 Apr 2015 by
Boogieman_WD  

New hdd not recognized

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Hi, I have a Dell Optiplex 755 desktop (ultra small form factor type), and it has a 160 GB hard drive. I just bought a new WD 2 TB internal hard dri...

3 replies Last reply on 9 Apr 2015 by
mschwennes

Unable to format

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Hello, everyone I have a problem I have 2 HDD a 160gb and a 80gb I was useing them for xbox 360 at the time and months latter it stop reading and ...

2 replies Last reply on 1 Apr 2015 by
Garm84

Dropped my wd passport

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Hello, I have windows 8.1installed. recently I dropped my WD Passport and when I plugged in it shows the drive Letter but freezes trying to read it. H...

2 replies Last reply on 28 Mar 2015 by
Tokurt20

No communication with hard drive.

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computer running fine trying to install new hard drive, I have booth failure and says insert boot diskette in a: . could you tell me where did I go w...

2 replies Last reply on 25 Mar 2015 by
koolpop

How do i recover a zipped file from a hard drive with corrupt mb

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The problem is that I need to recover a zipped file from a corrupted hard drive. The hard drive is NOT physically damaged, only inaccessible due to th...

1 reply Last reply on 22 Mar 2015 by
howardbridger

How to scan a hard drive for virus threats.

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Hi all, Am humbled to talk to you guys today, hope this finds you well. I have an issue that i believe you can be of help. I have a 1TB transcend po...

5 replies Last reply on 20 Mar 2015 by
enegue

External hard drive files invisible :(

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Hi All, I have 6GB of back-up files on a 80GB external hard drive in NTFS format. When I tried to access them from Windows 7 (64-bit), the drive a...

5 replies Last reply on 18 Mar 2015 by
Code-X

Setup can not find any hard drives

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Hello, I had a problem with my windows keep restarting after blue screen in normal mode.. I can change in safe mode.. And I had try to change the r...

12 replies Last reply on 5 Mar 2015 by
limka123

3 tb toshiba external hard drive missing files backed up from m

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Hello, I noticed today that my old backup files, some back to 2011, are missing. The oldest backup that I am showing is from 3/2014. I do not believ...

4 replies Last reply on 1 Mar 2015 by
Ambucias

Diskette drive 0 seek failure error message

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Hello, I have read previously solved situations submitted that were dealing with error message Diskette Drive 0 Seek Failure. I get the same and hav...

3 replies Last reply on 26 Feb 2015 by
JE

Wd my passport drive - drive not appearing in my computer?

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I've tried everything after researching this problem online and nothing seems to work. I've just installed a WD My Passport Ultra and it appears in...

5 replies Last reply on 21 Feb 2015 by
Ambucias

External hard drive loads but won't open?

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I have a toshiba 3.0, windows 7. When connected it loads for hours but won't open or show. It stops after loading and whenever I open disk manageme...

2 replies Last reply on 21 Feb 2015 by
michi1004

Laptop not populating desktop icons

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It is very frustrating, I am running windows 8 and my laptop is starting up, i put in the password, it goes all the way to ... right before the icons ...

2 replies Last reply on 25 Jan 2015 by
leslyn102
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