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How to Take Care of an External Hard Drive

An external hard drive is a freestanding device that plugs into a desktop computer with a FireWire or USB cable. External hard drives provide you with additional space for file storage and can even be...

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How to Completely Erase an External Hard Drive

An external hard drive connects to a computer through a port that communicates with the operating system (OS) in much the same way an internal hard drive does. Completely erasing all of the files from...

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How to Troubleshoot an Acomdata External Hard Drive

An Acomdata external hard drive is a good solution for backing up your data and media files. If you have tried to connect your external hard drive to your computer and found that it's not being...

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How to Access Your External Hard Drive Plugged Into Your Time Capsule

The Apple Time Capsule is a great device for sharing large amounts of storage wirelessly between multiple computers. To complement the built-in hard drive, you can attach an external hard drive through...

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How to Restore an Unallocated External Hard Drive

Your hard drive doesn't work with your operating system unless you allocate that space into a partition and format it into a file system. Partitions allow your operating system to allocate certain...

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How to Test an External Hard Drive

External hard drives are used for backing up data from computers or housing very large files. If the external hard drive has errors on it, then the data could become corrupted or even lost...

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How to Lock My External Hard Drive

People often use external hard drives to store sensitive, secret or private data. This helps secure the data by making it accessible only when the external hard drive is plugged into a computer. In...

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How to Format External USB Hard Drive

Formatting a hard drive configures the disk to be used with a particular file system and operating system. All hard drives, including external drives, must be formatted prior to their initial use. This...

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How to Defragment an External Hard Drive

Disk fragmentation occurs when the data associated with a particular file or program is scattered across a hard drive rather than being stored in one contiguous block of memory. Disk fragmentation is...

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How to Detect an External Hard Drive

External hard drives are good resources for backing up larger files or keeping pertinent information safe. When your computer does not recognize your external hard drive, you will not be able to...

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How to Transfer Large Files to an External Hard Drive

External hard drives are popular portable storage devices because they allow you to back up files such as documents, music and videos, and transfer files from one computer to another. While external...

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How to Check the Disk on an External Hard Drive

As with all hard drives, external disk drives must be checked from time to time to ensure proper operating conditions. This check includes a review of the logical file system and of the physical...

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How to Use an iPod As an External Hard Drive Without iTunes

The iPod may look like a stylish music playback device but it is actually a small computer with a hard drive that you can use to store files and documents. You can't read or use the documents, given...

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Problems With a WD External Hard Drive

WD stands for Western Digital, a company that makes a variety of electrical devices, including external hard drive. These hard drives function in similar ways to the hard drives installed in computer...

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Can You Run Programs on an External Hard Drive?

External hard drives come many shapes and sizes, from large one terabyte devices meant for the desktop to smaller, portable drives ranging from 150 to 500 gigabytes. While external hard drives are...

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Will an External Hard Drive Speed Up My Computer?

External hard drives, in addition to giving you more room for files, can speed up your computer in certain circumstances. However, if you purchase an external drive specifically to speed up your...

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How to Copy a Recovery Partition to an External Hard Drive With XCOPY

XCOPY is a Microsoft command-line utility that copies files and directories from one location to another. Using XCOPY it is possible to completely transfer the files on one disk or partition to...

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How Can I Search an External Hard Drive With Windows 7?

In editions of the Windows operating system prior to Windows 7, the process of searching for files on a drive was often a difficult and time-consuming one. The ability to easily search within folders...

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How to Find Saved Files on an External Hard Drive

Sometimes you save a file, but later realize you don't know where. You might know you saved it on an external hard drive, but you just can't find it. This is where Windows 7's search feature comes in....

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How to Make an External Hard Drive Compatible With Mac Computers

The basic difference between computers that use the Microsoft Windows operating system and those that use the Apple Macintosh operating system is the way they organize data. The Mac previously used the...

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Can I Use My PC External Hard Drive With a Mac?

An external hard drive is a data storage device that attaches to a computer with a standardized cable, typically a USB cable. Similar to an internal hard drive, it stores data on a series of rotating...

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Why the External Hard Drive Makes a Clicking Noise

Electronic equipment, like external hard drives, can make some pretty interesting noises when they're running. Humming and buzzing are common and typically benign sounds to hear from a hard drive. If...

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How to Get Files From a Broken External Hard Drive

External hard drives are a good solution for backing up valuable data in case of an internal hard drive failure. Hard drives store large media collections, copies of important files or even duplicate...

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How to Find Hidden Files on an External Hard Drive

Files stored on external hard drives may be "hidden." These files are hidden in the hard drive so that they cannot be viewed or deleted accidentally. To access the hidden files, the "Show hidden files,...

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How to Rename a Western Digital External Hard Drive

If you have several hard drives attached to your computer, it may be difficult to identify your Western Digital external hard drive by drive letter alone. This is particularly true when the default...

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How to Move a Program to an External Hard Drive

In order to move a program to an external hard drive, the hard drive must have the program installed to it. If the program is not installed to the external hard drive, the program will not work...

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How to Update a Driver for a Seagate External Hard Drive

Computers produced more than a few years ago required users to install software drivers as a necessary step when adding an external hard drive to the system. All manufacturers including Seagate...

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How to Install Drivers for a Buffalo External Hard Drive

Buffalo Technologies builds all sorts of storage devices, including a series of external hard drives. While many computers support Buffalo external hard drives out of the box, the firmware needs to be...

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How to Install Mitchell on Demand Onto an External Hard Drive

Mitchell On Demand, currently in its fifth version and known by the commercial name of On Demand 5, is a technical management software for auto dealers and repair shops. The software allows you to...

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Can You View Pictures on a USB on Wii?

Pictures that are saved on a PC- or Mac-formatted USB are not viewable on a Wii; however, if pics are saved on a Wii-formatted USB, they can be viewed on Wii. Formatting a USB stick will completely...

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The Disadvantages of External HDD

External hard drive disks offer a solution to transporting large amounts of data. They also provide a quick way to back up files and other information to ensure that you don't lose all of your work if...

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How to Share an External Hard Drive

Sharing your drives with other users of your computer and other users on your local network is easy thanks to the built-in file sharing feature within the Windows operating system. You can share...

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Maxtor External Hard Drive Troubleshooting

For anyone with a significant amount of data on a computer, external hard drives are essential for backup and data storage. Maxtor, now owned by Seagate, has consistently made reliable and affordable...

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How to Write-Protect an External Hard Drive

Computer data storage devices such as hard drives, CD-R drives and USB keys are designed to allow data to be written to them and read from them. Some media, such as regular CDs and DVDs, are...

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The Best Brands for an External Hard Drive

An external hard drive is a computer component used by many people to increase their computer's storage capacity and back up important files and data, reports CNET.com. With so many different external...

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How to Save Music to an External Hard Drive

A massive music collection may take up too much space on your computer's hard drive, requiring the songs to be moved to a larger drive. External hard drives are also good places to back up information...

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How to Link Two Computers to One External Hard Drive

External hard drives can be a simple way to move a large number of files from one computer to another without making a lot of CDs or using multiple flash drives. Two computers in your house can share...

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How to Use Your External Hard Drive With a Virtual Machine

An external hard drive is a drive that is connected to a port located on the outside of your computer, such as a USB port. Utilizing your external hard drive as the repository of your virtual computer...

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How to Open a WD External Hard Drive

Western Digital releases a wide variety of computer components, including many computer hard drives. Of these hard drives, many of them are external hard drives that are enclosed in their own shells....

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How to Diagnose an External Hard Drive

Backing up important data to external hard drives is something everyone should do, but hard drives themselves aren't immune to errors or data corruption. Fortunately, diagnosing and checking an...

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How to Reformat a Laptop With an External Hard Drive

External hard drives are an extremely useful way for laptop users to add instant storage to their computers without needing to install any additional hardware. The size of external hard drives is...

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How to Use an External Hard Drive for Gaming

If your computer's main hard drive doesn't have enough room on it for you to install your games, you can use an external hard drive to install and play your games. An external hard drive hooks up to...

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How to Use an External Hard Drive for a Windows Home Server

Windows Home Server allows you to connect centralized server storage to your home network, making shared files easily accessible whether or not a computer is powered on. Home Servers generally come...

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How to Play Your Movies From an External Hard Drive

Modern computers can store a lot of information, but if you like to put many movies on your personal computer, the space can fill up fast. That's why it's always a good idea to store files with a lot...

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Why Do I Need an External Hard Drive?

An external hard drive works as a portable expansion of your computer's main internal drive, allowing you to copy files and data to the device in a matter of minutes.

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How to Remove an External Hard Drive

External hard drives are a godsend for those of us with nearly full hard drives. External drives plug into a computer by means of a USB or FireWire cable and can double, triple or even quadruple the...

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How to Reformat a WD External Hard Drive

Western Digital external hard drives are useful for storing and backing up files. However, you may have run into a problem trying to use your Western Digital hard drive with multiple operating systems....

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How to Install an External Hard Drive on an iMac

An external hard drive is a portable storage device essential for backing up files, or transferring them from one computer to another. They vary in memory size and are compatible with iMac computers....

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How to Install a SimpleTech External Hard Drive

With the cost of computer memory plummeting, more and more people are choosing to buy and use external hard drives to store and back up their data. There are many choices of brands for hard drives,...

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How to Install Games on an External Hard Drive

The external hard drive, or the portable hard drive, is increasingly popular today for computer data storage solutions. The external hard drive installation procedure for the game software (or any...

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