External Hard Drive

Hello everyone, I've had this external 1 TB SeaGate HDD which I use to keep backups of important files. I was backing up my phone's data, then all of a sudden the transfer speed went to 0 bytes/second and didn't go back up. I tried to cancel the transfer, but it just went to "not responding" and...

So I recently bought a UGREEN 3.5 enclosure with its own 12V 2A Power Adapter which supports up to 16TB capacity and a WD Blue 6TB 3.5 HDD to go along with it. Here is where the problem starts when I connect the enclosure to my laptop with it plugged into a power outlet and USB port my HDD...

Recently I noticed my external hard drive disonecting. when I moved it around it would reconnect so I bought another wire and it worked for a bit but now its doing the same thing and only connects when I hold down the wire where its connected to the external. does anyone know a fix for this. I...

Hi there, Tom's Guide community! Recently, I've started to have problems booting up my MacBook Pro Mid-2012 with OS Mojave. When I press the power button, I hear the usual start-up sound, but instead of an Apple logo, the dreaded flashing folder with a question mark appears. When I looked...

Hello, I have a problem! I bought an external hard drive and installed Fortnite on it. The game worked, but when I disconnected the hard drive and pluged it again, the Epic Games Launcher didn't recognized the game files, and it tells me to install it again. (My Epic Games Launcher is installed...

Hey guys, I have a 2018 MacBook Air, Retina, 256GB. Sucks, because of the butterfly keyboard, and the CPU is notoriously slow, too. Here's the question, what do you guys think of the following? I want to sell my current Macbook and get a 1TB external hard drive instead, where I can keep all of...

4tb harddrive I used to use on my Xbox. I now plug in my computer and my laptop. It does the noise to say it's recognised. And even forms up with the safely eject icon. With open device and printers and eject BUP RD I open device and printers - it's on my devices - properties Manufacturer -...

Hi I'm here, because I really need some advice about cloud storages in general. I'm using a computer with Windows 10 at home. Office365 is installed, therefore I have access to 1 TB of OneDrive. I also have an external hard drive of 2 TB, which I mainly use to backup music and video files. I...

Hello, I have a 4 To Hard drive with all my pictures failing and I would like help to recover it. It is a SATA Hard drive used with a "Icy Box". What is happening is that after deleting a large portion of data (50 Go) the hard drive failed. Now I cannot access it anymore, the dot on the icy box...

My father used this laptop when the screen went black. There was no ac adapter connected only, an external hdd and a wireless mouse usb connector. I unplugged everything then connected the ac adapter but there are no lights next to the adapter. Then i unplugged the ac adapter from the laptop to...

Over the years I have accumulated many thousands of pictures & videos. I have them saved in several platforms. I have some saved on my laptop, on an external HDD, in Google Photos, in a work Cloud & in my Verizon cloud. Many of these pics & vids have several duplicates as the same pictures or...

Get rid of malware on external Hardrive. Hello, I have an external Toshiba Canvio USB hardrive, that I think got infected with a Virus. Any time I plug the device on a Windos PC it shows a Blue Screen, (Winodws 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10 tested). But it does not shut down a Linux OS even...

I've had enough of the DVD's all over the living room. I have a Samsung 7100 smart TV, a 3TB Toshiba external hard drive, WinX DVD Ripper Platinum 8.5. The software seems feature rich but no real explanations for a n00b like me. I want to be able to watch the movies on the TV and also load...

First of all sorry for my bad english, yesterday I was just watching film on my notebook, today when I turned it on my display was completely broken almost whole display was black with some shadows and vertical lines. I was scared so I connected it to my pc monitor and backed up everything to my...

I am trying to securely erase my external hard drive before I sell it. However, after buying two different copies of DBAN, I keep getting the "can't open proc cmdline" message. I am not too crazy with the idea of messing with my computer BIOS. I am not at this time planning to sell my...

Trying to transfer files between two external hard drives on MacBook Pro laptop, but keeps stopping because of (Error -36).... This stops the entire transfer process, which tend to take hours to complete, and I cannot always remember which batch of files was trying to complete. This is using...

Can my HP Stream accept external hard drive storage up to 500GB?

Hey... So i have an external hard drive that i need to periodically and automatically backup to onedrive, but i can't set the whole drive on onedrive instead it just creates a folder in it. That doesn't work in my situation as the files i need to back up are very path specific, changing their...

Recently purchased a 1TB WD Easystore external hard drive to store movies on (MP4 files). When plugged into the USB port for my TVs (VIZIO E Series - E65-E0 from 2017 & an Element LED TV approx. 3 years old), the files cannot be played. The VIZIO TV recognizes the hard drive but none of the...

I am terrible with computers and I made a huge mistake. I have a relatively new laptop. I was planning on setting up automatic backup with an external hard drive. I plugged the hard drive in and there was quite a bit of stuff there, 60% filled. I used it to transfer files from my old laptop to...