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    Question WD External Hard Drive won't show up after scanning

    I tried waiting for long but the external drive will disconnect automatically, only after that then it will load. The drive shows in File Explorer as "E:" but doesn't display any capacity
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    Question WD External Hard Drive won't show up after scanning

    File explorer also loads very slowly when it is plugged.
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    Question WD External Hard Drive won't show up after scanning

    Disk management won't load when it's plugged, it's all grayed out and stuck on "gathering disk information". It will only load when i unplugged it.
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    Question WD External Hard Drive won't show up after scanning

    Is there any way that I can access that drive and retrieve the files before it completely fails? Cause that important files are only placed on that drive
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    Question WD External Hard Drive won't show up after scanning

    Also, i was also able to access this drive on my first plug, the problem only starts when I scanned it using windows defender and after it detects a virus.
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    Question WD External Hard Drive won't show up after scanning

    Yes, but the weird thing he was able to access this drive with no problems a few hours before he sent it to me. Unfortunately, it had some important files on it so i need to access it.
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    Question WD External Hard Drive won't show up after scanning

    Hello, i borrowed this drive from a friend so i can backup his files. After plugging the drive in my pc, it shows up with no problems. However, for safety i tried scanning it with windows defender. It detects 1 virus and the scan stopped. I tried to "clean threat" and "quarantine" that virus but...
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    [SOLVED] Turning off and unplugging psu from wall

    I know this is already asked here in the forum but i realize that most of you are from america where electricity is stable and the outlet has ground and mostly only surge protector is needed. I live in a third world country and my house is old. Our wall outlet doesn't have a ground so we use a...
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    Question Reapplied GPU paste worsens after a day

    The gpu is at 100%, i noticed that shadow of the tomb raider is like 57-58C after reapplying and after some hours and days it is at 58-60C while on dirt 4 after reapplying the temps are just 58C and after like 1-2 days the temps raises at maximum of 62C. Both at 100% tho, as of ambient...
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    Question Reapplied GPU paste worsens after a day

    Hi there, i reapplied my gpu thermal paste for 3 times. I cleaned it with isopropyl alcohol, i tried 3 different methods (too much paste, normal, and little) and all of them gave me a same result which is 58-59C. But i noticed that after a few hours my gpu temps will rise to 60C, and after a...
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    Question GTX 1050 Ti high idle power consumption

    Nope, it's set on optimal power, i even tried adaptive but still the same. I'm thinking if it's a bug in the sensor/driver? The fans are not running since my card has 0db mode.
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    Question GTX 1050 Ti high idle power consumption

    I don't have a multimeter sadly. Btw, my bad. My googling is <Mod Edit>. I searched and found some old forum who has the same issue at me using 1050 ti. Only one of them i believe tested it with kill-a-watt and confirmed it idles at only 7.5W. Still, that 35W bothers me considering that many...
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    Question GTX 1050 Ti high idle power consumption

    I use hwinfo and gpu-z both says that its under 34-36W. I thought it's normal at first until i saw some of the forums when their more powerful cards are idling at very low power. Here's the pic: View: https://imgur.com/a/z3EPmIY
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    Question GTX 1050 Ti high idle power consumption

    I've been trying to search in google for too long and i can't find a solution for this. My 1050 ti idles at 35W even with reinstalling windows, updating drivers and no applications. The tdp of my card is 75W so it almost idles at 50% of it's power. I saw some in the forums that their gtx 1060...
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    [SOLVED] PC randomly freezes / restarts

    Thanks man, i can't send the pic of the socket here but i think i know enough. Yeah maybe its because of that but i dont really have idea how the thermal paste get there. Thank you for all your help!