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    Question I/O device error on brand new hard drive

    All right, thanks for the responses! I'm going to try a different cable and port, and if that doesn't work, I'm going to return it.
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    Question I/O device error on brand new hard drive

    This is the item I bought: https://www.ebay.com/itm/2TB-USB-3-0-Portable-2-5-External-Hard-Drive-Ultra-Slim-For-Laptop-Mac-Windows/312871119253?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
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    Question I/O device error on brand new hard drive

    What do you mean by "the manufacturer's diagnostic tools?"
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    Question I/O device error on brand new hard drive

    I got a brand new external hard drive today. After trying to copy my pc's hard drive to the ext. hard drive, it got around 20% complete, successfully copying many files, but then got stuck with an error. Now, whenever I try to copy any files from the pc's hard drive to the ext. hard drive, it...
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    Question External Harddisk issues- need HELP!!

    I have this exact issue as well.
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    [SOLVED] How to fix exterior hard drive

    Hey! Thanks for responding so quickly! What exactly do mean by "Which drive is it"? Do you mean what letter? It was "F", but then, when trying different things to fix the problem, I changed the letter to "H". I tried formatting it (non-quick method), but it got stuck on 12%. I tried to cancel...
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    [SOLVED] How to fix exterior hard drive

    So I bought an exterior hard drive for the purpose of backing up my computer. The exterior hard drive is in the format exFat. I tried running the File History backup, and it eventually failed. Ever since then, almost every time I plug that hard drive into my computer, it comes up with "There is...
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    Question Games scratch up but my computer can't detect a bottleneck

    I have 2 sticks of 8 GB RAM, and I'm not completely sure on the speed, but here is the information regarding my RAM, does this get you what you need? View: https://imgur.com/gallery/zTVjwqL And I game at 1920 x 1080 resolution (the maximum for my monitor).
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    Question Games scratch up but my computer can't detect a bottleneck

    So, I have noticed that some games that I play scratch up a bit at hard parts to handle (the framerate will temporarily go to like 20-40 FPS). Examples are Spiral Knights, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood , Minecraft+mods. During those periods of scratch (not good performance), when I look at Task...
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    Program lagging when it's not using all my computer's power.

    One thing I'm thinking may be the case, is, (and forgive me, I don't know too much about computers) could my computer only be allocating a certain amount of CPU to Scratch? Is that something that computers will do occasionally? One more thing, my CPU has on-board graphics, could Scratch be...
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    Program lagging when it's not using all my computer's power.

    I've noticed that 8 people have read this and haven't responded, is there some other information I can give that would help anyone answer this? Thanks.
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    Program lagging when it's not using all my computer's power.

    I've created a game using Scratch. The game scratches up (no pun intended) quite a bit on my computer when I play it. I looked on task manager, and at it's high point, it's only using 29% of my Cpu power, 29% of my memory, and 10% of my GPU. At first, I thought it was just that the bottleneck...