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    Question External USB HDD not showing in Windows 11 but works fine in Windows 10 ?

    Bought a new Seagate USB drive. Transferred the contents of Elements drive to Seagate using a Windows 10 computer - it took 2 days. Reformatted the Elements NTFS and that took more than a day. [should have tried quick format first]. Elements drive now works in Lenovo with Windows 11 and works...
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    Question Linux Ubuntu install on external hdd

    Pleased to hear your issue is resolved. I have 2 internal SSD. Windows on one and swap file on the other. So I made a partition on the non windows drive of about 25GB. I then installed Ubuntu onto that. Now I have dual boot. So I have to choose Windows at the bottom of the Ubuntu...
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    Question External USB HDD not showing in Windows 11 but works fine in Windows 10 ?

    WD elements 2.72TB does not work on Lenovo Win11 Tower but works on Toshiba Laptop and allows error checking in win10 properties sucessfully. Similarly, Seagate 3.68TB works fine on Lenovo in the same ports back and front. WD elements works fine on HP Z400 Tower and Dell T1650 Tower with Windows...
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    Missing WiFi connection.

    Same problem. Win7 computer in same location finds home network. Win 8.1 cant find it. And as you say Neighbours are there. After all the below blog I tried removing the power form the router and resetting it after restoring the power and my hidden network is now there and it connected...
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    External Hard Drive not recognised by Windows 7 via USB.

    My WD-10EAVS used occasionally to backup and then switched off - so very little use over several years suddenly was not recognised on Win xp/7/8.1 machines. Tried changing lead still same. Tried CMD>diskpart>list volume and it was not shown Tried CMD>list disk and it was shown as disk 1. Tried...