External & Internal drive

Hi! I have a lot of old PC games installed and I was thinking I could move them to an external HDD to save some space on my internal SSDs. I was looking at "WD Elements Portable USB 3.0", but since these are USB, I'm not sure if the read/write speed could affect performance, especially in open...

I have a lenovo yoga 9 with Windows 11 that has a broken BIOS and dead screen. By broken i mean stuck in the blue screen on death and will not go into recovery mode, or do any function that is available in the blue screen mode. I have bought a new laptop but desperately need to access files from...

So I purchased a Yottamaster external RAID / JBOD box that connects to my PC (Win 11) via USB C. I purchased a USB C card from Amazon and installed it. Looking at Device Manager in Windows, it appears that both the RAID box and the USB card are being recognized, however, Disk Manager isn't...

I want to purchase the Seagate 4TB Expansion portable STKM4000400 and want to use it as a backup drive. This model does not come with software according to Seagates website (2nd link below). Not sure if this is the toolkit software that some models include or not. But I see in the 1st link below...

Hey guys, since recently my PC permanently freezes when closing steam games running from my external SSD. During gameplay, everything is fine and the problem only occurs when running games from the external SSD on steam. If i run the games internally or externally from another client like GOG...

I recently transferred every game to my external SSD for my gaming laptop. What I noticed that it has stuttering issue while the cut scenes are playing. Not so much stuttering in game. Is it normal or am I missing something? I read many articles that people play games with external drive with no...

I'm upgrading my PC case to a new one with one fewer external drive bays, and so I don't have room for my internal multimedia reader, which is similar to this: https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-Internal-Reader-writer-CR-USNT/dp/B00GAKX34E?th=1. My ideal would be an external bay like the external...

I have a Corsair MP600 SSD, which is currently plugged into my motherboard. The invoice from the people who built my PC says it's a "Corsair Force PCIe Gen.4 MP600 1TB NVMe", which I think must be this one. I would like to be able to remove it, and plug it in as an external drive, but am a bit...

I have a 2 year old ultrabook where the M.2 NVMe drive slot or controller has gone bad (drives are not recognized by the BIOS). The M.2 drive itself is fine and fully functional. However, as this M.2 slot on the motherboard is the only one place to attach internal storage, the notebook is...

Hello, I apologize if this is the wrong place for this, I am new to this forum and am experiencing a very strange issue. I think it is related to Windows 11, but I am worried it might be my motherboard(?) The TL/DR version: I have many USB ports on my computer, both A and C, of various...

When I connect my WD Elements external HDD I can see the files it contains, I can click on the files and view them, but after around 1 minute, the drive's read-speed drops and eventually dies completely. I can quickly transfer files from it but I can't consistently use it anymore. Is it broken...

Hey guys, I would like to know what causing my External Hard Drive keeps disconnecting while I'm opening some heavy apps like Unigine Heaven benchmark, GTA V, or any kind of games? My specs are : AMD Ryzen 5 4650G with Radeon Vega 7 Graphics Motherboard MSI B450M-A PRO MAX Netac Technology DDR4...

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...

Pc wasn't booting today, not even getting to the bios. I unplugged my external HDD and the PC booted okay. How can an external HDD brick your entire system? It quite amazed me that it wasn't even showing BIOS just a black screen.

I was looking for a drive to use as backup storage, preferably external. I want something with at least 2 TB and USB-C drives are very expensive. I found the WD Black P10 which has 4TB at a very low price (while discounted). I don't need huge transfer speeds, I'll be using this drive mainly to...

Hello. I have a 2TB Seagate Expansion+, bought 3-4 years ago, and recently I noticed through Acronis Drive Monitor that it had a bunch of bad sectors, 80 to be precise and 40 for both Pending Sector and Uncorrectable Sectors. Another day passes and the bad sector count jumps to 192 and the...

Hello, my quite prehistorical external disk (WD Passport - 54528 hours, about 12yo) just did weird thing today. It completely locked itself off, couldn't access it at all, it changed its partition to RAW and windows started throwing errors. I tried restarting computer, which now wouldn't post at...

I have a problem with an external drive called "WD Elements". Not sure if this is even a correct place to ask but im out of ideas. The ( D: ) drive can be accessed but the main portion of the drive is locked? I cant really delete the partition because it has valuable stuff on it.

I'm getting a 1 TB internal SSD and I want to replace one of the Internal drives in my PC. Right now my computer is running a 125 GB SSD as the main drive and I have a 1 TB HDD as a second internal drive. I don't really want 3 internal drives so I wanted to replace the HDD with the new SSD and...

So I just bought a brand new laptop (Lenovo 5 15 AMD Ryzen 7, rtx 3050ti) which only has 500gb storage, so I bought a Buffalo 1TB external SSD. When I plugged it into my tower (no brand, I built years ago), it worked fine. It let me transfer steam games, shows, music easily. When I plug it into...

I had the bright idea to set up bootcamp on my macbook and then use an external hard drive to extend the space of my windows partition. However, the drive seems to have stopped working. It keeps on erroring out with: "Location is Not Available" D:/ is not accessible A device which does not...

I'm currently using a WD Mycloud, but the interface is clunky. I managed to set it up (and had to write down) so that everyone on my network can have a networkdrive to which they can back up their stuff. It's just that.. if something goes awry, I'll have to clue how to set up that WD Mycloud...

Hi I am recently once again upgrading my local storage capacities. For many reasons I wanted to add a third M.2 NVMe drive - but this time connect it via a cable of some sort and not install it in a dedicated M.2 slot on my motherboard. And so I started looking for solutions. Long story short...

Hi, I have a 4TB External WD Hard Drive with which I got careless and let only 20+ Gb of free space remain of the approximately 3.6TB usable space. Now it keeps crashing my windows explorer every time I try to open it. I've tried it on 2 different systems, both show the same problem so it is...

Hello! I've been wondering if an external SSD would be good enough for games on my PC. Currently, I have an internal HDD that runs at about 120-140 Mbps read/write. Online, I found an HP P700 external solid-state that states it can run at 1,000 Mbps read/write. Should I get it, or will there be...

I recently used my external hard drive which I have not used in a year and gave me that error code Hard drive Access denied, I was able to fix it, get in the drive but now every folder and file needs a change in permission manually, is there a way that I can change all of it in one go? There's...

Hello, I have a work computer with non administratative rights running OEM Win 10 Pro. OS requires me to sign in to my working e-mail. I dont have my own PC so I would like get USB 3.1 adapter to connect Sata SSD which already have another OEM activated Windows 10 OS installed. I am aware of...

I have a Seagate external hard-disk, and it use to work well, but today when i plugit to my Windows 10 PC >> i can hear the connected ring >> and the external hard desk will light >> but i can not find it inside the This PC. but when i opeen the device manager i can see it and it mentioned that...

I was downloading some big files and my pc froze for a while, so I pulled the usb cable of the Seagate external hdd(1tb) and after that usb hdd is not detectable on my pc (win 10). I tried connecting to my ps4 and its saying usb device file system is corrupted. I tried to run diskpart in cmd...

I’m getting a new computer soon here the computer I have now has a Seagate external hard drive with picture and other things, when I get this new compute is it better to plug it in and then turn my new pc on for the first time, or should I turn on my new pc do the introduction for windows and...

My pc works just fine and I want to add old external HDD in to my PC. It didn't work at all even in BIOS didn't detect any new drive plug in. So I try putting it back to External and it work perfectly fine!?! All SATA cable is new and is working just fine, all SATA slot is useable ( tried with...

Hello System: I5 8400 Asus strix b360-h gaming 16gb ram hyperx Msi 1070ti 1tb hdd 240gb ssd (windows 10 pro version 2004 drive) 80+ gold modular cooler master psu So recently I connect my external hard drive into my front I/O port. My pc suddenly shuts off automatically and reboots by itself...

I'm looking for a SATA to USB 3.1 Gen 1 (minimum) adapter or enclosure that supports UASP as well. I'll mainly be using this for an external SSD for my Xbox Series X probably so the faster the better. I've been browsing a bunch of enclosures on Amazon but I really don't know which ones to go...

CrystalDiskInfo of the disk - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZYZ6-QXCeCARBvpipEufD3d0OsiEuScs/view?usp=sharing Yesterday, i was moving some files to the EHDD, the transfer speed plummeted down to 0, and the drive got disconnected abruptly. The EHDD lights were still on and you could here it...

Got an internal HDD which I connect via SATA/USB as external drive. Two problems: the HDD shows up healthy in Crystal Disk Info, but doesnt have a drive-letter. In Disk Management, the partitions show up in the lower window, but not in the upper. As this HDD still has an Ubuntu installation...

Hello friends I recently bought SATA to USB 3.0 Cable with a power adapter. when I connect 2.5 inch HDD it gets detected but the same does not happen with 3.5 inch HDD. I connect 12 volts, 2-ampere power adapter given with SATA cable for connecting 3.5 inch HDD. My laptop is up to date, all...

I have 3 storage units namely , 250 GB Samsung 860 Evo Internal SSD (newly bought) <---- C Drive 1TB WD BLACK CAVIAR Internal HDD @7200 RPM (+9 yrs old) <----- E/F Dive 500 GB WD Portable Elements External HDD @5400 RPM (+9 yrs old) <---- G Drive...

First of all, I'd like to apologize if some of you may having a hard time reading this, English isn't my first language. Now, let me explain the problem. I have a 3 years old WD My Passport 2TB external hard drive which I haven't used in a while (probably just a couple months), yesterday when I...

I found an old 2TB Hitachi External Hard Disk. It needs power from an external source to work. The 12V, 1.25A power input that came with it is not working. So, I connected another power input which is rated 7.5V, 0.35 A. It is getting connected to the pc(Logo lights up when I connect both power...

I bought a SATA/PATA/IDE Drive to USB 2.0 Adapter Converter Cable such as this product: Similar product on amazon: However, the sata data plastic panel removed (pulled out) and the last copper pin cutted which is GND (as well as the fixation pin was broken). This panel was pulled out (look...