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    Folder Refuses to Delete

    I did both and the files and folder STILL won't go away. Please tell me I won't have to format this 4T hard drive and copy all of the other 2T data all over again, please no.
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    Folder Refuses to Delete

    I have a folder of "corrupt" files and nothing I do will get rid of them. I WANT THEM GONE!!! Note: I don't believe it's the hard drive, this is a new one I've just started using it. I think it's where it tried to copy corrupt files from a previous hard drive which WAS corrupt (and which I've...
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    Longevity: Use Internal HD or External HD More?

    Yes, in making the initial backups, which is the most drudgery-filled part as you're talking a good 2T worth of data, I tend to break it up in parts. In other words, my photos, I have 13 years worth of them, I did not have it copy all 13 years worth at once. I typically did one year at a time...
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    Longevity: Use Internal HD or External HD More?

    As I posted earlier I finally got a backup setup going now that my PC is reading the WD 4T internal hard drive correctly. As it is, the "main" hard drive that is meant for my wife to use for accessing JPEGs etc is an external 4T in an enclosure connected to a router's storage link. In a separate...
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    USB Enclosure for 3.5" SATA HD, Windows Detects Enclosure But Not HD (Solved)

    UPDATE: I got the external working (the 2nd one, the original one is still connected as an internal), it was a simple thing that probably no one else in here would have any issues with, but just in case, I'm posting about it. All it was is that in Disk Management apparently I was supposed to...
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    USB Enclosure for 3.5" SATA HD, Windows Detects Enclosure But Not HD (Solved)

    Thanks for the insights, gentlemen. I'll keep this in mind, maybe I'll end up getting a different enclosure and keeping this one in the same "spare parts drawer" my old G-band routers are parked (in case my three N routers with storage links all croak). Meanwhile I'm pleased that the hard drive...
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    USB Enclosure for 3.5" SATA HD, Windows Detects Enclosure But Not HD (Solved)

    Thanks for the tip, I never would have thought of that. According to the Amazon page, it has a maximum capacity of 6 terrabytes, so I should be OK.
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    USB Enclosure for 3.5" SATA HD, Windows Detects Enclosure But Not HD (Solved)

    You may be right, I'll look into that. Sorry, too, for melting down, boy was I frustrated. Meanwhile, I have things going somewhat. I decided to break down and go the internal route. At first I was stuck not knowing how to "set up" the hard drive in terms of partitions etc (in recent years I've...
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    USB Enclosure for 3.5" SATA HD, Windows Detects Enclosure But Not HD (Solved)

    I apologize if I sound "out there," but PLEASE, can someone HELP ME? I am about to lose it, as in throwing every hard drive I have against the wall. This is driving me crazy. Why can't it just be that you plug in the hard drive and then GET ON WITH YOUR LIFE!! UGH!! THIS IS NUTS!!!!! I just...
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    USB Enclosure for 3.5" SATA HD, Windows Detects Enclosure But Not HD (Solved)

    Update: there is something showing up, but it doesn't make any sense and there doesn't seem to be any options to doing anything to any of it. On a hunch I opened up Disk Management with this drive unhooked and took a screenshot of it, then re-did this with the hard drive on, and compared the...
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    USB Enclosure for 3.5" SATA HD, Windows Detects Enclosure But Not HD (Solved)

    I apologize, I was posting from a phone and it kept "double-posting" etc. The hard drive (WD40EZRZ) shows up in Device Manager (as a SCSI) but DOES NOT show up in Disk Management. I even rebooted, did a rescan and refresh, but no matter what I do it WILL NOT show up in Disk Management (but DOES...
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    USB Enclosure for 3.5" SATA HD, Windows Detects Enclosure But Not HD (Solved)

    I have two WD 4T 3.5" SATA HDs which I bought from here some months ago. Finally I got around to "deploring" them, putting them into action. From NewEgg I got a Rosewell RX307 USB enclosure. Upon powering this on, the enclosure itself gets picked up by Windows (8 or 10, I tried it on different...
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    Going on Vacation, Good Setup for Networking Photos Locally

    Exactly a month from today, I'm going on a vacation. I will be taking many photos, "offloaded" to a notebook PC (I use real cameras, not smartphones, for my photos) but I desire it to be the case that at least 2 other people, at their PCs, can also view these photos, and do so without me having...
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    Help With Syncing MP3 Files to A "Dummy" Phone

    OK, let me ask (I am researching to try and find out on my own), when viewing playlists, albums, artists etc does Poweramp insist on "grid" view as many apps do nowadays or does it allow for a "list" view? I STRONGLY, STRONGLY, STRONGLY prefer a "list" view and I absolutely CANNOT STAND "grid"...
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    Help With Syncing MP3 Files to A "Dummy" Phone

    I don't have as the goal the ability to edit tag information on the portable device. That would be too awkward unless it's a quick simple fix. I'm content with that sort of thing being done at the PC level. What I want is playlist management and addition of new MP3s to be a much more seamless...
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    Help With Syncing MP3 Files to A "Dummy" Phone

    I am trying to ease the process by which MP3 files are synced to a device. I have some technical abilities and the way I've done it is by "drag/drop" in Windows Explorer to the device's microSD card. However, I'm trying for a more "for dummies" method for a friend of mine who is otherwise going...
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    Download Keeps Locking Up When Almost Finished

    Don't laugh, but I'm using a Straight Talk ZTE device. The thing is, it actually works well with most things, and with downloading a file it zooms throughout most of the duration, only to suddenly and out of nowhere with no warning just stop right when it's almost done. Just moments ago I was...
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    Download Keeps Locking Up When Almost Finished

    Using a "hotspot" 4G device, I am trying to download a measly 4 megabyte .exe file for installing a program (foobar2000). It is absolutely infuriating me what it is doing, it will plug right on along at a decent rate but then around 3.4 or 3.6 out of 3.7 (as in 97% or so), it will then suddenly...
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    Dell N7110, Renesas USB 3 Keeps Failing

    I have a Dell N7110 laptop which I will be using in about 6 weeks on a vacation for offloading photos & videos to a USB 3.0 flash drive. This model works great for me, it's sufficiently up to date in terms of specifications etc, except for one thing--offloading those photos and videos takes...
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    Upgrade from Windows 8.1 Bing to 10 on Asus X205TA?

    I just purchased an Asus X205T locally, for $125. It's a Windows 8.1 Bing "EeeBook," a recent model. It is this model: https://www.asus.com/us/Notebooks/ASUS_EeeBook_X205TA/specifications/ (Basically it's a 11.6" 1366x768 LCD, 2G DDR3 RAM, Intel Quad Core Z3735 1.33 GHz Processor, 32G eMMC...
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    Laptop Has 3 USB Ports But Can Only Handle 1 Storage Device At The Time

    Sorry for the slow and haphazard responses. I haven't tried any of your suggestions yet, sorry--however, there is this--I've noticed that it may be the other 2 USB ports themselves, because when I plug anything into them, even if it's the only thing plugged in at all, it does nothing. So...
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    Laptop Has 3 USB Ports But Can Only Handle 1 Storage Device At The Time

    I haven't done the device manager thing, will try that. The basis--because I plug it in and the lights don't come on and/or it doesn't show up under the hard drive letters, whereas it does when I plug it in my itself.
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    Laptop Has 3 USB Ports But Can Only Handle 1 Storage Device At The Time

    I have a Windows 8.1 laptop. For some reason, it can only handle having 1 storage device connected at the time. I've tried plugging in a Seagate 1T external portable hard drive and a PNY 64G USB flash drive, and it will only operate one at the time. Understand--I'm referring to plugging in...
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    Good Free/Cheap System Image Backup Programs

    Since posting this, I've been using Drive Snapshot solely. I wish I had discovered it a long time ago. I say this mainly because my Windows 8 machine, the Dell 660s I purchased in Dec 2013, it never worked with Acronis System Image Home 2010, the software I had been using with everything else...
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    Are Hard Drive Prices Going Up?

    I did some reading on the topic, to see if my perspective was skewed. Not at all--one person mentioned how they were able to easily get a 2T model for $70 before the 2011 floods. Now, it's all you can do to find one for $100. Computers and their components have always been things you could...
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    Are Hard Drive Prices Going Up?

    I've been looking around at portable hard drives, for backing up system images, and if my mind isn't going bonkers, it seems like the prices are going UP. It's been some 2 years ago when I was able to 2T portable hard drives for $70, brand new, and when I look now 1T models are going for that...
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    Good Free/Cheap System Image Backup Programs

    Oh okay. What about Paragon?
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    Good Free/Cheap System Image Backup Programs

    This post was originally long, I've redone it to try and make it less of a "long read." For sometime I've used Acronis System Image Home 2010 for system image backups. That's all I do, I don't do "cloning" or the like. I simply make a system image of the Windows and programs installation...
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    First-Time Vista User: Doesn't Seem So Bad To Me

    Someone mentioned Windows 8 and Vista having the "don't get a second chance to make a first impression" or whatever. Well, that's funny--my "best" computer is a Windows 8 machine (Dell Inspiron 660s). This other one, a Dell Optiplex 380 I paid $55 for (shipped), is a Vista machine. So I guess...
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    First-Time Vista User: Doesn't Seem So Bad To Me

    I purchased a second-hand Dell Optiplex 380 for $55 on eBay, and it came with Windows Vista Home Basic SP2. I had always heard that Vista was the worst version of Windows (well maybe Millenium Edition was worse), but so far in using it, I don't see what the issue is. It actually seems a lot...
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    PC Powers On, CPU Fan Spins, No Beep, No Video

    I have an Acer AM5100/U5201A AMD 64 x2 4400+ 2.3GHz/2G RAM computer that was working fine and then one day, out of nowhere, it goofed up. It powers on, but there is no video, it doesn't beep, and I don't hear the hard drive doing anything as best as I can tell. However, the power light on the PC...
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    Dell Inspiron 15-3531: Any Good?

    My tendency would be to use the laptop OCCASIONALLY. On any given day, I'd only use Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and/or Apache OpenOffice, maybe playing the occasional 720p mp4 video. I currently use an ancient Dell Inspiron 8600 with 1.7G single-core and Windows XP for that. Trips would be where I'd...
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    Dell Inspiron 15-3531: Any Good?

    I am inquiring about a Dell Inspiron 15-3531. Someone has one for sale locally for $200, they've only owned it a week. Apparently, though, it goes for $250 (plus shipping?) brand-new. It's apparently a budget-priced type of laptop. I am normally a desktop user, I know how to work on them to a...
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    One Windows 7 CD For Every PC?

    Oh okay, so I've been doing it wrong all along? Okay, now I know. Can we say "duh!!"
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    One Windows 7 CD For Every PC?

    I have a Windows XP CD that installs on any machine without any problems, versus being specific to one machine. (I actually bought it here some years ago.) This is handy as I do sometimes have several machines I may set up (or one machine may be disposed of & a new machine takes its place, the...
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    Backup Procedures for JPEGs, MP4s and MP3s

    (GAO) Do you keep any external portables stored off-site (say in a bank safe deposit box)?
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    Backup Procedures for JPEGs, MP4s and MP3s

    I consider myself a bit above average in terms of computer literacy, in that I'm more computer literate than just a typical "end user." I've built computers, know how to system-image, done a little fooling around with .bat files, even done some Visual Basic with SQL statements in Microsoft...
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    Android 4.0 7" Tablet Advice Needed

    I was the recent owner of an AGPtek TP10AYA Android Tablet. I am not sure of the technical specifications, but here's the Rakuten.com link (http://bit.ly/WizGwU). It was a 7" entry-level model with a capacitive screen, in fact I picked it up in here for only $50. (While it's a cheapie, it was...
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    I just want a 32gb .mp3 player

    I am with (Charles Kozierok) get a Sansa Clip+ and a 32G microSD card and Rockbox. Cheap, great sound quality, very handy form factor (it clips to your pants pocket and isn't huge) and you can charge it with any mini-USB cord. Me: I don't care for album art or the like, heck if I had my druthers...
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    Dell D600 Won't Read Hitachi Portable HD

    I have a Hitachi 250G portable hard drive. I don't know the exact model etc, just that I purchased it (here?) last year & it's black with white trim. It uses a 5-pin USB mini for connection. I find that my home computer will only read it if it's connected DIRECTLY to the USB outlet. It will...