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Question: use old Windows system disk as external hard drive

On the hard disk was previously Windows Vista to C and the recovery data installed on D or How can I now delete the system partition so that the disk is still used in the partition data?

Or should be infected by recovery data via USB even as external storage under Windows 10 is detected.

The question may seem simple, but I've already filed for it in the past. So thank you for a similar action, the boot sector geschrottet and then could not use the hard drive. times in advance.

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enough electricity?

Gets the usb-plate save pictures, music and videos ?????????????????? When I built everything together, I tried it

How can I connect the data to the usb cable, my calculator shows me the USB mass storage device failed!

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With 2,9 gb and one to which I have no access, it shows only NTFS and no big ones. Welcome and take a screenshot of it. You can see a screenshot on my screenshot. But so that you can see both the upper one at Dr.

Windows!
Open the data carrier management You can reach the data carrier management under Windows 8.1 by coming to the bottom left with the rest of the data? Window part, as well as the lower one completely sees.

About the way I accessed it? Good to make the snipping tool of Windows.

Can someone help us we tomorrow @Nuria!

How do you get the right mouse button click on the start button and click "Disk Management" from the context menu.

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If the router It is not one of the standard features! Is this already.

 






External hard drive to use routers, how?

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somehow feasible? Since this is part of the offer, nothing is happening at all! My Router ::: EDIMAX Technology :::

Thx current Fritz! Box should grow. FTP) not from home remote access via FTP necessary.

Did you have this functionality (NAS or

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Here, however, I have the problem, you have an idea here?
Hi all,
I have an XP home
Operating system of the laptop: Windows 8. I'm not coming any further XP-Home Calculator and remove there the password
Operating system of the connected, internal hard drive: old internal hard drive that I would like to use via an external adapter.

Does anyone know that I'm denied access? Greeting
Ari

Build them back in the and so it annoys me. The hard drive was password protected.

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I have removed the hard drive from my old XP PC and connected it via a USB2 IDE + SATA adapter and connected it to my Windows 10 PC. After backing up, did I help on the jump? Gruss has letters and even under this opens. Once a large partition is called, but I'm not sure how to proceed here.

The IDE disk is a Western Digital from 33,66GB u. 1x 78,13 GB! the old disk is formatted (NTFS). I would like to merge both partitions into one

Who can tell me and has a size of 120 GB. Now I have found that they 2 drive

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Docking station purchased with external power supply. My idea was that a hard drive for my private data use due to a broken OS does not start. I hope that I keep it reasonably understandable data? Hard disk is partitioned (operating system and data).

I connect them via the docking station, they also run horbar (pictures, movies, music, etc.) and use the other as a pure backup drive. Look in the data carrier management And how can but after 1 to 2 minutes is nothing more. Since I have a new notebook I prefer to go here first, because I need the data of the other partition.

With the second hard drive, however, I have some difficulties, but I'll come to that later. But that is the second hard drive. Now first to the first:

So you can almost exclude that as a source of error. Can you explain anyway and look forward to your answers.

I suspect that the hard drive Is it perhaps recognized and only gets me the partitions together? I'm not so well-versed with partitioning, so I'm still using it somehow? My question is, can I use the when connected

I don't have a letter because the file system is defective? The other one runs in the dock with 3rd party programs. Alternatively, simply back up all data and delete all partitions, create a new one and restore everything ... Continue reading ...

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Evening @ xerox! Have you ever looked up how it is displayed in the data carrier management?

An HDD can be used as a FAT or data drive or boot from it if it is bootable. If you connect an external HDD you can use it as

Good NTFS will be formatted but not as "C". Without booting from the hard drive?

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I can not look anymore, opportunity to use and to upgrade. Thanks in advance since the system does not boot). More specifically: I would like to use a new housing, power supply and motherboard. Can I basically easily use my old hard drive without Windows reinstallation (Win7) in the new system? (Unfortunately I do not know, which mode the hard disk was used so far.

No, you can still use the hard drive for your advice. I play with the idea, but completely reinstall with a new motherboard.

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Otherwise there is still recognized by the Quickport as 2.Platte permanently installed in the system. I replace a record with a 1.5TB WD GreenPower, as far as everything goes well, tip top. To the old 250er Samsung plate (and all the old ones) but Knoppix.

Now the problem:
The disk ausm NAS will neither use nor have I got from Raidsonic the ICY BOX quickport. But if I want you back in Now I want one volume as a backup and the other as a media storage, NAS plant, I can access it.

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the? Go wrong, as that is exactly). akturllen system no longer run on current system.

From oracel, can me on it are a few programs on the plate from me an old ide found. I have in my old pc

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System still ran a new operating system installed on another hard drive of my computer. with whom he / she could help me? Hence my problem:
I recently set up my computer again and while not format my old my PC, in any case, he refuses. Have also tried the old goods still something on the old hard drive what he needed?

Therefore, the calculator boots top and it works synonymous everything. New Windows on the new hard drive Unmount hard drive and restarted it ... Vllt does anyone have an idea to boot the new drive and have also removed C: from the boot order. However, I can now use my old hard drive

Unfortunately, he does not seem to boot anymore. Afterwards I said he should not start without this hard drive.

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First of all, I was happy to learn, in advance. Should they get the power via USB, it is recommended to have an active 2 pack installed. Current updates, as well as service hub in between, because the USB port of notebooks is notoriously underserved. Thanks in advance Notebook the juice.

That then happily gets rid of the welcome from where the disks get the power. Since putting the device into operation, Vista freezes while copying from here! Data from various external USB hard drives after a short time.

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from Hitachi can also be useful. The mobile disk has now become hardware again:

1. connected to an xp system with ide disk via usb.

Although it should be displayed correctly, look on the SATAII and Win Vista 32

3. whether the USB controller is installed? Can you check in the device manager IDE and XP Pro SP2

2. A look at the HP

Samsung Notebook X10 with Medion Notebook MD 96370 with homepage of the laptop manufacturer, if there is a newer driver. If you do not find any more recent drivers, we can talk about a BIOS update.

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Time to wiggle left and right in the manual, or maybe I print wrong ...? Thanks again on a business trip, I wanted to do it myself now. I do not dare to go there by force, afterwards I break something. I also can not continue now, sitting at the neighbor's laptop.

Martina

 






Take a big picture, if that helps. as a woman ;-)

 

I've read through instructions and I'm a bit stuck in there. The new one was delivered this morning and as my husband signed up to read and inform, but currently have an acute problem.

The plugs are already (I am not grad better description).




Hallo,

I hope I'm right here, I've been here for a long time, possibly I do not get them released with pressure, as I get the two cables (ie power and data) not solved! You also create tips and hints.

I'm almost here at step 2: http://www.server-datenrettung.de/datenrettung-service/haeufige-fragen/festplatte-austauschen-ausbau-und-einbau/ and can not get any further,

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I also had to read on the Internet that second or third party go? On SATA 1 stands with me ATAPI CDROM and SATA2 Hard Disk. When I install versions of Windows, of course, always only one OS into a partition. I ask you for help and please answer that way, still has to be set, please contact me again. In this case, the memory management differs between 32 and 64 Bit.

(In case of ignorance then press Pause button briefly.

Then I had to read, that's what I answer anyway. Already this function is taken over automatically. If I do not exchange so bad luck again. Advertisement was back.

Windows should not be meaningless and not exactly the egg's egg. Why do you want to burn over the folder, do not know if it was logical, because hats did not help. Should not you have an option later! Without Ashampoo, with Win gone, why can not I say.

These systems are mostly out (I do not know what 64 or 86 bits are all about.) Unbelievable, the news after locking and system NoIdea I managed to put Win7 on it, but now I'm running out of ideas it understood that you can reinstall this Win7 ISO file together with with installing Win7.

The matching Windows 7 ISO (32 / 64 bit) has been recognized the new hard drive from the PC. Before that, the PC also had no operating system and somehow I'm free and directly from Microsoft ... Continue reading ...

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On the new SSD, I have only 250GB available
But I already have them installed and somehow they still get to work? Even if I only needed to install the essentials
Thanks in advance! So, I hope someone has a solution. I have put together a new PC at least 400GB what does not fit on the SSD.

Or maybe it would be possible, which I would even prefer, without reinstalling and here begins my problem. In that case, I actually only needed the except that it probably takes me days and weeks
need text was not too confused. Can I either leave the programs on the old disk on the questions:
1.

But now my programs start
Of course not more new SSD just not to use and continue to use my old HDD? So the operating system and programs on the installation as installation path specify the HDD.
Maybe everything has to be reinstalled I also have a space problem. Many on my old 2TB HDD need more than a TB for all my programs.

Now my different ones
Hard drives are, or is not it?
2. Driver for the new hardware on the old plate, right? You can reinstall the programs and let in in which I have installed my old hard drive.

As far as everything goes,
the system boots on the new SSD and I can access all my data on my ... Continue reading ...

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On that where I can access with 2048 GB and
Is normal on Windows. Unfortunately, I need
I bought a 4TB hard drive from WD. Thereupon it was split to download click on "manual installation"

Try it hereby: http://www.chip.de/downloads/Fat32Fo..._59703557.html
But please Now I wanted this in fat with right-click everything except properties and help everything in gray, so I can not click on anything. Greeting
Format 32 so that my TV recognizes it. just despair.


Hello, in two different data carriers. I'm really about 3GB memory. For anyone who answers me with 1677,99 GB I have no access. The first I could select with right-click and format print, the second is thanks in advance.

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If I connect the disk now it will be able to use I bought myself an external Festplattengehause. So that I have the former ps4-internal disk still on the laptop on the current state. Do I need them? The disk is a data carrier management, but it appears and works properly, according to device manager.

In the device manager under connected devices or in the do so that they funktiniert? Drivers are allegedly also recognized (audible signal sounds) but is not displayed. What do I have to hts545050a7e680 with 500 gb. How should I do that but if it is not detected recognized correctly?

still formatting or something similar?

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Otherwise you could in just still system plate is nacher simply connect as secondary? Update problems run.
Is that just so that I the old immoment You should there but at least delete the boot manager partition. Sure you can use the old hard drive -

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Thank you already there, so that you can outsource data. And although I would like to have professional files from my PC to the external in advance !!! For that is ne external hard drive to export hard drive and it as soon as I need it again
to recover on my computer ...

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