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Primo @programmerprimo (174) • United States 19 May 25

A company I used to work for had financial issues and ended up going under about a year ago. I still had the work laptop that I now had no way to give back, so I decided to do a reset on it to use it for my personal use. I first...

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How I saved my friends hard drive

Primo @programmerprimo (174) • United States 16 May 25

Last March my friend accidentally dropped her laptop off of the bed causing it to land on books and thus rendering the screen useless. She wanted to just toss it but I told her to keep it so I can use it for parts. I eventually...

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I was given flowers today

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 11 Apr 25

I wrote about how my external hard drive got dropped and for a time we thought I’d lost all my photos. It was an accident but Vince caught his foot in a cord and pulled the laptop and drive off my lap. Today he bought me these...

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Not very happy at the moment

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 6 Apr 25

At our house-sit, I’ve been working with my computer on my knee with a power cord running back to the wall. Tonight, Vince walked between me and the wall, caught the cord in his foot and pulled the computer off my lap. It’s...

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What would I do with this?

Stacey @xstitcher (39034) • Petaluma, California 20 Sep 20

When I got my new computer, I was told I would be given back my old computer's hard drive, but-- What on earth am I supposed to do with it?? Has anyone out there got a clue what I should do with this? I would sure...

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Gone most of the afternoon--new hard drive

Alfredo Rossi @amadeo (111937) • United States 28 Nov 18

well finally got my computer back.My man putting a new hard drive in. Transfer my files as this take forever.But the job is not done. Need to work on my photo shop here.It was very interesting watching him putting a new hard drive...

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how to fix a broken Hard drive?!

oinkgiz @oinkgiz (863) • Singapore 2 Jan 18

I have purchased a Seagate Backup Plus Slim (Red) Hard drive last August 2017, at first it works perfectly fine but last November it crashed with all the files.. I have tried to test it with my 2 laptops but still not working......

Not enough space

peachpurple @peachpurple (13961) • Malaysia 6 Sep 17

I needed to delete some photos and videos taken with my smartphone. There isn't much space left in the storage. Where do you transfer them to ? External hard drive? Flash drive? Burn to Dvd? I was planning to transfer them to...

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Rescuing Files From Old Hard Drives

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 10 May 16

Two of my previous computers broke down badly – one was my main desk top where the wiring actually caught fire and the other is an old tablet that just frazzled its sealed in battery pack. Though the computers are kaput I hope...

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hard drive

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Mistake After Mistake Killed My Computer

Morgan @OneOfMany (12150) • United States 12 Mar 16

I bought a 3TB drive in the fall to back up all my files but the process was long and tedious so I was a little slow at getting to it. I started the process but got sidetracked by other things. That was the first mistake. The...

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This Feels More Like Home

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16676) • Boston, Massachusetts 31 Dec 15

As I wrote previously, my computer declined to power up several days ago. Having considered the situation, I determined it was most likely the power supply and went scavenging amongst my collection of old PC towers for something...

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My MacBook Pro Crashed Today

Jeff Moffitt @moffittjc (128835) • Gainesville, Florida 11 Oct 15

This morning was not a good start for me. Just as I poured my first cup of coffee, I sat down with my Mac and decided to upgrade to the El Capitan operating system, the latest OS for Macs. Halfway through the upgrade, my hard...

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EaseUS Todo Backup Software

JamesNdea @JamesNdea (2) • New Delhi, India 4 Dec 14

EaseUS Todo Backup easy-to-use backup software for home users to back up photos, music, videos, documents. It is an award-winning solution for a good reason: with detailed instruction wizards, your system, files, folders, videos,...

solution to USB Device not recognized..!!

fungzong @fungzong (10) 15 Apr 13

When I pluck-in the USB cable of my external drive to my pc, it shows "USB device not recognized" Can anyone tell me how to make my hard drive working again as I'm unable to open it.

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Using pics from hard drive or photo editor....

coffeebreak @coffeebreak (17797) • United States 6 Apr 13

I post pictures here, I have them on a blog and Facebook and a few other places...I pull them from my C: drive with the "Browse" button option. Is there any cause for alarm in doing this in that a hacker/decipher person being able...

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Hard drive issue :(

dollar3235 @dollar3235 (2062) • India 23 Mar 13

Lately, I'm experiencing this annoying problem with my external hard drive, it's 1 TB hard drive and it prompts me to format it whenever I connect it to my computer. I have tried it on other computers and I get the same error...

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A question for all the computer experts...

MissBlack @MissBlack (356) • United States 1 Feb 13

So here's the situation, I had a desktop computer for a few years (the black Dell Dimension 4200) I got my money's worth out of that thing..I am not sure what happened really..one day it went to blue screen and it seemed like it...

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My external hard drive is really hot..

lady Di @lady1993 (27221) • Philippines 25 Oct 12

it even burned me a bit.. Is that normal? I have used the external hard drives of my friends and it becomes hot too.. but not to that point, the boiling point.. I think it needs a fan like the computer has.. what d...

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arvind_arvind @arvind_arvind (2) • India 1 Oct 12

hi, i decided to buy "western digital caviar blue 500gb" hard disk (internal) but i don't know it's rpm is it 5900 or 7200 there are nothing print on the hd sticker. how do i find this drive rpm ? seagate offer only 1...

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How Much Do You Know About Computers?

NailTech @NailTech (6874) • United States 12 Mar 12

Well, I have been using a computer for several or so years and I still can't so things like clean the inside of one myself or change the motherboard, put a new HD in, and/or add a new OS. Are you that way or at ease with trying to...

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