Questions tagged [hard-drive]
A hard drive (hard disk, hard disk drive, or HDD) is a piece of computer hardware capable of storing data magnetically on a spinning platter (or platters) coated with a magnetic material.
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Install Steam and most games in one large HDD but some popular games on a separate SSD [duplicate]
I have a 1 TB HDD and a 120 GB SSD. On the HDD I have all my data along with Steam and—currently—all my games. On the SSD I have Windows 7 and programs, but there's 50 GB of unused space that I wish ...
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What's the total size of all games I have on Steam?
I have a lot of games on Steam, far more than my puny hard drive can hold at once. However, in the future I may want to store all of them locally.
Is there any way to figure out about how much hard ...
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How do I copy an installed steam game on my PC to an external hard drive?
I have installed a game using Steam and it is already on my PC.
How do I copy the game into an external hard drive?
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If I stick a blank hard drive into my PS3 will it work?
On Christmas Day 2010 my PS3 stopped reading discs so I bought a new one, took the hard drive out of the old one, wiped/formatted it and used it as a portable hard drive.
But today I've found a ...
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How to stop Steam trying to read from a non-existent drive?
I used to run Steam on an external drive mapped as the I: drive, and then I got a new computer and transferred my games to a secondary internal drive mapped as the D: drive. The external drive no ...
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PS3 doesn't boot with original hard drive after hard drive swap
I've messed up: I reformatted a new SSD for my PS3, but after that, when I try to swap to the original drive to get the backup data, it won't boot and asks me to reformat the whole drive. The older ...
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What exactly is stored on the Xbox console, the hard drive, and Xbox Live?
Please be patient with me. I am a Mom, not a gamer. We have an Xbox 360 S with 250 GB that we are having to exchange for a new one. I have several questions.
What is the difference between the 360 S ...
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For PC gaming on external storage, should I use Flash or HDD (hard disk drive)?
I will be playing PC games on external memory via a USB 3.0 connection. Ignoring price and memory capacity differences, which of these options is better for gameplay purposes?:
a Flash USB (generally ...
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Is hard disk also responsible for game performance?
Me and my friend have same laptop. Both have the same specifications, but a game's performance on his laptop is lag free. Well, the only difference is in our hard drives. He has a hard drive which is ...
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How can I clean up disk space on PS4?
I am running out of space on my PS4 1TB. I'm like about 800GB occupied and just few tenths of GB left considering some space is required for the OS and other stuff.
What can I do to free up some space?...
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Can I backup or restore my old PS3 hard drive to a new PS3?
My PS3 just YLOD'd. I'm hoping its just a temporary overheating issue and if I just leave it off and unplugged for the day I can get it back on long enough to eject the game disc and backup the hard ...
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Internal PS3 HDD Replacement
Is there any limit as to what size/type of hard drive you can replace in the Playstation 3?
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How can I transfer data from one Xbox 360 slim to another slim?
I'm thinking about getting the Gears of War 3 limited edition console and I already have one of the new 360 S consoles. How can I transfer my data between the two?
I checked Google and couldn't find ...
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PS3 Hard Drive Replacement - Will a 3.5" ATA Hard Drive work?
I got some 250 GB Disks from an older server. It must be a weird server because these disks are 3.5" MaxLine Plus II, 250GB ATA/133 HDD disks, but nevertheless here they are. Do they fit in a PS3, 60 ...
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Does the 4 GB Xbox 360 have enough space for 5 gamer profiles and saved games?
I have just recently decided to buy my younger brothers an xbox 360 slim for their birthday. I would like to save as much money as possible so I am looking to get them the 4GB system. I understand ...
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Why doesn't my PS3 backup restore game saves & data on a new system?
I had an old 80Gb PS3 from 2009 which suddenly had a hard disk error a few weeks back, saying:
Could not start, The appropriate storage system was not found.
I had backed it up a week prior this ...
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Can I install PS3 games on an external hard drive?
I have a PS3 Super Slim with 12 GB of flash. I need to expand its storage to install games.
On the net, I found contrasting opinions: I know I need a disk formatted in FAT32, but I don't understand ...
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Largest hard disk you can install on a PS3?
My current PS3 HDD (1TB) is near capacity thanks to PS Plus IGC and several sales over the years. What's the largest capacity hard disk I can buy that will work with a PS3? I know there are certain ...
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Is there a difference between a PS4 USB Harddrive and any other USB Harddrive?
so while i was browsing JB Hifi's store looking for a new USB Harddrive i came across this Seagate Game Drive for PS4, however the instructions on the Playstation site for using USB Hardddrives don't ...
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How likely is it that an Xbox 360 hard drive will die, and are there any early warning signs or indicators?
A lot of people have experienced a RROD failure with their Xbox 360s, but has anyone experienced hard drive failure? The 20Gb drives included with day 1 launch models are now 5 years old, and ...
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How do I install Diablo 3 on an external hard drive without admin privileges?
In relation to the post here:
Playing through an external hardrive
and here:
How can I run Diablo 3 without an administrator account?
I'd like to know how you can install Diablo 3 on a connected USB ...
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How do I back up a Wii U?
Nintendo has officially announced that they are shutting down the Wii U, and the 3DS eStores. I own a fair amount of digital games on my Wii U (they are on an external hard drive).
In the event that ...
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Is it possible to move a hard drive with Steam games to a new computer?
I've seen a lot of questions asking somewhat the reverse of this question, namely copying games from one PC to another to avoid downloading. My question is can I just remove my entire hard drive from ...
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Can I use a HDD on my PS3 if I have already used another on the same console?
I'm thinking of changing the Hard Disk of my PS3 (Slim 120GB), but I am unsure of what will happen to the data on the one I previously had if I do this:
PS3 has some data in the HDD.
I turn off PS3, ...
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How do I solve "Not enough free disk space" when patching
I have a 60GB SSD and a 2TB HDD and the SSD is used for one game, Total War: Warhammer(TWW), which takes up 34GB. To clarify, the SSD have ~55GB of usable space and the only thing on it is TWW á 34GB. ...
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Does a hard drive need to have an external power source to be compatible with the Wii U?
The FAQ for the Wii U regarding external storage recommends that you use an external hard drive with a dedicated power source, but is the dedicated power source absolutely necessary? I want to know, ...
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How do I install the PS3 OS on a new HDD?
My HDD is starting to make noise and I think it's time for me to change it. I have the old 60Gb PS3.
I was wondering the PS3 installs it's OS. Do I just have to switch the HDD and let the PS3 install ...
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Playstation 3 fan running loudly on purpose?
My PS3 (CECH-2001A) has been running loudly since I swapped out the stock hard drive for a 1 TB 7200 RPM drive. When I say loudly, it seems that the fan inside the PS3 starts kicking into high gear ...
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transferring old Xbox files to new a 250GB drive
I'm transferring old Xbox files to a new 250GB drive and the optical media update did not transfer. What can I do about this?
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How to transfer PS4 game files from an old internal drive to a new one (bigger one)
I bought a 500GB PS4 and 500GB just isn't enough so I was planning upgrade my internal storage with a 2TB DRIVE. A lot of my games are digital and after doing a lot of research, I found out that ...
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Does the type of hard drive affect load times for an Xbox 360 Slim?
I currently have a 300 GB solid-state external USB 2.0 hard drive connected to my Xbox 360 slim and install / load games from it.
Would load times in my games improve if I use the SATA drives (...
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How to transfer data from old HDD to new HDD for PS3 Super Slim?
I'm thinking of upgrading my PS3 HDD to a newer one, but so far I've seen tutorials on how to change the HDD but no information on how to transfer the games and data from my old HDD into the new one.
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Can I safely sell an Xbox 360 with XBLA games on the HDD?
Or will the buyer be able to find all of my payment information and stuff?
Obviously, my personal gamertag has been deleted.
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Does a flash drive give better performance than a hard drive for games on a Xbox 360?
Since you can install games on a flash drive on an Xbox 360, and flash drives generally have faster random reads than hard drives, would it give Xbox 360 games better performance by installing them to ...
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Is it possible to copy video files to the XBOX 360 hard drive with the latest dashboard improvements?
With the advent of the 250Gb XBO 360 and the latest dashboard improvements it seems that movie files (such as .avi, .wmv, etc.) still can't be copied to the console's hard drive from an external drive,...
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How to find out the storage consumption of a game on XBox One?
Games occupy more and more memory. XBox One amount of storage is usually limited to 500GB or 1TB. Users must manage their storage wisely or extend the storage hardware.
To manage wisely I would like ...
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Is it possible to access your PS3's hard drive over the network?
To bypass the lame external hard drive limitations for the PS3, is there any way one could access the PS3's hard drive over the LAN?
Having a media server running on a PC works great in general for ...
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Can I transfer saved data from my old PS3 hard drive to my new PS3?
A while ago, my PS3 completely broke. Every time I turn it on, it just completely shuts down a few seconds later. I decided to buy a new ps3 to play my old games. The problem is that I don't have my ...
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Can I put a deleted PSN account on a new PS3?
So when I was living with my roommate he used my ps3 to download rockband songs onto a specific account which I basically let him use for his rockband needs. I recently moved out and once he gets some ...
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Xbox 360 Flash Drives and Original Xbox Games
After researching why I was unable to successfully play Halo 2 on my Xbox 360, I found numerous articles that have brought me to the conclusion that I bought a counterfeit hard drive off of eBay a ...
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SSD in PS3 Super Slim
I see many posts asking about replacing the HDD in PS3s, but nothing about SSDs.
Given that the original PS3's 2006 release date was years before SSDs started to become mainstream, I could imagine ...
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Nintendo switch: can you copy "save data" to external storage? If yes, how?
In the past I have lost all my data:
When my harddrive broke on my PC
when my daughter's tablet broke and she lost all of her Minecraft worlds from the last three years
Ever since those two ...
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Can I install a Steam game on two drives?
Can I install a Steam game on two hard drives? I already have a game installed on my solid state from a transfer, but that folder is full of mods and ENB files, and it's quite messy. I want to install ...
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What kinds of external Hard drives are compatible with PS5?
I'm looking to see if anyone knows off hand types of external HDs to look for specifically for PS5/PS4.
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Move PS4 HDD to PS4 Pro? Keep data intact?
I upgraded my PS4 to a 2 TB HDD, can I just install it into a new PS4 Pro? Im asking because Im worried there might be problems with the software and/or firmware differences between the playstations. ...
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Will an SSD kill a PS3?
A while ago I bought a PS3 super slim 12Gb, and I intended to put a 120Gb SSD (a Samsung 840 EVO) inside it. I purchased the mounting bracket etc and as all the guides I read said just slapped it in ...
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Is it possible to reduce the load time of 'The Last of Us' on PS3?
I got a new PS3 (500GB) 2 days ago, which came with The Last of Us on Disc. But I must say this game takes lots of time to load.
First time it took horribly too much time, next time onwards it took ...
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How do I transfer my data from my xbox 360 S to xbox 360 S?
Is it possible, if I have a 4gb S, to put my new hard drive in the 4gb S and copy the data over to the new hard drive just like a usb, then plug it into my new xbox?
Or can I just put the new hard ...
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External drive not appearing for downloads
My old 360 60gb hard drive, plugged into new Xbox (by transfer cable) will not show up when I want to download something (Halo 4 online maps, for example) but will show up when I transfer things. Am ...
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Hard Drive Space Weirdness
I've been trying to free up space on my hard drive for a large game. I went through and cleaned out at least 15-20GB (probably even more) of data between downloaded games, their saves, and the game ...
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