There's 3 choices of formatting in Windows, NTFS for most drives, exFAT is good if sharing with Mac OS and lastly there is FAT32. All of my USB Thumb drives up to 256GB have come factory-formatted...

Part of the issue may be with the loading of the eSATA drivers as to when in the boot process the port becomes active and if syncing with OneDrive is involved there will be more delay. I'd...

Looking at the Web site d2 Quadra USB 3 | LaCie Support US doesn't show it uses an HDMI connection, maybe it's eSATA?

I have a 8TB NAS with RAID 1 [4TB storage] on my LAN instead of using the cloud.

I still have a Win10 Desktop with a 3.5" floppy drive that works but it mostly to fill the hole in the front of the case. And I still have the floppies for MS-DOS 6.2 and Win 3.11 along with a...

Same here, have LG and Lite-On External USB drives for use on Notebooks and Desktops without the internal ODD.

Agreed. Also, the last post for the question is over 4 years old.

Ditto RickC. Forum not allowing a Thank.

Since we only License the use of the software [per the license agreement everyone reads during install of Windows???] it has to be recognized that Version Upgrades and Build updates to those will...

My final thought on the Subject of RAM DDR2 vs RAM DDR3 is now two-fold, one is that new DDR2 modules are extremely hard to find with DDR3 becoming harder and the other is that a new motherboard that...

Only thing I speak to is the screen going black, when a computer crashes it usually will no longer send a signal to the monitor and many monitors will show a small message to the effect that it is no...

My experience with versions of Windows has been requiring a clean install when going from 32-bit/x86 to 64-bit/x64 and that the Product Keys did not interchange between the two and not between Home...

When wanting a different account such as having a Microsoft Account but wanting a Local Account I create the new one, also with a slightly different name, as an Administrator then log out/sign out of...

I've hidden the update on the only Pro Notebook I couldn't fix out of 6 but only because it's my wife's and wasn't wanting to do a clean install but she's not able to use it for awhile so will do the...

Much better details but only thing I can think of is whether testing a full Linux-only install or a bootable Linux LiveUSB will have drivers for all the resources available.

The image at PRIME B560-PLUS｜Motherboards｜ASUS Global does not show either a 9-pin nor a 25-pin Serial port nor a 25-pin LPT/PRN port but does show a 15-pin VGA Video port.

Yes, it's like Apple with their Macintosh system, protecting their intellectual property to give every user the same experiences or views and license accordingly. If I wanted to make as many changes...

I have 4 Desktops and a couple Notebooks with Win10 and no issues. I'm also not having any issues with Win11 but then I don't do much customizing of it it, have to keep the same as what my clients...

I use a PoE Modem for Wireless DSL Internet and it is connected to my LAN using a Gigabit Router with 802.11ax Wireless/Wi-Fi providing both 2G [non-5G] and 5G wireless. The adapters in the...

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I got a Dell Vostro Notebook in Oct. '21 and a Dell Vostro Desktop in Apr. '22, both came with Win10 Pro and during setup I did not have to enter any Product Key like had to be done with Win7 and...

Forgot to mention, I am able to log into this Notebook I'm on now at home with only a Microsoft Account and no Internet connection. I was able to log onto it yesterday at the hospital 40 miles away...

It probably has to do with how the programmers wrote the program. Maybe also involved is how a program was installed on a computer with 2 or more users set up, whether installed only for current...

For recovering data I have used 2 methods. One is to pull the drive out and put it into a Drive Dock connected to a different computer and copy user data. The other is to boot to a Linux Mint...

Win10, just like my Win7, will not automatically die at the EOL, just won't get much in the way of updates if any at all. I'm keeping Win7 usable by keeping the Anti-Virus up-to-date as long as...