#externaldrive

My 5TB Seagate external drive—the one with literally years of backups— all of a sudden decided to play hide and seek with Ubuntu Linux. Windows? No problem, worked like a charm. Ubuntu? Complete radio silence. If you’re reading this, you’re probably in the same boat. Good news: I cracked it, and it’s actually a pretty interesting problem once you dig into it. What Went Wrong Picture this: You…

Using External Drives in Windows 10 should be really easy. But sometimes they are not detected and the connected Drive doesn’t show up at all.

There are various possible causes including: partition issues, dead USB ports, bad USB cables, incorrect settings and other Software or Hardware issues.

If this is your case, don’t give up hope just yet! In another great guide on #WindowsCentral, Mauro Huculak shows most of the reasons why – providing clear instructions on how you can deal with it for each case:

Seagate’s hard drive/battery fanny pack is made for VR

In addition to the major software update for the Vive Focus standalone VR headset yesterday, HTC also unveiled the Seagate VR Power Drivewhich, as the name suggests, is a hybrid of a power bank and a portable hard drive. This isn’t an entirely new idea, of course, but it’s the first of such kind designed with VR usage in mind. Specifically, this device packs 5,000 mAh of battery juice —…