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Just booted a WD elements external hard drive from long term storage and windows is not picking it up. The hard drive has been assigned a random letter and does not display its usual name. It shows up in the “This PC://” as “Local Disk (H:)”, but if clicked, windows explorer freezes up until the hdd is disconnected. The drive definitely spins up and I can feel and hear it running. The white led blinks twice every second. I tried disk management, but it hangs forever at connecting to virtual disk service. Diskpart and list disk commands do not work until hdd is ejected from usb port, so I cannot assign another letter. It shows up under device manager as WD Ext HDD 1021 USB Device and is working properly, but does not have any volume properties listed. I have used different cables and power supplies, and tried it on both mac OS High Sierra and windows 10. Model: WDBAAU0020HBK-01(2 TB HDD) Length of ownership: 4 years, but used only as archival storage (probably less than 300 hours of life time use, with ~100 times of read/write spin ups) Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Duolingo was my first start point with learning Spanish. If apps and websites aren't effective in teaching, a game I used to play is manually translating news and web articles from english to the language you want to learn and vice versa using google translate. Start off with short articles in your area of interest - games, sport, new tech news etc and translate them word by word using google translate. This is extremely useful for learning what the english word for something is in another language, but at the expense of grammar and diction. After you get more familiar in the language, try watching movies / tv shows / news / sports commentary in that language to pick up speaking mannerisms. Good luck.

I can understand RDR2 with 4k assets and a lengthy campaign and online multiplayer but COD needing more space than RDR2 is a joke. Uncompressed files and poor optimisation as a result of multiple dev / studio teams working on it is often the case with titles that are released annually.

Recently I've spent more time hoarding games through steam sales rather than playing, but have put almost 400+ hours into WOW before growing disillusioned by online MMORPGs. Right now I'm going through the many backlog of single player story driven games, including Witcher 3 and the assassins creed titles and occasionally sink time into CIV 6 as well.

Welcome fellow freshman!

So it appears that the Windows partition / system files required for boot has most likely been corrupted - Apparently it can happen for no obvious reason and without any warning upon reboot. More information about causes can be found here: https://neosmart.net/wiki/0xc0000001/ Solution to anyone else having the same problem of a bootloop in the Windows partition of a mac bootcamp: Connect an external wired keyboard (can be apple or other brand - I used an old acer KU-0355) to a working USB port (I tested power to the port using a USB led lamp). Shutdown the mac by holding the power button for ~10 seconds. Press and hold the Options key (apple) or Alt key (windows) while simultaneously powering on the mac by pressing on the power button. Continue to hold the Options/Alt key until the mac has fully booted. Hopefully, you will be presented with a boot menu asking you whether you would like to boot in Mac OS or Windows. Select Mac OS using the keyboard arrow keys and press Enter. If you are unable to see the boot menu, try connecting another wired keyboard (if this still does not work, it could be due to a hard drive failure). The computer will boot into Mac OS. From there, make a backup of all your files on the Windows partition. These can be found in the devices tab through the Finder application on the mac taskbar (probably named Windows or Windows partition). In particular, backup the Users/Name folder, which contains your desktop, documents, and downloads. Backup by either connecting an external hard drive or by copying files from the windows partition to the mac partition. If your external hard drive is NTFS formatted and cannot be written to, install the free trial of paragon NTFS drivers for mac. From hereon, if you do need Windows, you can either try to repair the Windows partition using Disk Utility or delete the existing Windows partition and create a new partition using bootcamp and fresh copy of Windows + drivers. I was unlucky that this happened during the midst of classes, but fortunately was able to recover all files and user data.

@DrMacintosh @nerdslayer1 Haha settle guys. I have been running bootcamp for the past 3-4 years with literally zero problems. The only thing that never properly worked in the beginning was automatic updates, which I promptly turned off as soon as I realised the setup was pretty much as stable as it could get. I have had plenty of BSODs and recovery rollbacks in my other Windows pc after installing updates so I figured turning it off for bootcamp was ok, and it was for this long. I am a big advocate of bootcamp and it certainly has its uses in budget scenarios where you need final cut pro / mac OS, along with an ok rig for windows, without the need for buying two separate machines. It certainly helped me in my CAD classes and proprietary applications, which were only taught/available in Windows. It doesn't necessarily have to be drivers or bootcamp itself, corrupted sys files (https://neosmart.net/wiki/0xc0000001/ ) or hdd failure could have also been the issue. Also thank you to you both for helping with this issue.

Hi Everyone! Long time fan/watcher of LTT and just discovered this forum. Did not know there was such a following on here. Any way my name is Dennis, but not the one you guys love so much. Looking forward to interacting with you all! ?

Hi everyone! Thanks in advance for all your help. I have been running Windows 10 through a Mac Mini Bootcamp partition for the past 3 years. I powered on the pc this morning and it goes to the Windows black screen with blue logo and continues to the black screen with circle dots. Now it just hangs there indefinitely in a state of loop. I have tried restarting almost 15 times to the same result. On one occasion it showed the windows recovery screen. The error code displayed is 0xc0000001. Along were the options: Press Enter to try again; Press F8 for Startup Settings; Press F9 to use a different operating system. However, when I try pressing F8, F9, or Enter, no keystroke is being registered nor is the mouse working. I have tried both wired and wireless peripherals but none are working on the recovery screen or during startup. All USB ports are receiving power (I connected a usb lamp to test), but windows is not connecting to any keyboards or mice. An article suggested to remove all usb dongles and restart, but this doesn't fix anything either. Another suggestion was to create a bootable usb, but I cannot see this working as the lack of keyboard function doesn't allow any alternate boot selection. Details: Mac Mini Model A1347 (EMC 2840) : https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/specs/mac-mini-core-i5-2.6-late-2014-specs.html I am unable to do any diagnostics such as a Sysnative dump as I cannot get past the start screen or log into Windows. No new applications or hardware were installed recently. Any help is greatly appreciated as I am at a deep loss on what to do next. As a uni student in the midst of assessments, I do need to get this computer up and running as soon as feasible (or at least the documents off it). Thank you.