external disk

Hello My external disk fell on the ground. And since, it did not function. It did a bip when I plug or unplug it. The light indicator does not appear. The disk is visible when I go in computer management --> "computer-manage-device manager-disk drive" but it does not appear on "disk management"...

Any risk in losing anything by running both an internal and external disk check via this method? Thanks

Hi, i am using windows 8 on my vaio sony laptop, when i rescued data from my laptop hard's disk to external disk. After rescuing is finished, some files are error. Please advise.

I have just installed a 250GB ssd for my OS, progs and a relatively small My Documents. I'm storing Pictures and Videos data on a 1TB internal disk and I have redirected My Videos and My Pictures to that drive. I'm backing up to an external 1 TB disk, but backup doesn't complete. Properties...

I posted this in the Windows 7 tutorial section because it is running under Windows 7. But it might be of interest for the Windows 8 community. http://windowsforum.com/threads/wikndows-8-in-virtual-from-an-external-disk.180080/

Since I still do my work in Windows 7, I decided to run Windows 8 in virtual. Advantage is that I can switch seemlessly between the two Windows systems and easily share data. And I went one step further and moved the folder of the virtual system to an external disk (in my case a SSD). That way...

Hi Guys, I think somebody my help Using VM Virtualbox 4.1 working fine in Win7 I am trying to set a network using all OS installed from External Disk so far installed from 1TB external Disk 1 Server Windows 2008 configured as AD DS + DNS + DHCP (working fine) 1 XP 1 Windows 7 My Question...

Hi to all! Windows 7, new install. Can't disconnect a peripheral device properly anymore. When I click on the icone, nothing happens. Link Removed On another forum, someone gave me that line to execute : %SystemRoot%\System32\RUNDLL32.EXE shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll It makes...

Hi, I have a problem with the tool "Backup and Restore" of Windows. Everything is OK, when I backup folders of my computer (backups of about 30MB). But when I'm trying to create a Disk Image, the system gives always the same error message (I have tryed all the types of backups: in DVDs, in an...

Hi i read the threats about bitlocker problems and i couldnt do anything. I encrypted my external usb disk with bitlocker and i wanted to uncrypt it. during the uncryption i remove by mistake the external disk at 91%. From that time on when i connect the disk it shows that is reading my disk...

I want to backup my Office 2007 Outlook .pst and .ost files. On WinXp they're under ... Application data .... in Documents and Settings. But on Win7, the D&S folder doesn't appear in Windows Explorer. It does show if you choose Tools -> Options -> View and select display hidden OS files. But...

After searching around for a couple of weeks only to get more frustrated, I found a solution that worked for me last night. I do see there are many threads about this, but hope you can handle one more. Funny thing was that in Safe Mode my external disk showed up and I could even go into it like...

When I used the win explorer search the system has offered me an option to locate an index. I was searching an external disk. After choosing the option to locate the index the search has stopped working no matter what I did: I removed the index, rebuild the existing indexes, returned the...

Hey people, I have tune-up utilitites 2009 on my laptop.Vista home-premium. Recently i have been having issues with vista and need to do a factory reset. But what im worried about it losing my tune-up. I have used all licences and don't want to buy another licence pack just for the same pc...

First of all - I love my RC 64-bit. Its stable, quick, excellent GUI and include all the drivers I needed. BUT One problem I encounter.. File copy and transfer is slow. When I copy files between SATA disks my transfer speed start up at approx 80 MBps but drops rapidly. After 20 secunds its doen...

Hi, I´ve got a Problem: I want to install windows 7 on a external hard disk, but when I want to choose it in installations menu, there appears an error message, that it in not possible to install windows 7 on a externat usb medium. I´ve got a notebook, so I can´t integrate the external...