external drive

Folks, My plan is to back up and store my entire system to an external hard drive. First problem,Windows 10 can't format drive. If i get t it to format,will it be an exact copy from my Drive C? Thanks

Hi I purchased 2 all in one msi pcs from big w late 2014. My sons was used straight away in box no issues. My daughter was too young at the time and I stored at risk of not testing. It was the display. Since setting up had no power cord, company said too bad. I brought one. However it has a...

How do I open/upload a MIG file from an external-drive with Microsoft 10?

I got a 5tb drive, and since I wanted it to be one large partition I used gpt. Windows recognized the disk, formatted it, and let me copy files. But when I restarted windows it froze on the "starting windows" screen. I figured out after some messing around that unplugging the drive lets windows...

Hi, I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. I have used Windows Backup to back up my files to an external hard drive and create a system image. When I click on the backup folder on the external drive and then dig down to a particular file which I try to open, I get a message to say I have been...

I have a 9year old acer aspire 5515 that I would like to install a new hard drive in. My idea was to clone the current hard drive and install the clone to the new hard drive with either a CD rom or external drive I've never done this before and had a question. Could I save the cloned drive...

I am trying to make a backup to an external hard drive, but I get the following error when I try to select the hard drive, or any drive for that matter; "Backing up to this type of device is disabled by your system administrator" Is there a place I can change this setting?

I purchased that PNY Turbo 128GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive - P-FD128TBOP-GE from Staples for only $20. I then found out that a lot of people are having tons of issues but others report nothing, but it seems like this model is getting some bad press. To my issue: I plugged the FD into my customer...

I had some problems from one of my programs and decided to reload the image I had saved two weeks ago. When I tried to load the image (I have windows 10) I was told that the image was stored in bios (I assume legacy) and my computer is UEIF bios and it will not load the image. What am I suppose...

Hi guys, I have a friends vista pc that i suspect the hard drive has semi caped out on him, I can view it as an external on my mac, But when i go to create a disk image it takes 5 weeks, When i boot it up ''I've tried it in three different pc's'' It comes up with ''diskette 0 failed continue...

My Thinkpad crashed and luckily I had backed up 2 days before using Rescue and Recovery. All my files have been retrieved including the Lotus Notes archives etc....except for my contacts (address book) which are a file called names.nsf. I can go into R&R and when I retrieve an individual file, I...

This is the worst operating system ever and I am so frustrated! I don't want to revert... I just want it to work. Regardless of whether I want to view a file on the c drive, or look at an external drive.. when I try to open File Explorer to view ANYTHING, it just says 'working on it' and looks...

I had a catastrophic failure, just created a new Windows 7 Ultimate system with very little installed. I attached a disk drive from the previous system that has data on it (it wasn't damaged). All files are accessible but I CANNOT CHANGE THE ICONS ON ANY OF THE FOLDERS. I've done all of the...

I have a hp stream note book w/ 21.3 gb capacity; i tried to upgrade to 10 (I have 8.1) but I didn't have enough disk space in drive c. What it the best way to upgrade? Portable hard drive, flash drive, or another method? I have 4.35 gb available in c.

Hi. I have a Beelink Pocket P1 SoC (system on chip). I have upgraded from 8.1 to 10 without too much trouble, but as the sytem has very limited space on C: (32GB to start, after programs and files I'm left with less than 5GB), I wish to know if I can purchase an external drive, somehow copy...

I am installing Windows 7 Home Premium on a 1 TB hard drive. It currently has Windows 7 Ultimate, but apparently it's not genuine so I have to do a new installation. My question is how do I move my music library (Windows Media Player and iTunes) and virtual-box to my external? I apologize if...

I am running Windows 10 having upgraded from Windows 7 on a Dell desktop. I have run into what I am calling the "semaphore" problem. I am trying to copy/paste a folder that contains large video files. The source is on a drive inside a Synology DS413j server on my house network. The target is...

My hard drive got full with just about 400mb of space left. I started the back up process and when the backup was done going onto the external hard drive, windows told me it will be installing updates (I have Windows 7). I postponed the updates and closed my laptop and have not used my laptop...

:)) My Macbook was stolen a few days ago and now it's time to get a new computer. Not certain that I'll get another Mac. Aside from several things that I'm not crazy about with Apple and the Macbook, there's this consideration. I backed up my whole hard drive onto an external hard disk. Whenever...

Good morning. Back in 2009 I purchased a dell laptop with XP. I upgraded it to 7home premium. Now being almost 9 years old there is almost no space at all left,even after using duplicate fingers and such. So I copied its entire contents to a external hard drive and am planning to wipe out...