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I have pictures scattered in my hard drive. How can I gather all pictures into one area and then save all images to my external drive? Or if I cannot gather into one area, then save all pics with one click from my mouse to an external drive. thanks

I managed to retrieve my HP external drive from being a recovery drive. I finally got through to Dell tech support and they took files off. As an aside, I knew if I could format it it would erase everything and I could use it again. The Dell person did just that but I couldn't - I right clicked...

Hope that title makes sense. I have about 65 photo files on an external drive. I would like to copy them over to my new Dell - the files do not seem to have the little open box next to each one as in win7. That would enable you to select which files to copy or whatever - I do not see such an...

When I used 2.5" portable hard drives, they were connected to the usb hub and it caused the issue. All of them got the logical bad sector and I had to throw them. I began to connect them to the main port of my computer and the issue had gone. I am using laptop now and have several 2.5"...

I keep having trouble with my backup/restore thing. It will backup but but it won't hit the target(external drive) Error Backup skipped backing up E:\ 0x810002F Can someone Please help me!!!!

I set the UEFI to give boot options when pressing F12 on boot-up. However that doesn't work. The tablet boots to Windows 10 anyway. There is no pop-up window. I never set a supervisor, but I am he if there is one. I set the boot order to boot to the optical drive first...

All of my external drives won't display their labels properly in file explorer while it shows properly in disk manager. Attached file says everything.

Toshiba laptop, W10 Home, Ver 1803 I have 2 external hard drives. When I plug either of them into a USB port I hear the normal beep sound, indicating they've been recognized but they don't automatically play, even though auto play is enabled . They don't even show up in "this PC", as if they...

I want to buy a new ssd drive but, I would like a decent drive at a nice price. I also want one that will last a few years. Any recommendations? Oh yes, external please, and 500gb.

I have an image made with Macrium on an external drive after a clean installation. I have a second external drive; can I drag & drop or copy and paste so that a bootable image will exist in both drives.

I'm considering leaving Carbonite and maybe going with just an external HD or another cloud backup service. But I'd really like to hear what other people's back up strategies are? I back up photos, documents, and videos. If you use a cloud back up can you tell me why you chose them? And if you...

I have a Lenovo G40-45 PC . It had a preloaded windows 10 . I had only 2 GB RAM and The device was lagging . So , i decided to Reset PC and backed up all the data in my external hard disk as .dsi , .wsi or files with numbers as extension . Later i ended up loading a new windows 7 , hoping that...

Hi folks. Been Googling quite a bit and cannot find the practical differences between using two external USB drives as RAID 1 OR as a mirrored Storage Space. Can anyone tell me which is preferred and why? Thanks! ~Bob

If I buy a new pc and wish to put all my files from my old pc onto it - how do I do it?? The are all backed up with the Macrium program on my external drive. Do I just plug it into the new pc and "hit" restore? Thank you.

I made a complete system image backup on an external hard disk about a month ago, now I want to update the image. Does creating system image again on that same external hard disk create everything from scratch or update the existing backup? If so, how can I update my existing backup?

Hi all, I just upgraded from Windows 10 32bits to 64. I used an external hard drive for that and of course, I didn't think about it, everything is gone. Some of it wasn't backed up, so I'd like to get the data back if possible, it'd mean the world to me. My little bit of hope is that my hard...

I'm a former Systems Admin. so I should be able to figure this out, but nope... so I'm asking: I bought a small, external 2.5 Toshiba HDD to use as additional storage. I put it in a case and plugged it in. No dice, I can't see it in Windows Explorer. I checked Device Manager, and it shows up as...

Hello: I have a HP laptop (G60 235DX) and ~3 times over the past 6 months when I pressed the power button to turn on the computer, a message came on the screen that said that the computer was unable to start and that the solution(s) to solve the problem(s) would be sought to provide me an...

This is now ready on the fast ring. But, I have isolated the known problems. It is worth reading. A small glitch in the install and, important for some (me, for example) is the problem with external optical drives.

I followed lots of instructions, none work, I saved the image files to a external hard drive, I see no way to choose that anywhere in the restore settings, ive tried all of them. One suggests a driver then gives a massive list of folders of which none seem to have a driver. I don't seem to have...