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Good day everyone, Recently I've been getting BSOD on my computer and I needed some help, so I joined here. Before my computer crashes again, a few things that I noticed... The first time I received a BSOD was when I was attempting to launch Firefox on my computer and that crashed and froze my...

Dear everyone, I've tried to explain my problem as good as I could, please do not be afraid of asking for more informations :) I hope you guys can somehow help me out. TLDR My external harddrive randomly removes files after installing new motherboard + processor. Some of the files can be...

Change of plan - while playing with various Backup options, I learnt how to select a whole lot of folders and to Copy/Paste them onto my external hard drive. As all my save-worthy Folders are only about 60GB, it's easy to backup the whole lot without bothering about Incremental or Differential...

Hi, I'm new here. My Backup efforts have been spasmodic and I want to improve, as follows: 1. Occasionally, do a full "Mirror Image Backup" of my whole system on external hard drive. This seems to be a standard, simple thing via Windows Help. 2. Do a separate "selected" backup on external...

I hope I'm in the right place. A while back I was copying some family files over from some (a few ancient, like 1990s) hard drives on my Ubuntu rig over to a new external 1TB NTFS HD formatted in Windows 8, nothing special. I was using the Ubuntu rig cause a few of them wouldn't initialize in...

Hi, I am running Windows Visat on my HP laptop. I have backed up my hard drive to an external hard drive using the Control Panel. But when I tried to use the Restore option in the Control Panel, it instructed me to restart my computer and click on the F8 key. But when I did that I didn't see...

I installed windows 10 tech preview today and was super excited to see all the new stuff, to my displeasure I found out that windows 10 isn't working properly on my system what so ever, as soon as i boot up into the start menu after putting in my password and signing into my Microsoft Account I...

Recently I had to take out my Vista drive and pit it into a holder where now it is like an external drive. I want to boot that drive but when I attach it to my new computer (64 bit Windows 8.1) it doesn't boot. I really want to run that drive again and while I can see all the data on that...

Hey, guys! I'm back again! Haha :-) I have been moving a lot of files around on my external, but I keep getting this message. It doesn't make since because I should have full control. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! - Alex

Hello guys, I need some help with my "Windows 7 professional" computer. My computer is suddenly not detecting external USB hard drive While trying to fix this issue I came across 2 further issues: 1) The command prompt window when opened closes immediately due to which I am unable to type in...

For some reason the 2nd time I plub in an exernal USB3 HD to my USB3 4 port hub, I get the dreaded BSOD!!! I do eject the drive by right clicking on the "Safely remove hardware and eject media" and choosing the drive. When i connect a USB 3 HD or flash drive to my hub later on, I end up...

I have an external USB DVD drive connected through cable and want to find out the current firmware version. I want to use NOT a diagnostic program like AIDA4 but the Win7 internal methods. Therefore I right clicked on the drive in Windows Explorer then the "Hardware" tab, marked the drive and...

I have had good service for 7 years using Vista on my Dell Desktop and I regularly do disk partition and system back ups using EaseUS Todo onto my external hard driive. Can anyone please advise what I could do if the worst happened and the Dell computer disk failed? Would i be able to restore...

I have an external Hard Drive (WD My Book). I've been storing music on it and other data. Last week my computer which is running Windows 7 stopped recognizing it. I received a bunch of weird errors from asking if I wanted to format the drive to the drive just disconnecting from the computer...

Hi, I've got a Seagate 2TB external drive for backup. When I backup files and click on the drive it just says 'this folder is empty'. However, if i search for a file or directory it appears. I did read something to the effect that Windows 7 fails to show the files if a drive is very large but I...

Hi Yesterday I was getting tight on space for my Windows 10 software etc, this is not the drive that Windows 10 is installed on. It's a separate partition on the same drive that Windows 8 is installed on. I decided to shrink my G:\ drive which is the Windows 8 partition, and move the space to...

Hi I am new to this forum but have encountered a very irritating problem. A couple of weeks ago my laptop crashed and upon looking at it the hard drive had gone. I have backed it up using backup and restore several times to my external drive and thought this would be ok when a new hard drive was...

Hi, I'm new to this forum and I was wondering if someone could assist me with the following problem:- I have a HDD from a Macbook computer,the motherboard of which has died,and i would like to try and recover some jpeg photos onto my PC running Windows 7. The HDD is in a caddy and although the...

I decided to upgrade my pc from win 7 ultimate 64bit to win 8.1 Pro 64bit. However, on booting from the dvd (I used an external drive which is working perfectly), after the "press any key to boot from cd/dvd" screen the screen goes blank and nothing happens at all. I tried using the internal dvd...

For the past couple of days I began to notice that a whole bunch of stuff began malfunctioning on my computer, most of which (if not all) are linked to the operating system. I'll try to make a detailed list of all the problems and everything I did to try and fix it: 1. Aero effects are not...