external drive

I just bought a new computer with W8 installed. This is a big step from XP that I've been running for quite a while. I had two drives (both 500Gb) in the old box, and I'd like to use them in the new. When I try the old drive with boot tracks as an internal - the new box has three spaces for...

I've had a 2TB WD My Passport external drive for a couple of months now without any problems. However, now when I plug it in to my computer, it gives me a BSOD with the message "MEMORY_MANAGEMENT." I'm not sure what to do about this, and I really need my files on this drive. This is very...

I made of a clone 6 months or so ago of my sisters laptop HDD because it was going it for service and I knew they would be wiping it. We got the laptop back and it has a new HDD that is a clean install and I need to clone the backup that is on an external drive back to the new one. The laptop...

Hello I hope this is the appropriate place for my topic as it is non Windows. I was thinking of getting a Cloudbook as we are older and need simplicity. Windows is going techy. I have read a lot about these books and they seem a lot simpler to run. There is no maintenance and security seems not...

I try to copy from an external hard drive in my computer some files and I have a restriction. I have disabled the firewall and the antivirus but ...the same problem. I tried also properties/ security/ ...change permison. The same :(

In a nutshell - got a new Samsung ultra laptop, don't like the way the disk is structured and lack of facility for creating recovery disks so wiped the 500gb hard drive which is formatted to gpt, repartitioned to give me a 50gb partition for win8, 50gb partition for win7 and the rest reserved...

I have an external hard drive which I have been using to do System Image Backup once a week on my Windows 7 computer. The backup goes to WindowsImageBackup folder. Now, I have another computer with Windows 8 Pro. I did a system image backup to the same ext. hdd. It went to the same folder...

Maybe there are threads and posts that explain this exactly but I haven't found them yet. Here is what I need to do as simply as possible. Have a Dell Latitude D620 laptop - I'd like to clone the internal drive with a Windows XP Pro installation. I'd like to clone it to an external USB hard...

Hi, can someone help? - my os is windows 7 and I have an external 3.5 Hard Drive that was working fine in a IDE/SATA docking station, I think it was fat 32 - I pugged it in and it showed up as a RAW disk ( I haven't formatted it! ). I have tried getting the data from it using File Scavenger...

My external drive on F: is a Seagate Goflex. A list of folders contain my backups but when I right click on a folder the drop down window does not contain "New" so I can not create subfolders. But when I right click on an empty space, the drop down window has New and I can create and rename new...

As of a few days an external drive connected via USB has generated this error message: Link Removed popping up every few minutes, despite the disk being recently wiped, repartitioned and fomatted and working well. Why is this? It stopped being fun a long time ago...what can I do? (Windows 7...

An external drive of mine that is attached via USB suddenly does not show up in Explorer. When I connected it to a different machine the driver installed OK and the drive was ID'd correctly as ST3160021A - but doesn't show up in Explorerer on that machine either. Looking at the drives' LED...

A few weeks ago I tried out an Ubuntu installation, just to see if it met my requirements. I have all I need on Win7 but being the adventurous type and already having tried and dismissed Win8 I thought I'd try Ubuntu. My machine has 4 hard drives and one of them had shown up as not available and...

So I understand that SKYDRIVE makes it easy to access your documents or pictures from different devices. Can it be used, in essence, as a external hard-drive <per se> to back up your pictures and important documents? I'm not quite understanding how it works. I think it works like a dropbox...

First note these point: * I have Windows XP installed on my desktop computer & due to some reason or virus my 5 drive partitions of windows got merged. * Somehow I was able to get the data out of these merged drives & transferred it in a portable harddrive. * That harddrive was of FAT32 format...

I have two WD External Hard Drives and I can't copy some things to them. I don't think it's my hard drive because I can copy 70 GB of pictures with no problem but when I try and copy about 40 GB of DVD programs I get an error message. I have an attachment.

I have a two TB WD External HD (MY Book) that when I go into Computer I don't see it but I see all my other drives. However I can go into Disk Manager and right mouse click the drive and open and there it is. I can access it but why can't I see it in Computer with the other drives?

Hello everybody, I hope someone can help me get through this. I have an external USB-disk drive that I want to attach to a desktop. However, although there are no devices beyond the internal disk drive <C:> and the internal DVD drive <D:> the folder viewer (START->Computer) will list <C:>...

I bought a notebook with pre-installed Windows 8. Unfortunately there is no Windows 8 DVD supplied with the notebook. Assume the hard disc or system crashes: From where do I get a windows 8 DVD for new installation? When I go to system info in Windows 8 I can see a Product ID...

I have an external hard drive that I'm downloading a bunch of media onto, and my main PC hard drive is supposed to have 321 GB of free space, but ever since I've been downloading all kinds of stuff onto my external HD my main HD is filling up really quick even though I'm not downloading anything...