external drives

So I have various desktops and all have more or less the same issue. In the root of each drive there are randomly named folders generated. Names like: 2b174a7b6cd269132e8dd780 52aebd6aec88ceb00badbc 32601669e81d70e5b9c7c8 ae888118d1365c5a165784ed221b20 So the only common thing seems to be that...

For The Windows 8 "Storage Space" Pools, am I correct that choosing the "Simple/Resiliency" type of Pool will allow me to add more disks in the future when I buy them without any issues. I know that if you choose any of the "parity" types to create the Pool, you run the risk of having problems...

A while back I uninstalled HP client security and HP device access manager, ever since I done that I can no longer access USB device such as thumb drives or external hard drives. I tried reinstalling both, client security installs but now won't uninstall... HP device Access Manger errors out...

Greetings everyone, I have an ASUS computer with an intel i7 Multicore processor, 16gb ram, and 3 internal drives installed (1 1tb HHD, a 2tb HDD, and a 128gb SSD). I also have 3 external drives available (1tb USB, a 750gb USB, and a 500gb USB). The 500gb USB drive is connected. I am currently...

Every time I start Winduws 7 I have some external hard drives that pop-up to show their contents. How do I get Windows to automatically approve these external hard drive, so I do not have to close those pop-up down every time ?

My problem is that I've long shared certain PC internal directories with other LAN PC's (XP and 7) and it works great. However, I needed more space and have just moved several of those directories to external storage (NexStar HX4 w/ USB 3.0 connection) and it appears to be working fine except...

Okay so here is the scoop inb my latest computing adventure: I have a friend from work who needed me to get his internet working, okay fine i got it working easy enough, just using standard windows 7 stuff no issues. However his main family computer is another story. My friends father got a...

Just wanted to share some information for anyone else having a certain boot problem related to atipcie.sys. Pauli pointed me in the right direction in another thread. Apparently, this problem is not uncommon. Atipcie.sys is one of the drivers associated with ATI video hardware. Symptoms: In...

Years of laptop anguish and literally despair from nearly four years of non-stop laptop issues. For years now, my laptop begins crashing windows even each time I have just started installation all over again, having just reset my computer back to default Windows and default only program (for...

I tend to keep some of my flash drives connected, simply because it is a convenient way to keep track of them. However a thought just crossed my mind, that since I have noticed that sometimes the activity light on my external SATA drives flash when they are not in use, perhaps that is because...

I have an HP 20 All in One desk top. I use two HP Pocket Media external drives, plugged into USB. Suffice it to say that there have been many Win8 updates in the year I have had it. And changes with some other problems too. Mysterious things happen from week to week, month to month. Some have...

My wife's laptop broke. Sony Vaio running windows Vista. I took out the hard drives. (It has 2 of them) I plugged my SATA/IDE to USB adapter to one of the drives and I got a message saying I must format the drive before I can use it.im running a toshiba laptop with windows 7 64 bit. I plug it...

I am running Windows 7 64 bit. I have 4 network external drives attached to my router via 2 Cisco NSLU2 servers. The drives connect when I boot the PC but after a while (it seems random) the drives just disconnect. I can click on my computer and bring the drives back one at a time. This is...

A problem that has been haunting me ever since I installed my current motherboard (ASRock 890FX Deluxe 4) is that my two external drives, contained in a Startech ESATCASE2, which connects to a SI RAID controller card (can't remember the model at the moment), causes the BIOS to hang on the last...

I am running Windows 8 Pro, with two USB external drives attached. One drive is "dormant", and the other is used for file backups. I have noticed that when the computer exits from sleep mode, either one or both external USB drive folders will open on the desktop. I can only guess this signifies...

Back Story: I had an issue in the past were my computer would restart overnight (I assume it crashed) and upon trying to start up the computer it would not load Windows 7(W7) most of the time. To get it to load I would have to shut the computer down and leave it off for a while and then it would...

Link Removed I felt like mentioning this cause maybe some Folks aren't realizing it. People might hear about Clouds Services & off-premise data storage; to most average users/consumers would mean little, if anything. Some people have more than 1 drive or partition in their machine & may or...

Many may know this (cool) and I could have mentioned it earlier but, I oft take things for granted & then impulsively think maybe it's not occurring to everyone & I suddenly say something so... Let me paint a scenario to make the point here... Let's say you put Win8 on a shiny new SSD. And...

I've been going in circles on this for a while now and have yet to fix the issue. Computer A is acting a a file server. It has two external hard drives plugged into it. These drives contain music, movies, photos, etc. I share each media folder by right-clicking it and going Share With ->...

I have a new Dell with windows 7 and I have three external hard drives which I use on three other machines with xp pro one them. This machine will not open these drives and demands a format. They work perfect on my other machines