external drives

I have several external Drives Thumb Drives plugged in at all times on my computer, about 8 of them.. Every time I boot into my version of mint the latest stable version. All my plugged in drives start up after I boot in to the oS. My Question is how do I stop this? All answers will be appreciated.

Link Removed every time when i go to any folder, weather its external usb or hard drive or phone or just folder in partition, when i want to see the files by "date modified" i never have it in the right click - "sort by" term. how can i apply it to all folders and have it all the time im...

First time post here, so let me know if I leave out anything that could be useful. I've been having a few problems with my fairly new windows 7 and I'm not sure if they're related. It started out with USB mass storage devices (Thumb drives, external HDs, etc...) not being recognized. I get...

I have two external USB drives, one independently-powered, one USB-cable-powered, both with NTFS and linux ext2 and ext3 partitions. Under Windows7 both drives show up under Device Manager with the Property: "A driver (service) for this device has been disabled. An alternate driver may be...

Hello, I was wondering if anyone could help me. I recently installed a new MSI motherboard to my computer, and a new power source. Everything worked perfectly until I started noticing that the 4 external USB hard drives (On-Board Powered) where not being recognized by windows 7 after reboot...

Hey all, I have recently installed Windows 7 Ultimate on my barebones system that I built. A physical descriptions is: Gigabyte GL-P945-PL-S3 Motherboard with an Intel Dual Core Processer running @ 2.3ghz Three (3) internal hdd. One (1) 1tb SATA, One (1) 250gb SATA, and...

I will first say I read the similar threads and none of them applied. Secondly, this is a home build that is nearly a year old with no issues to this point so it's not connected to so-and-so who released a driver update that I know of. I want to say 2 days ago, my computer has decided to fail...

Western Digital announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST), the disk drive arm of Hitachi Ltd., in a cash and stock transaction valued at about $4.3 billion. Western Digital is the leading supplier of hard disk drive...

Hi I have been using xp for....... almost 9 years and linux for 3, I use windows for editing photos with adobe light room3 and photoshope ete, and linux for everything else . As I use windows and linux folk often ask me how they compare? And I say its not fair to compare a OS that over 10...

Hey everyone, So here is my problem. I was refastening my wireless card after taking the precautions of turning my system off and ground myself (literally a simple 1 minute project)..what happened next was that i must have touched something (I have no idea what, I thought i just tapped my mobo...

Hello: Windows 7 for some strange reason doesn't have the ability to right click on a volume, folder, etc-amazing. I have been able to regain the search function for folders to right click but it doesn't work on right clicking a volume (hard drive) for some reason. I have always used this...

How well do the PCI type cards for USB 3.0 and eSata work on PCs with motherboards that don't support USB 3.0 and eSata? I see WD has new externals and people are posting issues of slow transfer speeds and loosing conections. I suspect the above may be a big part of the problem. Joe

I have 4x2TB external hard drives in a raid5 configuration, I converted it to GPT disk using Disk Magagement in Windows 7. It showed basic disk, NTFS, 1 partition, 5.40TB, which is normal. It seemed pretty well at first. But after copying files >2TB to this drive, some files were lost and cann't...

2 external Maxtor usb drives plugged in when booting I get this message "a disk error has occurred hit ctrl alt del" and the machine a dell xps9100 win 7 64bit will not boot. if I unplug the drives it boots no problem. if I plu either one in I get this message. I tried plugging the drives into...

Have 2 Maxtor external drives, one GB and one TB drive. Both connected to a windows 7 PC and a network of 3 other PCs 1-win7, 2-vista. I can connect and access the 1TB drive no problem, but the 500 Gb shows up as a shared drive but I cannot access it remotely no matter what PC it's connected to...

Lets start by saying I currently want my other half dead. Really painfully dead. My MereMale decided to play with the access control/Security tabs (Windows 7) within my neatly partitioned and organised drives. He says it was to stop the kids from stuffing things up, oh the irony. Anyways he...

I was using an XP laptop to manage two external hard drives (a 500GB primary backup and a 1TB secondary backup) using SyncToy 2.1 (action: Echo). I have now got a new laptop running Windows 7 64-bit and will be giving away the old one soon. How do I migrate the management of the two external...

First off I like to say I like this forum so Im posting here.:D I am having a problem with my network places being over crowd on winows 7, Vista, an XP machines. I woul like to get ri of all the broken an duplicate folders. Heres the story, I have a media server in one room. Over the years...

Using Windows 7 for 9 months with two external drives. This morning, neither drive is recognized. In Disk Management, both drives appear as "Unknown," and I am advised to "initialize disk." I right click on the drive and choose to initialize disk, but the reply I get is "Invalid Function."...

Hi, I have just replaced XP with Windows 7. I unplugged the old system disk and put in a new one in the same place, and then removed all its partitions with the Windows 7 installer and set up from scratch. The system disk is always a primary master on the motherboard ATA controller. I have...