external hard drive

Hello I'm new to these forums. What happened to my computer is, I kept getting the BSOD, I went into safe mode, removed the most recent programs I had installed, and it stopped happening. I then proceeded to plug in my external hard drive. It was not recognizing it for some reason, so I went to...

I have discovered a strange issue with my USB ports. My external hard drive was reporting that it encountered an error and needed to be checked. I allowed Windows 8 to automatically fix the error. The wizard got about 70% done and then reported that it had failed. I then entered the...

Hi, My OS is XP Pro 32-bit. Using Easy Transfer 32-bit saved selected files to external HD. After installing Win 7 64-bit, can I use the resident Easy Transfer to reapply/import the earlier saved files? Thank you barsim

Hi all, I recently installed 7 when my vista seemed to poop out (long story)....everything is working fairly good except for this one problem. I can see all my documents that win7 moved over from vista in a file called windows.old. I also had them in a backup on an external hard drive...I...

I had a power outage yesterday while watching a video from my external hard drive. Decided to scan the hard drive using windows and it said some issues were found or corrupt. and it moved it to folder "found" I can't find this folder at all. I have already gone to folder options and unchecked...

Ok about a week ago I came home to my folder options not being right. The way I had all my folders view set up just doesnt seem to be working anymore. I can change the view to my folders and exit the folder and reopen it and it will be changed again. My desktop is pretty much doing the same...

Hi: I have Dell optiplex 780 machine with win 7 32bit OS. I had no issue when it was new machine to put the machine in hybernation, now it does not go into the hybernation mode! it comes back in few secs. Also it does not recognize the external HD ... I cant backup my data files :(...

I got a new computer with intel i7 chip and windows 7. I had all of my music/photos/files backed up on a 2TB external harddrive. I copied all of the files from the backup to the new computer harddrive. Here's where it gets strange. I have over 6000 songs that were kept in one folder each with...

Im using w7 ult 64bit sp1 now i installed a windows 7 to external hard drive... using Windows installation kit... Or theycall it WAIK. Now my prblem is. the computer is choosing the external hard disk as a default hard disk, if i remove my extrnal hdd i got error bcos the comp is looking for the...

I have an externally connected (by way of USB) samsung hard drive from my dead HP Slimline Vista connected to my newer HP Slimline Windows 7. The old drive powers and runs and the new computer recognizes it in printers and devices but I can't open it to access files etc. I know the old drive was...

I posted the below on a board in Ireland and it's not coming up with a solution - Would be interested in hearing any opinions you guys have on this situtation: I have a wired network - ethernet cable from pc upstairs down to modem at television. Cable from modem to WD TV live. So all...

Greetings! For the most part, I LOVE WIN7 64. However, I have had huge complications with my external hard drives that has made it essentially impossible to write to a 2 Terabyte external. I've googled and tried for hours various combinations of 'take ownership' and file permissions etc etc...

I recently opened up an external hard drive of mine and attempted to open a specific file that contains video files. I don't know what type of files are contained within this folder, I just know that they are videos of some sort. My issue here is that when I click on the folder windows explorer...

Dear forum Please may I have some advice. I have windows 8 cp installed . I have a hard drive connected to a hard drive caddy, and am using it as an external hard drive: and it contains various audio/text/video files, and these were added to the hard drive when I was using windows xp Now...

i just transferred a bunch of pic and video from my girlfriends old mac to our windows laptop via hp external hard drive. the videos look like this. whats up. i attached pic of video

It gets stuck at 0% and after 5 minutes or so it tells me the files are corrupt or missing, with an error code ending in 17. It's basically the problem here: Link Removed However, I've tried almost every solution. I used a different windows 7 set of files. I used a external hard drive to...

Hi A while back I posted about how my Norton Ghost didn't work when I finally needed it. Well, to day when messing around in Disk Management in relation to reinstalling Windows 8 which has also stopped working I through negligence deleted the wrong partition. Instead of the Windows 8...

Hi, I'm a rookie here and I'm having a few problems, but not sure if this is the place to ask about it. One is in Outlook 2007 and the other is with my sound volume speaker and backup problem. Is there a Outlook 2007 forum? Problem 1: In outlook 2007 when I'm working thru emails and etc, the...

Create a Link Removed on external hard/flash drive? basically, my windows 7 computer went through a windows update that epically ****** up. now windows 7 wont even boot on my laptop. i dont have any blank cd's/dvd's to burn an iso image to, but i have the iso image, and an external hard drive...

Hello, In the past two days, my external HD becomes disconnected when the sytem sits idle, or after a restart. I can see the drive (D:), click it and it will open - but without folders. If I disconnect and reconnect both the USB and power cables, it will be restored. I have done nothing new...