external hard drive

My Grandfathers External Hard Drive broke and he want's to erase the data how can he do it, would it be possible if he could put it in Microwave for a few seconds

System: Toshiba Satellite A660-135 laptop Intel Core i3 M380 2.53GHz 4 GB Memory 450 GB Hard Drive OS: Windows 7 64 bit Description: I have a large amount of music on an external hard drive. I have set my wmp library folder as the folder on the ehd that contains all the folders of music and...

Hello! I have a really strange problem. I am using Windows 7 Professional with SP1 installed. I have a My Book 500GB external hard drive connected to the network via Linksys E3000. Now in Windows 7 I am logged in as Admin. The network disk is configured in Linksys, that an admin group can r&w...

Hello  everyone, i have a question about partitioning a 2TB external hard drive that is formatted for 1.8 TB, i would like to partiotion it into (2) 500G partitions and whats ever is left as another partition, i dont remember how to go about doing it, if i think i remember correctly, i have...

I bought a new laptop about 1 week ago - Link Removed . For some reason the product info is completely messed up now, not sure what they've done. I also bought a 1TB USB3 external hard drive - Link Removed My question is. Is there a reason why i'm only getting around 26ish MB/s transfer...

Hi all recently i found that there's some folders in my 1 TB western digital HD that can not be copied, moved, access or even delete. these folders are from my friend i got long ago when i just click on them a single click the system hangs until windows explorer shut down and re-launched i...

can anyone tell me how to copy files to an external hard drive( photos and music0 there dosent seem to be a "copy to " option on windows 7

Okay I have been having this problem for the past two months or so where my BIOS and/or Windows 7 is only sporadically recognizing my two optical drives and my external HD. I can't seem to find a fix! First, here are my specs: OS: Windows 7 Ultimate CPU: AMD Athlon II X3 445 Motherboard...

Sorry if this is a n00b question, but I'd really appreciate it if someone could help me. First of all, it's relevant that I tell you that I have a Western Digital (WD) My Book World Edition Network Storage external hard drive which is working perfectly right now. I have Windows 7 Ultimate...

Restore Folders/Files From External Hard Drive to New Windows 7 Hello I am trying to switch over my sister computer from Vista to windows 7. I used a Western digital 1 TB external hard drive Drive (G: and ran the windows Vista back-up from her account *not the hidden administrator account...

I noticed recently that for some reason,my USB ports aren't being identified as 2.0 ports, but I know they are. My computer is an ASUS CG5270, Specs: Core 2 Quad @ 2.4 GHZ,8 gigs ram, 750GB hard drive. I tried going into the device manager and uninstalling everything under "USB", and then...

I've spent the last two days reading threads on anything remotely connected to my problem but i can't fix it, i'm really hoping someone here can help me...I run Windows 7 64bit. The other day the computer shut down on it's own. I turned it back on, Windows wouldn't load, it entered a loop of...

alright guys any help will be awesome. so... i have a hp dv6 and the hard drive crashed. so i took a friends old dv4 hard drive and installed it. everything has merged over correctly except for the usb ports. when they installed the drivers automatically they all failed. so since then i have...

Hello all, my family recently purchased a wondows 7 64 bit computer. It worked fine until a couple nights ago when it started to infinately freeze. It still works perfectly fine in all versions of safe mode but when it loads normally it runs fine for about thirty seconds than freezes on...

Hello, I used to have ubuntu dual booted with win 7. then i decided i didn't want ubuntu dual booted anymore and wanted my boot up to automatically boot win7. I deleted the ubuntu partition, but then I lost my boot up menu during startup. So I ran the Win 7 Ultimate disk in hopes to...

All right, I just spent the last hour and a half working on this, so hopefully things work out as well for you guys as they did for me. Earlier tonight I booted up my computer (I'm actually on an Apple iMac, dual booting OS X and Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit) and started up using the Windows 7...

Whenever I try to eject a certain external hard drive using the little icon in the task window, I get a message that it is in use. I am very careful to be sure it is not in use but still get the message. This is a data storage disc. I am not aware of any programs on it that may be running in...

Hi I had some kind of problem with my Ghost 15 installation. I kept giving me this message that it couldn't communicate with my computer? Probably had something to do with getting a new external hard drive for my backlups. I finally decided to just reinstall it, to reset everything...

So one second I was in my hard drive and everything was fine, and the next second when I tried to go into It again, I noticed many of my files were missing but not all and my disk space was open, This happened out of nowhere, it was simply just sitting there, the only thing I can think of is...

Hi people First I am a bit of a novice on a P.C so be gentle with me. I know the basics and I'm learning. I can't seem to change some ( but not all) music file details even when I have the ownership. I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. I have done all the usual stuff I can find on forums...