external hard drive

I have a Toshiba PX 1394-3G500 External HD which was great for all my music, films,family pic,etc. It worked fine in Win XP Pro but now I have installed Win Ultimate 64 bit, it won't recognise it. So I can't access my pics, which is a real bummer !! Any help/suggestions would be much appreciated...

Hello very nice forum people. Thanks in advance for trying to help me out. I've got a clean install of Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit (specs below). I get frequent BSODs and have tried everything in my knowledge to troubleshoot. For what it's worth, I'm in finance though... (been building my own...

What is the difference between MS Windows 7 Backup and MS Synctoy? I am using Windows 7 Backup and only back up the four Libraries and some additional locations off of the C: drive totalling about 45 GB and Windows7 Backup now requires 151 GB of disk space on my external hard drive which only...

I didn't post in the XP section because it's pretty dead. A guy on WD forum is having a problem with his XP being deactivated when he plugs in his external HD. He's been getting the run around looking for help. Anybody got any suggestions? I sent him the thing about the wpa file to see if that...

A while back I posted about a problem I had here. Link Removed I now have an external HD and can fix this problem I am having. I need a little bit more information though before I go on. I am downloading the new version as I type. Should I just run a backup and save it on my external HD or just...

Hi, I'm having a problem not being able to access 2 out of 3 partitions in an external HD. Samsung HD753LJ (USB) 700GB Partition 1: 200 GB / NTFS Partition 2: 200 GB / NTFS Partition 3: 300 GB / NTFS I once had a dual-boot Windows XP Professional SP3 and Windows 7 Professional...

Dear friends, I encountered a problem that i can not backup my system by using backup and restore function in win7. I had it done before and i have a backup image in my external hard drive. Several days ago the system tried to backup again due to the set backup schedule, but it failed all...

I posted a while ago about the WD My Book Essential external HD I got and the crappy Smartware and undeletable virtual CD. I've made 12 posts there and in every one I make a crack about what crap those 2 items are. Tonight I noticed I got promoted from occasional poster to adviser. Makes you...

I downloaded Windows Live Movie Maker (WLMM) and installed it. When I try to use it I get a load error msg: WLMM encounter an unexpected error and has shut down. Error 0x80004005. I tried to uninstall and reinstall it but there is no straight way of doing it with Live Mail being installed. Any...

I did easy transfer (backing-up) on my 32bit Windows 7 onto an external HD. I would like to wipe it out and install the 64 bit Windows 7 which my Quad core is capable of and easy transfering my files etc. back. Is this possible? Thanks

Hello! I am running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. I've been seeing very slow file operations since making this PC my main computer earlier this week. My system specs are listed below my signature. In addition to the specific example below, the problem appeares copying image files from a CF Card...

I recently bought a 2T WD My Book with their Smart Ware because I didn't know what it was. It's a really crappy backup program with minimal controls. On top of that there is a VCD that is impossible to delete or format. Before you buy one on sale do some web searches and see the problems and...

I found this link Link Removed I loaded it on a virtual machine and it looks like a stripped down version of Acronis True Image. It looks like the scheduler and some extra tools have been removed. I recently bought a 2T WD external HD and their included automatic backup sucked. My sister also...

If an external USB HD is used for just backups is it really necessary to defrag it? I mean backups of pics movies etc where you are basically adding files. I've got one that has got messed us a few times and I suspect it may be the defrag. It's a WD My Book Pro II 1T. It showed a message drive...

Dell Studio XPS Laptop New April 2010 Win 7 Home Premium Intel i5 4 GB Ram Seagate Free Agent External HD 320GB of which 232GB is free I've now had four failed attempts to backup my computer to an external Seagate Free Agent HD. The third failure resulted in: "Backup encountered a problem...

I've been dual-booting for about two months now on two seperate HDs. One HD is XP Pro SP3 - it was my first one - and then I added another HD and installed Win 7 on that. Recently, my 7 was crashing in a BSOD hard when I was playing a video game. I posted the minidump files online, and was...

All of a sudden my power management is behaving differently. I can no longer use the mouse to bring the computer out of sleep. I must use the button on the front of the machine. This isn't a big deal really, the issue (for me) is that while alseep it seems to lose touch with any USB devices...

When I imported my Outlook Express files to Windows Live (I backed them up from my XP machine to an external HD) I got everything except the last 6 months of my Inbox file. Today I went back to the XP machine and created a new folder in OE with just the missing information in it plus one day...

i started encrypting a 1 tb external hard disk. abt 42% of the encryption was done when i paused and shut down the pc. now i cannot unlock it. when i type the password it stays for some time and the windows comes that it is not responding. i have to exit it becas its not wrking. pls can anybody...

Hi I have recently bought a new laptop running Windows 7. I have an external hard drive which I used to use on an old laptop which ran Windows XP. When I plug the USB external hard drive into my new laptop running Windows 7, I can only open files as read only. Why is the external hard drive...