external hard drive

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...

Hi Guys, I have an External Hard drive 1TB and I'm trying to back up my files which are in my C drive in total of 100GB size When I used the windows back up software it tends to freeze at 12% always so I have to do a hard reboot which i hold the power button for 30 secs i tried restarting and...

Had a lovely new Sony VPC laptop with Windows 7, following the death of my old one. Anyway, working lovely for a month. Tried to plub my iphone usb in yesterday to transfer some pics, and the comp wouldn't recognise it. Didn't appear in windows explorer, device manager, anywhere at all...

Why is it that my 500g external HD now reads "375GB free of 465GB" and my external terabyte HD reads "788GB free of 931GB"? I'm missing 35GB from one drive and almost 70Gb from the other!! Where did it go and how can I get it back?? The solution is probably something simple that I'm overlooking...

I'm so mad I could SCREAM!!!!!! I have a new computer that I started up today. UNlike WMP on xp which worked very intuitively and easily, I cannot put all my music into wmp on 7. I have tried and clicked and tried and cannot find any logic to how this is setup. Prior to removing the old...

I have a DELL XPS420 running Windows 7 premium. I have a Western Digital 1TB external hard drive. The drive no longer appears! I have tried changing from firewire to USB but nothing. Can anyone help?

I tried using Partition Table Doctor Recovery tool, but it doesn't seem to work for me. The program looked to work at first; it recognized my data and "recovered" it, until I noticed that all my documents are there, but there are no "text" when I open them. My music files are recognized, but...

I like win7's power management compare to Windows Vista. When I left the computer idle for a while the system gone to sleep. My question is I have 2 External Hard Drive one USB and the other SATA the USB does not have power switch but the SATA has power switch. The USB brand is SEAGATE but...

Upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 - Help & How-to - Microsoft Windows Please note that it is highly recommended to do a clean installation, not an upgrade ! Introduction To upgrade your PC from Windows XP to Windows 7, you'll need to select the Custom option...

I have purchased a group of PC's with Windows 7 and love them. One issue we are facing is that we can not open 2007 Microsoft Word or Excel files if they are on our external hard drives. They only open if they are on the C drive. Please let me know if anyone has come across this and how to...

Ok so i bought a Belkin Easy Transfer cable to use the Windows Easy Transfer feature, the reason being is that I have several PCs in the house, 2 of them are gaming PCs, the others are HTPCs, I also have a laptop and not to mention my sister & dad uses one too, so I often have to copy files...

i installed windows 7 and immediately had problems. after spending literally days worth of time on the phone to Microsoft support my original problem remains,they can't fix it. but my latest problem,which they can't fix either is my computer no longer recognizes my external hard drive through...

Hello, I recently upgraded to Windows 7 from Vista on my PC. I have all my media files on a WD external HD. The problem I am having with media player is in the libraries.. When clicking "organize" then "manage libraries" and then "music" it just disappears and does nothing. If I follow the same...

Greetings all. I have two laptops running build 7100 (one 64 bit, one 32 bit) and a wireless d-link WBR1310 router. I have shares on an external USB 3.5 HD with movies and data that I used to run and access no problem under Windows XP. Now under Windows 7 my transfer speeds are VERY slow, the...

I am new to Windows7 and still learning. Had to get XP off my mind. I downloaded an embriodery file and wanted it saved to either floppy or external hardrive, the pull down window in windows7 did not give me a choice. To me that is stange. How, what or where do I select to save my...

Hi all, I have a really big issue with one of my computer when copying large file (about more than 1GB). My config: Acer Aspire M3641 Windows 7 Ultimate 64x Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 2,5Ghz 4GB Ram 750GB HD When I copy a large file, 10GB for instance, after the time calcution for copy, the...

I have just upgraded to Windows 7 from Vista Business. It had to be a clean install so I backed up Vista and my files to an external hard drive using Windows Backup. The only emails (.dbx) available now in windows.old were from a previous system, Outlook Express, which I have successfully...

I have an interesting situation that I need some help with. A friend of mine who lives in Alaska has a Vista system with a 320g hd and also has two 160g hd's from his old system. I suggested that he install one of the 160's inside his new machine and get an USB or Esata external case for the...

Hi. I recently did a custom install of Windows 7 Ultimate. I backed up all of my files (music, movies, documents etc) onto my 500GB FreeAgent External Hard Drive (I was previously using XP Proffessional) However, now the external hard drive won't show up on My Computer. It can be seen in...

I previously had windows vista, 32-bit, and wanted to clean install windows 7 64-bit. I did... i think, everythign works fine, but i still have all my old files in a folder called "windows old" or something. What i kinda wanted to do was to completely wipe my computer clean, and start from...