external hard drive

I have 1 main PC, 1 laptop, and my mom had the same laptop. All on Windows7 64bit My PC is wired and the laptops are wireless. I have an external hard drive on my pc that i want to share with my laptop, so i can listen to mu music and watch my movies without tranfering them to my laptops hdd...

Hey, Problem is simple: I had spyware, made a partition, installed Win7 on it, removed Xp from my other partition, then, I had no authority over my Xp files. I managed to get some authority over the files, moving them, viewing them or even installing programmes, but it seems that somewhere...

Hi, just joined to ask a few questions and gain some knowledge for the experts. I am about to switch my existing hardware for a new Dell 545 with Windows 7 Professional and M.Office 2007 Home & Student as I mainly use word - Excell and Powerpoint. I have a Dell Laptop with Windows 2003 XP...

I used easy transfer from vista to make a copy of my programs, and transferred them to an external HD. I then installed a clean copy of Win 7(Ultimate). I tried to use easy transfer to replace the files onto my new OS, but it does not work. The HD onto which I made the backup has 20GB of...

I tried to install the win 7 upgrade on top of my Vista OS The directions said to have an external HD I did not have one and tried to install anyway. Now, when I turn on the computer I get the choice of Vista or Win 7 !? Also, my Recovery disk of 15 GB is full. Because it is full I cannot load...

Here is a screen shot of the blue screen-- I am not sure what the display driver has to do with copying files.

i've got a 2nd drive from an XP machine, and i'd like to get a case for it and use it as an external drive. can i do this? is it supported, even though it was created in xp?

Hello, I have ordered 2 version of windows home premium for the two computers in my house. I have one laptop, and one desktop pc. They both have Vista Home 32 bit versions on. My desktop has 3 gig RAM, quad core, and an Nvidea 8800 gt graphics card. I am considering installing the 64 bit...

Hi I have tried to seek a solution without success so I am hoping that someone can help. Since installing Windows 7 I cannot see my External USB Hard Drive. It is a Astone 1TB External Hard Drive and the drive itself is a Western Digital WD10EAVS Hard Disk . In Control Panel / Devices and...

Ever since I did a clean install to Windows 7 my USB ports stop working when I transfer data to my ipod or external hard drive. It doesn't matter which one it's plugged into, they all stop working, even when plugged into a powered USB hub. The only way to revive them is to restart the computer...

I've been trying on and off all week to install Windows 7 on my desktop and it has been a nightmare I have a downloaded copy of Windows 7 that I purchased through their $30 promotion for college students. First, the exe I get through their download manager wont extract the install files on my...

okay heres what i want: to veiw music stored on my external HD through wmp12 onto my 360, okay thats not to tough, but heres the catch... i want to veiw that music in the original folder veiw that i have set up on my HD. i read a rumor that the "play to" function may accomplish this...

ok so here it is, i grabbed a copy of windows 7 and decided to check it out, but after i upgraded i found out all my videos will no longer stream to my 360. so heres how it happened: i had Xp and everything was great, i was streaming my avi's and mp4's to my 360 without a gliche, i used...

Hi There I had windows 7 when it was the beta just to see what its like. Now i have downloaded the new 64 bit version from MSDN. Upon installing i encountered several errors: First time it got almost all the way through then blue screened, then upon restart displays the message that the...

so i usually have an external plugged in and i usually put my laptop (a hp dv5t) to sleep mode at night, but the external harddrive still stays on. how do i disable usb power in standby mode? i already went into advance power options and couldn't find anything. also, in power settings, USB...

so i have 3 big problems. background- my laptop's harddrive died, so i took the harddrive out of my external western digital passport and put it into my laptop and installed windows 7. i've never used vista before, so this jump from xp to 7 is quite annoying 1. so a lot files i can't access...

Whenever i tried to transfer big files from the os to my ext hard disc, it will just hang half way and will prompt me that the driver is not detectable. Then afterward the window will just hang. I get that freq and i am wishing someone will help to solve this issue as i am quite unhappy with the...

Hi, I recently picked up an external HD (Western Digital MyBook 1TB). When it's plugged into the USB port and then I turn on my Win7 machine I don't seem to get an internet connection on start up. I can get a connection after start up by going to "change adapter settings" and disabling and...

Hello, I just recently installed windows 7 on my desktop, and I finished transferring a folder containing my music, and videos from my external hard drive onto this desktop. The problem is, when I highlight over the folder, it says it's empty, and there's nothing inside it, but if I look at...

Hi all, I'd like to know how to really shut down a USB peripherial when I press eject. When you do this on Windows XP, your hardrive for instance will power down, whereas it stays on with Windows Seven, despite the safety message "the device can now be safely removed" I've installed the RC on...