external hard drive

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...

can anyone point me to a thread or FAQ on the easiest method of sharing my files from my evernal HD connected to win7 with my computers connected to xp. my main pc is running win7 and has an external HD with all my documents and I want to share them with my laptop and netbook that are both...

My son managed to get a virus on his pc, it then infected both computers, I cleaned it off his, but when cleaning it of mine, it crashed 7 completely, I can't even restore it using the install disk. Is there any way to restore a 7 backup using XP? I am trying to avoid, reinstalling. I know I can...

I have a MacBook Pro computer and recently I purchased a 1TB Western Digital MyBook USB/Firewire external HD...I know there is a way to do this but not exactly sure how, how do i make it so the Windows installer will let me put Windows 7 on to a partition on the external disk?

Hi I have a maxtor basics usb desktop 500 gig external hard drive and it doesn't seem to work. I plugged it in and windows said it was installing updates, that finished and said this was complete. I then went onto computer management and I can see it under device manager, and when I go into...

Hey, last night I got this KSOD a lot of people seem to be having problems with lately. I was doing nothing serious, just msn and browsing online, and the computer locked up so I had to do a manual restart. It said to check for errors, so I did, and got a blue screen, error, restart and try...

Hi, Well today i downloaded the Windows 7 RC, so that i could use it. So on my computer which was running the Windows 7 BETA, i ran Easy Transfer and backed up all my files. I didn't choose a password, and i waited 2 hours for it to back it up to my external hard drive. All went well, it...

hi, I instaled windows 7 and after playing around with it I decided to wipe out the entire HD and do a clean Vista install, but before doing that, I did backup all my file with the Windows Easy transfer application found in Vista and in Windows &. The file took a while to create and finally...

I'm not sure if this is the right forum to ask this on, but I have been having some major problems with my computer recently. I am dual booted with XP and 7 on two separate partitions. We got the USB internet modem from Verizon Wireless yesterday to try it out, our house in the country...

I really need this question answered, not because I am going to downgrade from Windows 7 right now, I just want to be prepared come late July. My Original OS was Windows Vista w/ SP1. I downloaded and installed Windows 7 on my laptop using a Upgrade installation because I have no other way...

Folders are being created by 7 on my external harddrive having nonsensical names (like "08f575abff5110a011" for instance). I try to delete them, but it says I need permission to delete them. Then I open up the command line in administrator mode and try to delete them, but it does nothing. It...

Is it possible? It's connected by USB 2.0.

Hey guys, This is my first post and I seek some help. I know a fair amount about computers, but obviously not enough to get past this problem. I recently purchase an external hard drive so I can try to install W7 BETA onto the hard drive, but I'm not too familiar with the virtual machines.. So...

I thinking about adding an external device for backups and storage via home network. What is the difference between a home server (hp) and and external hard drive of the same capacity (500 gb)? Do the external hard drives have an ethernet port on them to connect to network? Cost is a factor but...

Please help me! I got my laptop less than a year ago. It's an ASUS G1-S Gaming Laptop. It's running Vista Home Premium 32bit. I had this problem twice before, but the only thing I didn't really take the time to figure out the problem. So I reinstalled Vista with the built-in partition(both...

Hello, I have a vaio sz120 with a clean install of vista ultimate. My firewire port now wont recognize my external hard drive or my camcorder. I cannot seem to find any support through sony or by googling. Please help

hi everyone, i really need your help. i have an external harddrive, and i believe it is a western digital (i don't know how to check its model since it is closed in a case) 250GB hard drive. i have windows vista ultimate 32-bit edition with all of the latest updates installed. the hard...

I am currently running Vista Home premium and using the backup utility. I am perplexed as to how it backs up. I have used this utility since upgrading in Nov 2007 and currently set it for weekly backups. I also have it set to backup documents only (which includes music and pictures). I have a...

my sys config: xp sp2,120gb,1gb ddr ram,intel core2 duo processor.i got vista bundle.my freinds says,download kms server image & vmware player,then run km s image using vmware player.cd key will be diplayed.then activate my vista. i can download vmware server installer 1.0.4-5628...

Hello, I am new to this forum and hope you can help me please. I'll try to be brief and to the point.Just bought a new computer with Vista. It crashed yesterday and was advised to "start from scratch" and use recovery tool. Just before doing this it asked me if I wanted to backup my data...