external hdd

So last night I dropped my wife's laptop about 8 inches onto the floor. It hit the corner with the HDD and then gave me the blue screen of death. I ran the HP disk check which told me the the HDD was damaged. I bought a new HDD to replace the old but I don't have the windows 7 home premium...

Hello All, I seem to have encountered a strange problem with my external hdd (Transcend Storejet 1.5TB). For some reason the volume label changed to the label of another external hdd (same type). That's not really a problem but a large number of folders and files disappeared. I've tried...

Acer Aspire laptop. Host OS : Win 7 Home Premium SP1. Guest OS : Win 8.1 pro preview installed in VMware Player Win 8.1 does not see my external hard drive or flash drive when I plug them into the USB ports. How do I correct that? Thank you.

Hey guys, I have a question. I have both Windows 7 Ultimate and Ubuntu 13.04 installed on my laptop. Here's the partition details: Link Removed I wish to remove Windows 7, but keep all my personal data on that partition. I'm seriously done with W7 on my little netbook... it can't handle 2...

My Win 8 x64 desktop suddenly stopped recognizing USB storage devices (Thumb Drives & 2 External HDD). When working through Device manager, all show yellow exclamation marks and working through properties, all say "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware because a previous...

Hi, Firstly sorry for long thread but i thought it best to give as much info as possible....... I recently purchased a Barracuda ST3000DM001 HDD for use as storage within an external Thermaltake 5G USB3 enclosure. I connected it directly to one of my PC's and installed Win 7 (32bit) onto a...

Hi, I'm currently at a point were I'm stuck on this error "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. Setup does not support configuration of or installation to disks connected through a USB or IEEE 1394 port". I am trying to install Win 7 onto my External 1TB Samsung M3 HDD, I want to boot Win...

Hi: I have a Win 7 Enterprise Pro x64 laptop. Most of the files in my recycler/recycle bin mysteriously disappeared a few days back (I am guessing some OS quirk since desktop.ini also seems to have been modified then, though everything is still running smoothly). So I want to get those...

Hi, I brought a Hitachi USB 3.0 Touro Desk Pro external HDD a few months ago. It's never been smooth sailing with it, and I've finally given up and am asking for help. The drive I have is here: Touro Desk Pro | HGST, a Western Digital company The issue is that, when I connect it up, the...

This started happening last night while i was playing Borderlands 2, it has happened at idle, playing just about any game in my library, during downloads and just browsing the web. I changed all of my accessible drivers, and it continued to happen, so i moved all of my personal files onto my...

hey to all starting about 3 months ago, i have been getting random BSOD's on my Windows 7 PC, just while doing everyday things, like browsing the internet, or playing a game this first happened when i was playing Guild Wars 2, and the game just suddenly crashed, and threw a blue screen at me...

I have been using Win7 Backup & Restore (without errors) for years. After I did my weekly 'Create System Image' to an external HDD, I went to create a System Repair Disc & up popped the following error message Link Removed I've run chkdsk, both my CD/DVD drives are fine & I've run recdisc from...

Hi, I can't seem to figure out WHERE W8 stores the System Restore Points that I create so I created a 500GB Partition on an External HDD that I would like to use to save System Restore files and my question is WHERE in W8 can I CHANGE the location for System Restore? Thank you for your help, Bob

Hi all, I use a LG N2A2 NAS within my home network along with various other wireless gadgets and external HDDs attached to main desktop PC. When i checked my NAS for a file, i noticed a new network folder "Seagate usb-1" along with Multimedia,My SQL, Service, Share etc.... when clicking on my...

Hello guys. So this is what happened: I had a new external HDD WD My Book Essential USB 3.0 (2TB) 6 month ago. All was good until two days ago. I rebooted my computer and I won't boot up. After disconnecting WD HDD it work perfectly But after I turned my PC off, and tried to turn it on...

Hi, When i plug any device to usb port say mobile device or external portable hdd - i get this popup message "This device can perform faster if connected to hi-speed usb port" and when i click on it it gives the message - check attachment This was not the case few days back, and i dont...

New external HDD won't show in "Computer" l Have searched a lot, but only find comments directing me to Disk management and Device manager. The Ext. HD is not showing there either. Power light is on. This is a Lacie 2 TB Minimus USB 3.0 External Hard Drive...

I have a Sony VGN-FZ21M laptop that it lacks an internal HDD. Wanting to use it, I have managed to install Windows 7 x64 on a USB 2.0 External HDD. There is certainly a performance decrease due to the External HDD's speed but I can live on that. So, although the laptop has 2GB of RAM, I am...

Hi, I would like to thank you guys in advance! I have a 320GB External WD HD, I'm not sure what the problem is, but once upon a time, I pasted lots of files that it almost reached it's maximum allocated size, then the next time I plugged it in, it won't recognize it anymore. I can't see it in...

I am trialing Macrium Reflect because of its good reputation. I have a simple requirement. Backup to external hard drive (WD Passport), it is USB 2.0. Then use the Windows PE rescue CD to boot up and restore from external HDD. I have been researching this. I know about the lack of USB 3.0...