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    Windows 7 Seagate Free Agent external hard drive not recognized by Win 7 Ultimate

    I recently purchased Seagate External Hard drive of 500 GB The problem is when i connect the external HDD to the front USB ports it does not connect to the computer and when i connect it to the rear USB ports the computer recognizes Seagate Free Agent external HDD by Win 7 Ultimate i just need...
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    Windows 7 Cannot change title of video file

    Hello there. I'm just posting here because there are these video files which the title of the file is different to the 'name' of the file which appears below the icon. Although not the end of the world, it is annoying since when I put the files on my external HDD to play through my PS3 and that...
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    Windows 7 Restoring Previous Programs And Settings After Clean Install

    Hey all, I just upgraded my MOBO, CPU, and memory and added an SSD to my build. Basicly a whole new computer. I kept the PSU, DVD drive, GPU, and HDD from previous build. I tried to get around a clean install by enabling the generic drivers for the MOBO in device manager before final...
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    Windows 7 system image backup failure in Windows 7 error code 0X8007002

    I have a DEll XPS 8500 with Windows 7 64 bits. I am trying to backup the data to an external HDD (WD 500 GB) connected to USB 3.0 using W7 backup function. The USB 3.0 is based on intel drivers.My whole C disk contains approx 110 GB data (should fit in my external HDD without problems). W7...
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    Windows 7 Page fault

    Recently I have been getting a BSOD every time I plug in a usb drive. As soon as I plug it in, I get the popup asking me what I want to do (open folder, etc.) followed by the blue screen . It says "Page_fault_in_non_paged_area". At the bottom it says STOP: 0x00000050. I tried booting into...
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    Windows 7 Moving External USB HDD must "take ownership" everytime???

    Hi! I have an external USB HDD that I want to be able to move between computers. Problem is everytime I move and try to open a folder on the next computer I get the permission error and must take ownership of it with the new computer. I want to be able to switch the drive between the...
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    Windows 7 "You Need Permission"

    Hi I am new to the forum. I am from Belfast and work as....'not a lot' these days! I have an 'on-going' problem with win7.....which I believe is fairly common but today is the 'final straw'..... I create a folder on my desktop and try to move it to an external HDD....the message of 'needing...
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    Windows 7 Looking for a reliable local backup solution for Windows 7

    Hello: Let me say right off the bat that I'm not a fan of Windows. It just happens at the moment that I need to set up a Windows 7 system, and namely to set up a local backup. Let me give you the specs: - Windows 7 Ultimate desktop - Internal HDD: 932GB - External HDD: 1.18TB Initially I set...
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    Windows 7 External HDD don't show any document files

    Hi, I made the HDD from my dead PC external. It does not show any of my Windows related documents or desktop folders. Is there anyway I can find and retreive them?
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    Windows 7 bsod 7a ntfs.sys

    Hello I have a new pc 3930k@4,8ghz Asus rampage IV Extreme Asus gtx580 Corsair CMZ32GX3M4X1600C10 at XMP settings 1600mhz ,10 10 10 27 OCZ Vertex 4 256MB 1 TB Samsung External HDD 1,5 TB Seagate internal HDD 1 TB Samsung internal HDD Now i'm getting bsod 7a ntfs.sys ( i was coping 28gb from...
  11. Windows 7 install win7 from usb hard disk

    Hi, I have external USB HDD, 457 Gb and I like to make it bootable because i want to install win7 on that usb hdd, can you, please tell me how to do it???
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    Windows 7 Moved external HDD to a PC after power surge

    So I had a power surge a few days ago and it fried a lot of devices in my house including my external HDD controller/charger so I removed the HDD from it's case and mounted it in my PC. So far so good, it was recognised in BIOS, my primary Master and my former ext.HDD Slave, boots up ok but when...
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    Windows 7 External HDD not always recognized

    I have been having an on-going issue for some time with my external WD My Book. There are times when it is not being recognized by Windows 7(pro). It has three interface options (fire wire, esata, and USB). I have tried all three at one time or another, finally settling on the eSATA interface...
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    Windows 7 Win7 Pre-Installed on laptop, HDD problem, can't recover/boot/chkdsk/format. Help!

    New laptop with Win7 pre-installed. No Win7 CD. Laptop HDD came with separate recovery partition. Burnt recovery CD and backed up HDD to seperate USB HDD. Then laptop was dropped. Laptop won't boot past blank win7 desktop(with curser). Tried running HP recovery program from recovery CD but...
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    Windows 7 External HDD locked access!

    Hi all, i am new to this forum and am in great need of knowelabdel assistance . Basically i tried to secure several files in my Western Digital HDD by right clicking and selecting the option "share with ....nobody". this allowed me to still enter the file afterwards. Next time i log on my drive...
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    Windows 7 And again ! BSoD one afte the other - really desperating! Please help!

    Well, here I am again - and my Data-Files. I've done all Updates I could find for my Motherboard and did them all. I've completed my Profile with the dates I could find. Yesterday the system came up normaly and worked the whole day about 15 hours without any problem. Today - it starts again...
  17. Windows 7 Several random BSOD mini dump attached

    Hello I had strange feelings, that my vga have some issues with my windows, not often, but sometimes I got BSOD when looking youtube or playing some game (BF3) or sometimes can play all day and nothing, even opening some movie, on old laptop was issues with esata port, because I'm using some...
  18. Windows 7 Recovering Lost Data Question (Advanced)

    This question is not a "Google" question. It's for people who are experienced in data loss recovery. Among the many programs I have used in the past for data recovery, I have found EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Professional to be most successful. I have had high success rates in recovering data...
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    Windows 7 Restore from ext hdd not responding

    My old pc was running vista and crapped out on me. I now have a new PC running win7. My old PC was backed up on a MYBOOKWORLD external harddrive that is shared on my network. When I goto restore the files, after hitting the "next" button (pictured) the sys will not respond. Please can anyone...
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    Windows 7 Files missing on External HDD after using windows backup ( but there invisble?)

    Hey, so i used windows back up last night and came down in the morning to see that a file on my computer, which was labeled the same as the back up, is missing, although should i use the search function, i can still run them, such as SC2 which was on there as well as alot of other important...