external hdd

I can see the usb Hard drive on all the lists. my computer and the device manager but it does not show any volume and when I go to click on the icon to ppull it up the drive the task par just shows a very slow progress on teh green line and never stops searching. any clue on what to do? This...

Hello, i am having a extremely alarming problem, i can not access my external HDD!! I had bitlocked it, which was EXTREMELY stupid, and 93% into the encryption, it decided to stop, and now it just gives me an error to keep checking the disk i could just pause it before it had an error and...

Hi, I finally finished downloading windows 7 from a Bulgarian tracker. The torrent had the x64 and x86 versions of both English and the Bulgarian language. I burnt it onto my re-writable DVD using nero and then start up the installation. I selected the language and the time and all that...

Hi guys form my first post i have a question. I am on XP now and i have bunch of save game files from lots of new games.Now,can i install clean windows 7,install all these games again on 7 and then transfer those save games from XP (which i previously put on external hdd) to fresh install...

Hello everyone here at the forum. I used this forum once before and you guys helped me out with my freezing problem, and now I need your help again *sigh* The problem I have now I qualify it as a very serious one...Vista won't start. So here it is what's happening: I had to reformat an...

Hi, I currently have 2 HDD's 1 - Western Digital 640 GB (SATA), partitioned into 450 GB and 190 GB 2 - Seagete 160 GB (IDE), paritioned into 100 GB and 60 GB When I installed windows 7 (fresh install), all four partitions were recognized properly. Though the drive letter assignment was a...

When I upgraded from Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit to Windows 7 RTM 64-bit, I backed up all my important stuff to an external HDD. I copied \My Documents, \My Pictures... I also copied \Desktop. After the upgrade, windows 7 remapped my desktop to F:\Desktop, in the external HDD, instead of...

I recently purchased an External Hard Drive: The External HDD consists of: Western Digital 3.5" SATA II Caviar Green 1TB 7200RPM 32MB Link Removed - Invalid URL Welland 3.5" SATA To USB2.0/eSATA External Hard Drive Enclosure Link Removed - Invalid URL When I plugged into my laptop I...

Once I finished loading WIN 7 RC this past weekend - I attempted to copy some files from an old XP Pro Drive via USB Ext HDD to my new DELL Studio XPS machine. The XP machine died a couple of weeks ago. I am able to see and access the files from the old C; drive but when I attempt to connect...

I had the original windows 7 download from last December and got the message it would start quitting soon so I followed the instructions and saved everything on an external USB HDD useing easy transfer in Windows 7. I then used the original restore disc for my Gateway laptop and restored it back...

Before upgrading to windows 7 I backed up all of my data onto an external HDD by (in XP) going Start,all programmes, Accessories, System tools, Files and Settings transfer wizard. It made a load of .DAT files in folder called USM2T.UNC. Can anyone now tell me how I'm supposed to restore these...

hi i have seen guides to install via external hdd but can i install on external hdd i have a 80gb seagate i would like to install on is this possible can anyone help please:mad:

Hi guys, I really hope someone can help me with this problem I am having with Windows 7. I will start by trying to give you as much detail as to what is happening: I recently installed the 64 bit build 7100 onto my computer and I keep getting the BSOD randomly at different times, sometimes it...

Hi all, Preamble So I have a few issues in W7 this being my most serious and confusing and I feel that this is most likely hardware related but it in all honesty could be anything. I am running W7 x64 on the following platform: Intel desktop Board (DG31PR) Intel Core 2 duo 2.33MHz 3GB ram...

Hi all, Preamble This is my first post so I thought I would start with a simple little problem first. I am running W7 x64 on the following platform: Intel desktop Board (DG31PR) Intel Core 2 duo 2.33MHz 3GB ram (2 modules 1gb & 2Gb running dual channel) 500GB Western Digital...

Stuff connected to USB on my PC: Keyboard (G15) Mouse (MX518) external HD (WD Passport) Those function perfectly and I have not had any form of error. However, my iPhone and camera (Casio Exilim) both have a very unstable connection - they will always connect and be recognized fine, but most...

ok, i hate to sound ignorant, but i have never understood the whole backing up your information, as in system backups. my understanding is that even though you backup your system, you still have to reload all of your programs. so why backup? if you keep your important docs, programs, music and...

I've got Windows 7 RC installed on a Dell Inspiron 6400 (dual boot with openSuse 11.1). I have a 250 GB USB external SATA HDD in a NexStar3 enclosure recognized in ‘Device Manager – Disk Drives’ as ‘Maxtor 6 V250F0 USB Device’. 'Properties' tell me the device...

I have been using Memeo AutoBackup with Vista (came with my Free Agent external HDD) without much issue. I didn't even think about it when switching to Win7. Now that I have, however, it won't run. Not much problem, just uninstall and use someting else, right? Well, the installer won't run...

Ok, so i tried installing Win 7 RC1 on an external HDD, but got following problems: 1. on eSATA it wouldn't see it, as i assume the drivers for the controller are loaded after booting, during windows startup (if any one knows a workaround for this, something as a startup flash drive for loading...