external hdd

I recently bought a maxtor 500 gb external hdd and i just cant get it to work with windows 7, i got a computer at home where i want to keep it that has windows 7 rc , I have tryed everything i can think of to make it work but nothing does, I cant see it in my computer or with the explorer, but I...

I'm trying to install windows 7 build 7100 via bootcamp on my macbook, but I haven't got any CD's. Is it possible to install via a external HDD? Heloooooooo!!!

Please help, I have just re-formatted this computer once again and put Windows 7 on it again. Last time I had the exact same build of windows 7. My Problem is that this time, when I plug in my External HDD (generic driver) It registers, installs the driver, and says it is ready to use, When...

hello i got w7(build7000 64xbit) installed on ''msi motherboard : AMD® 790X k9a2 cf" with 6gig ram memory , processor 4400+ amd 64x2 &ati hd3870 vid card,, its working fine on almost everything i got from hardware (like external hdd's & human interface controllers') except my soni...

I just got a western digital 1tb esata/usb external hdd. i tried it in vista and it works perfectly. booted into 7 and its not recognized at all. any ideas how to fix this? Thanks

Hi there, My problem is quite simple to explain. I have an external HDD (100 Gb size) using an USB interface. When I connect it to my laptop (Sony Vaio CR) with W7, it is somehow detected by the system... it appears in the "Safely remove hardware" application, it does appear under disk drives in...

Hey there Everybody i simply want to install Win7 from my External 250GB HDD. So if anybody out there knows how I'd be grateful of this Bundle OF KNOWLEDGE!!! could be shared =) Goblin Nobody knows!?!?

Hi all, I upgraded from Vista to Windows 7 yesterday and It all went smoothly. But, now I have a strange problem. I'll try my best to explain it. 1st. Before upgrading I moved & copied many files from the computer to my USB External HDD. Alot of these files were on the Vista Desktop. 2nd...

I have a lan pleiades hdd connected to my router. I have no problem networking with this external hdd with vista and xp. when networking with windows 7 i cant not network with this device. in windows 7 i can see the lan external hdd in the network folder but cant access. can connect to this...

I have a lan pleiades hdd connected to my router. I have no problem networking with this external hdd with vista and xp. when networking with windows 7 i cant not network with this device. in windows 7 i can see the lan external hdd in the network folder but cant access. can connect to this...

Hey guys, I'm new here so please don't be mean if this comes off stupid! I have made a new partition on my External Hard Drive. I went into the install, and I get this message when doing a clean install and choosing the partition: Is there any way to make it work at all? If it helps, the...

Anyone has an idea, why it can't recognise my external hdd (WD2500JB)? I plug it in, I hear the sound, and then nothing. It's trying to install a driver, but it fails. Then it will show in the device manager, as "USB Mass Storage Device" In the safely remove wizard it's an unrecognised USB...

I have a an advent qc430 laptop which i bought with vita home premium installed on it, whch was fine untill i needed more room for all my stuff so i bought an external hdd drive case because i had a spare 80gb hdd drive which needed formating. i tried to format it in vista but i kept getting...

I decided to install vista, and try it out on my desktop (already have it on my laptop and it's great). right away it gave me some trouble. i didn'tthink much of ta at the time, but when i was installing vista it asked me about partitions, so i set up a c: and a d:, vista itself runs great, the...