External Hard Drives
Hi All,I'm looking at getting some external storage to manage backups etc and am looking into getting an NAS so I can a...
Booting from external hard drive
Okay, this is new territory for me so I have lots of questions. I've got an XP machine (Dell) that's dying (motherboar...
Can't remove USB external hard drive
I just purchased a USB hard drive to use for backup purposes. Ran complete image backups on the internal hard drive, no...
USB external hard drive problem.
I had 3 Lacie 250GB USB hard drives connected to my Vista Home Premium HP Quad system, along with USB Hubs and a printe...
Re: WD external drive works with XP, not with Vista
I have a very similar problem though not the same symptoms.I have a drive that works fine on XP machines, USED to work f...
Re: Puzzle - External HDD Disk Management Error
"R. C. White" wrote:Hi, Mike.shows a virtual disk service error, but the code has no associatedA "virtual...
Import email from external hard drive
My computer died with Windows XP on it. I had the hard drive put in an external case and have found the message files.I...
External eSATA invisible in Vista - OK in XP (dual-boot)
My external eSATA drive is not visible in My Computer in Vista, but on the same PC (dual-boot) it is there in Win XP Pr...
Cant' Access USB External Drives
The 2 USB drives I have (one Maxtor One Touch and one WD external) worked fine until last week when I upgraded to SP1. ...
Using laptop screen as external monitor
I have a Vista laptop and a new Vista desktop (replacement for a dinosaur). I am going to continue to reuse my current ...
Please HELP! Seagate external Back up Drive
I just purchased a seagate Free Agent Go Drive 250G external drive. After over 2 hours on the fone with Seagate, they...
Help - I can't open up the Data files stored on my external
My old PC (which had windows XP) was about to crash - a lot of applications didn't work anymore...I managed to save my ...
WD MyBook 250 Gb external HD
Is this or is this not supported in Vista? Anyone know? It worked fine in XP, and it shows up in Device Manager, but ...
How can I reset external monitor settings?
Hello everyone!I find myself in a very frustrating predicament. Yesterday I tried connecting my laptop to my 46" Sa...
External harddisk is read only
I have an external harddisk which continuesly is read only no matter what i do. I have browsed the net intensively to f...
Can't access broken Vista OS drive as an external drive on X
Hi. My notebook hard drive (Vista Home) was failing (I botched the install of SP1) and I was unable to backup my files ...
Need to convert from Fat32 to NFTS on external HD
I need to convert an external hard drive (500 GB) from Fat32 to NTFS so I can save large files. I have Vista Home Premiu...
Copy DVD to external hard drive
Can anyone give advice?I am in the Army and when we deploy I want to take some of my store bought movies/DVD's and copy ...
Can Not delete item from External drive
I'm have a problem deleting a folder from my external hard drive. It has 2 subforums, and in the last one is an .avi fil...
Boot Vista from external 2.5 sata USB enclosure
Hey there folks, I've had a problem with my laptop recently and I'm unable to boot from my hard drive. I can't boot off ...
import msg.files from external harddisk
Hi,Our new computer vista home premium, I use windows mail as e-mail (no outlook avaible because I only have Office hom...
Problems with external hard drive in Windows Vista
I have a usb external hard drive (Freecom 80GB). Ever since friday I have been unable to access this drive. It doesn't s...
My Book World Edition II External Drive Hangs When Opening T
Having a very odd problem. Installed the My Book World Edition II external hard drive to my Windows Vista about a year ...
[Help]I can't format my HDD External
Hello ... i've seen a lot with this type of question around here, but i don't quite found the answer that i've been look...
What's using my drive space? NTFS external
I have an external drive if I choose properties is says used space is 678 Gigabytes. If I go to windows explorer with S...
External USB drive not recognized by Vista
I recently purchased an HP laptop running Vista Home Premium Edition to replace a desktop machine running Windows XP th...
Western Digital My Book 500 gb External
I purchased this drive and it was working fine until now. When I plug it into the computer it does not recognize the HDD...
Elements external harddrive not showing up in "my computer"
My Elements 500G external hard drive has worked fine for years but recently it stopped showing up in "my computer&q...
can't remove usb external disk
hi,Every time i try to "safely remove" my external HDD (Western Digital Elements 3.5" 250GB) from my lap...
external modem error 692
i have an external modem "decloop WLL" and i connect it to serial port of my pc. i add a standard modem 28800 ...
Cavairy external hard drive help!!!!!!
Hay, can anyone help me i just bought a cavairy 1 tb external hard drive. The instructions that came with it said that i...
check disk log for external hdd
I have a vista home installed on my acer laptop. I have been pestered by my computer to check for errors on my external ...
Cant open xp files on external hard drive on vista
Hi i had a windows xpSP2 PC which i had backed up on to an external hard drive.That PC appeared to die and so i bought a...
Map Drive Letter to USB External Drive
Can I permenantly map a drive to the root of my USB Drive? I want H:\ to always be for this drive. If I plug and unpl...
$Recycle.Bin Folder On External HD
I have a folder on my external hard drive called $Recycle.bin with several subfolders under that that they're called Re...
UAC invoked when moving files on external drive
I have an external drive that will not let me save downloads, delete files or move them without getting UAC. I have 2 o...
External USB hub not working
I have some troubles with my new USB 2 "high speed" hub ( http://tinyurl.com/5ql9xn )that is, once installed I...
system backup on external hard drive
I have a 160 gb western digital external hard drive with a backup of about 55 GB of the same OS that i am running now (...
External HDD drive write protected on vistax64
Hi,Is there anybody who can help me please? A few months ago i bought a new HP Pavilion Elite m9530.be desktop computer ...
New External HDD sharing problem
I have just installed a new USB external hard disc and although I have set it up to be shared and it appears on the net...
WMP11 library not indexing on external drive
I have been having problems since I moved from XP to Vista Ultimate very recently with WMP11's library. My music colle...
Formatting external drive for XP using Vista
I pulled an old drive out of a desktop XP Pro system that I'm breaking up. I've put it in a caddy and I have it ready ...
New Dell won't see external drive
A new Dell arrived at my friends. I set it up - created partitions ensured that all serious apps were in the C: partitio...
How to Restore Vista Backup Files with an External Hard Driv
I have Vista Home Premium Edition installed in my system. Recently, due to a problem with corrupted protected system fi...
LaCie External Hard Drives
Does anyone have any experience with LaCie external hard drives? Good, mediocre or bad? Thank you in advance for your a...
Copying Folder to External Hard Drive
I frequently backup my Documents folder (which I have relocated to a folder called DataFiles) to my external hardrive. ...
Can't access external drive on XP - previous Vista Boot Driv
Hi.My notebook hard drive (Vista Home) was failing and I was unable to backup my files before it wouldn't boot anymore. ...
How to turn off autoplay w/USB external drive
I have an external DVD drive and would like to turn off autoplay. How do I do that?thanksVista 64...
Vista email backup to external hard drive????
I have just gone through a nightmare changing from Outlook Express to Vista email. To avoid this in the future what fol...
Transfer files between two external drives?
Hi, I have two USB harddrives and I want to transfer some files from one to the other. Attempting to do so makes Vista i...
problems with external display
I have a brand-new LG 32" 1080p LCD TV, and a Dell laptop with Windows x64 Home Premium. My laptop has an HDMI out...
can't erase files on an external drive.
I created an image of my computer's hard drive on an external drive (USB) some six months ago. I am trying to delete it...
Laptop won't let me access my external HD HELP!
Hello, I am having this weird problem. My laptop won't allow me to open my Western Digital "My Passport" exter...
1 TB External Hard Drive Problem
I got a large external hard drive today and it's instructions say to go to disk management and do format and partition....
External Hard Drive with e SATA
I run Vista Home Premium on a self build computer with an Asus P5B Delux motherboard. It has an e SATA socket and I rece...
Ultimate: external hd no longer being recognized..
hi,I have an portable Digital Western hard drive.. I've been using it for about a year, now all of a sudden Vista I ju...
Message telling me that external disk must be formatted
I have a 500 gig Seagate hard drive connected through a USB port on the front of my Dell 531, running Home Premium. In ...
External Hard Drive Stop showing up on Explorer
Hi, I have a 2.5" 10G Fujitsu hard drive with USB enclosure. The problem starts after I was trying to copy files o...
Battery life: CD vs. HD vs. External HD
I'm going to be sitting on an airplane for too many hours. I'd like to watch some videos on the laptop and am wondering...
External eSATA Hard Drive Issue
I have a Seagate 1TB SATAII hard drive that I put in an external enclosure. The enclosure allows for USB and eSATA conne...
KVM with External Monitor
I have a laptop in a docking station with an external monitor. It's hooked up to a KVM switch. Whenever I switch away f...
Problem with external hard drive
Hi there i'm wondering if anyone can help me? basically my hard drive on my old pc stopped working so i bought a hard dr...
ultimate: VISTA wont read external HDs..
hi,I have two external HD's.. Vista isn't reading either one of them when I connect them to the machine.. even after t...
External Display problems
Hi, I like to connect my Laptop up to my TV when I am on Illustrator and Photoshop, and combining with my tablet, recen...
Can't Copy From External HD to Vista
I have a new HP 64 bit computer and have all the documents, pictures, etc. from my old computer on an external hard dri...
Using external hard drives formatted in MAC OS
I recently bought a MAC book, and have an external hard drive that I formatted on the MAC using the MAC extended format...
Trying to convert external drive from Fat32 to NTFS
I need to convert an external hard drive (500 GB) from Fat32 to NTFS so I can save large files. I have Vista Home Premi...
External HDD. Please help me
Righto. I have an external HDD - Western Digital Elements 500GB. I formatted it to NTFS a while back. The HDD itself is ...
External hard drive not recognized by Windows Vista
My laptop was stolen recently and the new one has Vista Home Premium, while my old one had XP. Most of my external devi...
Vista and external hard disks
I've been running my Vista machine with a Seagate hard disk. Works fine in paralell. I tried to hook it up with Firewir...
External USB HDD and Slow Boot
Hi there,Unlike XP, my external 250 gb WD HDD slows down vista boot process considerably. Any suggestions? I am really ...
Optical DVD drive quits working and external DVD drive not a
have an ASUS G50VT notebook that is 3 weeks old and I am running Vista Home Premium 64bit for my OS. My ODD was working ...
External Hard drive
I have two WD My Book 500GB firewire external drives. They are less than one year old and the button on one of them has...
Decrypt/Unencrypt External Hard Drive
I was beta testing Windows 7 and encrypted both external drives. I placed the password/key on one drive only and I also...
vista not recognising external hdd
I have just purchased a new notebook Asus X70sr. My old hp zd7000 pavilion notebook died last week so not only have i ha...
Accessing user folders on external harddrive
I have a vista harddrive from my laptop that has failed to boot vista yet it is still accessible through a external usb...
external hdd enclosure problem
i recently had a problem with my old computer and decided it was time to replace. the power supply shorted and wont turn...
Trouble copying files to external device on Windows Vista.
Hello everyone,I have just recently tried transfering files to an external device. The device that I am trying to trans...
Alternating automatic backups between two external hard driv
I have weekly backups going automatically to an external hard drive and just installed a second external hard drive wit...
Internet Explorer (Vista) stopped seeing my external hard dr
Device manager shows my external hard drive functioning normally and it shows up in "safely remove hardware,"...
System Restore From External Hardrive
So cutting to the chase.I did a system "complete pc back up" throught the "Back up status and configurati...
Vista doesn't recognine new external HD
I connected my new Fujitsu-Siemes Storagebird 1Tb HD and my Vista PC didn't recognise it. 2 computers running XP work f...
Vista getting restarted whenever an external hardware is bei
HI All, I have Windows Vista Home basic installed in my laptop. But whenever I am connecting to any USB device or inser...
Managing External Hard Drive - "You'll need to provide admin
Hello everyone. I'm hoping that someone here will be able to help me in this predicament.Ever since I shifted to Vista, ...
External HD
I am running Vista Home Basic. Recently I installed a new internal drive as the master, and kept the original partitio...
access denied to external hard drive
Folks, I am trying to access my external hard drive, but keep getting "F:/ not accessible, access is denied". ...
Complete Backup and Restore to/from External USB?
A complete computer backup (80 GB hard drive running Vista Ultimate) was done to an external USB (Maxtor 500GB). To do a...
Freecom external USB hard drive wont show up in Vista Explor
Freecom external USB hard drive wont show up in Vista x64 Explorer or in Vista x64 Disk Managment at all, with latest u...
External USB Hard Drive no longer works
I have been using an external drive for backup - but as of today, I cannot 'see' it in 'Computer.' It is turning, but n...
external usb disk drive
Hi,I have Windows Vista, and I like to make my external usb hard disk stay at D: drive even after I reboot the system. W...
External USB Hard Drive
Hi all.I have scoured the forums here and elswhere to a problem that seems to affect many but the solutions seem just pl...
Warning: Long post- Help with connecting an external hard dr
I will make this as short as I can but I don’t even know where to start… I purchased a Fantom Drives 1 TB GreenDrive and...
External Remote Desktop Access
While at home I can RDC back and forth between both the Vista & XP Pro PCs - no problem. When I try to acess them ...
moving files to external HD using command promt
Hi, Can soneone help me move my files from the harddrive to an external hardrive, using command prompt? Thanks for the ...
cannot see external USB hard disks
hi,I have a Vista Business Dell D630 laptop. All of a sudden, I cannot access any external USB hard disks. When I connec...
Looking for an external usb drive enclosure
I'm trying to find an external drive enclosure that is compatible with Windows Vista (either 32 or 64) that will accept...
External Multi-Format DVD Recorder-Memorex MRX-530LE
I purchased the above external drive so it would be easier to make copies of dvd's. My HP notebook PC has not worked p...
Need recommendations for 500GB external USB drive
My external drive just crashed and I use it solely for backup of my systems. Since I haven't had much luck with the rel...
external SATA drive unomunts?
---HP Pavillion dv9700z notebook, Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit---Hi, I bought a Metal Gear Box 3506uas SATA 3.5" en...
Vista external usb drive issue
Greetings allI just build my first home built system, and I didn't screw it up :). I've installed Windows Vista Busines...
External hdd
Hi I recently purchased a iomega external hdd and i only have three usb port all of which i am using. One for the mouse...
external hard drive does not appear anywhere on the computer
i've had the Western Digital WDH1U10000N 1TB for a little over a week now. it was working fine, up until yesterday night...
Vista won't recognise external HDD sometimes
I use a USB external HDD for backing up data from my Vista Desktop PC. Sometimes I'll connect it and it will either won...
External USB HDD
I'd appreciate some guidance on this problem,running Vista Home Basic and I've had no problem with this 149Gb external ...
External Hard Drive Not Recognized
Hello folks. I have a problem. I use an external hard drive, to keep a lot of stuff on it. I regularly back up my mail o...
Vista does not recognise internal hard drive in external usb
Hey guys,I have 2 pcs one with xp pro, other is vista business 32bit on laptop. Using a 750gb samsung hd753Lj internal h...
Restoring file from external USB WD removable drive
My operating system is Widows Vista home office version on my ASUS F3Series laptop. I have set up an automatic back up ...
disconnect external leaves me with a blue screen
When I disconnect my external drive via the safely remove hardware icon I end up with a blue screen. I am currently usi...
External drives
Hey everyone, i just got my 500gb Seagate drive back after it bricked from the little firmware issue they had. I also ju...
eSATA External HDD
Just bought a WD 500gb hdd and an antec MX-1 enclosure. It has eSATA. Put it all together and plugged it in / hooked i...
Best way to clone the desktop on a external and a laptop mon
We have a couple of HP 2510p (internal display resolution 1280x800) and I wonder which is the best way to use an externa...
Strange message telling me to reformat external drive
I have a Seagate 500 gig external drive formatted NTFS connected through one of the front USB ports on my Dell 531, run...
external HD enclosure-fitted Seagate 160gb
taken from computer with failed motherboard- will not work in Vista home premium. It is recognised in drive list but wi...
Movies copied or pasted to external drives get corrupted
My friend has a Dell Desktop and connected various SATA drives via USB. When she tried to back up some movies, they kept...
Can't see external hard drive in Windows Explorer
I am connecting an external hard drive (Acomdata 250G drive - pretty standard) via USB to my HP laptop running Vista. ...
USB drive or external hard drive
I have Windows XP and Vista.I always go through "safely remove hardware" before pulling off USB drive on XP. H...
ATI External Event Utility
I keep getting a message that the ATI external Event Utility has stopped working. I downloaded the fix that Vista asked...
Vista Home Premium 32 does'nt recognize External Harddisc
When the disc is connected with firewire/usb, the right driver is intalled, but the computer doesn't show the station an...
Can't find back up files on external hard drive
Can anyone help me? I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 and set up Vista's Back Up and Restore feature so that every Sunday it...
WD External hard drive trouble with read-only access
I just got a new HP desktop with 64bit Home Premium. My external, which I loaded from my Dell laptop (with Windows XP), ...
Booting Vista from external drive violate MS EULA?
I imagine that a determined Vista user could find a way to boot Vista from an external hard drive.Question is, would it...
External USB Optical drive causes Vista to hang
I have a IDE to USB2.0 external optical drive and when I plug the USB into my Dell Vostro laptop, Vista Home Premium ha...
Windows shuts down when removing external device
I am using a Vista 64-bit platform on a desktop. Recently, when I right-click on the icon to Remove Hardware Safely in...
WD external drive works with XP, not with Vista
I have a WD 250GB external hard drive, the MyBook. It works absolutely fine on a HP laptop running XP, but on another ...
Remove partitions on external hard drive
Vista SP2I have an external hard drive that's divided into 2 partitions. I want to reformat the drive and eliminate the...
Problem with external 4-bay firewire IDE enclosure
I have a 4-bay external IDE disk enclosure which has been running fine on an XP machine for years. I've just bought a ne...
External drive suddenly read-only
hi thereim trying to regain write-access to an external hard drive which, after a reboot, Vista decided it would no long...
unusual problem with external hard drive
I have an Iomega external hard drive and have never had a problem with it. I only plug it into the computer and turn it...
saveing computer to an external drive!
I have a 500GB Desktop hard drive and want to know how I would go about backing up my entier conputer to it.Thanks -- ...
Vista Backup using two external hard drives
I use two Lacie 250GB USB drives for "double-safe" backup purposes. On my XP machine, a 2004 Dell desktop, I u...
Change owner of folder on external disk
I use Robocopy to backup music and photos on a external Western Digital 1TB disk that is on a local network. The backup...
Make Partition in External Hardisk in Vista
Hello, i got a 320GB notebook external and i want to make 3 partition with respect to 120,120 and the rest (probably 58G...
System crash on full backup to WD external drive
Hi, all. I posed this question to Western Digital's support people, but they were of absolutely no assistance, essentia...
can't format my external hard drive
I looked at some of the other posts and didn't find any solution for my current problem, so here it is: My XP computer h...
Need External Hard Drive Recommendations
I want an external hard drive at least 1TB in capacity. I have been reading the reviews and they are all over the place...
change global external device settings?
Is there any way of globaly changing the default settings for usb devices in vista? ie: automatically set to "Opti...
Shared External but Vista is deleting the files!?!?!?!?
My husband has a Dell laptop with Vista and I have a Dell XP PC - we have shared external HD's and when trying to burn t...
External HD not recognised by Vista
Just got myself a Fujitsu Storagebird Solo 35-UB 1Tb HD but Windows Vista says unrecognized USB device. It works fine w...
eSATA external HDD ok under XP, no longer activated under Vi
I have seen a thread about that, but since it's getting old, I wanted to post a new one to ensure it will be seen... Sor...
unable to view external hard drive in my computer
i have a toshiba laptop running windows vista home premium 32 bit and have just recently bought a my book western digita...
I need to install Vista onto an external hard drive.
I recently had a laptop not recognize its own operating system. I figured if I were able to load Windows Vista on to a...
External USB Disk Access?
What is the easiest way of determining what process is accessing my external USB drive?Thanks.Ross...
Safely removing external HDD that system says is in use by a
When I try to remove Drive F at the Computer window, or from the taskbar, it says "can't remove, in use by another ...
Please help with external drive issue
I have a Maxtor DiamondMax 21 320gb PATA (ultra ATA) hard drive installed in an external case that I used on my previou...
Toshiba 250gb External Hard Drive
Hey, i have had this hard drive for over a month now, and it is where i store my media. I changed the music folder loca...
Maxtor External harddrive cannot access
I have an USB Maxtor harddrive. It has been working fine but now it shows up under my computer but I cannot access it an...
External USB HD can't be removed safely
Hi,I just bought a WD Passport 320gb external USB hard drive. It works fine EXCEPT, I can try to safely remove and it t...
Can't safely Eject External Hard Drive
When I go to safely eject my external hard drive I always get the following error:Problem Ejecting USB Mass Storage Dev...
USB external hard drive causes extreme CPU useage
Windows Vista Home Premium on a Dell XPS M1530 laptop.The title basically says it all. Whilst using an external USB har...
external harddisk problems
First I want to say that my English is not very good, I am sorry. I have troubles with my external HDD (maxtor). I have ...
Problems with external hard drive.
Hey, I'm having some problems with my Rock mobile disk external hard driver. Maybe somebody can help? I have an external...
external hardrive
i have a new computer running vista,i downloaded all my music to a external hardrive from my xp computer, how do i impo...
External Hard Drive backup
I bought a Dell XPS 420 desktop with 750GB (TO which I added a 1 TB HD). I was assisted to partition the 1TB hard drive...
USB External Backup Disk and Vista Pro
HiWe use a USB external hard disk to backup to from 2 Vista Pro PCs on a wired LAN. All works OK until such time as th...
Can't see network external drives
I have a 2 laptops and a desk top networked. They are all running Vista, and can see each other. The one laptop has 2...
Delete volume external hard drive
Hi, I have an 500gb wd external hard drive I was trying to format it for my ps3, but unfortunately I deleted the volume ...
Windows vista on External Hard disk
Hi,is it possible to install windows vista on external Hard disk? thank in advance...
Check Disk at startup on External Drive
On a nearly new Vista Home HP Pavilion, check disk runs at start up on the 1TB WD external hard drive. I determined tha...
Re: External hard drive not recognized by Windows Vista
Check the connections (power cord and USB cable). USB cables can feel like they are connected and still not *be* connec...
External hard disks
For use on my Windows Vista laptop, I am looking for a 1 terrabyte external hard disk, and I am considering between the...
Copying Files to External Drive
Folks,I'm running Vista32 on my laptop computer. I have a 1TB Western Digital external drive. I recently copied about ...
cannot see my external hard drsk in my computer
Hi,I have an external hard disk and recently try to plug into my USB port to transfer a file from my laptop to the exte...
Trying to copy a folder to external HD
I have Vista Home Premium 64bit, and I am simply trying to copy a folder from my hard drive to an external drive. When I...
VISTA 64 does not see my external disk for backup
Vista 64 keeps on looking and never finds the external disk which I can see clearly see under Computer. It is a WD and ...
external drive (old Laptop) & Vista permissions
My old Win Xp Laptop broke so I'm using the hard drive as an external for my new Vista Laptop, but whenever I try openi...
External DVD RW Not Working
Hi!!!I have purchased a LG DVD-RW (IDE) and got it fitted in case so that I can use it externally by USB. Vista (Ultimat...
WD Passport External HD not showing up in My Computer
I am trying to use my external HD (WD Passport), I have used it with this computer before (Vista) and it worked fine. I...
formatting external HDD
I just bought an external HDD and I want to know if I should format it to NTFS or I should just leave it to FAT32. what...
Re: external hard drive does not appear anywhere on the comp
in start menu type in cmd right click cmd.exe and run as administrator -- truthkid...
NexStar External Hard Drive & Vista
I have a Nexstar storage unit (NST_350U2) for my old hard drive which had XP installed on it. When I plug it into my ne...
eSATA external drive no longer visible under Vista
After a few Windows updates (*not* SP! which is *not* installed), I no longer see the external HDD connected through eS...
Sharing External USB Hard Drive
I am trying to enable sharing on an external hard drive. I have sharing and permissions enabled. When I try to access th...
Change drive letter fo0r external usb Floppy from B to A
I have an external USB floppy drive that got assigned the drive letter B when it was plugged into one of the usb ports o...
Complete PC Backup to external hard drive: share the drive?
Does Complete PC Backup to an external hard drive allow the drive to store other files and, specifically, to use the sa...
External display resolution reset everytime I logon or unloc
I have an HP 6510b notebook with Intel 965 Express Chipset Family display adapter and I use and external monitor to &qu...
eSATA External drive keeps vanishing
Vista 32 ASUS P5KC Mobo Intel Q6600 CPU Antec 650 W PSU Two SATA 320 GB internal drives connected to SATA slots 1 and 2 ...
External HDD Plug & Play Problem
Connected to my notebook via a powered hub are two external drives . I have it configured such that when I return from ...
Copying large numbers of files from external disk
In the process of migrating from old to new computer I copied a large number (80,000+) of files onto an external drive ...
External Drive Problem
I just bought a new Samsung HD753LJ and placed it in an Antec MX-1 case. At this stage I do not have my notebook eSATA ...
Vista /XP Networking:can't open external drives
I am using VistaHP laptop and XPHome desktop wirelessly networked. All sharing is on and I have admin privileges. On XP...
Vista install on External Hard Drive
Hi, I am currently running XP Pro and want to install Vista.I have made a new partition on my _external_ Hard Drive.I we...
can i repair vista using external hd or usb drive?
Hi, I have dell inspiron 1520 and my vista installation has got corrupt. It shows \BOOT\BCD error and to add to my probl...
External drive capacity for Complete Image Backup
I have Win Vista Ultimate 64bit. I want to try the Complete backup Image from the Backup and Restore Center. My externa...
Can't restore files from external hard drive
Have just reinstalled Vista and now want to restore my files which were backed up (files only not whole PC) to an exter...
USB external drivers
Hi to all,I am a newbie here on this forum, and I am wondering if anyone can help me with this problem? I have asked the...
Vista - USB External Hard Disk
I use a USB external hard disk to backup to from 2 PCs on a wired LAN. All works OK until such time as the drive is di...
External HDD + Vista + Xbox360 = Fail?
Hello, I have an external hard drive connected to my Vista PC which then shares the files Audio/Video with my 360. Over ...
Won't Initialize External Hard Drive
I am having problems getting Vista to recognize my Western Digital My Book hard drives (both a 500 GB and a 1 TB drive)....
Vista won't reconize external hard drive
So I just got a new computer, a HP Pavilion running Vista, and I have a older hard drive that I want to copy data from. ...
While disconnecting External drives P.C. reboots
Hi all I tried searching for an answer in the forum because I'm sure people had this problem before, While Disconnecting...
External monitor display
Hi, I connected a dell laptop running vista to a tv. I was able to toggle between the 3 options of view, mirroring the l...
External USB Hard Drive not working, Vista asking for driver
I had the same problem. The way I got over this was to go into The Lacie hard drive via another computer and go into the...
Striped Volume on External Disks
I have 2 external eSATA drives which I have striped in Vista to make a large volume.If I reformat my PC can I add the v...
Need help with an external storage drive with Vista OS
i am going to be doing medical billing on my pc for my sister-in-law. I have downloaded & installed the medical bi...
Vista and external laptop monitor?
I have an HP laptop and use an older external LCD monitor. The monitor works fine... as long as the laptop lid is ope...
Seagate FreeAgent | Xtreme External HDD Software on Vista Ul
As many of you who use Seagate external Hard Drives might know, the Seagate tools that come on the external HDD do not w...
Import backed up emails on external hard drive
I backed up to an external hard drive my complete laptop. Now I have a new laptop. I need to know how to copy all my em...