Summary: It is USB 2.0. When I go into BIOS I cannot see either of my external Hard Drives but when I boot to windows the Desktop WD (powered) is there. All my...
Summary: I have a 320GB WD Passport Elite external USB drive. Previous to that drive I had a 160GB model which always worked fine. This drive itself initially ...
Summary: I have done this It returns as "Windows is unable to complete the scan" Is there any third party utilities you would recommend to scan this external U...
Summary: I just attached an external hard drive to my USB 2.0 port, system installed the driver, indicated the device is ready, looked in device manager and it...
Summary: I've had the above external hard drive since the summer (09) and it has worked perfectly. Came home from work today and my laptop refuses to detect it...
Summary: What kinds of files are involved. Depending on what software is used when performing a backup files may be compressed. Compression rates vary with t...
Summary: I have a tc1100 tablet PC and I am trying to boot of a external cd drive to reinstall windows but I am having problems. The USB drive is being detecte...
Summary: Running Windows O/S from an external USB Drive is not supported. Linux is a better choice. This is in relation to a Flash Drive but the principles ar...
Summary: I'll agree. An external USB drive is a notebook drive fitted to a portable case. As such it does the same thing as an internal drive but at about thre...
Summary: I have a sustem with an Athlon 2500 processor and an MSI MOB (KT6V). I have a year-old Maxtor external USB drive (40 gig) attached to it. Ever since I...
Summary: I've had laptops with external usb drives for at least ten years now... I have never burned out a drive... and I use them for photos, mpeg, data and e...
Summary: My system hung while I was playing iTunes. The iTunes library is on an external USB drive (IOGear ION 320GB Combo Hard Drive), which --after this cras...
Summary: Today I purchased Sony External DVD Drive - I uninstalled Easy CD Creator, installed Nero that came along with drive & then connected DVD drive - it l...
Summary: Okay, see, I had my pc reformatted because of some problems. After it got formatted, I was still able to use my external hard drive properly. But then...
Summary: Hello everybody. This past Saturday, recieved my Western Digital MyBook Premium Edition 500GB external hard drive. This drive could be connected eithe...
Summary: XPUser, That's what I was afraid of. I had this drive connected to an ALi PCI to USB Enhanced Host Controller. My Tyan S2095A motherboard only support...
Summary: I'm trying to replace my inoperable internal floppy (A:)drive with an external USB floppy drive. I have successfully installed the external drive, wh...
Summary: I was given a working laptop that I would like to start over with. The cdrom is broken, so can I boot with a USB external cdrom drive, to do a format ...
Summary: "..hard disc fell very gently.." "..some noise in the hard disc, not as smooth fan noise as earlier..." If it had fallen as gently as you suggest, it ...
Summary: My External hard drive won't connect to my Desktop through Esata or USB but it will connect to my vista laptop through both. Why can't it work on my d...
Summary: i've tried to do my due diligence to poke around the forum before asking, but don't see what i'm looking for. aside from telling me that lacie isn't a...
Summary: Hi Guys Firstly i can't rewind time so no going back what a shame, but i'll brief you all on my previous situation, which led to this painful mome...
Summary: i have an 80 gig western digital external usb hard drive it says that with usb 2.0 i should get top transfer speeds of 400Mbps is there a way to deter...
Summary: USB 2.0 External Hard drive backwards compatible to a 1.1 USB slot on the motherboard. It's just a thought. I was trying to think of a way to play so...
Summary: I use a Compaq (Armada M700) lap top - it has 5Mb storage, so I recently bought an external hard drive. I just can't get the thing to install - very f...
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