Summary: Hi I have a 500gb external hard drive ... i have a spare 100gb & i want to use around 30gb to partition in Fat32 in order to back up my PS3. I have tr...
Summary: I have an external hd that is shared. However, if the drive is unpluged and i restart my computer, the drive is no longer shared. My question is...how...
Summary: booting to the drive is not the issue. for the full story, I have a chance to be a beta tester for Micro$oft. I refuse to muck around with my main s...
Summary: When trying to install/format my external HD.. no partition had shown up on Disk Management.. so there was no way for me to format or assign a letter....
Summary: 2y/o Dell can only boot to safe mode, turned off system restore a long time ago. Need to have important files (about 20GB worth of movies, pics and M...
Summary: Hello I have an external HD case (USB 2.0/Firewire combo) and I cant see it in the windows explorer ... There is nothing wrong with the hard drive, I ...
Summary: when I started my old computer and got to the desktop, most of my icons were missing. Those that were there(Documents, my Computer, My network, recycl...
Summary: I have set the power option to power off the HD after 30 minutes of inactivity. Would this include an external HD? I use the external drive for less t...
Summary: I'm running winxp pro on a dated laptop with a 6 gig HD. To supplement the poor HD space I purchased a western digital external usb 80 gig hd. Connect...
Summary: Hi Everybody, Anyone else run into issues where two External Hard Drive's (both same model-make) initially resulted in system crashes apparrently due ...
Summary: Hi all ! Yesterday my 60gig external HD crashed. When running Partition Magic, I had the message :"Partition table is bad". Now, I know it's easy to s...
Summary: I had a WD Mybook 1TB Harddrive, and after about a year, windows couldn't see it anymore. I removed the casing, giving me two 500gb SATA hard drives. ...
Summary: I plan to use the Maxtor OneTouch 80 GB or 120 GB USB external drive to do daily backups. The drive comes with Retrospect Express. I also want to c...
Summary: Thanks guys, In response to first post I can safely say that the laptop [Toshiba Satellite 5100-201] can boot up from an external USB floppy, but I'm ...
Summary: Control Panel, Adnin Tools, Computer Mgmt, Delete the Partition on new drive and then re-create it. Try formating again... Had the same problem with a...
Summary: i have a external hd ,which up till now when i plugged it in it showed up on my computer , i tried making a partition in it with partition magic it fa...
Summary: Sorry if this is a crosspost, but it's not really a novell issue per se , so i got no responses there...anyways... I managed to get the external hard...
Summary: I bought an external usb 1.8" hard drive and need to make one more partition on it. But in Win disk manager i cannot do repartition of this drive. Del...
Summary: The external HD is the only device plugged in. With the 2 resident drives it shouldn't be a lettering issue. They are USB2 ports and the enclosure is...
Summary: i have a HD in an external casing and when i click the icon in the system tray to safely remove it i usually get the message "The device 'Generic volu...
Summary: I have a computer that receives the infamous message "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt C:\windows\system32\con...
Summary: I have an external hard disk (Toshiba labtop HD) some times it looks "lagging" so I tried to delete all files then format Quick format went OK but wh...
Summary: hello everybody, i just bought an external hard disk (20Go) usb 2 connected, and i can t install it on my laptop (hp pavillion). i m under XP. i tried...
Summary: er, no, external drives are the same as an internal one, but u put them in a little box that has the IDE and power connectors, then a USB connection t...
Summary: Is it possible to access my laptops HD and use it as an externalHD with my desktop? I was told I could take it out, get an interface , and then plug ...
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