Summary: is it possible to run windows xp from an external hard drive ? Currently I have windows xp installed on the main sata drive and have installed to an e...
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: 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: no i made that on my new pc just in case something went wrong. so once i install this old hd as an external hd i can wipe absolutely everything off it...
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: hello everyone, i am purchasing an exteranl hard drive as backup storage. found Lacie firewire external hard drive comes with 2 firewire ports. my qu...
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: 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: Hi, I just cloned my windows installation to an external harddrive using HD-clone pro, Now, i want to boot my windows on the extern, but i can't seem ...
Summary: Do yourself a b-i-g favor and disable Windows update. Backup using something like Ghost or even just simply copy important records to an external HD. ...
Summary: Which version of Linux are you going to install? Most popular ones will install to an external usb drive. But it will create grub or lilo. So mbr wil...
Summary: mmm... This doth sound a little phishy... The following saga may suggest a reason as to what/why..? Recently we had a laptop that worked OK; was power...
Summary: Thanks guys, I looked at all you suggested. Still couldn't find out why. So I did the following: I copied a couple of the backups to an external HD an...
Summary: And no...XP will NOT COPY its own operating system to a CD. This is true. Not too long ago, I tried to copy everything including the OS to an externa...
Summary: I have three partitions on 1 160GB S-ATA drive. On the the last partiton (logical) it takes too long opening a folder with many files. When I change ...
Summary: I backed it up to an external HD then formatted and rebuilt the HD that the backup was taken from. The original backup file is still avilable on the e...
Summary: Hey guys, had a rather stressful day... hopefully someone out there can help... Here goes, my laptop started up totally fine this morning, I then turn...
Summary: Hey everyone! I have recently been getting this message that my C: is out of disk space. I know my HD is only 4.5 gigs but the only things I have on t...
Summary: Unfortunately, the computer will not power on. The hard drive spins at first but it stops and the screen is black. I talked to a company that fixes co...
Summary: Getting additional information from you is like pulling teeth. First off I don't think that program will even run when installed to an external driv...
Summary: I pulled the ram and switched the modules around and it loaded up with a display, however when i attempted to copy some files to an external hd it loc...
Summary: I believe that this probably was caused by a Windows update gone awry. Also, I have been extremely hesitant to use the F10 option in my Vaio because ...
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...
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