Summary: I'm all the way with Othehill. External HDs are great for file storage. You should never use it for work. File sharing is what you should have impl...
Summary: Hi! I'm thinking of buying a Maxtor external HD to use for backups. They have one that comes with backup program and a easy to use interface with "one...
Summary: File Scavenger as mentioned in response 1. Best recovery program I ever used....I tried GetDataBack (NOT GOOD) and a few others. Try Scavengers free t...
Summary: Greetings, I have bought, quite some time ago, an external 500GB storage LaCie drive. It has been working perfectly until its plug was roughly remove...
Summary: I have a 500gb cavalry external HD. I use it to store videos and other bulky files to keep my poor 80gb laptop free. It was working fine last night ...
Summary: I recently purchased a external enclosure (ADS) with a 160gb Western Digital HD. After saving programs and files from my overloaded main HD in my com...
Summary: I was looking into buying an external hard drive because a lot of my classes here at college require them. A bunch of my professors mentioned i could ...
Summary: I have this external HD for about a 1.5 year, and was using on a Sony Vaio with Win XP Home, on October08 I moved to a MacBook Pro with and Mac OS 10....
Summary: Hey fellow techs, I have a USB 2 to IDE adapter and several different drives that I use for backing up various types of data (not attached simultaneo...
Summary: Just for the fun of it, I invoked the Safely Remove Hardware for my external HD without unplugging it afterward. I waited 1 hour. It still hasn't re...
Summary: Hi. anyone here know where to get low level format program for Toshiba hard drive please let me know. my toshiba HD has virus and i want to do a low ...
Summary: I was considering getting an external HD for backup purposes. But I was wondering if it would be a better deal to get a HD enclosure since internal d...
Summary: Hi again, Previously in the previous post, I asked people what to do regarding the power surge issue and external HD. Details of this can be found ...
Summary: Questions about exernal Hds and connections My plan for a secure back-up: 1) - I have run cat-5 underground (while running some other lines) to my ...
Summary: Hi, I have a Western Digital 80.0 GB and is set to Single on an external HD enclosure for my back up. And Is connected to my laptop on the USB 2.0 por...
Summary: son's compaq computer came with a 30 GB HD. Few years back, i added an 80 GB HD. it's full up again! he's 20 and the computer is filled with music and...
Summary: hi, i got an external hd. used to work great, but now when i plug it in nothing happens, not even recognized. the drive box lights up and i can feel...
Summary: Hi, I just got myself a Comstar 40GB External HD (2.0 USB), I did as what the instruction manual told me to do, and I get this message in the wind...
Summary: well it's finally showing up under the disk manager, the problem however, is that it says it's unallocated. It still doesn't show up in my computer so...
Summary: Thanks for the detailed reply, I built the PC myself and have been runing XP for over a year in this base unit with no changes to the hardware with no...
Summary: I dropped my 250 gb wd external hd It started to make clicking sounds and would not load the drivers when i plugged it in. I took of the cover and not...
Summary: I just bought a laptop and an external HD. What i wanted to do was to make the laptop boot up from the external HD so I could not only have Win XP ins...
Summary: Hi guys, I want build an external HD using external enclosure I can't find any good one. I need one that has an Internal SATA interface and prefer les...
Summary: Hi I'm having problem with my external HD making ticking noise. It was working yesterday and when I got home today, I heard ticking noise and it was ...
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