Cannot see/access files on the external hard drive in Windows XP

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• Unable to see the new files from the external hard drive in Windows Media Player library

  Original title: music is dead

  Windows media player does not recognize my external hard drive on all my computers windows 7, but works fine on my xp. has taken the laptop shop they led produced songs media player then reinstalled them, and it worked. but when I added more songs on the ext. harddrive and tried to play on windows media player 7 it does not find new! can't afford to take to the store whenever I have download music and want to play on my Media Player 7. is it auto recognition? When I plug the ext. harddrive inside automatically so reads the news on it?

  It has been fixed thought

  I had posted a question on my Ext. harddrive, my windows xp Media Player recognizes new music I have add out of it, but all my computers which are used to windows 7. then I myself especially when I add the new music on the hard drive for media playyer on xp I have spend the toolbar and click on file, then click Add to library computer search and it adds to the media player library. but windows 7 does not have this option. I noticed if you click file, and then manage libraries, and then the music lets me add my Ext. harddrive (e drive) to the library list. on a computer it support of new music and videos found on the hard drive, on two computers it just music, so I downloaded a song and a video on the hard drive, plugged into the computer and media player says that it has been updated of library, and yet there they never found the new files. Why have they changed? XP was so easy. new is not always better!

  Hi Bob,

  According the description preceding, Windows Media Player is not picking new music on the external hard drive.

  I suggest you to perform the following troubleshooters.

  Open the troubleshooting Windows Media Player settings Troubleshooter

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-in/Windows7/open-the-Windows-Media-Player-settings-Troubleshooter

  Open the troubleshooter in the Windows Media Player library
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/open-the-Windows-Media-Player-library-Troubleshooter

  Post us the results once you try the steps above.

• How can I access files on my external hard drive with windows 7 OS, when I attach it to a computer with windows vista?

  When I try to change the permissions, I get an error message: error security application. An error has occurred applying security infromation to root: root, \boot: \bootmgr, root: \System Volume Information access is denied.

  When I open windows Explorer, it shows only startup records and not the user records. All suggestions will be useful. Thank you

  Hi, MBRC,

  1. Where are you trying to change the permissions?

  I suggest that you first take ownership of the drive once you connect to the computer and check if it works.

  To take ownership of a folder

  (a) right click on the folder you want to take control and then click Properties.

  (b) click on the Security tab, click Advanced, and then click the owner tab.

  (c) click on Edit. If you are prompted for an administrator password or a confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

  (d) click on the name of the person you want to give to the property.

  (e) If you want that person to be the owner of the files and subfolders in this folder, select the check box Replace owner subcontainers and objects .

  (f) click OK.

  Troubleshoot "access denied" when opening files or folders

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/troubleshoot-access-denied-when-opening-files-or-folders

  If the previous step fails, see if access you files and folders when you connect the drive to any other computer.

  I hope this helps!

  Halima S - Microsoft technical support.

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• I want to transfer my files to my external hard drive free windows click on my mac, it recognizes the drive but I can't nothing or see the files. Any help is appreciated

  I need to transfer my files to my external hard drive free windows click on my mac.  I can see the drive but cannot do anything or transfer.  any help is appreciated.

  The drive does not appear in the Finder?  Do you get an icon for it on your desktop?

  You say that it recognizes the drive, how exactly, what is the point?

  What happens when you try to use it?

  How the drive is formatted?  Is it encrypted?

• I can't find my external hard drive under 'Computer' but it appears in "Devices and printers" How can I access files on my external hard drive?

  I can't find my external hard drive in "computer".

  I just bougth a new HP computer running Windows 7.  I just copied a bunch of movie files, music and photo of my old Mac (OSX Leopard) on a Western Digital external hard drive.

  I plugged the external drive in my HP via USB 2.0 on the front of the computer.  Windows recognizes the drive.  She appears in the Panel of external control/hardware and Sound/devices and printers as "HARD disk".

  It does not appear in 'Computer' under 'devices with removable storage ".

  I just want to get to my files so I can copy them to my new computer.  How to access my files on the external hard drive?  Why isn't he appear in 'computer '?

  Hello ShamedMonkey,

  Thank you for your message.  The problem you are having is because of differences in formatting between PC and Mac.  You can, however, transfer your files between the two.  I will set out what must be done under and limitations of each.
  First, you will need to format the drive on your PC.  When you format the PC, you can format it in FAT32 or NTFS.
  (You mentioned that you do not see the drive in the computer) To format drive:
  Click 'Start' > right click on 'Computer' > select 'manage '.
  Click on "disk management".
  In the right pane, you should see your drive > you can then do a right click and 'format '.
  FAT32:
  This format will allow you to easily transfer files between the two.  This format becomes problematic when you transfer files more than 4 G.  There is a limit of 4 GB in FAT32, etc. of many movies are bigger than that and cannot be transferred using this format.
  NTFS
  This format has no size limitation, however, in its normal state it will be 'Read only' on Mac.  If you will not be able to transfer all the data itself.  While doing some research on the web, it seems that you can use a program called MacFuse on your Mac to change to NTFS files.  I have not confirmed this, but you can give it a try.  If this program works as planned, it would be the way to go.
  Please let us know if it did or did not solve your problem.
  See you soon

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• I spilled coffee on my Macbook Air and does not illuminate.  How to transfer files from the external hard drive to backup my new Macbook Air?

  I spilled coffee on my Macbook Air and does not illuminate.  How to transfer files from the external hard drive to backup my new Macbook Air?

  If you had a Time Machine backup, you can use the Migration Wizard and connect your new Mac on the external drive which has the Time Machine backup: move your content to a new Mac - Apple Support

• How can I restore my backup files on an external hard drive using Windows XP SP3?

  I back up my files to an external hard drive using windows XP sp2. My pc crashed and re installed with Windows XP sp3. Now I can't find the backup on the system tools utility. How can I restore my backup files. Help, please.

  Hi PML.

  Yes, I used the built in «Back to the top of the tool» Unfortunately I don't have the CD. My Netbook is a HP mini computer that comes with Windows XP home. Thank you for your help and I hope to hear from you again.

  How do you reinstall Windows?  If you have used the HP Recovery system to recover from a hidden partition, backup should have been reinstalled.

  I suggest you call HP support.

• Cannot access files/folders in external hard drive after installing Windows 7

  Original title: device Seagate Ext Drive

  I have insalloed windows 7 and can, t get disc to open my files of suggestions please. Windows 7 did not installed new

  pilot. icon just no way to access my saved files.

  What about Clyde UK

  Hi Clyde,

  1. do you get an error message/code?

  2. What is the model number of the external drive?

  3. What is the brand and model of the computer?

  In order to diagnose the problem, you can check if Device Manager disk external drive is listed:

  a. type devmgmt.msc in the start menu, run the box, then press enter on the keyboard.

  b. in Device Manager, check if the hard drive is listed in the list of devices.

  Method 1:

  I suggest you to connect the hard drive to a different USB port or connect the external hard drive to another computer and check if the problem persists.

  Method 2:

  Check out the link and follow the steps in the article:

  What to do when a device is not installed correctly

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-in/Windows7/what-to-do-when-a-device-isn ' t-installed-correctly

  Hope this solves the problem. If the problem persists, you can write to us and we will be happy to help you further.

• If Adobe has disabled the ability to use Lightroom 5.7 to see the images in the external hard drive, how one judge the images in the file on the external hard drive without bringing back them to the Lightroom library?

  JPEG images being dragged over to Photoshop are veiwable as thumbnails on the external hard drive.  However back to the DNG RAW images are not visible.  Anyway is to visualize images of type external hard disk?  It would be nice to get a glimpse of what you make in Lightroom simply looking on the external hard drive you can with JPEG files.

  The library, just click on the import button and navigate to your folder on the EHD. Choose the folder and click Add at the top of the dialog box. You should see thumbnail previews in the import dialog box where you can select what to import.

• reloading the files of the external hard drive to the new computer laptop

  I'm trying to reloaded files etc. from an external hard drive to my laptop. I took the files of my old office that was on is way out, so just in case I lost them all I copied them. I tried setting up my external hard drive and transfer just a couple of files just to see if it would work. I sent them to my desktop from my laptop and they also went to my documents, but once the hard drive is disconnected files will not open. I do not know what I'm dong wrong as I am not very computor spirit, so that the answers would be useful in silly English thank you. Sorry to be so long-winded.

  Sheila

  Hello @shedeval

  I understand that you have copied your files on an external drive from your old computer.

  You tried to copy the files to the new computer, but when you disconnect the external hard drive the files are no longer accessible.

  I think that you have created or copied a shortcut to the new computer and not the actual files.  When you're logged out outside the new computer had more disk access to open files.

  I would like to redo the copy and when you finished externally, log out and then try again.

  Good luck!

• Error code 80070570 0 x to copy the files from the external hard drive for pc under win 7

  I'm trying to copy files from my external hard drive to my pc.  I'm running Windows 7 on my dell Studio and get the error code 0 x 80070570 on several files. Says they are corrupt.  How can I solve this problem?

  Click Start > computer

  Right-click on the external hard drive

  Click Properties > tools

  Click check now to check your hard disk for errors.

  After it is finished, restart the system and try to copy the files again.

  Releasing it's easy: with Windows | ActiveWin | Laptops | Microsoft MVP

• Cannot delete files from the external hard drive after copying using Robocopy

  Original title:! VERY DIFFICULT QUESTION! Files that cannot be deleted!

  I did a robocopy and he left during the night and when I came back it was in some kind of loop and my external hard drive was full. The files are not visible in Explorer and if I try to delete them in the command line that fails because some are too long. Urgent I need to redo the space on this external and copy the files to my parents and charity before fly me soon. Please can someone help me.

  * Looks like that I have multiple instances of the same files

  I don't know if you will be able to do this before your flight, but the drive must be partitioned and formatted, reformatted, or scanned for errors of NTFS file allocation table with repairs enabled. Depending on the size of the disk, this could take some time. You can also check statistics of SMARTDRIVE with a utility like Crystal Info disc to see if it is a failure.

  If you do not drive Professional recovery tools available, the native CHKDSK will do in a pinch.

  C:\Windows\System32>chkdsk /?
  Checks a disk and displays a status report.

  [CHKDSK [volume [[path] filename]]] [/ f] [/ v] [/ r] [/ x] [/ I] [/ c] [/ l [: size]] [/ b]

  volume Specifies the drive letter (followed by a colon),
  mount point or volume name.
  filename FAT/FAT32 only: Specifies the files to check for fragmentation.
  /F fixes errors on the disk.
  /V FAT/FAT32: displays the full path and the name of each file
  on the disk.
  On NTFS: Displays the eventual cleanup messages.
  /R Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information
  (implies / f).
  L:size NTFS only: changes the size of the logfile to the specified number
  of kilobytes.  If the size is not specified, displays currently
  size.
  /X force the volume to unmount it first if necessary.
  All open handles to the volume would then be invalid
  (implies / f).
  /I NTFS only: performs a less vigorous check of index entries.
  /C NTFS only: skips, checking of cycles within the folder
  structure.
  /B NTFS only: Re-evaluates bad clusters on the volume
  (implies / r)

  The /I or /C switch reduces the amount of time required to run Chkdsk by
  skip certain checks of the volume.

  Any routine review and car repair will take time. CHKDSK is no exception.

• I have a problem with access to files on the external hard drive.

  Original title: property: no access to files on external hard drive

  Owner: I reinstalled my computer and was not the owner of my external hard drive more although settings say everyone could read and write. I took while at the same time to ensure that no one else could take ownership, windows did it the wrong way autour. How can I regain access to my files?

  Does anyone know the use of these property rights? Because I had to take possession, while the apparent of it use me was non-existent.

  You must enter the property of your records - see here:
  http://social.answers.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/w7network/thread/24bdf172-2DBC-43b8-995d-a99b6a81413c/
  Deny access to files is a bad idea because it often has unexpected side effects. Is better only to include you in the "Green" list

• Why I can't see my files on my external hard drive on my Mac?

  I got my mac less than a year.

  I have an external hard drive (external hard drive, Silicon Power A80 - 2 to Armor) and I use it on my MacBook Pro and my PC.

  Today I just plugged into my mac, and suddenly I saw this error. Should I really reformat because I have so many files it.

  Please help me fix.

  Thank you.

  MacBook Pro (retina, 15 inch, mid-2014), OS X EL Capitan, Beta Version 10.11.

  When you reformat you will delete also, that OK with you, or you want to keep the files stored there.

• Moving files to PC files to the files of the external hard drive from Lightroom.

  I have files duplicated in my external hard drive and my computer.  My computer becomes too full, so I want to delete the duplicates it.  The problem is that I have more pictures in the folder of the computer in the backup folder.  Is there a way for Lightroom copy or move simply no redundant pictures from my computer to my backup hard drive?  I tried select all and moving them, but got an error that they already exist in the backup folder.  I don't want to have to try and look at all the photos in both files to understand those who are redundant.  Help!

  The photo to another drive backup can be done via your operating system (copy and paste), but this is a unique single backup; or better still by some third-party utilities that perform automatic and regular backups.

  You must also make backups of your catalog file that can be done in Lightroom by activating the backup option in the catalog settings. This will cause Lightroom to make backups of your catalog file at regular intervals that you specify (daily, weekly, etc.) When you exit Lightroom, a catalog backup dialog box will appear and give you the option of where to put the backup catalog file, you must specify that this backcup goes on a different drive than the original catalog file.