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• Using a LAPTOP computer and external drives to implement infrastructure ESX4 & vsphere.

  Hi, people.

  Not been not not possible for me to acquire a robust and compatible to get by under ESX 4 Server (physical space at home, so many components niggle and not much more money to spend in), the only way that I would have to set up about 5/6 of the virtual machines in a field of messaging infrastructure running ESX4 in a portable high power (on the quad-core i3 / i5 or i7 processor) at least 6/8 Gb. RAM enough to satisfy my needs and requirements of the virtual computer.

  However, there is another parameter to be considered: external drives for execution of VMFS file systems, because modern systems (Sata, Pata, disks etc. interfaces) are not compatible for loading system; No virtual machine are taken care on them and, in case of, the performance will never good if each of them was running at the same time.

  The previous ideas must do some open and helpful (I'm sure they will) thoughts and advice:

  (1) has (or had) everyone feels with ESX4 in a processor of high power like the kind of I mentioned earlier? What has the vendor/model and material?

  (2) in the case of, how do you solve the question about to running 5 or 6 external drives for disc not computer usb virtual (AFAIK, ESX3 doesn´t support of USB drives)? NAS home (for example, LinkSys NAS200) is not enough to implement my desired purposes?

  (3) in my situation, the need of presentations good getting on ESX 4 and practice to get VCP certified, what has been your best idea in a hardware platform with space for?

  As usual, I'm very nice for your answers and advice.

  Andy.

  What you need to do is really not possible for a laptop - since it is a home network, I would look to get a whitebox - check-vm - Help.com or http://ultimatewhitebox.com/ sites dedicated to helping people like you looking for a box of cost effective to run reliable ESX -.

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• Changes of external drive to the starting letter

  When I turn on my computer the external drive I connected takes the letter J: who is assigned to a network drive.  I can't access the network drive unless I unplug the external and plug it in again.  After that, he must sometimes r: is the drive letter, I assigned with disk management or sometimes it takes k:.  I need to take r: every time.  Also my Helium Music Manager software will not magke modifications in the files on this drive.  These problems do not moved when I was with Windows xp

  Hello

  It is not advisable to keep an external driver connected to the computer during startup. When a computer starts, and it detects an external drive it will assign the next available drive. While the network drive later loads the first available drive letter is assigned to the external drive.

  I suggest you to re - assign the drive letter on the external drive and then check if that helps, follow the link for more information.

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/change-add-or-remove-a-drive-letter

  Hope this information is useful.

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• I have my photos in the F drive an external drive. LR5 records my photos in the partitioned hard drive, D drive in my computer. Why I can't change the dafault in LR5 player?

  I have my photos in the F drive an external drive. LR5 records my photos in the partitioned hard drive, D drive in my computer. Why I can't change the dafault in LR5 player?

  When I 'import' a RAW/DNG file, the file gets automatically saved the item COPIED in my D drive under "My pictures" folder This info is available on the left panel. Instead, I want the file to go in my F drive which is my external hard drive.

  Lightroom help: explains how to import photos to a specific location. Scroll down to section 5, «Say Lightroom where to put your photos» Lightroom help | Import photos from a camera or card reader

• Can't burn music on the internal CD player so how do we change to use only the external driver to burn CDs?

  My CD drive doesn't work, so I bought an external CD drive.  I can rip music from the new drive, but when I want to burn I don't have the option to burn on the internal drive that no longer works.  How can I switch (permanently) to my external CD drive?

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  · What is the number and the model of the external drive that you use?

  · You use windows media player to burn the disc?

  · If so, what is the version of windows media player on the computer?

  You can check the link below: how to copy music to and from an audio CD in Windows XP: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297015/en-us

  How to copy information to a CD in Windows XP: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306524

• Computer stopped see external drive 500 MB Canvio USB3

  Hello

  Had a minor accident with my external device while using a backup program, hurry not clone backup of C: partition on the external drive. I realized after I did it, so canceled the operation after about 1%. Noah the player (E will not appear on this computer or another.) Can I get or what I need to reformat the external hard drive and if so how I reformat? Thank you.

  Stuart

  Check to see if there is the external USB HDD in disk management.

  1. go to Control Panel → computer management
  2. in the left pane, under storage, click Disk Management.
  3. here you will see the different hard disks / partitions.
  4. Select the HDD external USB
  5. right click on the volume that you want to format and then click on format.
  6. to format the volume with the default settings, in the dialog box format, click OK, and then click OK again.
  7. click on finish.

  More information on knowledge of MS site
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/w...disk-partition

• Install Windows 8 on external drive Thunderbolt - Windows could not prepare the computer to begin the next phase of installation

  Hi all

  I'm at my wit's end trying to install windows 8. Let me start at the beginning: I used to have windows running on my Mac Pro ssd internal 8.1, installed via bootcamp. It worked well for a while, and then refused to start, gives me a blue screen KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE. Despite some advice from lonely T, I was unable to fix and ended up wiping the partition and relocation, again via bootcamp. Yet once again, it worked for a few months, then the same problem. I made this one last time, and it only lasted 2 days... So I gave bootcamp.

  I think that the hybrid MBR partition scheme that implements bootcamp is the culprit, but I don't really have evidence to substantiate this claim. In any case, I tried to install windows in EFI mode. (If I understand correctly, the hybrid MBR is set up to allow windows to install in legacy BIOS mode, but that windows 8 may now install efi, which supports my Mac Pro mode.) My Mac is the new Mac Pro (end of 2013, trash in shape), and I can say short UEFI 2.0 (I have the latest efi update from apple installed).

  The method I'm trying:

  1. create a new partition in HFS + on my external drive using disk utility. The drive has now it's efi partition and partition empty 750Go I want to install windows a 1.25 TB storage partition that I use with my mac. It has a GPT. I formatted HFS + and no FAT, because I think that disk utility creates the same hybrid-MBR as training camp every time a FAT partition is created.

  2. use gdisk to confirm that the disc does not have a hybrid-MBR. (sudo/dev/disk1 gdisk watch MBR: protection)

  3 restart my mac and hold the possibility to put in place to bring up the boot efi menu.

  4. Select the EFI_Boot DVD icon (that's the windows 8 install dvd that I have in my superdrive USB drive)

  5. go in the menus of the disk selection screen installation and delete the partition in HFS +, I created to install windows on (the format option is not available)

  6. now select "Unallocated space" on the good drive and click Next.

  The problem:

  Partitioning seems to go ok (there is no feedback on this basis, but it proceeds to the next screen, and all new partitions expected are there if I check diskutil list later). He said it is "copy of windows files", but then stops with the error "Windows has no prepare the computer to start the next phase of the installation." To install Windows, restart the installation. "If I restart, I can start the same process all over again and get the same result.

  The Question:

  How I get this error and get windows install?

  Extra pieces:

  • The first time it happened I assumed it was the new sip / thing "without roots" in El Capitan, causing problems, then I disabled, but I still get the same error.
  • After reviewing the diskutil list output after one of installs it without success, I found that a labeled EFI partition has been created after my storage partition (the original efi partition was still there in the upper part of the disc).
  • I have windows 8.1 installed now bootcamp on my internal ssd. It was planned to use it and winToUSB to put windows on my crush, but I found that it only works with usb2. I do not have installed could cause problems with the installation on another disk.
  • Before say you I can't run windows on an external, yes you can, and many people have. I read windows sees thunderbolt internal disks.
  • I read a few other posts on this and other sites on this problem, but could not find a pertitnant solution to my situation. I found one that suggested to remove the efi on my disk partition, but that seemed like a bad idea, so I didn't try.
  • I write this at 1 in the morning after a day spent in front of the computer trying to get this working, so please excuse typos typing or other. I am pleased to provide you with any pertinant information helping you will help me.
  • Thank you!

  The other thing I tried also almost succeeded:

  Although I prefer to get the method above works, because it seems the most promising, is something else, I've tried that I thought worth mentioning. If you offer advice pertaining to this method rather than the above, I would appreciate it if you could explicitly declare that at the top of your answer. Thank you.
  

  I tried to install windows on the physical disk using vmware and virtual box. The instrutctions I followed for this can be found here: http://www.andrewsavory.com/blog/2011/2156 (the only thing different, it's because it's on an external drive, I created the Fat 32 partition manually using disk utility). The first time (using vmware) installation seems to go off without a hitch, but I couldn't get my computer to see the windows partition as bootable with the boot efi menu hold-option regular refined or with system preferences-> startup disk. I think that I was using always inadvertently a hybrid-MBR at this stage. I tried to repeat this new beginning with the first two steps above to avoid the hybrid-MBR. But now when I try to create the virtual machine based on the gross vmdk, it starts to copy the files then says not sufficient permissions and fails. I don't know if it's a permission with the disk or the hard problem. I tried chmod 777 and chown $USER of the vmdk disk (/ dev/disk1s3) does not.

  Wow, that was a long post...

  1. when a second drive is detected by the Windows Setup program, he wants to create his own brand of EFI (104 MB) and not to mess with the Mac EFI (200 MB). You can force it to use the EFI to the Mac using Diskpart commands.

  2 instead of HFS/FAT32, create a piece of 750 GB free space and it should only get a new MSR/MSD, without the part of EFI.

  3. on your VM method, the link you have is quite old. You have a MP 2013, with references to the 2010 Mac alumni and is a bit too archaic to be useful. http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/install-a-Windows-7-partition-on-Mac-OSX-Wit hout-optical-car-or - usb.1836959 / #post... seems to work for many and can be useful for a test. It also uses Winclone.

  4. you can also try http://bleeptobleep.blogspot.com/2013/02/mac-install-windows-7-or-8-on-external. html .

• Why my XP does not recognize a Toshiba 500 GB USB external drive... it does not appear in disk management or in computer

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