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• Portege R830 - external HARD disk error - "target not found device.

  Hi all

  I recently bought a 1HD R830 which has windows 7 as its OS.
  I have a few old external hard disks that were formatted on windows vista.

  When I try to use it on my new computer it says "target not found device.
  I called support for the external hardrive, who said this is an incompatibility problem and that I would need to re format external hard drives (and therefore lose all about them unless I copied them on a compatible hard drive).
  Is this true?

  Rather than go through the hassle to copy all data to another hard drive is there a way to make my new computer compatible with the external hard drive?

  Your help is very appreciated.

  See you soon,.

  Jason

  I have an old drive external HARD with images recorded on it and I use it for years with WXP, Vista, Win7 and now with Win8 too. There is no problem at all so I put t understand what could be wrong with your HARD drive.

  Do you have similar problems with other external devices connected to your laptop Portege?

• New hard drive appeared in 'My Computer' but cannot access

  A few days ago, I discovered a "new" drive appears in my computer. He pointed to (e), but Windows can't read at all. If I click on it, a message saying "you must format the disk in E: drive until you can use it. You want to format? »

  So, when I click on cancel, do not format, the message says "E:\ is not accessible. The volume does not contain a recognized file system... "etc.

  If I right click on the drive properties and view, Windows reports the drive as having a capacity of 0 bytes.

  I think that there is a partition that was previously hidden and has of recovering files or bios, put there by the manufacturer of the computer.

  I would get hidden once again, because not only it is an annoyance, but his presence changed all designations of drive letter of my external devices (i.e., a flash used to be "G:" drive is now "H:" and etc. for other devices). It is a problem for programs looking for specific readers and shortcuts.

  As a note, I have MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition, for the management of the partitions. But for some reason, the option to hide this particular drive is "grayed out" and not selectable. But at least the program is able to tell me that the drive is primary and that it has met its capacity of 15.69 MB.

  Is there a way I can hide it again and restore my drive letter designations already?

  My computer is a netbook Asus eee pc 1005HA. Thanks in advance for any help!

  CrimsonRaccoon,

  Select "letter of change of road and railways.

  You will find now 3 buttons: Add, modify, delete.

  It is to remove it, I want to talk.

  :)

  Carlos

• Two cables USB to s external HARD disk.

  There are two USB cables to s external HARD disk, what is the porpose of this while the cable with the largest cord can transfer data?
  Does this affect the speed of transfer rate?

  It is similar to this? http://www.toshibadirect.com/TD/B2C/Adet.to?poid=438342

  Quoted by top link explaining the purpose:

  «The USB cable to provide the extra power that you need for your external hard drive or other USB device when a standard USB cable is not able to transfer enough energy to operate your camera.» Simply plug in your USB device mini-B cable and both ends of the USB A open USB ports on your PC or Mac. The cable is powered from two USB ports and increases the output to the external hard drive or USB key. »

• Drive light external HARD disk Warrior exploded

  I use DiskWarrior do a reconstruction of the hard drive to save the files, if possible. Hard drive does not appear on the desktop, which had been seen as a USB device on system information. During the reconstruction, the Seagate external HARD disk light exploded and is no longer visible to the Profiler system as a USB device. Should I cancel the reconstruction? Should I try disk referee to 'stabilize' the disc and run Disk Warrior?

  Can you describe the real problem which caused you to run DiskWarrior "to save the files?  Who can provide a clue about your current situation.

  If DiskWarrior' forever,' you have to cancel rebuild it later.  How long it has beed running?  It may take time, if repairs are done by DiskWarrior.

  DiskWarrior works repairing data directory player (which defines where the files are stored).  There are other types of utilities who hunt the disc for actual data.  For example

  https://www.prosofteng.com/data-rescue-recovery-software/

• Re: Win XP does not recognize the art Store 1TeraByte external HARD disk

  my xp does not recognize the art Store 1TeraByte external HARD disk.
  In the past he woked fine.

  I tried to connect it to another computer with XP and it works very well.

  If I understand well there is no driver to download for this disc. It is plug ' don't play.

  There is no massage.
  other devices that I connect to USB also works very well,

  Thanks for your help.
  Eitan.

  Hello.

  You tired to update the chipset drivers?

  http://EU.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/innovation/download_drivers_bios.jsp

• on plug in Buffalo 500 GB external hard drive technology DriveStation HD-CDU2 device it shows no device plugged in what I do

  Original title: Buffalo Technology 500 GB drive external hard DriveStation HD-CDU2

  I installed it for my music files that are on the windows media player. the connection of the device, it shows no device plugged in what I do

  Hello

  1 how long have you been faced with this problem?
  2 have you made changes on the computer before this problem?
  3. are you able to use USB devices?

  The following articles may be useful:
  Advanced troubleshooting tips for General USB for Windows XP problems
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/310575
  A computer that is running Windows XP cannot detect a USB, an Apple iPod flash drive or an external hard disk drive
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/925196

• 250 GB external HARD disk drivers for Windows 98 SE

  Hello

  Is it possible to download the drivers for windows 98 SE? the external HARD disk works fine on Windows XP Pro SP2, but windows 98 did not have the drivers for it.

  A Direct download link would be appreciated.

  Have you had special XP drivers for this unit or just plug into the USB port?
  I put t know if it will help but check this site:
  http://EU.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/download_drivers_bios.jsp?service=EU

  Here, please select Options for drive external HARD drive external HARD - Win98

  Also check this:
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/258773/en-us/

• How to change the letter on the external HARD disk

  My drive external hard was originally on drive F, and with that, I got all my music iTunes also. However, for some reason, my computer stopped recognizing the F drive; the following message appears when you try to open this drive:

  "The drive or network connection that designates the shortcut 'F Drive.ink' is not available. Make sure that the disk is properly inserted or the network resource is available and then try again. »

  The problem I have now is that the external hard drive is now the G disk and iTunes does not recognize the path (G:\iTunes), I say to use, for example, my music is not loading properly and that a fraction is playable.

  Can someone help me with this?

  Hello

  I would recommend to change the external drive (g) to F letter.
  Do you know how to do this?

  After the external HARD disk is connected, you need to access the disk management and you will see the HARD drive (unique partitions) and other readers.
  Then you must mark the external HARD disk and should change the letter F.

  Perhaps the letter F was reserved for another drive.
  In this case, you need to unlock the letter F by assigning another letter to the reader that uses the letter F.

  For more details, please consult the Microsoft Knowledgebase document;

  [How to change drive letter assignments in Windows XP | http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307844]

• OS can not find Gigastore external HARD disk.

  Hello
  I have a problem with my new Gigastore external HARD drive.
  I have a windows 2000 and the operating system can not find the Gigastore external HARD disk.
  One of the systemrequires is that it is compatible with Windows 2000.

  Thank you for your help.

  Sincerely
  Luis

  You don't give much info.
  I would first go in "Device Manager" and check that there is not a question mark with "unknown device" beside him. If this is the case, highlight it and delete it, unplug your HARD drive and restart your computer. Check the Device Manager again, you will need to repeat the process without the connected HARD drive. Then follow the instructions of the manufacturer install the driver. In some cases, you will need to plug it in the first place, in others, first install the driver. The order is important.

• How can I backup iphone external HARD disk?

  How can I backup iphone of my windows 10 external HARD disk?

  Is not possible. An iPhone can only be saved by using iTunes or iCloud.

• Photos can work using just an external HARD disk and leave my only intern?

  Hello

  I am using v1.5 Photos. On my Macbook HARD internal disk fills up very quickly. Fortunately, I have a nice external 1 TB drive and I would like to:

  (1) move all my photos on the external drive and direct Photos program so search the folder on the external HARD drive to find all photos.

  (2) when I import pictures from my camera in the future, that the Mac them automatically in the folder of photos on the external HARD disk and not keep fill the space limited on my Mac small disk internal.

  Is this possible? I remember that I was able to do it with iTunes years when I used a Powermac with 4 x internal HDD of various sizes. iTunes has been able to see the music on each disk files and present them to me as a single list of iTunes.

  I'm not interested in using iCloud at all, I have everything on HARD drive and memory sticks and I am satisfied that, as it provides all the storage I need and I only use a computer for my work.

  Thanks a lot for your help.

  Yes, it is possible to keep the pictures library on an external drive. Make sure that the unit is running at the launch of photos from your Mac.

  See this discussion for detailed instructions of another user.

  How can I move Photos on external hard drive?

• Is it possible to install Windows 7 on external HARD disk

  That is the problem.

  A friend with a Toshiba laptop (do not know the model right, but probably with win7 - 6 month old machine) has a problem with the internal hard drive.
  He crashed and his does not work.

  It has the toshiba recovery CD and an external hard drive.
  Is it possible for him to install win 7 on the external hard drive?

  (the easy medium woyld be buying a new in-house but for the next 2 months because of his work that it is impossible).

  Hello

  I don t think that it would be possible to install the Windows 7 external HARD disk.
  You should replace the internal HARD disk and should put the new HARD drive in the laptop.
  Then you should be able to install Windows 7 on the new HARD disc.

  Good luck

• Files missing after moving iMovie events from local disk to external HARD disk. Are they lost?

  Hi all

  Tonight, I tried to clear up little space on my local HARD drive and wanted to spend my events/projects of the iMovie local library to an external HARD disk, which I connected via firewire 800.

  I opened iMovie (v10.1 - current version with all updates installed). I clicked on an event to highlight and then the FILE--> COPY OF LIBRARY of selected EVENTS.

  There, I sailed on the external drive and created an iMovie new library called ReWatch2015. I copied successfully eight different events, including files from my external hard drive.

  The ultimate goal is to get rid of them on the HARD drive internal, I highlighted the 20 remaining events I wanted to move and then used the FILE--> MOVE of EVENTS at the LIBRARY and specified ReGen_2015.

  It seemed at first glance to move. In fact, he seemed to move too darn fast in my opinion. When I looked at home in the library of the external drive, they were nothing more than a string of question marks, with a message telling me that particular item is not found and re-import the original clips. It's impossible because I have not kept the original source material on my internal drive. I had asked before if they are preserved in the library of iMovie and told me Yes, so I that's why I deleted the original source material.

  Don't see no activity on the disks, I did the cmd - Z to go back. Events have now shown upward into the iMovie library internal. HOWEVER, they still have the question mark, with msg on reimport. What is scary, is that if I go to ALL projects of them have visible thumbnails. Yet, when I click on any of these thumbnails to load the project into the editor, I am back to the page of question mark again.

  Are the file on drive HARD internal, and they just disassociated projects, or two-thirds of my library of events of 2015 are now toast? I was not under any type of backup Time Machine to be able to recover them, and frankly, if they left, it is not the end of the world since I was of the .mp4 displayed on Vimeo. But, I would just assume the iMovie library intact if possible.

  Suggestions on how to recover are greatly appreciated!

  Robert

  Hi Robert

  Am having exactly the same problem on a new iMac 2016 running El Capitan: when I want to MOVE events such as you describe it, they sometimes get lost in the original library, both in the target library. Like you, I noticed that a such attempt to move just a very short time even if several GB of data play a role. Sometimes however, iMovie is able to move successfully. I my case, I had to re - import events so lost since an additional backup, I got on another external drive that I couldn't find the clips 'lost' on the HARD drive more. Very scary!

  I think it's an iMovie/El Capitan question which could be corrected with future updates. The only solution I've found is to the events of the FIRST COPY, and then check if the target is really OK and only then select the MOVE option, which will remove the original library to free up space. In addition, I plan to copy on a regular basis my library full iMovie on an extra disk to backup using the finder.

  Did you find anything in the meantime?

  Morgy

• Cannot delete the backup files to external HARD disk

  I tried to remove most of the backup sets on an external HARD drive, but always free poster of 465 GB file Explorer only 213 GB.  I chose the drive in "Disk Clean-up, but which showed no files to delete.  I had a virus on the disk scan to see what files have been on this subject, and so there are hundreds of thousands of them, starting by ' $RECYCLE. BIN... ".  Anyone know how to remove these?  Operating system is Windows Vista SP2.

  Hi John

  Some of the files that you see (as the trash) are system files and do not need to be deleted.

  Before taking other measures, what volume of personal files is on the external hard drive? Did you direct copies of music/photos etc.? -"Free 465 GB only 213 GB" is not quantify how many do you think should be free!

  Also - what the drive and were records of backup performed using embedded software of the player?

  The best solution here is perhaps simply reformat the drive (after making sure that you have an exact replica of all personal files on your pc that you can then copy to it) but give us a little more detail the first.

  Thank you - R