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• Why my external hard drive cannot be mounted or viewd by a Macbook

  Hello

  I can't see my HD exertenal from the finder.

  I do not have G-Tech HD and I use with TimeMachine. This HD has two partitions.

  The first is used for the backup with Time Machine, a macbook air, and the second partition is used to back up a macbook pro with Time Machine.

  It worked fine until I look in the external hard drive (partition macbook). Now, it is not possible to mount the external hard drive. From the Finder, I see no partition eighter the first or the second.

  I plugged it in an another mAcbook air and no way to see inside the external hard drive.

  Howerver, I pluggged in a 14.04 ubuntu and I was able to navigate through the external hard drive

  Why can I see the contents of the external HD with a ubuntu n not with a Macbook?

  And how can I solve this problem?

  See you soon

  Stone

  El Capitan has permissions configuration much tighter than earlier versions of Mac OS X and it can become a problem to open files from a different computer. You need to tell us what OS you are running on all computers.

  I suspect that Ubuntu is having no problem because it does not under the same restraint of permissions.

  It worked fine until I look in the external hard drive (partition macbook).

  What you have done here, caused the change of permissions.

  Don't forget that connect a player directly on a computer and use it plugged into an airport will have different permissions issues.

  I don't have much in the way of a solution. Apple has changed repair them permissions on El Capitan.

  You have a Mac running an earlier version of Mac OS X?

  If your two partitions are used just to make the Time Machine backups...

• Moved files on external hard drive cannot find my changes in lightroom

  I use Lightroom 4 on a Mac.
  I moved recently all my photos on an external hard drive, and nothing I've read yet could help move my images edited in Lightroom.

  In lightroom, beside the heading folder I clicked on the + and added my external drive - it shows it's Green and alive.

  All the pictures I had initially recorded on my Mac hard drive are now showing on external drive - good.

  In lightroom, the subfolders in my Mac hard drive are now show with question marks that files are missing - who they are, because they are now on my external hard drive.

  What is my problem, all the editing I did on these photos in lightroom before is now gone. How do the editing work I had done on these photos to appear on the external hard disk images? If I look at my pictures on the hard drive of the Mac, they show they have faded and disappeared, but it shows all my changes again on the photos. External hard disk, it shows the original version of the image with no changes made.

  Note: I backed up my computer before moved me all my photos, so if I need to put them on hard drive on my mac, I am able to do.

  Update

  I have solved my problem. If someone comes across the question I was trying hard, I suggest to try move the files from WITHIN lightroom.

  Initially, I had used my OS to move my files to image on an external hard drive, by simply drag and drop. Lightroom was not able to keep the editing I did on these pictures after that that they were moved. I restored a backup on my Mac and place the files in their original location. Then within the lightroom program, I was able to move the folders from photo (with modifications) on my external hard drive.

  Julieanne Kost had a useful video http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adobe-evangelists-julieanne-kost/questions-about-lightroom-and-p hoto-management /

• Do I need a specific external hard drive to back up an iMac or I can use?

  I learn by an advisor to apple support I need to update the software on my mac. Before doing that I have to back up using an external hard drive. Can I use any external hard drive or do I need a specific which is compatible.

  You can use the time Capsule's internal drive or one regular, but will probably have to reformat a disk that is not specifically intended for Macs. Except otherwise stated, Time Machine and other products that require that the backup drive be formatted as Mac OS extended will not be able to go back to a dedicated NAS.

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• Samsung external hard drive appears... The lights are flashing

  Suddenly my Samsung external hard drive will appear in my Windows Explorer or disk management, the lights flash, but it does not seem to connect to my laptop, have tried on 3 other machines and still does not. Anyone have a similar experience?

  Perhaps just what the usb cable?

  Hello Fregal

  Thanks for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

  As you said there are problems connecting external hard drive to the computer.

  I would like to know some information about this problem to help you better.

  (1) have you made changes in the computer or hard drive recently?

  (2) the hard drive didn't work on any of the three machines?

  (3) what is the model number of the hard drive?

  In the meantime, please try to follow the following suggestions to solve the problem.

  If you have another USB cable for the hard drive then try to check the matter with different cable.

  If this doesn't help then try to follow the link below to run the fixit and see if that helps.

  http://support.Microsoft.com/mats/hardware_device_problems

  I hope this works. Otherwise, feel free to write us again and we will be happy to help you come.

  Thank you

• CR.2 files from external hard drive won't open.  Said «you are not allowed to open the doc...» "But I can open the .psd of the same post HD files.

  I connected an external hard drive that I used with my iMac in my new Macbook Pro.  Many of these images cr.2 will be not open.  I see the icon rather than the tile.  The message that appears indicates «you are not allowed to open the document...» CR2. "All of my .psd seem to be visible.  What should I do?  Thank you.

  It seems that there is a problem with the files on the external hard drive, even the mac os is not able to copy the files from the external hard drive.

• MY c DRIVE is nearly full. Can I use my external hard drive because it has a lot of space

  My ' it shows only 123 MB available disc. I have a 500 GB external hard drive, but am not sure how to use it to free up space on my drive "C".

  Any help would be much appreciated.
  Roy Warner

  Hi Roy,

  Thanks for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

  The description of the problem you have provided, I understand that your C drive is full and trying to move some information on external hard drive.

  I will certainly help you in this matter.

  If you have data files in the C drive, you can go ahead and move them to the external hard drive. You will not be able to move the files to the program on the external hard drive.

  In order to get the free space in C drive, you can go ahead and uninstall the software bit that you use it often.

  See the link.

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-in/Windows-Vista/uninstall-or-change-a-program

  You can also delete files using disk cleanup, which would reduce the number of unnecessary files on your hard disk to free up disk space.

  See the link.

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-in/Windows-Vista/delete-files-using-disk-cleanup

  If you face problems more when working with Windows Mail on the Microsoft Community Forum.

• Cannot select several folders & files on external hard drive

  Hello
  On my main hard drive to C: and my DVD, I am able to select several files and folders by practice
  SHIFT + left-click. Hovever, on my external hard drive, that it does not work - everything that happens that the next thing that I shift + left click is selected and that the previous is deselected.

  I use Win7 Home Premium (64-bit). My external hard drive is a Freecom 500 GB (there are no exact model No.) USB in NTFS format

  Thank you
  Jetta

  All the answers and suggestions are provided by an enthusiastic amateur and are therefore no explicit or implicit guarantee. Basically, you use my suggestions at your own risk.

  Hi Jetta48,

  This can happen if the external drive is affected with virus\malware. An analysis online for the same thing. Follow the link given below for removal of virus\malware tools.

  http://social.answers.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/vistasecurity/thread/ba80504b-61f1-4D71-960f-b561798b7b42

  Follow the link below for more information on the selection of multiple files.

  Select multiple files or folders

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/select-multiple-files-or-folders

  You can also check what is happening with a new user account.

  To create a user account

  1. To open user accounts, click the Start button, select Control Panel, click user accounts and family safety, and then click user accounts.
  2. Click Manage another account. If you are prompted for an administrator password or a confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
  3. Click create a new account.
  4. Type the name that you want to assign to the user account, click an account type, and then click create an account.

  If the new user account works fine then the old account has been corrupted, you can follow the link given below to fix the corrupted user profile.

  Difficulty of a corrupted user profile

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/fix-a-corrupted-user-profile

  Hope this information is useful.

  Amrita M

  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer

  Visit our Microsoft answers feedback Forum and let us know what you think.

• I broke my external hard drive and now it locked and disassembled?

  I just have a lot of questions here. After trying many things I found in a deeper hole.

  I use an external hard drive, it's a Seagate Backup Plus 1 TB external hard drive. It is formatted and partitioned, I did using the steps for me the Web of Seagate site, when I got it.

  I entered the hole, I'm right now because I had backup problems near the top of my photos of Lyve on my external drive. I think the reason why they would not return, it was because my drive was in offline mode in the "Status" section in Lyve, despite the fact that disk utility says the status of the disk is online. I researched and found out that this can happen if a.) the storage is full or b.) the wifi connection is bad or a connection is not available. When I opened my Seagate dashboard, I discovered that my drive was full, so I thought that was the reason. This made no sense to me because there was no way that I had somehow already packed 1 TB, I had saved only once and it is brand new. However, I deleted a ton of pictures I put in 'Lyve Import' and then allowed the trash. (I must have accidentally imported them several times, so the photos doubled several times or something because altogether they are 50 GB, 1 TB not...) That seemed to be the source because then my drive had 938 GB free!... But my drive was always in offline mode.

  So I refreshed, rebooted, unplugged and replugged, returned Wi - Fi works for Seagate Lyve and my computer. But my drive was still offline even though disk utility always says that it is online.

  Now, I'm still trying to find out why, it's that my drive has been appearing offline in Lyve when I used different Wi - Fi connections in different places and they all worked well, and I have lots of storage. One of the reasons is that the partition on my drive has still pictures of Lyve copied import, I had deleted, because there is almost no storage on this score somehow, I suspect. As you can see in the second photo, the score says he has only 16 MB of available space, and I somehow used GB 999. If it is the same as before, I don't know how to access this partition, and then delete them. It is a copy of all of these photos of Lyve Import? However...

  NOW, currently the main problem that prevents me from continuing to investigate on the previous question is: I had encrypted my external hard drive some time ago. After having annoyed having to enter a password long so many times because of the reopening and that to solve the problem 'offline', I've deciphered this hard drive clicking in the Finder by clicking Decrypt. I entered the password to do this, and have decrypted AFAIK because the password has been accepted. But now my drive says that it is locked and disassembled? What? It is shaded in the left sidebar of disk utility. It does not appear as a device plugged into the Finder. It's as if he is not yet here, but I can still access Lyve. From what I understand, my disc encryption would protect its ' content with a password. Decryption, it would mean that I wouldn't have to type a password to access? Seriously worried that I screwed to the top of something because I did not understand what the consequences would be here. In addition, why my player not appear when the score indicates the status of the disk is online?

  I have included pictures of both the disk and partition information, and what they look like now in disk utility. Previously, from what I remember, in the information section of my car he had about 948 GB available, was mounted and he said it was a logical Partition encrypted, if it is of no use. It does not display this information now because it is locked, correct? I did not delete anything?

  As you can tell, I didn't know what I was doing the same in the first place - and now, I'm stumped. Please bear with me on this because all of this formatting and partitioning, and editing and similar is confusing me, only knowledge I had performed since the steps provided in the forums or on Seagate and Lyve directions on their website. I really don't understand what that means anyway - I wasn't trying to screw around things just... Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

  

  

  

  ^ Note that this is what my Finder looks like now despite the fact that my external hard drive is connected. He always used to display the full drive Center 'FAVORITES' and 'TAGS' as a device that is currently connected, with the option to display its "table of contents or eject it.

  Update - I managed to solve this problem using this forum:

  How decrypt external hard drive, so it can be re-partitioned

  Make it wiped my drive, but given that I had pictures about it as I have copies on my computer, which was not serious.

  Good luck to everyone

• How to join the partitions in an external hard drive?

  I have an external hard drive. Empty, but divided into two partitions. (I see two drives)

  How can I meet two partitions?

  I tried using the disk utilities, but I got the message that I couldn't change the partitions.

  (In Dutch: "Deze kan niet worden gewijzigd partitie"; in English, something like: "this partition is not editable")

  What is the procedure that you follow?

  1. Select the disk in the sidebar that contains the partition you want to enlarge, then click on the Partition.

  2. in the list of available Partition, select the partition in the partition you want to enlarge, then click on remove.

  The partition is immediately erased, leaving the space it occupied available.

  3. resize the partition by doing one of the following:

  • Drag the separators between the partitions in the list of available Partition.

  • Select a partition in the Partition layout list, and then enter a value in the size field.

  4. click on apply.

  Disk utility (Yosemite): partition a drive

• 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.

• HP ProBook 450 G: drive recovery on external hard drive

  Hello!

  I had a few questions.

  I have a HP ProBook G2 450 with Windows 8.1 now, I wanted to create a disk recovery, but on an external hard drive. Is it so that it is not possible to put it on an external hard drive? When I try to make a recovery it says I should use one with at least 16 GB USB Flash drive. So this means that I could not even do a DVD recovery disc?

  And I would also know, if I put teaching 10 Windows (as our University offers), is possible later use the 8.1 Windows recovery disc to return to 8.1?

  Eager to help!

  Marta

  Hello

  Please use a few DVDs or good USB. The USB will be write-protected therfore no point to use the external HARD drive because you will not be able to use your external HARD drive, only read. Normally, you have 2 options: use of DVD or USB.

  Yes, you can use recovery media to go back to your orginal Windows 8.1.

  Note: you can create recovery media once.

  Kind regards.

• My external hard drive keeps giving me an i/o error, everytime I try the Explorer.

  I have a Maxtor One Touch 200 GB of external hard drive connected via a USB cable from my computer using Windows XP Professional.  It was working fine until one day when I went to go and received an i/o error.  Troubleshooting was no help at all.  I expected to be able to mirror, but could not be sent, because of illegal hacking material. Any other information is not replaceable. Drive external hard does this buzzing feeling when turned on and I can hear the hard drive spining. Does anyone know how to get the info on my C drive.

  PizzaDude272

  Connect the drive to another computer. It is accessible? If so, copy the data and then test the drive. If no, then remove the Maxtor case USB and put it in another USB box or use a USB adapter. Now, try and connect. If you can not access the drive, he's dead. If the data is critical, send the drive to a professional data recovery company. It's expensive, but only you can determine the value of your data. I use a Drive Savers for my clients. MS - MVP - Elephant Boy computers - don't panic!

• Help with external hard drive

  I use an external hard drive Seagate for my photos and I have been use for more than a year, today when I used it, my windows 7 laptop not recognize it so I couldn't see the files but I knew that it worked as I could hear, I then plugged in a computer laptop windows 8 and it's the same thing. I used another cable, still nothing has changed. Could someone tell me how to solve this problem that I don't have a return to the top of the images.

  Hello

  This is a problem because it is not recognized by Windows 7 or Windows 8 machines.

  I would try it on a 3rd machine, such as pointing to something to go wrong with this Seagate HD.

  And hearing that HD is not a good sign either.

  See you soon.

• Using a Mac to partition a USB external hard drive to use to start Windows 7 on a PC

  Hello

  My PC hard drive died recently, and I need to reinstall Windows 7. Fortunately, I have a Windows 7 .iso file on my Macbook Pro. I also have an external hard drive USB empty. I try to use the Mac (in particular the disk utility program) partition this hard drive and load the .iso file in it, with the intention to start the system and install Windows 7 on my PC. (NB. I have a new internal hard drive which I intend to install Windows on to, but it's something that I should be able to handle later and should not be relevant at the moment.)

  As my DVD player also decided to break (I had not used for a long time), I can't burn the .iso to disk image file and start that way.

  So my question is, what is actually in all possible ways to use my WD 500 GB external hard drive to boot Windows 7 from USB? If so, is it possible to configure the hard disk with the .iso image file using a mac? I think I need somehow do "bootable" my hard drive to boot from it, but I don't know how to do this using a mac, so that it will be compatible for Windows startup.

  I've had this problem for days now and nothing I try seems to work - I tried what seems like all combinations of formatting, partitioning, extracting, BIOS-set-up-ing and file-system-change I can think of. Any help will be really appreciated. Also, if you need information such as specifications, just let me know and I will try to provide all the details I can.

  In addition, I understand that there a lot of messages on the boot from external hard drives, but I looked carefully and found nothing for my situation (more precisely using a mac).

  Thanks in advance for help; If all goes well there is something obvious that I'm missing that I can fix it easily.

  Hi Michael,

  Thanks for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

  From your problem description, I understand you want to make bootable Windows 7 disk using Mac computer.

  About a tool to burn an iso image on Mac, I suggest you contact apple support.

  https://discussions.Apple.com/community/desktop_computers

  However, as a solution, I suggest to go to one of your friend who has the operating system windows download Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool and burn the iso image.

  Detailed suggestions are mentioned in the following article:

  http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/HTML/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool

  I hope this helps. If the problem persists or all linked windows queries or issues related to the Windows operating system, please get back to us. We are here to help you.