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• TOSHIBA external hard drive does not work with Mac

  Finally, I used my Toshiba external hard drive on my MacBook Pro in December. I want to keep all my photos, and I've always been able to add new photos to it and delete the 'old' out of it. I plugged it today to add more photos, and it is not letting me. I went to the sharing & preferences and he read that when he used to say, read and write. I went to the info, and I noticed, it says that the format is Windows. Why he did change and why can't I use it? Can I fix it? Thanks in advance

  Looks like you have formatted the NTFS drive that is read-only for OS X. Copy data to another drive, then partition and format the drive correctly for use on a Mac.

• WD external HARD drive no longer works with Win7 since the upgrade to Win10

  My laptop has Windows 7 installed and my external worked fine. My new laptop had win 8.1 pre-installed so I have connected my drive and worked fine but when I plugged in my Win 7 machine he was working more.

  I upgraded my new machine to win 10 to see if that would solve the problem, the drive connected but then I could not remove so I stopped the machine and deleted but I can't always connect to a Win 7 machine.  Everyone knows this?

  Hey there Leeaf72,

  I'm sorry to hear about the issue. What is the model and the capacity of the drive? Have you tried the drive on other systems or possibly with other USB cables?
  I would check if the drive is recognized in the BIOS, Device Manager or disk management. Here's how for the last two:
  Device Manager: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=cXczh0
  Disk management: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=xFP3QI

  I would also see if you have all the latest OS and driver updates. Try to reinstall the USB drivers. You can also try out them completely and let the update tool to install.

  If the drive is recognized I download and run WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic and see if the car passes the quick and extensive tests. Here's a link: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=a6nz3g

  Post back with some progress,

  Captain_WD.

• Canvio Plus 2.5 "1 TB external HARD drive does not work with USB 3.0

  I've had this drive for about a month.

  I am on Windows 7

  I can only operate by connecting to USB 2.0 ports. It is then visible in 'My Computer'.

  If I connect to USB 3.0, it turns on the case but does not appear in 'My Computer'.

  I tried it on all my USB ports 3.0 - up on one and two in the back of my case.

  I checked my BIOS and USB 3.0 is enabled.

  I tried to follow the suggestions in the user manual, but the drive does not appear in the management of so connected devices on USB 3.0, but it does when connected in USB 2.0.

  Any ideas?

  Hello

  As much as I know the Windows 7 system requires installation of additional USB 3.0 driver.

  Many laptops and computers use USB 3.0 driver that was released by Intel... it is because of Intel chipset...

  I guess that USB 3.0 is already installed, but probably you need to update the driver at least to the newest version...

• How to move files from the external hard drive to the keywords WITH main drive?

  On a recent trip, I have uploaded thousands of images on an external hard drive that I used with my laptop. I keyworded and edited these files on the road.

  Back home, I want to move the files (keywords and all) to my permanent LR library that resides on a different hard drive. How can I do this transfer without losing the keywords?

  Thank you in advance.

  Hi Jessica,.

  There seems to be a confusion of terms here: the catalog is where LR stores all of its information (that your designated as LR library in your original post).

  While you were on the road, did you use LR to add keywords to photos, or have you used another tool? If you have used LR, you already have a catalog on the laptop, which you can then import into your main LR catalog (using import to catalogue option in the file menu). Let us know if you get stuck anywhere.

  Marc

• Hitachi external hard drive does not work on Sony with windows vista

  I use a Sony with Windows vista laptop. I just got a 500 GB Hitachi external hard drive today. It was detected after that I connected, but there is no way that I can access the hard drive and save the files it contains. I tried to go to the administration tool and tried to change the letters of readers and paths, but this isn't an option for me (he is gray and I cannot click on it). It showed that the disk is healthy but unallocated. Could someone help me please? I really need to back up my laptop using this hard drive external. Thank you. Irene

  Hello Irene,.

  ·         You get the error message?

  ·         Did you do changes on the laptop before the show?

  Follow these methods.

  Method 1: Run the fixit of the article.

  Hardware devices do not work or are not detected in Windows

  Method 2: Follow the steps in the article.

  Tips for solving problems of USB devices

  Method 3: Try to access to the external hard drive on another computer and check if the problem persists.

• External HARD drive PX1266E slowly works as USB 1.0 or 1.1

  Hello!

  I have a problem with my external HD PX1266E - 1 25. I have a toshiba laptop Satellite A100 and the hd has worked fine until two or three weeks ago.

  Now when I connect it to the laptop I get the following message "this device could work faster so etc..". I tried to connect the hd to all of my four usb ports, but the message is always the same. I think that it works as a USB 1.0 or 1.1. It's very, very slow. I tried the following steps, but I could not solve the problem.

  1. I uninstalled the usb driver. I rebooted the laptop and reinstalled drivers (automatically). The problem remains.

  2. I replaced the usb cable. I get the same message.

  3. I have connected the PX1266E to another laptop and I still get the same message.

  4. I have connected another external drive (usb 2.0) to my laptop and it works properly at high speed.

  You have some tips to solve my problem?

  Thank you very much. Roberto.

  Hello

  It seems that the problem is you drive HARD PX1266E external and not the book because as you have already said you have connected the HARD drive to another computer and the same problem (message) appeared.

  I think you need to format the external HARD drive and then check if there are positive changes.

  But there may be a hardware malfunction of HARD drive and you can replace it?
  Ask your dealer to HARD drive.

• 500 GB external HARD drive no longer works

  someone please help.

  About 3 months ago I bought a hard drive of PC world 500GBexternal (not sure of the model number, this is money, with external power supply, USB cable A B, very bright blue light on the front, about 60 pounds). I used it regularly both with my PS3 and my Toshiba Vista laptop.

  Suddenly it has stopped working. The blue light is on, and noise workout like its spinning but when I plug my devices nothing don't recognize. I tried with the laptop, PS3 and IMAC. Blue light beeps when you plug it into the USB port but that's all. The device don't can't see it!

  I tried a new USB cable, but it made no difference

  Please help me. I've got the years worth of photos, music and movies out there that I can't lose!

  Thank you
  Simon

  Hi Simon,.

  You have only stored the data on that HARD disk? Normally all files must be stored on a second disc, otherwise it s not a backup! ;)

  Anyway, you can see the external drive in Windows disk management?
  The external HARD drive is always turn vertically?

  At the moment it sounds like it's HARD drive is defective and must be replaced :(

• Passport external hard drive does not work

  I dropped my external hard drive USB plug (WD Passport).  I can't open it to access my files at all (many of them that I need for work). Its icon appears in the Device Manager and it evven shows that it works correctly.  I can do at home before I have send off by the Geek Squad for $250?  I heard a horror story already that turned into $ 1600 to $ 250.  I can't afford this.  Help, please.

  Saturday, September 29, 2012 19:14:03 + 0000, debramirez wrote:

  I dropped my external hard drive USB plug (WD Passport).  I can't open it to access my files at all (many of them that I need for work). Its icon appears in the Device Manager and it evven shows that it works correctly.  I can do at home before I have send off by the Geek Squad for $250?  I heard a horror story already that turned into $ 1600 to $ 250.  I can't afford this.  Help, please.

  Two points:

  1. If you dropped out, it's probably broken, and you will be unable to
  do something with. Next time, make sure that you have a backup on another medium
  files that interest you.

  2. If you decide to take it somewhere to the service, avoiding the Geek
  Team like the plague. In my opinion and that of many others of us
  Here, the other stores to large surface and they are terrible - the worst places for
  Opt for the service.

  Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP

• How to use an external hard drive to share files with other computers

  I have a HP Personal Media Drive that is currently used to share files with another computer. However, it is very old and I want to continue the sharing of files. Can I use an external hard drive? and if yes, how I have set up?

  I have an external hard drive, Toshiba-1 t. It is connected with a USB cable. My computer has wireless access, and the other computer does not work. The internet allows us to connect.

  Suppose that your external drive to your is connected to PC 1. When you open Windows Explorer on PC1 then this disk will appear as if it was a local, integrated drive. To make it accessible to PC 2, you need to "share". When you type this phrase in a Google search box then you will get many excellent recipes step by step on how to do this:

  sharing files in Windows

• External hard drives not recognized / work in Windows 7

  I see that many people have problems with Windows 7 does not recognise external drives. I have a SimpleTech Pro 1 t external drive used to be recognized with Windows 7, but is no longer recognized. He wasn't arrested only recently recognized. I if it is the car, so I bought an external drive of Hitachi LifeStudio 2 t. It does work on my desk. However, two external drives work with my laptop running MS Vista. So the problem is not with the external drives. On the contrary, the problem is with Windows 7 is no longer recognizing external drives. I read a lot of posts here and see that many people have the same problem, but none of the solutions are presented. Windows 7 does everything just not with external drives? It's frustrating.

  Hello
   
  Have you tried the troubleshooting steps?
   
  Step 1: Try to run Automated Troubleshooting Services and check out what he has to say.
  Reference: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/hardware_device_problems
  
  Step 2: You can also check in the device if Manager disk external drive is listed.
  
  a. connect the external hard drive to the computer.
  b. to open Device Manager, type devmgmt.msc in the search box start and press ENTER.
  c. check if the external drive is listed.
  d. in Device Manager, expand the hard drive listed in the list of devices.
  e. If the hard disk is listed, right click on it > click Properties.
  (f) in general, under control of device for the message status. After back if there is no error message.
  Step 3: Check to see if the external drive is getting detected in disk management.
  
  If the hard drive recognized in disk management and if there is no drive letter assigned, I suggest that you right-click on the drive and assign a drive letter and check to see if it helps:
  Reference: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Change-add-or-remove-a-drive-letter
  Step 4: Since external hard drive is detected earlier, I suggest that you try to perform system restore.
  Reference: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/system-restore
   

  Step 5: Remove and reinstall all USB controllers.

  To remove and reinstall all USB controllers, follow these steps:

  a. clickStart, click run, type sysdm.cpl in theOpen box and then click OK.

  b. click on thehardware tab.

  c. click theDevice Manager button.

  d. expandBus USB controllers.

  e. right click on each device under theBus USB controllers node and then click Uninstall to remove them one at a time.

  f. restart the computer and reinstall the USB controllers. Restarting the computer should automatically install the drivers.

  g. plug in the removable USB storage device and perform a test to ensure that the problem is solved.

  Step 6: Install the windows updates and check.

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/install-Windows-updates

  Step 7: Install the latest chipset driver. For this I recommend you contact the manufacturer of the system.

  Thanks and greetings
  Umesh P - Microsoft technical support.

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• External hard drive does not work properly

  Hi all

  It is a slightly different external HARD drive problem.  I had my faithful media ATMT bin since my first laptop with XP (2003) and I bought it in 2005.  It's a little wobbly as the fan vibrates a lot, but this isn't a problem.  What is the problem, is that I have a windows machine 7 who thinks that drive a need to put in shape, but my previous laptop which has vista on it was absolutely no problem to read the files IN ALL and you can open one of them without a hitch.  I tried to run CHKDSK I:\I (it is labeled as the I drive :) and 7 claims that it is in the format RAW.  I had a look at CHKDSK on my old machine and it is in FAT32, I since changed it to NTFS, but seems to have no effect.  I also tried the hunting of the drivers for the external hard drive, but I come only through links to Amazon as these things are always available.

  I really need to access this drive on my current computer as the older one needs a considerable cooling method to make it work therefore the latest machine.  What I also don't understand, it's that it was working absolutely fine on this machine too until quite recently.  He worked on it that I need, but have not been accessed for a while and so solutions in this regard would be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you very much for your time.

  RM

  Your drive has reached its copy by date and it works on time taken (if he is stil)

  If this does not work on another PC then it's probably dead.

  You can try the utility disk SeaTools from Seagate to check and see if it can detect and report on the drive

• External network drive helps to work with Time Machine

  I did research on my brain for the last 2 days on this subject, because I have to remove a ton of material from my laptop before he goes kaput (spoke yesterday on another post)

  Here's the plan... I think so:

  I want to move photos, films (home movies not DVD) and the iTunes library from my MacBook Pro to an external HD attached to the wifi router, so I don't have to be hard wired to access photos, music, etc., then at home.

  I want to continue using Time Machine to back up a) my laptop and b) the files moved to the external hard drive.

  This will require a SECOND external drive.

  My understanding is that this is possible if the SECOND external drive is connected ONLY to an 802.11ac Apple Airport. No other wifi router will not work.

  The airport could be connected by ethernet to an existing Netgear wifi router that Comcast installed in order to manipulation of our home security system.

  Is this possible? It is frying my brain.

  Or...

  I do one) get a time Capsule 2 TB,

  (b) plug on the Netgear

  (c) to charge all my top media and

  (d) connect a 3 TB drive in the time Capsule to back up what is on it and my laptop?

  Does it work?

  It kills me.

• External hard drive has stopped working.

  I have a 500 GB WD external hard drive book that has stop working. He is no more, but I know that it is always powered because I can see that the lights are still coming when I plug in the power cord inside. No one knows anyway I can get access to the drive so that I can get my data on the disk. It was about 80% full and I was trying to take data out of the car so that I could make cleaner. It was not terribly fragmented, but I need to take some of the data out of the car that's why I was burning there CD so that I could do when he leaves. Now I can't access the drive at all. Does anyone know of a way I can access the drive so I can get my data?

  The only thing I've heard to try and get a non-filature spinning disk long enough to get the data off the drive is to put the drive in the freezer, let cool completely, and then quickly remove it and try to make it work.  Sometimes this will release bearings long enough to allow him to run for a few minutes before it warms so that you can get the data.  No guarantees, of course.

  Good luck
  JW

• WD external hard drive no longer works! Requires formatting?

  Help! my external hard drive has suddenly stopped working and windows requires that I have format it before so I can use it again. But the bad news is that I have a lot of important data that I just can't lose so I need to know if there is anyway, any program that can help me out stuff before formatting because I don't want to lose it!

  It's a WD Elements 1 TB, and it is only about 7 months since I bought it. I think maybe some virus or something that I don't know the damn because before it empty I did some updates to my laptop and used HD once then on the second plug it has failed?
  Any solution?
  Thank you very much

  See the patches on this link:

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows_vista-system/you-need-to-format-the-disk-in-drive-j-before-you/4e153784-3217-4425-9c39-48030af82a13?page=1&TM=1335360130323