External hard drive problem (cannot delete files)

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  USB connected external hard drive was used with XP.  For a small period of time, we had to connect to a machine from W7.  Now that we are back to the XP machine, we have most of the files to get a message "access denied."  How we fix the problem.  The files are images, videos or music.

  Try this,

  Start in safe mode.
  Open your computer and right click on your external hard drive.
  Go to properties.
  Click Security.
  Click on Edit under a quote "to change permissions, click on change."
  Click on Add.
  Type in "everyone" in the white box.
  Then check in the box "total control".
  Press OK.

  This makes the hard drive usable by everyone (all users and different computers)

  I hope this helps.

• Where on my drive "C" are stored the files I saved in the "store folder" in Windows Live Mail? I want to save my external hard drive but cannot find them.

  I saved important emails in the "storage folders" in Windows Live Mail and I want to make sure that they are saved in case something happens to my hard drive.  I have an external hard drive where I do a regular backup, but can find the files so I can move them and include them in my scheculed backup.

  Hello

  Thanks for choosing Windows and thank you for providing an opportunity to help you.

  According to the description, you are having problems to find the location of the folder to Windows Live Mail.

  Navigate to the following location and see if it helps.

  C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail

  Meet us if you encounter problems with the location of Windows Live Mail or any other problem of Windows, and we would be happy to help you.

  Good day!

  Hope this information helps.

• Photos of deletion (sort of) external hard drive problems.

  Hello. (Very probably) to cause to pass my photos the C: drive / to an external hard drive, I get the following message if poster every time I try to remove photos "files are on a volume that does not support recycle bin lightroom.» You want to remove them immediately? ». Suggestions of solutions or alternatives for it?

  Network shares do not support the Windows Recycle Bin, so you just have to confirm the dialog box delete without moving to trash.

  Beat

• External hard drive with Windows NT File System (NTFS) Format

  I bought an external hard drive Samsung M3 about a year (1 to). I used a lot for about 3 months on my mac and then left it stored until I need it again. I then tried to use it today and for some reason, the format converted to Windows NT (NTFS) file system. Looking at other forums, the only way to change what has been suggested is to erase and format it in NTFS for Mac. However, I have 500 GB of data on what I don't want to erase. Does anyone have any suggestions, or any reason that the format has changed all of a sudden, do my hard drive now ReadOnly cannot think?

  1. the format has not changed

  2. There is no such format NTFS for Mac

  Would you like to start your story please?

• Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex USB external hard drive problem

  I have a Seagate USB external hard drive. It is loaded with all my pictures and music. I can not open. I did in the past without problem.  It is a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex. It says that I have the drivers updated. I've started and restarted. uninstalled and installed etc. It's also almost if there is nothing on the disc. When I plug it into the USB port it will not appear in the my computer tab, however, it shows in the toolbar at the bottom as installed but with nothing on it. When I run the troubleshooter, it says that the problem can not be detected, but it also says that the device is functioning properly. I do not know because I can not the specifics to fill. Y at - it somewhere that I can take this drive to see if someone can see if my files are always about this and that so they can transfer to another drive? Help, please!

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  Hi Philippe,.

  Welcome to the Microsoft Community and thank you for the post about it

  It seems that when you connect an external hard drive Seagate USB to your computer, there is no indication in the drive. I appreciate the action that you tried to solve the problem.

  I would like to know the following information.

  (1) what version of Windows is currently installed on your computer?
  (2) have you tried to connect the hard drive to other USB ports?
  (3) you are able to use other USB devices?

  I suggest you to connect the hard drive to another computer and check.

  Your answers are important to us, please write to us with the requested information so that we can help more.

• Since the update of Vista on my external hard drive problems

  I have a problem with my external hard drive. A week ago I reinstalled Windows Vista Home Premium on my PC. Everything worked very well, my external hard drive, too. But after installing all the new updates and SP2 my external hard drive has problems. If I copy something from her, or just listen to the music is recorded on it, so overall if I work with her, after 1 to 3 minutes it stops working. I have to sign in to get access to it again. But before installing SP2 updates after SP2 everything worked out very well. So I think that there is a problem with SP2 or the following updates. My Pc is a Dell Dimension 9200 and the external hard drive is a Verbatim 1 TB external hard drive and USB 2.0

  I tried to bbot with Ubuntu and delete the Autorun.inf. Now everything works fine again.
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• Backup on external hard drive problems...

  I can't backup to external hard drive, it starts and does not say "Device not ready" then I tried to back up my laptop outside even hard without any problem. Could it be, if I tried a different USB port on my desktop external hard disk... Any other ideas please...

  Concerning

  Have you tried another USB port (your post is unclear)?

  The external hard drive has its own power supply or just connect with a USB cable?  If there is no separate power supply, disconnect all other USB devices (except keyboard and mouse) and see if that helps.

  The external drive shows in my computer?  If so, what happens when you double-click it?

  Don't show external drive in disk management (start > run > diskmgmt.msc > OK)?  If so, a drive letter is assigned? If so, what is reported to the layout, Type, file system and status?

  Only the external drive shows in Device Manager (start > run > devmgmt.msc > OK) to the title of "hard disks"?  If Yes, what is displayed when you double-click on and look at 'Device status' and 'Use of the device' in the general tab?

• External hard drive creates folders and files and lose the music I synced to it.

  I've been struggling with my 8 GB Clip +, which is the same thing my old 4 GB Clip + has. It creates files SID and incorporate in the album folders. Renamed it with records of the characters of 8 or 9 (alpha and digital) at the beginning of the file name, and some of the music I download does not exist when I disconnect the player and it refreshes. It does this for MP3 AND WMA files, if I use Media Player or Windows Explorer.

  I loaded all my WMA files on the internal hard disk (that works absolutely perfect), responsible for MP3s ONLY on the external hard drive and got the same result. The external hard drive has been reformatted, there is no debris of what anyone to spoil things. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you!

  So after spending most of my Sunday with my 8 GB Clip + and its 8GB external drive, I found that the problems mentioned previously disappear if opt you for USB mode MSC. I was then able to transfer MP3 and WMA using Windows Media Player or Windows Explorer. I even got to explore open and hung out and deposited the files in window Media Player sync. Very Cool! Also, when I tried to copy something that she already had, he said that the case was already transferred. Amazing! In the past, it should continue to record the same.

  Although I must say that a WMA file problem: some of the music files were not correctly identified and is not 'stick' to the albums they came from. But a search for individual songs revealed they were always there, even if the Sansa could not "identify the album they belong to.

  I hope this helps others. At the end of the day, my advice is: If you have an external drive, the USB MSC mode, and you won't have any major problems - just a few small, boring ones.

  And thanks for the two of you who responded to my original post. Yes, the player has been on auto-detection mode - not good.

• External hard drive problems

  So I recently got my WD external hard drive to start working again.  However, the other day, after unplugging, when I tried to reconnect, my computer decided is not to assign a volume letter.

  Details:

  -The hard drive has the same problem on any computer, that I try to connect.

  -The hard drive is recognized by the computer but not assigned a volume letter.

  -I can't assign a letter volume on the hard disk by using computer management.  However when I try, the possibility of a volume letter is not there.  The only option available is to initialize the disk.  I tried to initialize it using parameters of MBR, but I get an error stating: "the request could not be performed because of an i/o device error."

  -I don't want to reformat the hard drive, but given that the files on it I would recover.  I realize in order to get the drive working again, it is a necessary step, but I would like to recover as many files as I can before I reformat.

  If anyone has a suggestions I would be very happy.  Thank you!!

  It looks like a hardware problem with an external hard drive.
  Kerry Brown MS - MVP - Windows desktop experience

• SP3 and the files on external hard drive history ignores certain files.

  SP3 and the history of files on external hard drive seems to ignore certain files.  All this experience?  I need to know why. Is weird.

  Hi Ellie,

  Thanks for posting the query on Microsoft Community.

  I'm sorry to know that you are unable to copy all the files saved on the history of files on Surface Pro 3. Don't worry, will help you with the question.

  1. What files he jumps?
  2. You get the error message?

  You can check out the link below and check if it helps.

  Back up photos, documents and other:

  http://www.Microsoft.com/surface/en-us/support/music-photos-and-video/back-up-photos-documents-and-more

  What happens if something is wrong in the history of the files?

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-8/what-something-goes-wrong-file-history

  I hope this helps to solve the issue. If the problem persists, get back to us. We will be happy to help you.

• Lightroom CC - edition in the external editor with images located on the external hard drive problems

  I have recently moved most of my image containing folders on external hard drive. In general, everything works smoothly in Lightroom (running latest CC). However, if I try to use an external editor of in Lightroom, I managed opening image in Photoshop CC if it is chosen. However, if I try to edit in a NIK Collection programs (i.e. Viveza 2) or affinity Photo I get error messages. The copy of Tiff is generated within lightroom, but at the spearhead of the external editor the following messages are met...

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  • Photo of affinity - "'could not open the file - / Volumes/4Tb iMac/2015-10-20-202036/Macintosh of the castle of my book 2 Backup/Backups.backupdb/Neil HD/Applications/Adobe Illustrator CS5/Plug-ins.localized/Photoshop Filters.localized/Unsharp Mask.aip/Contents/Resources/he.lproj/InfoPlist.strings the file type is not supported.". " My external backup drive is " " " 4 TB my book 2 backup" but my images are on an external drive called "4 TB My Book 1" ".

  However, if I move the folders containing images of problem on my desktop (iMAC 27 2015) in Lightroom external editor command change... works very well. The images open with Nik Collection and Photo of affinity and save in Lightroom when save. Everyone knows about this problem? And if you have, is there a resolution?

  
  

  Any help/advice greatly appreciated.
  

  Neil

  Looks like I solved my problem with Lightroom. I disassembled my external backup drive, but upheld the disk external drive containing the photos up and then restarted my mac. After the reboot, I open Lightroom and chose the image on an external drive for mounting in affinity Photo and Collection of Nik. Both image successfully opened in editors. I reassembled the backup drive and rebooted time machine and repeated the same opening picture in external editors. Once again, works great. Have no idea where the original problem. Looks like a bad path was stored in a config somewhere file.

• External hard drive problems Y560p

  I have an Ideapad Y560p and my laptop does not seem to read large usb 2.5 ", external hard drives. I am trying to use a 500 GB and the disk turns but does not entirely and open in Windows. The external hard drive works on another laptop.
  Two computers use Windows 7.

  (Sometimes), I can access my 320 ext hdd, but this player also has problems. I also have a "TTO Tray" error that appears often, and these problems may be related.

  Any ideas on how I can solve these problems?

  Hi Zehn,

  Yes, I tried a cable in there, but the power supply doesn't seem to be the issue.

  I COULD have solved the problem. I found the disc in my device manager and it has been disabled. I tried to activate the device, but I got an error code 22, and I needed to remove the device. When I plugged it in the drivers have been reinstalled, and it seems to be good for now.

  Thanks for the suggestion!

• External hard drive suddenly cannot open it give the message error "you must format the disk in the drive until you can use it", and your hard disk is 0 bytes

  External hard drive can not suddenly open - fixed

  my external hard drive worked very well all the time, but suddenly I can't open it more, when I tried to open it, it gives the error message "You must format the disk in the drive until you can use it" and my hard drive is 0 bytes, average there is no file in the hard drive. Average, all the data inside hard disk are gone!

  Hello muhammad.

  Before you do anything with this player, you can search online for some data recovery utilities so that you can try to recover your data.

  What operating system do you use?

  Have you tried running chkdsk on the drive?

  Let us know.

  Best regards

  Matthew_Ha

• How to copy a folder to an external hard drive with the same file on it and have it just add new files instead of replace all old already on there, as well as to add new?

  I want to copy a folder to an external hard drive with the file already on it and not having to replace all the files each time. I just want to click and drag the folder to the external hard drive and have it add new files I've added in the folder on my pc over time on the external hard drive. It's annoying to have to replace alllll the files each time.

  Thank you!

  A simple way is to use the second copy of Centered.com software. It is reasonably priced and will do exactly what you want. MS - MVP - Elephant Boy computers - don't panic!