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• Is there a driver for external hard drive WDME1600 compatible with windows vista?

  Original title: My Passport Essential WDME 1600

  Is there a driver for external hard drive WDME1600 compatible with windows vista?

  Hello

  Please see this link.
  http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/compatibility/windows-vista/Details.aspx?type=Hardware&p=My%20Passport%20Essential%20WDME1600&v=Western%20Digital&uid=WDME1600&pf=4&pi=7&c=Storage%20Devices&sc=Hard%20Drives%2C%20External&os=64-bit

  It says here that if you have a 32-bit Vista system, then a free download is necessary for her. Click on the link to the breast and download the necessary files. I hope this will get this drive works for you.

  I hope this helps.

• How to disable for the external hard drive restore point in Windows 7

  System Restore performs a restore point for my external hard drive, which I did not need, how to change that?

  Hello

  Click Start, right click on computer and select Properties.

  In the left menu, select the System of Protection.

  In the Settings of Protection section, click on the external drive letter.

  If the external disk drive appear on protection, click on the Configure button.

  Select the option to disable the Protection system for this drive.

  Click Apply/OK.

  This should return all the disk space used for System Restore on this drive.

  Let us know the results.

  Concerning

• Hitachi Lifestudio external hard drive not recognized on Windows Vitsa... why?

  I have a hitachi lifestudio external hard drive and it works great 50% of the time... the other 50%, I fight because it not being recognized on my computer or laptop (both vista).  I plugged it to my computer now and it will only recognize the player but is not the one with my files that I need.  I have two USB cords connected and it was working fine yesterday!  Now all of a sudden it won't work at all.  I got and rehooked many times now and still nothing.  Other USB ports are filled with our wireless mouse and others.  Is there a way to force vista to recognize something?

  Hello

  ·          Were there any changes made to your computer before this problem?

  Step 1: Try running Microsoft fix it in the following article:

  Reference: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/hardware_device_problems

  See also: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Tips-for-solving-problems-with-USB-devices

  Step 2: Check if the external drive is getting detected in disk management.

  If the hard drive is recognized in disk management and if there is no letter assigned drive, I suggest you make a right click on the drive and assign a drive letter and check to see if it helps:

  Reference: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Change-add-or-remove-a-drive-letter

• cannot use external hard drive 1 TB for readyboost

  can I use my 1 TB WD external hard drive (fat32) for readyboost... I have win 7 home premium (64-bit) & 2 GB of RAM right now I get a message saying that this device (1 TB drive) cannot be used for readyboost... but I can easily use readyboost when I insert my 4GB kingston USB...

  To see the true performance increases you'd be better by upgrading the amount of RAM you have. I am surprised that you have Windows 64 bit with only 2 GB of RAM...

• External hard drive not detected in Windows 7.

  G ' Day,.

  I have a 1 TB external hard drive.  It is recognized by my new computer, but not by the 8 year old.  I use Windows 7 and is updated daily.  Please could someone tell me what I should do to get the old computer to recognize the H E drive please.  The hard drive is a WD and almost new.

  Perry has soon

  Hi Perry,

  Thanks for posting your query on the Microsoft Community.

  According to the description, I understand that your external hard drive is not recognized by your computer.

  This could happen due to some system conflicts.

  I need some information.

  1. What is the make and model of your computer / external hard drive?
  2. You get no matter what error code or error message?

  Try the methods.

  Method 1: Run the hardware and devices Troubleshooter

  Open the hardware and devices Troubleshooter
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/open-the-hardware-and-devices-Troubleshooter

  Method 2:

  Step 1: I suggest you check in Device Manager if the external drive is listed there.

  1. Connect external hard drive to the computer.
  2. To open Device Manager, type devmgmt.msc in the start search box and press ENTER.
  3. Check to see if the external hard drive is listed.
  4. In Device Manager, expand the hard drive listed in the list of devices.
  5. If the hard disk is listed, are doing a right click on it > click Properties.
  6. In general, look under device status for the message. After back if there is no error message.

  Step 2: Check if the external drive is 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

  I hope this helps. Please let us know the results. We will be happy to help you further.

• Hitachi external hard drive not detected on Windows 7. Disk Management displays "No Media"

  OP: New computer with Windows 7 cannot display files on external hard drive Hitachi

  My Hitachi hard drive is compatible with Windows 7.  This hard drive was working properly with my old computer using Windows XP.  I can see the device in the Device Manager, but I can't view the files.  In disk management, the drive is listed at the bottom of the screen, but said "No Media", however there is almost 50 GB of data stored.

  The hard drive shows in the list of devices and printers when I opened that folder, but does not appear in the list of hard drives on my computer.

  I still don't understand what happened, but I've decided how to fix it.

  After trying my hard drive locked on 4 computers with Windows installed (two with Windows 7) and two with XP and having no success, I decided to plug it into a computer using a Linyx OS (Obuntu).  The computer recognizes my hard drive and open.  Then I was able to use the Windows System.  I managed to freeze hard drive again and he cured the same way.  Maybe this will help also, if you have access to a computer with this operating system.  Maybe a mac would also work.

• External hard drive is compatible with Windows 7

  I have an older SimpleTech external hard drive.  It does not connect with my most recent computer with Windows 7 on this matter. The error I get, is that there are no drivers.  I need TO get all the items on that hard drive... photos of family for the last 10 years... How can I get it connects so that I can just remove the hard drive and move it to my computer?  Help, please!

  VH

  If it is a USB (USB true) it should work on xp, vista and win 7 because they are retro-compatible.

  If you can not easily find someone with XP and your hardware supports you could run a virtual machine and load XP on it.

  It could also be visible on the Open source OS's like Linux.

• External hard drive always autoplays when Windows comes out of sleep

  I put a new computer together and hava an annoying problem.  I have a Seagate external hard drive plugged into the usb port 3.  Every time Windows comes out of sleep, AutoPlay starts for the reader.  I used before this drive on my old build with this issue, although it was plugged into a usb port 2.

  I am currently using Windows 7 Professional x 64.

  It's just an annoyance, not a disaster!

  Thank you.

  Whenever the computer goes to sleep, the USB ports and all internal devices such as Bluetooth are turned off. When the computer comes out of standby mode, these devices are switched on. Once it is done with the USB ports, the connected device is also recognized as a new device and then autoplay starts. It is therefore normal.

  If you don't want autoplay, will start-> type autoplay--> press on enter. Remove the tick of Use AutoPlay for all media and devices. Click Save.

• External hard drive not detected in Windows 8

  I just bought a Dell XPS 13, running Windows 8.

  I have two external hard drives from LaCie.

  Disc 1 is used with a Lenovo X120e running Windows 7.

  Disc 2 has two partitions, exclusively for my Macbook Pro running 10.9.5 and the other smaller partition is used to move files between Lenovo and the Macbook.

  When I connect Drive 1 to the XPS 13, nothing happens. It is not turn nor it appears in Device Manager.

  If I turn it on to Lenovo, it works very well.

  When I connect Drive 2 to the XPS 13 (to the same USB port and using the same cable), he turns and is detected.

  If the port is working, pilots work, cable works and Drive 1 works when connected to the Lenovo running Windows 7.

  How can I get the XPS 13 to recognize Drive 1? There must be a way to do this without formatting again.

  Thank you.

  The drive is visible in the BIOS or the mode without failure on the XPS 13?

  You can also try to paginate the connection of the power supply in the drive that works.

• Maxtor One Touch 4 Mini external hard drive not partitioned by Windows 7 PC

  I have a Maxtor One Touch 4 Mini external hard drive that has been formatted to originally a Windows XP computer. I have a new computer that uses the Windows 7 operating system. The drive hard Maxtor are not accessible by the new computer. Although the new computer reconizes the device by its name, the Maxtor Manager window displays the score as 'unknown '. Maxtor/Seagate technical support said that I need to move the files from the old external hard drive Maxtor on a new Seagate, external drive, using a Windows XP computer. Is there another easier way?

  Hello

  The Windows 7 Compatibility Center shows that the Maxtor OneTouch 4 Mini is compatible with Windows 7.
  However, given that it is a product of the 3 part, you go by what the Seagate support said.
  You can send this link on the OneTouch 4:
  http://www.Seagate.com/support/external-hard-drives/desktop-hard-drives/OneTouch-4/
  Important note: Using third-party software, including hardware drivers can cause serious problems that may prevent your computer from starting properly. Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the use of third-party software can be solved. Software using third party is at your own risk.

• Install Panther PPC for external hard drive on Mac Intel

  I have an old iMac G3 333 MHz, 192 MB of RAM. No firewire, no DVD. I updated its 120 GB hard drive, made 2 partitions (a 7, for the system 77 GB) and installed OS 10.1. I replaced the PRAM Battery (the clock is not reset on reboot) and the firmware is up-to-date.

  Now I want to upgrade the system to OS X 10.3 Panther (to try to use the WiFi adapter that uses only the drivers OS X 10.3), but there is some kind of problem with the installation. The installation discs are read perfectly on iMac in point 10.1, when I start to install it under the current operating system, it starts after the reboot, but after it's the consistency of hard drive check, it seems to freeze, it shows progress maybe a single pixel on the progress bar (expected about an hour or two (, no change). I checked the disk with disk utility, and that's okay. And when I try to boot from the CD directly (holding C) it's light gray screen with the Apple logo and the circle of dashes thing and freezes.

  So I thought that the solution might be to take the iMac hard drive, plug it into my MacBook Pro (early 2011) as external USB disk and install Panther on it. The fine wire work, I can read/write HD on MacBook Pro iMac, but Setup cannot start because it is assumed for PPC computers, while my MacBook Pro is based on Intel of course...

  Is there a way to install OS X supposed to PPC on the external drive to the Mac to Intel processor? Or maybe there are other ways to solve the problem?

  Thanks in advance!

  The solution is to understand why it does not work (as it should) while the drive is installed in the iMac.  You do not have to operate using the MacBook, because it cannot run the software for Mac PowerPC.

  Is Panther drive installing a retail disk?  In other words, a drive sold separately in a box for all models taken Mac supported.  NOT a disc that came with a specific Mac model.  If I remember, the detail for Panther disc is black with a big X silver, and it's an disc enabled, not only a single disc.  If you have a gray disk, it's a disc that came with a specific Mac model, and it may not work with your iMac.

• Error copy iPhoto for external hard drive on Mac

  I get error trying to back up my iPhoto on an external drive folder. The disc has been formatted on iMac and is totally empty.

  I don't save my files on my iMac so it is not slowing down, I have all my iPhoto backed up on an external drive, it will call external disc 2 to, I'm having a backup of the external 2 TB to another drive external drive, he'll call external player 5 TB.

  The message reads...

  "You cannot copy"my iPhoto to filename"because he has the same name as another article on the destination volume, and the volume is not making the distinction between upper and lower case in file names."

  Any ideas on how to solve this problem.

  Thank you.

  Reformat the second external drive with Mac OS Extended (case-sensitive respect).

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• How partition an external hard drive and configure for Time Machine backup?

  I am a rookie just to switch to Windows Apple Mac and I'm looking to back up my new iMac with a Seagate hard drive 2 TB external.  My Mac is a 1 TB hard drive, I'm looking to partition for backup and storage.  Is this a good idea?  Is there a simple way to do it?  I appreciate any help I can get.  I also bought three years of Apple support, but I'd rather do it myself, so I thought I'd give this discussion from the community to try.  Thank you!!

  No, it isn't. Your working data and backups must be on separate drives in case one of them goes down.

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• Can Toshiba 500 GB external HARD drive - I use for backup?

  Hello.

  Can I use my Toshiba 500 GB external drive that is currently back up My Documents via the Microsoft files history * also * as a hot spare for the enjoy backup & recovery?
  Currently, the external drive has 346 GB free.

  Thanks Howard
  Warwickshire, United Kingdom

  Why not be honest the backup & recovery from other manufacturers of portable computers are not known to me, but you can store and back up all files on the HARD drive.