External hard drive - Remove write protection

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• backup to external hard drive, removal of the movies on computer?

  I want to know if I got back to the top of my itunes library on an external hard drive I can remove my itunes on my computer movies to save space on this subject? It is my friends computer and I don't want to take up space. And then I still see them on my apple TV if the movies are not on my internal hard drive?

  I am new to this and I wanted to know if my apple tv can stream after I deleted movies from my computer? I have no idea how it works, as far as I know I need to get back to the top of my purchases...

  Backup and deletion are not back up. Backup is always to have two copies of everything, preferably on completely separate players in different locations.

  In order to play something through iTunes, it must be added to iTunes.  You can add files from a separate iTunes drive and make them stay on the player by holding down the option key while adding, but there may be painful to see broken links if the drive is not attached when using iTunes constantly.

  You can listen to an AppleTV iCloud films apparently, but I can't provide details.  This should work for you, unless it's one of those elements is no longer in the Apple Store (and your reason to always make sure that you have a copy on your hard disks).

• How to backup to external hard drive (removable) for windows home server 2011

  Your online help recommend ' to use several external hard drives and rotate the drives between onsite and offsite storage locations", but there is nothing that explains the procedures to be put in place. I have vascular 1 internal disk used as a server backup and the desire to attach a USB key and also back up the server and remove location and still allow regular backups to take place on the interal drive.

  Hi JarjarMack,

  Given that the problem is related to Windows Home Server 2011, for better assistance, you must post your query in the following Windows Home Server Forum.

  Windows Home Server Forum

• How can I remove the write protection from my photos to transfer to an external hard drive?

  I have Windows XP and I want to transfer my photos on an external hard drive, but I can't remove write protection. I right click and uncheck the box, but it changes on its own. How can I transfer my photos?

  Have you seen dialogue indicating files can't be copied?
  If_Yes_what at - he say and how have you tried to copy
  the files?

  Maybe the info will help you...

  OK... when the external hard drive is connected to your
  PC... admittedly with a drive letter to start.
  My computer.

  Once you know what that is... try to drive letter the following
  and let us know what is the result.

  Select (highlight) the file names of the photos you want to
  copy on the external hard drive. Right-click on the selected group
  (or the folder itself if you want that all the photos) and the
  menu choose... Send to... and choose the drive letter of
  the external drive.

  Then uncheck "read-only" you left click... "." Apply / OK?
  (it works in a lot also selected)

• Protection in writing - my external hard drive is suddenly "write-protected" and "read-only".

  How can I remove my external hard drive write protect? All a suddon it is 'write protected', a file "read only".

  HA! I turned off my external hard drive... transformed don't turn it back on in 20 seconds about... no protection against writing more!

  My computer is having an another laugh at my expense!

  Thank you for wanting to be useful!

• How do I unprotect external hard drive write protected

  I am trying to format an external HARD drive, but when I do I can not because a message appears saying that it is write protected.  I don't know how to change this permission.  Help please

  Hello

  Open the file in Windows Explorer and select the drive letter of your external hard dirve (eg. h:\).

  Right-click on it to display the context menu, and then select Properties

  Then, from the Properties dialog box, select the Security tab and give you read permissions / writing.

  You should then be able to use the context menu Format

  or

  Start > computer, right-click and select Manage (you will need the administrator privelleges)... then disk management... With administrator privelleges your should be able to format the drive in the My Computer Management console.

  Kind regards.

• How can I disable 'write protect' on an external hard drive?

  My external hard drive is suddenly now "write-protected", I don't, how do to UN - do, without reformatting everything, Ive looked at properties, etc.; It won't let me save it now.

  Jack

  I've seen it before, here's a few things that can help:

  1. This can be caused by malware, are you sure that your machine is clean?

  2. connect your device, right click computer, click Manage > storage > disk management, then right click on the chart in drive to the device and select change drive letter, then change for a more near the end of the alphabet.

  3. change these registry keys, but create a system first, restore point just in case you have problems. Note that the keys do not necessarily exist, so do not create them as it is probably a different issue.

  3.1

  Open a run window (Windows Logo key + R), type regedit, hit enter and in the left pane, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies, double click on WriteProtect and change the value to 0 (zero) data.

  3.2

  Now, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\StorageDevicePolicies, double click on WriteProtect and change the value to 0 (zero) data.

  3.3

  Finally, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Control\StorageDevicePolicies, double click on WriteProtect and change the value to 0 (zero) data.

• How to remove shortcut Virus from a 1 TB external hard drive

  I lost access to 950 GiB of data on my hard drive Seagate as it has been infected by and shortened Virus and my data on HDD converted a shortcut of the file which when connected to my pc got corrupted due to safety Essentials.
  Please help me to retrieve the data.

  Hello Rahul,

  Please contact the Microsoft Community Forums.

  According to the description, it seems that you are facing problems with access to data on external hard drive as the drive converted to a shortcut file. I'll be happy to help you with this problem.

  -Did you do changes on the computer before this problem?

  Method 1: I suggest you use the scan Microsoft Security in scan mode full, to remove all the threats that is not detected by it and see if the problem persists.
  http://www.Microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx

  Note: The Microsoft Safety Scanner ends 10 days after being downloaded. To restart a scan with the latest definitions of anti-malware, download and run the Microsoft Safety Scanner again.
  The Microsoft Safety Scanner is not a replacement for the use of antivirus software that offers continuous protection.

  Method 2: To recover the data on external hard drive, I suggest you use your favorite search engine to search for the third-party backup of data recovery software.

  WARNING: 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.

  I hope it helps. If you have any questions about Windows in the future, please let us know. We will be happy to help you.

• When I deleted a picture of my MacBook, why it also remove the external hard drive?

  So I tried to help my wife to free up space on his MacBook Pro by putting all of his photos on an external hard drive. After iPhoto slide the hard disk and wait 40 minutes so that he could transfer, I wanted to make sure it worked. I ejected the disk and then plugged in. Of course, all iphotos were still there. Just to be sure, I deleted one file in the folder on the computer's iphoto. I went to my shock and horror, the external hard drive, that it has been deleted it too! How is that possible? I've been scouring the Internet trying to retrieve this file with no luck. It was not in the trash. There is a tab "recently deleted". Time machine was not turned on. iCloud shows nothing. I can't download any software, because the computer is completely filled. How is it possible that by deleting this folder on the computer he did also leave the hard drive? AND it has not been saved in the trash? I have used PC, and whenever I need something in return, he was ALWAYS in the trash. And if I deleted something on the computer with an external hard drive connected, it would NEVER be removed from the external hard drive at the same time. I'm so frustrated and feeling SO bad that I deleted a folder with important pictures of our kids. Is that what I can do to recover the pictures? Any help is greatly appreciated.

  You used Time Machine at all? I see you say it was not on, but it never on and is at - it a backup Time Machine on the Macbook Pro?

• Password protect an external hard drive connected to Time Capsule

  I have a WD passport external hard drive connected to my time capsule, so my wife and I can easily share files. I have the external hard drive connected through the locked time capsules WiFi network so someone in the House can not access however if they walked the time capsule and not plugged in the external hard drive they could walk away with it. When I try to password protect external hard drive then time capsule may not recognise, and so I can't use it as an external hard drive that is shared. No one knows how, to password protect the external hard drive connected to the time capsule as if someone physically stole the external hard drive it would be locked, but have yet still recognizable by Time Capsule when I plugged?

  Hope that makes sense.

  The only way to do is to encrypt the files on the computer.

  And you both use the same password. Unfortunately, this probably means that you can not share files directly... The TC is not a SIN... never, it was designed for this purpose so there no controls to help admin file sharing.

  If you create a DMG file on WD drive that encrypt you and you can copy files to and from... but only one at a time.

  Another method would be to use a specific software... Watch chronosync.

  http://www.econtechnologies.com/Chronosync/guide-sync-with-disk-image.html

  I don't him have not run in this configuration... so, you have to experiment if it manages what you want.

  I think that there will always be limitations on concurrent access from multiple computers.

• After the upgrade to El Capitan I can't write on the external hard drive to NTFS format more

  I have an external hard drive formatted in NTFS, I used some Mavericks and could read and write on it without problem, after I installed El Capitan today I can't do more, not this external hard drive is read-only. The problem is that it is full of my data and I can't just format as journaled. What I can do and why it worked fine before?

  You need to upgrade or replace the software you used to write on NTFS volumes and should put a copy of your data to a second drive in case one you have fails for any reason unrelated.

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• How can I change the permission of my external hard drive from tours and write "without formatting?

  My Toshiba external hard disk format was automatically replaced Windows NTFS after I had plugged on a Windows PC. Therefore, the permissions of the drive changed to 'read only' to "read and write" after that I used on my Mac. It happened once before and I remember the engineer on duty in an apple authorized service center had solved the problem without format the external hard drive. This is not an option for me now as well, but all the solutions, I looked to say online that the formatting of the disc is the first step. Help, please!

  Install software such as Paragon NTFS on the Mac.

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• Unable to write to the external hard drive

  I am trying to copy files to an external hard drive FireWire 800 and I get an error this file "names are too long for the destination" (even if the file names are just 1 short word). Reading files from the external drive works fine.

  Player is a 6 TB G-TECH G-RAID, formatted as a volume journaled HFS +. I checked the disk in disk utility, and everything seems ok. Permissions in the Finder said I read & write access.

  The only thing that has changed since the last, I used the drive successfully was that I returned the 10.7 to 10.5 operating system. I don't remember having to format the drive initially it was plug-and-play right out IIRC. Someone knows what could happen?

  Do not know what is happening, quite an odd error!

  Redo a get information on drive & try to check "ignore permissions on this volume.

• Is there an alternative way looking for an external hard drive decision to Apple to remove external hard drive of 10.11 OS search?

  With previous versions of the OS 10, you can use Spotlight or Finder to search the content of your external hard drive.

  However, with OS 10.11 El Capitan, this feature has been removed (according to support tech Seagate, at least).

  In the Finder, I gives me the ability to click on my external hard drive in the upper left, just like in the screenshot of the Pinkstones.

  However, when I do the search he always brings back me to the main screen of the Finder and search only in my hard drive. No matter how many times I try never search my external hard drive as I told it to.

  Is there an alternative way to search the content of my external hard drive decision to Apple?

  'Why' questions imply that users here... like you... have inside information from Apple on product and marketing decisions. No one here has any kind of information like this.

  'Why' questions can be answered by Apple.  Get in touch with Apple and ask them 'Why?' If you are really interested in an answer.

• Remove the external hard drive from Time Machine list of exclusions

  Hello, all. I already use TM to backup TO an external hard drive. But, I have a second DHM I want to use for all of my photos. The HD is listed in preferences on the exclusion list, and I currently have no way to remove it from the exclusions list. It is a Seagate HD. Is any way to remove it from the exclusions list?

  Copy all data on it to a different location, choose Utilities in the Finder Go menu, open disk utility and reformat the drive as Mac OS extended.

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