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• Disk error non system at boot when using the external USB disk

  Hello

  I use Windows 7 Pro.  I have a Seagate external USB disk causing a "Non-system disk error" at startup.
  I had the same problem with a Clickfree drive.
  The problem occurs on my other PC with different versions of Windows.
  How can I get my computer to start and not give me this error message for my backup drive?
  At startup (when the drive disconnected), I get a screen of BACK indicating "Client Mac Addr."... GUID..., DHCP. "I think it's looking for a disk boot from.
  I just need to boot from the internal hard drive.
  Thank you
  AS

  USB external references aren't desingned to be connected on startup, you must also use the safely remove the procedure and disconnect the USB key before closing.

  If you get such a screen "Client Mac Addr... etc" at the start (with usb unplugged), looks like you are using a very old motherboard. If the system starts only with connected usb, then your initial installation of victory is defective or damaged

• Problem with the MK6021GAS as external USB disk

  Hello

  I have a laptop that has a built-in drive HARD Toshiba MK6021GAS.
  I found the disk too slow, so I bought a Hitachi travelstar 7200 RPM to replace. That worked without problem.

  But now I want to use the Toshiba HDD USB external drive. But it does not work. On most computers, I get Windows detect the device but then say "an error occurred during the installation of the device" and a few other times, the device is installed as "unknown device".

  The thing is the usb box works perfectly well with all the other readers, I tested (consuming more than my Toshiba) and the HARD drive works fine if I put it inside my laptop again. I tried to Master and selection of cable, same error.
  I tried several computers (so many configs), several catches USB, tried to add external power source... I still get the same error.

  My 2 "5 USB box is"Mobile Disk "... Well well... noname.

  What can I do?

  Ludovic

  Hello

  I also have external HARD disk. I use it with USB 2.0 2.5 "Portable Hard Drive Enclosure external enclosure and it works very well. Before use, I installed driver CD I got with external box.

  How to use it? Have you installed a driver?

• Throughout the year the iMac Intel and models boot from an external USB disk?

  ?

  Trying to help a post here it is in a jam and I'm trying him on a path of least resistance to cure its ills.

  Do every year Intel iMac and models able to boot a USB external hard drive?

  Here is the message for those who are curious.

  It is in a real bind.

  HELP... lost my businesses together work of the reader

  Thanks for any idea.

  Yes. Click here for more information.

  (142246)

• The external USB disk stuck on the desktop icon

  I did inadvertently, drag the icon to an external drive USB "devices" in the finder on my desk and now can't get rid of it.  It is not an option to remove it, just eject it.  When I eject and plug the USB in it reappears on the desktop and Finder version.

  Help! I'm sure it's pretty simple.

  Try, Finder: Preferences: general tab: show these items on the desktop: uncheck external drives.

• First external USB disk backup from Time Machine and Time Capsule

  I have a new USB drive from 4 TB to use for backups Time Machine plugged on my almost full Time Capsule.  The Capsule is connected to my network using Ethernet, so it can be used to back up my MacBook Pro and iMac (via ethernet) (wireless).

  I would like to initial backups by directly plugging the USB directly on my iMac and my MacBook Pro.  I currently have the USB plugged into the Capsule of time connected to the ethernet. The initial backup for my iMac took 2 hours to make the 35GBs of 1.6TBs to back up so far.  So potentially 2 + days of initial backup...?

  There must be a quicker way.

  Box: to recover from my iMac support precedent (after a crash), which stood on a 3 TB USB2 drive plugged to the Capsule, it was estimated to take 36 hours.  I fly over the drive and plugged into the USB port on my iMac and the recovery only took about 8-10 hours, so it does not work for recovery.

  I tried to make the backup of the iMac by plugging the USB drive of 4 TB directly on the iMac. I then moved the dUSB Time Capsule drive, but he seemed to start when plugged into the TimeCapsule. If possible, I must have done something wrong in the order.

  It is extremely difficult to backup directly to the USB port and then move it to the TC because TM backup differently at local and network drives.

  People have figured out ways around it... but you think that it cannot simply... After saving 1.6 TB of data.

  Here see Q18.

  http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html

  The fact is... It is not a reliable method.

  The initial backup for my iMac took 2 hours to make the 35GBs of

  It's a little slow... is the gigabit connection and the wireless is turned off?

  What model is the TC?

  Your sidebar... is absolutely true... you can easily go elsewhere... because you can mount the sparsebundle to the computer.

  Box: to recover from my iMac support previous (after a crash), which stood on a 3 TB USB2 player connected to the time Capsule, it has been estimated to take 36

  hours.  I fly over the drive and plugged into the USB port on my iMac and the recovery only took about 8-10 hours, so it does not work for recovery.

• How to share an external USB disk on a network?

  I added a Western DIgital 2 to USB drive on my Windows Vista computer. I also have a Windows 7 computer, I want to have full access to retrieve and store files. I think I have all sharing and permissions set properly but I still get the error 'permission denied' anything.

  Hello

  Were there any changes (hardware or software) to the computer before the show?

  Check the links below and see if the problem persists.

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/share-files-with-someone

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/networking-and-sharing-recommended-links

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/view-computers-and-devices-on-a-network

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/working-with-the-network-folder

  Hope this information helps.

• Can I install Windows 10 on external USB SSD?

  Is it possible to install Windows (10) on a 3.0 SSD external? Bootcamp will allow me to select an external USB disk for installation of windows? I can't check myself right now because im currently waiting on a new SSD in the mail. It is possible, if difficult how is it?

  Thank you all

  Manager licensing Windows supports external drives under Windows Enterprise using Windows-to-Go. You can use a third-party software like Winclone or CampTune Clonezilla to move an image.

  Depending on the connection to the external drive, it may or may not work.

  See also http://bleeptobleep.blogspot.com/2013/02/mac-install-windows-7-or-8-on-external. html .

• Installation on disk external USB - "Closed circle" after the first restart of the installer

  I tried to install on my MacMini Sierra (end 2012, Mavericks) to an external Seagate USB 3.0 drive 3TO. The drive is freshly formatted with utility disk (, logged, etc. extended partition GUID) and retired in good health.

  Installation always fails on the first reboot. On the first reboot, the screen goes black, there is a white Apple and white progress bar that moves two or three times to the right and then clears the screen and dreaded him circle with a diagonal line appears. Force reboot simply repeats the process.

  So, I decided to try and install the Mavericks (the OS on the internal SSD flash of the Mac mini disc) of the partition of the USB 3.0 drive recovery external. This eventually ended up with a white screen, the dreaded circle of diagonal and a widget of rotation for several hours. Force restart it worked and a new Workgroup installation Mavericks was now hard disk external and implemented to date.

  Another attempt to install Sierra on the external hard drive, but this time the Mavericks running on the external hard drive is not in the same way with the dreaded circle and the diagonal line.

  Near ideas, I tried to install Sierra on an old Seagate 500 GB disk firewire external hard. Shock, horror... it worked without any problem.

  Sierra is simply not install on an external USB 3.0 :-(3 TB drive

  Someone has it successfully? Any ideas?

  The saga continues...

  I tried the USB of the FW - same problem Imaging reader drive.

  I tried to start the Sierra - same problem recovery partition USB drive.

  WORKAROUND SOLUTION:

  I plugged the USB3 drive on a cheap Chinese USB2 hub and... Sierra, booted from the USB3 drive! Obviously not ideal speed wise, but it'll do for now.

  Sierra really dislike my external Seagate Go Flex Desk media USB3 drive when it is plugged directly into a USB3 port on my Mac Mini end of 2012.

  [Keep in mind, the Mavericks had no problem installing and running on the drive USB3.]

• Boot from USB on satellite L30 external HARD disk

  Hello
  Is it possible to start Windows XP (pro, sp2) of the connected by USB external HARD drive enclosure?
  Previous issues suggest that it is not possible (officially), but we (http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=21996) says it is. I tried to search for the method mentioned, but with no results (perhaps because English is not my native language).
  It is very important for me, and I would be really grateful if someone could give me a hint.
  Second issue is on "more" before the start of the HARD drive option in the BIOS (Phoenix afair). Is suggesting that it is possible to connect the drive then a more - if so, then how? Inside the laptop, of course, he has no extra room...
  Thank you in advance!

  Hello

  > I tried to search for method mentioned, but without any result
  As the other threads already suggest it of not possible to boot from the external USB HDD. You can boot from the disk, CD/DVD, floppy drive, LAN.

  The external USB FDD can be connected to the laptop and you could start in the back of the diskette.

  By the way; This laptop does not support select the Bay and you cannot insert a second HDD

• Cannot use disk utility to create the partition of the free space on the external USB drive.

  I have a red 3 TB Western Digital drive in a USB hard drive docking station.

  The reader is GPT, and I have two volumes on it (a single volume is "Microsoft reserved", another volume is NTFS).

  The other part of my drive is 1.5 TB of free space. I want to create a new partition with free space so that I can put backups Time Machine encrypted external hard disk.

  I checked free space on the drive with my Windows machine:

  
  DISKPART> list disk
  
  Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
  
  -------- ------------- ------- ------- --- --- 
  
  Disk 0 Online 167 GB 20 GB
  
  Disk 1 Online 465 GB 0 B *
  
  Disk 2 Online 2794 GB 1526 GB *
  
  DISKPART> select disk 2
  
  Disk 2 is now the selected disk.
  
  DISKPART> list part
  
  Partition ### Type Size Offset
  
  ------------- ---------------- ------- -------
  
  Partition 1 Reserved 128 MB 17 KB
  
  Partition 2 Primary 1267 GB 129 MB 
  
  DISKPART>
  

  DiskPart displays 2 partitions - a 128 MB and the other GB 1267 with 1526 MB of free space.

  I took the hard drive of my MacBook Pro running OS X El Capitan 10.11.3 and pulled towards the high disk utility, but for some reason, that it does not resemble the disk utility it is to see the free space, so I can't create a new volume.

  Here are a few screenshots:

  ... of the physical disk in disk utility (notice how it doesn't seem be all unallocated space on the disk to create a new volume):

  

  ... of the NTFS volume in disk utility:

  

  ... of information for the drive in disk utility:

  

  ... of information for the NTFS volume in disk utility:

  

  ... of the partitioning settings page. Notice how the sign is grayed out (I can't create another partition):

  

  

  I'm a new Mac user. My company recently gave me a Mac, so the first thing I want to do is to create a new partition on this external USB drive to put backups Time Machine figures on it.

  In the research I did find a way to do it on a mac computer without erasing the drive and starting over. But you can go to your windows computer and partition the free space of disks. Then use the mac to set the free space as mac os extended journaled. Here's what I found. http://www.PCWorld.com/article/2066191/how-to-partition-a-hard-drive.html the only other way would be to copy the file on the external drive, somewhere, so you can delete it and re partition for windows and mac. Then reinstall windows files. I'm not familiar with windows systems.

• Start of the external (USB) HARD disk Windows

  Dear apple supports,

  I have install Windows 10 external HARD disk and connect with my Mac by USB. When I select the system startup on boot disk is windows 10. I got a message "you cannot change the diskette on the selected disk. The bless tool was unable to put the current startup disk. »

  How can I start windows from disk external HARD on my Mac (MacBook Pro (retina, 13-inch, early 2015), OS X EL Capitan v10.11.1)

  There are two ways to install Windows on your MacBook Pro. You can use the Boot Camp Assistant, located here details: http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/ or you can use a virtual machine, Parallels, Fusion or VirtualBox. Details are found on their respective sites.

• My WD external HARD disk usb device does not appear in the computer on XP and Win7, but appears in the system tray?

  I have 2 GB external usb external hard drive that appears in the XP and Win7 system tray, but not in my computer/workstation?

  When I go to the management of computer disk/storage/management - is not there in XP but it is for Win7.

  How to work various PC and diferent OS?

  If you view the contents of the external drive, I think that the first folder contains a USB driver that you need to install to run properly, if you cannot view the contents of drive I'm sure you can download the driver for Western Digital. I think that the work of readers well on Windows 7 installs with 3 USB ports, but drivers are needed for USB 2.

• The Vixia HF G30 allows a direct copy of video files from an SD card on an external USB hard disk

  I am considering buying a G30 and need to know if she will allow a direct copy of video files from an SD card on an external USB hard drive.  The manual is not clear on this point.

  Not to my knowledge (I own a G30 HF).  There is no present on-the-go USB functionality.

  Personally, I do not miss such a feature, because it causes all kinds of compatibility problems, especially with regard to the power of external USB hard drives. In addition, without any file manager, backup of your video files into a nightmare. I must admit that I am rather Cannon after not on an often incomplete function development budget and have it spent instead on the main features of the camera, such as optics. Of course, this is just my very subjective opinion, and other HF G30 clients may have different opinions on this.

  In order to back up my video files on the fly and without having to carry a laptop, I recently bought a made by Hanso Hyperdrive colorspace UDMA2 and installed a 1 TB in her drive. When on the ground and after having taken my shots I just pop in my inside SD cards and the device of copies on the video files to 17Mbyte per second. At home, I plug in the UDMA2 in my Linux video workstation using a regular USB cable and pull the video from the mobile disk. The UDMA2 also did incremental backups and comes with a basic file manager. While it has a color screen, it can't play back video. It is a video and photo backup dedicated device, nothing more. But it does a decent job on exactly that.

• Didn't have a lot of space on my main hard drive can I change the disk external usb in the primary drive?

  Please can you help me I am using windows xp sp3 and I have, nt enough space on my hard drive that I can change the external USB hard drive "which is more important" in my main drive?

  Please can you help me I am using windows xp sp3 and I have, nt enough space on my hard drive that I can change the external USB hard drive "which is more important" in my main drive?

  Physically?  Sure.  Without removing it from its holster and moving into the computer?  N °

  Buy a new internal drive for the computer - bigger than the current one.  Use the utility it gives with the purchase of most readers of detail (or download from the OEM drive manufacturers Web site) to clone the old smaller disk on the newest disc with much new spaces.  Fact.

  I suggest you do the following:

  Do a house cleaning and the dust of this hard drive:

  You can free up disk space (will also help get rid of the things that you do not use) through the following steps:

  Windows XP should take between 4.5 and 20 GB * with * an Office suite, editing Photo software, alternative Internet browser (s), various Internet plugins and a host of other things installed.

  If you are comfortable with the stability of your system, you can delete the uninstall of patches which has installed Windows XP...
  http://www3.TELUS.NET/dandemar/spack.htm
  (Especially of interest here - #4)
  (Variant: http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_hotfix_backup.htm )

  You can run disk - integrated into Windows XP - cleanup to erase everything except your last restore point and yet more 'free '... files cleaning

  How to use disk cleanup
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/310312

  You can disable hibernation if it is enabled and you do not...

  When you Hibernate your computer, Windows saves the contents of the system memory in the hiberfil.sys file. As a result, the size of the hiberfil.sys file will always be equal to the amount of physical memory in your system. If you don't use the Hibernate feature and want to reclaim the space used by Windows for the hiberfil.sys file, perform the following steps:

  -Start the Control Panel Power Options applet (go to start, settings, Control Panel, and then click Power Options).
  -Select the Hibernate tab, uncheck "Activate the hibernation", and then click OK. Although you might think otherwise, selecting never under "Hibernate" option on the power management tab does not delete the hiberfil.sys file.
  -Windows remove the "Hibernate" option on the power management tab and delete the hiberfil.sys file.

  You can control the amount of space your system restore can use...

  1. Click Start, right click my computer and then click Properties.
  2. click on the System Restore tab.
  3. highlight one of your readers (or C: If you only) and click on the button "settings".
  4 change the percentage of disk space you want to allow... I suggest moving the slider until you have about 1 GB (1024 MB or close to that...)
  5. click on OK. Then click OK again.

  You can control the amount of space used may or may not temporary Internet files...

  Empty the temporary Internet files and reduce the size, that it stores a size between 64 MB and 128 MB...

  -Open a copy of Microsoft Internet Explorer.
  -Select TOOLS - Internet Options.
  -On the general tab in the section 'Temporary Internet files', follow these steps:
  -Click on 'Delete the Cookies' (click OK)
  -Click on "Settings" and change the "amount of disk space to use: ' something between 64 MB and 128 MB. (There may be many more now.)
  -Click OK.
  -Click on 'Delete files', then select "Delete all offline content" (the box), and then click OK. (If you had a LOT, it can take 2 to 10 minutes or more).
  -Once it's done, click OK, close Internet Explorer, open Internet Explorer.

  You can use an application that scans your system for the log files and temporary files and use it to get rid of those who:

  CCleaner (free!)
  http://www.CCleaner.com/
  (just disk cleanup - do not play with the part of the registry for the moment)

  Other ways to free up space...

  SequoiaView
  http://www.win.Tue.nl/SequoiaView/

  JDiskReport
  http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/JDiskReport/

  Those who can help you discover visually where all space is used. Then, you can determine what to do.

  After that - you want to check any physical errors and fix everything for efficient access"

  CHKDSK
  How to scan your disks for errors* will take time and a reboot.

  Defragment
  How to defragment your hard drives* will take time

  Cleaning the components of update on your Windows XP computer

  While probably not 100% necessary-, it is probably a good idea at this time to ensure that you continue to get the updates you need. This will help you ensure that your system update is ready to do it for you.

  Download and run the MSRT tool manually:
  http://www.Microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx
  (Ignore the details and download the tool to download and save to your desktop, run it.)

  Reset.

  Download/install the latest program Windows installation (for your operating system):
  (Windows XP 32-bit: WindowsXP-KB942288-v3 - x 86 .exe )
  (Download and save it to your desktop, run it.)

  Reset.

  and...

  Download the latest version of Windows Update (x 86) agent here:
  http://go.Microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=91237
  ... and save it to the root of your C:\ drive. After you register on theroot of the C:\ drive, follow these steps:

  Close all Internet Explorer Windows and other applications.

  AutoScan--> RUN and type:
  %SystemDrive%\windowsupdateagent30-x86.exe /WUFORCE
  --> Click OK.

  (If asked, select 'Run'). --> Click on NEXT--> select 'I agree' and click NEXT--> where he completed the installation, click "Finish"...

  Reset.

  Now reset your Windows with this FixIt components update (you * NOT * use the aggressive version if requested):
  How to reset the Windows Update components?

  Reset.

  You're probably done with free space that you did not have before, and a little bit of a cleaner system.  If your hard drive is not ridiculously small or you use any products AutoDesk and Adobe on this computer - you should be able to free up enough space by moving * your * stuff.