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• external USB drives not recognized under xp pro 64

  I bought a genuine version of XP Pro 64 to load on my computer and because Win 7 froze with drivers nVidia graphics.

  When I plug a recently bought Seagate Goflex or one of the new Western Digital external hard drives, they are not recognized.

  They do not show on my computer or disk management at all.

  They appear in Device Manager with a yellow question mark big under 'other devices '.

  I right click on the hard drive in the Device Manager to update the driver, and it always fails.

  Before ask you, these USB drives work perfectly on my other XP Home 32 System. The cables are good.

  I tried different ports, front and rear... no good.

  My system XP 64 Prp is updated w/Windows update and software chip to the motherboard.

  Strangely, I have a hard drive WD Passport USB 500 Gb one-year-old that works fine on XP 64 system.

  WD technicians say that I am the only one with this problem. PlugNPlay needs no driver, what do say.

  I also have IDE/SATA USB cable w / the power cable, I use to connect my old internal drives.

  Works fine on the XP Home 32, but I get the error "USB to ATA/ATAPI Bridge" in the device with the 64-bit System Manager.

  Yes these devices are all "turned on."

  Something is missing on the XP 64 system.

  Help is very appreciated.

  Been looking for a solution for a week now.

  Thank you.

  Hello

  See the following articles that may help you resolve this problem.

  A computer that is running Windows XP cannot detect a USB, an Apple iPod flash drive or an external hard disk drive
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/925196
  Why my computer does not detect my new USB device when I run Windows XP or Windows Server 2003?
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/314634

• Why are external USB drives not considered "Devices with removable storage" by Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium?

  Readers USB Flash RAM, CD drive USB, readers of CD - RW USB, USB DVD +-RW drives and DVD-ROM USB readers are all handled by Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium as "devices with removable storage".  To check this, look under the "Computer" entry in the menu 'start '.  However, if one uses as a USB external hard drive, that one is listed under 'hard drive '.  Programs noticed this, and some of them refuse to use it as a removable media drive, even if it is technically removable media, with its electronic and all.  It's kind of weird, because you can't remove the RAM on the USB Flash memory drives either.  Is there a way to get readers to external USB hard drive listed under "devices with removable storage"?

  -Yekta

  USB hard drives do not seem material RMB (removable media bit) bit set.

  I tried to format my external drive scratch NTFS (it has been formatted in this way, but I have re-formatted to ensure that), and it always happens as "Local Disk".  Also, I put the "Optimize for quick removal" option on the parameters of the disk driver hard software.  Which doesn't change anything either.  It came even as "Local Disk".  Finally, I formatted the drive with the FAT32 file system (use some flash drives).  The drive still shows as "Local Disk".  In the tests described above, I still "withdrew safely" the disk first and then re-connected.

  Thanks for the help, I now know it is a bit material in the electronic control unit which controls special registration of the drive in the operating system.

  -Yekta

• External hard drive not seen on computer

  When I plug my external hard drive on my laptop, it does not show. Entered the command prompt and you can see it o.k.Should it have a letter designation and if yes, how can I do this on Windows 7 Home Premium.

  The drive is detected in disk management?

  The drive works on another PC?

  Is there traces of yellow warning in Device Manager?

• new external hard drive not seen by LR

  Just bought a 5 TB external hard drive. The drive appears on my desktop imac computer, but dose not in LR. How it appears in LR?

  Click on the + which appears to the right of the 'Files' section and select Add folder. Navigate to the new disc and create the folder to which you want to move the pictures (or select it if it is already there).

• External hard drive not seen after that installed El captain

  Hi all

  Until classified to El captain and now my external drive of Gtech is not recognized by my iMac.

  Connect via Thunderbolt and the car behaves as it should when turning the power on, but nothing appears on the desktop

  Disk utility sees a stationary but can't do anything

  

  Any ideas anyone

  PJ

  HE is said to be the driver is not initialized. It must be formatted, preferably for Mac OS X. click on the clear button.

• How can I get my computer my external USB drive (portfolio) after that I repeatedly get the message that the device "can not be removed?

  Original title: I need a market to resolve the problem remove the instrument.

  How can I get my computer my external USB drive (portfolio) after that I repeatedly get the message that the device "can not be removed? I have closed all other programs and waited for varying amounts of time, and tried all of the fixes that have been proposed on this site. Nothing works. I don't want to turn off the computer whenever I have to remove the device.

  I can't know what "all patches" you've tried, but:

  Make sure that the system restore does not monitor the external drive.  SR does need to control the system drive and to the system drive, SR has only about 1 GB of space max.  Make a right click my computer and select properties then the System Restore tab to configure SR.

  Make sure that the Indexing Service is turned off (at least for the external drive).  To disable disk indexing completely, which will also speed up your computer a bit, see http://lifehacker.com/031440/turn-off-indexing-and-speed-up-windows-xp.  For the external drive, right-click on the drive icon in my computer, select properties and uncheck the indexing disc

  There are different workarounds short to shut down the computer, but you might want to try this third-party app first:
  http://safelyremove.com/index.html  Among other features:

  The device cannot be stopped now. Why? Never encountered the situation when Windows does not allow you to remove a device? Unlike Windows, USB remove will show you programs which prevent the device to be stopped and let you close these programs or just files that they opened on the device.

• How can I migrate a time machine backup external USB drive to time capsule

  Searched the forums and can't seem to find an answer. With the help of El Capitan 10.11.6. You want to transfer backups Time Machine 4 years on an external USB drive on my new Time Capsule. Any ideas would be MUCH appreciated.

  There is no official method because it has problems.

  There's no official way.

  Here see Q18. http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html

  We recommend that people not me there. It has not proven reliable long-term. Start a new backup on the TC and keep the USB stick in the form of archive. After a few months or a year you won't have it.

  You have to understand the Time Machine backup otherwise locally the CF network. It is easy enough to move the backup network local but much harder the other way around.

• El Capitan - Ext. USB Drive not mounting

  Since the upgrade to El Capitan, I have not been able to access my external USB drive. I read the other posts about this problem and none of their solutions worked for me. Through repeated trial and error, I came across a solution that allowed me to access my USB drive in El Capitan. By attaching a USB hub to USB port and your device your drive should become accessible. Depending on what type of car you join you may need a powered hub. I enclose a mSATA drive to a hub powered and well.

  Hi Bob, there.

  Looks like you're having connect your USB drive to a hub so that it works with your computer. I would reset your PRAM then your SMC in this order:

  How to reset the NVRAM on your Mac.

  Then:

  Reset the management system (SCM) controller on your Mac.

  If the problem persists after that I have would then start in safe mode to clear some system-level caches and perform a disk check and repair if necessary:

  Follow these steps to start in safe mode.

  1. Start or restart your Mac.
  2. As soon as you hear the startup tone, hold down the SHIFT key.
  3. Release the SHIFT key when you see the logo Apple appears on the screen.

  After the Apple logo appears, this may take longer than usual to reach the login screen or your office. This is because your Mac performs a check of directory of your drive to boot in safe mode.

  To leave safe mode, restart your computer without pressing any keys during startup.

  From: try safe mode if your Mac does not start-up

  Once you log in safe mode, reboot normally and try again the reader. Thank you for using communities of Apple Support, let us know how it goes.

• 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.

• Cannot drag and drop external USB drives

  Hello

  All of a sudden, I can't drag-and - drop or copy and paste all the files on an external USB drive. Windows Explorer stops and restarts each time. A ran the antivirus, malware, CC Cleaner etc and its still the same. Also tried in safe mode.

  The event log is as follows:

  The failing application name: explorer.exe, version: 6.1.7601.23418, time stamp: 0x570898dc
  The failed module name: psdprotect.dll, version: 3.1.76.0, time stamp: 0x4aa9003b
  Exception code: 0xc0000005
  Offset: 0x00000000000012de
  ID of the process failed: 0 x 1450
  Start time of application vulnerabilities: 0x01d1cb1bc9f4ea6a
  The failing application path: C:\Windows\explorer.exe
  Path of the failing module: C:\Program Files (x 86) \EgisTec\MyWinLocker 3\x64\psdprotect.dll
  Report ID: bea55c9d-3711-11e6-981a-00262d7bb69c

  Is this average Winlocker is the cause? Winlocker on my PC for years without any problem.

  Thank you

  Hi, I managed to solve the problem by uninstalling winlocker. I had open Séverine deep and burn the files on DVD first, but I seem to have lost the 30 GB partition that he once used it uninstalled.

  Yes, I came to the same conclusion - uninstall mywinlocker (a dll shared with windows Explorer which has become corrupted). The dll is: psdprotect.dll, version: 3.1.76.0

  Here's what I think happened in my case:

  Microsoft automatically installed Windows 10 on my system. I wouldn't use it and returned to my old operating system (Windows 7).
  During the re installation, Microsoft provided updates for some files (cela "should include" to explore shared dll) HOWEVER, mywinlocker (part of an independent program that was originally installed on my system in 2011 - the old dll remained in place).

  Since Explorer windows update needed now the newer dll - this is why I think that the program was not.

  To know if you have this problem - check your event logs to see what error

  Start / eventviewer / windows logs / request - find the brand red exclamation (view)
  That's what my error looked like:

  The failing application name: Explorer.EXE, version: 6.1.7601.23418, time stamp: 0x570898dc

  The failed module name: psdprotect.dll, version: 3.1.76.0, time stamp: 0x4aa9003b

  Exception code: 0xc0000005

  Offset: 0x00000000000012db

  ID of the process failed: 0xeb4

  Start time of application vulnerabilities: 0x01d1cbf05e82786e

  The failing application path: C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE

  Path of the failing module: C:\Program Files (x 86) \EgisTec\MyWinLocker 3\x64\psdprotect.dll

  Report ID: 189edf94-37e4-11e6-a2db-90fba64d1d10

  I do not use Mywinlocker, so I simply uninstalled the program. But if you use - you'll want to put the information before you uninstall.

  Once uninstalled - explore should work again. If this isn't the case, you may have remaining broken DLL. To run a system cleaner to solve these issues.

  Thank you Moderec for pointing me in the right direction. Like you, I surfed the web to find answers and none of them took into account Mywinlocker. It took some time to solve this - was grateful to finally get fixed! Bravo!

• Disable the external USB drive autoplay function? Windows 7 Pro.

  I have two external USB drives connected to my computer. Whenever I start, an AutoPlay window will appear for each reader, asking me what I want to do with it. It gives 2 choices "Open folder to view files", or "View more AutoPlay options in the Panel". If I choose to view more AutoPlay options, my USB keys do not appear at the bottom of the AutoPlay under devices. I want to continue to use AutoPlay for my CD/DVD players, but I want to stop AutoPlay Windows popping up whenever I start the computer. It's frustrating to have to click the X on both of these windows, whenever I start the computer.

  Any suggestions?

  I have two external USB drives connected to my computer. Whenever I boot, an AutoPlay window will appear for each reader, asking me what I want to do , but I want to stop AutoPlay Windows popping up whenever I start the computer. It's frustrating to have to click the X on both of these windows, whenever I start the computer.

  Any suggestions?

  Click on the round to START and in the search box type "regedit" (without the quotes).  .
  Click once on the COMPUTER (upper-left) and then click the EDIT menu and click FIND.

  Type "NoDriveTypeAutoRun" and .
  In the left pane, right click EXPLORE and click EXPORT.
  Type "autorun" in the FILE NAME box, choose a folder of your choice and press the "SAVE" button.
   
  Back in the editor of the register, in the right pane, right-click on the NoDriveTypeAutoRun entry and click EDIT.
  Change the number 91 to 95.   Press OK.

  Reset.  If no joy, double-click the file that you saved, to merge into the registry.

• Help move my datastore on external USB drive to reformat with correct block size

  Hello

  I use a Dell PowerEdge 2650 with a 550 GB disks configured in RAID 5 with ESX 3.5i

  When I installed ESX I didn't pay attention to the size of the block. This is the default 1 MB and so I reached the maximum extends. Which means that I can receive only 260 GB on my 550 GB.

  I need to change the parameter to a block size of 4 MB in order to access the entire table.

  But for this I need to move my existing data store that contains a lot of important files for me.

  I have not any currenty server with 260/300 GB of free space.

  I'll try the following:

  1. connect an external USB drive. I have ssh running, but I'm having difficulties to climb. I looked for info, but I am always sick.

  2. If possible, I would like to compress using gzip great records in my data store before moving. Can advise you on the location of the files in the system and if it is possible to do?

  Thank you

  Chris

  It is clear now,

  in this case if your VM's you buy a big enough hard drive 250 GB single VMDK file to copy all virtual machine configuration, not he zip or compress, you can screw all of the data on disk

  I have an idea, depends on the amount of data you have on your virtual hard disk, you can use VMware converter 4.0.1 and clone your VM with discs thin provision, Vmware converter will be "zipp" your VMDK file to the exact size of your data without any risk that would have lost you all your data.

  1 use vmware converter to clone your VM with discs thin provisioned

  2. low source VM

  3. start the VM 'new' and check if it works well

  4. If 4 is OK, stop VM 'nine '.

  5. copy the new virtual machine on your USB key (set the USB you your workstation and you winscp to copy the virtual machine)

  6 remove VMFS datastore

  7. create the new VMFS datastore

  8 download VM to the new data store

  9. creating the new virtual machine based on a VMDK file

  10. start the virtual machine

  see you soon

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• How can I make an external USB drive read-only?

  I'm trying to find a solution to take a USB HD in a spacing classified environment / air.  If I can make the drive read-only (like I gave him that I need to copy on these machines), then the Agency will probably approve the device.  I can't use DVDs that data are 30 + GB in size.

  Hey there, capsfanva!

  Welcome to the communities of Apple Support! It seems you need to set permissions on an external USB drive or hard drive. These permissions setting is a great way to improve the security and privacy of these elements. You've come to the right place and you will find the answer below. You must connect the device to your computer and follow these steps:

  Set permissions for the items on your Mac OS X El Capitan:

  See you soon!

• External hard drive not appearing is not on Macbook Pro

  Hello

  I have problems with my external hard drive not appearing is not on my mac pro book. I did disk utility, and yet nothing has worked. I turned my computer on and off and the UN-plugged in the external hard drive. This has been a problem on my mac for a while and im frustrated book now. Im not sure what else to do. My external hard drive is a WD elements 1 TB. I tried the external hard drive on my windows of parents and it shows but does not appear on my mac book. I'm doing youtube videos, so I wanted to free my desktop because that all cluttered now. All my videos and my green screens that I use are on this external hard drive. Help, please.

  Thank you

  Open the Finder, then go to the Finder menu bar and click Finder > Preferences then select the general tab, then check that the external drives is enabled.

  If this does not help, make sure that OS X is up to date.

  Update the software on your Mac - Apple Support