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• Disk utility finds several files and folders after formatting external hard drive

  It is somewhat an Enigma to me. I bought an external hard drive that I wanted to use to store my Time Machine backups. I formatted in Mac OS extended (journaled case-sensitive) without any problems, however, I noticed that disk utility indicated that I had 18 and 59 files (space used = 448,1 Mb)!  I ejected the disc, it reconnected and utility found 64-19 records to disc now! How is that possible? What is going on?  I used the 'diskutil list' command on the Terminal, and I found the following:

  / dev/disk2

  #: NAME SIZE TYPE IDENTIFIER

  0: GUID_partition_scheme * GB 500,1 disk2

  1: disk2s1 EFI EFI 209.7 MB

  2: Apple_HFS disk2s2 backup 499,8 Gb

  I see there are 2 partitions, even if I made a partition during formatting of the drive.  I don't know if this 'normal' or if I'm doing something wrong. I would be very happy any help you can give! Thank you very much!

  It's normal. new disc format have information. When you start the firmware queries drives to see what is on them to find if they ae bootable

• best way to transfer photos from the iMac on external hard drive

  best way to transfer photos from the iMac on external hard drive

  If you are mobile loose photo files, drag them in here and if you are going to be removed from the inside, keep a copy on a second disc.

  If you move an iPhoto, Aperture, or photo library, make sure that the external hard drive contains a volume to the Mac OS Extended format, drag the library there, launch the application with the key Option key, choose it, confirm that it works and if you are going to be remove from the inside, keep a copy of it on a second disc.

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• My MacBook Pro runs very slowly.  I El Captain 10.11.4 rare apps on it, most are closed while I'm on safari.  My photos take a 125 gb storage capacity.  If that is the question, what external hard drive is recommended?  If not, what is?

  My MacBook Pro runs very slowly.  I El Captain 10.11.4 rare apps on it, most are closed while I'm on safari.  My photos take a 125 gb storage capacity.  If that is the question, what external hard drive is recommended?  If not, what is?

  Download and and publish a report of Etrecheck:

  http://etrecheck.com/

  Ciao.

• Windows 7 asks Me to format the Seagate FreeAgent external hard drive I've used for more than a month

  I used Seagate FreeAgent as my external hard drive for more than a month now, but recently I am unable to access Windows 7 asks me to format it to use it. Somehow I can format the HDD without losing my data?  Or does perform a work around?

  Hi NuVille,

  Before perform us any of the steps, first of all I suggest you to create a backup of the data stored in your external hard drive on another computer.

  To save the data, you can connect your external hard drive on another computer and copy all the files and folders on the other computer. Later, you can connect the external drive to the Windows 7 computer and try to run the disk error checking and check if that helps you solve the problem.

  Access the link below and follow the steps to check the drive for errors and fix it.
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/check-a-drive-for-errors

  After completing the disc you error checking, try to check if you can access the drive.

  If the steps above do not I suggest you try to format the hard drive. Access the link below and follow the steps to format the hard drive.
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/create-and-format-a-hard-disk-partition

  Note: there is no way to format without losing any data on the disk. Formatting the drive will erase all data.  This is why you must back up the data before formatting the hard drive.

  I hope this helps. Let us know the results.

  Thank you and best regards,

  Srinivas R Microsoft technical support.
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• Windows 7 update history not showing after restore the Image of external hard drive

  I just restored windows 7 from a system image on an external hard drive.  When I used windows update after restoration update history had disappeared, although I found the updates in the updates installed, I wonder if something is wrong and if all my updates are in place and why did do that AND, can I GET BACK. ?. ?. ?. Everything seems to work fine... /.
  Thanks and let me know.
  Dave

  Hello

  The version history is just a list containing the results of the applied updates and non-operational systematics
  importance. The installed updates is the important file that shows what updates have been installed.

  I hope this helps.

  Rob - bicycle - Mark Twain said it is good.

• Windows could not complete the format (external hard drive)

  I use windows 7 64 bit and my external hard drive crashed and has converted his car to RAW format rather than NTFS

  I tried to solve the problem by changing the name of 'L' discs to other letters and retry the format without success

  I also tried to use the disk management format and changed to an optimal device

  And also I tried using diskpart.exe

  This has not just to reformat the drive, so I can use it I do not have the information about this because it's still all on my computer any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

  Hello
   
  
  could a. you give us the exact error message and the error code, if any?
  b. what commands did you tried the diskpart utility?
  c. I recommend to do the full format rather than the quick and check.
  d. also try to format the drive on another computer and check.
  
  I recommend you to use the clean command to remove and format all partitions on the external hard drive and check. See the article below for more information.
  A Description of the Diskpart command-line utility
  (This article is valid for Windows 7 too.)
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/300415
  Note: Run the clean command, you delete the content and the partitions on the external hard drive.
   
  For more information, refer to the article below.
  Formatting disks and drives: frequently asked questions
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/formatting-disks-and-drives-frequently-asked-questions
   
   
  I hope this helps.

  Thank you, and in what concerns:
  Shekhar S - Microsoft technical support.

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• Catalogue of confusion after the removal of the photos on external hard drive. [was: help!]

  I tried to be smart and I bought an external hardrive to free up some space on my laptop.  I transferred all my photos to the hardrive thought that I would be able to work on these photos in lightroom, as long as I had the hard drive plugged into my laptop.  Well this is not the case apparently.  So I imported all the photos into lightroom from the hard drive.  With the hard drive plugged into the laptop I can access all my pictures, but the catalogs that I was editing have lost all their changes.  I tried to open the backup lightroom from yesterday, and nothing happens.  If I select one of my catalogs that none of the images are there, he also says missing photos.  So I tried to locate all missing photos, and nothing happened.  All the photos are in lightroom, they appear in the library under the external hardrive.  But I can't shoot in my catalogs and cannot roll back changes to the photos I was editing when I put all my photos on the external hard drive.

  Hi Amanda,.

  You get the workflow a bit confused here. It is hard to follow all of the steps you took, but I will try to explain the correct procedure.

  1. you have a Lightroom Catalog and all images in the catalog pointing to a location on the internal drive (ideally, it would be a series of folders under the folder of a high level, to make it easier to step 3 below).

  2. copy the image of folders containing images of the Interior on the external drive. You now have two copies of your images.

  3. open Lightroom and you should see all your images again. Open the files Panel and right-click on the top-level folder that contains all the image files (this is where a single top-level folder is priceless). Choose 'location of folder update... »

  4. navigate to the top level on the external drive folder and choose that. Your Lightroom Catalog is now oriented to the external hard drive.

  At this point, you can go on using Lightroom normally. You can copy, move or delete the images of your internal drive, because Lightroom is their use is no longer.

  Note that in step 3 above, if all your image files are not contained in a single top-level folder, you will need to repeat steps 3 and 4 several times, once for each top-level folder.

  Mike

• Format external hard drive for "Photos"?

  Go to my library of Photos together a new external hard drive which will be connected to my iMac. Suggestions on the layout of form or something else I might want to think? I would like to change is moving with it, too.

  10.11.3 running; connects to the "OWC Mercury on the Go Pro"

  Plan to just drag my photo library on (it is huge - over 400 GB). Maybe create a new library of pictures, too, but store them all on the EXT HD.

  It must be partitioned and formatted for use on your Mac:

  1. Open utility disk from the Applications\utilitaires folder.
  2. After loading disk utility, select the external hard drive (entrance Out-bumpy with of the mfgr.) ID and size) in the list to one side. Click the utility tab Partition or delete in the toolbar of disc. Adjustable circular diagram to set the number of partitions if you want more than one.
  3. In the Group dropdown set the GUID partition scheme. Define the type of Format Mac OS extended (journaled).
  4. Click on the apply button and wait for button done to activate it.

• Cannot save files from the iMac on external hard drive

  Hello. I recently bought an iMac 27 inches 5 k retina and I can't save files to the iMac on my external hard drive, which is a 1 to Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex. I formatted the hard drive before, so I can use it on Mac and PC. It works fine with my Macbook Pro. But not on my iMac. What could be the problem and how can I solve this problem? I don't want the hassle of the backup of my hard drive and reformatting, because there a lot of files already on it. Help, please

  Pray tell what is the format?

  What happens when you try to copy files?

  Mac can read but cannot write to NTFS without special software.

• Change the password on external hard drive

  Hi all

  on my iMac 21.5 ", I recently updated my Mac HD internal to El Capitan 10.11.  There are now several major programs (for example MPEG Streamclip and Photoshop elements 11) which worked fine under Yosemite, but are not compatible with El Capitan.

  On an external hard drive, I installed Yosemite 10.10.2 in late 2014 when it was the last version of OS X.  Only, I installed a system on the usual external drive boot on the internal HD failure.  All of these programs (also installed on the external hard drive) work very well in Yosemite.

  When I start on the hard disc to access these programs, I had problems when I need to make changes for which the system requires a user and a password.  I don't remember what they were.  Is it possible to change the password (given that I can identify the user name in the "Users" folder), please?

  Best regards, paulranger1.

  Please open the Startup disk preferences window and select the volume on the external hard disk. You must change this selection on the internal drive after the reset of the password.

  Start in recovery mode. When OS X Utilities window, select

  Utilities ▹ Terminal

  in the menu bar at the top of the screen, not one of the items in the OS X Utilities window.

  In the window that opens, type this:

  resetp

  Press the tab key. The partial order you entered will automatically end this:

  resetpassword

  Press return. Opens a window to reset the password. Close the Terminal window to get him out of the way.

  Select the boot volume ("Macintosh HD", unless you have given it a different name) if not already selected. You won't be able to do this if FileVault is turned on.

  Select your username in the menu option allows you to select the account if not already selected.

  Follow the prompts to reset the password. It is safer to choose a password that includes only the characters a - z, A - Z and 0-9.

  Select

  ▹ Restart 

  in the menu bar.

  You should now be able to login with the new password, but will reset the keychain (empty). If you have forgotten the password for the keychain (which is normally the same as the password for the connection), there is no way to recover it.

• Formatting external hard drive

  When I plug in my external hard drive, it asks me to format the drive.  But when he tries to format it, it says that windows could not complete the format.  He said so make sure that the disc is not dead? I tried to format it through cmd, but this also does not work.  It's to do with the fact that the partition is RAW?

  You have all the data in the drive?

  If so, back up the data on another computer and then put it on another computer.

  See: http://forums.techarena.in/xp-hardware/773466.htm

• Cannot format external hard drive

  Formatting an external hard drive
  I can't get my external hard drive to format, the window says it is not formatted, so can someone please help me get this format?

  It is a 20 GB 2.5samsung, or is this even compatible with a Telechareger?

  Hello

  1. What is the brand and model of your external hard drive?
  2. you have any data on the disk?

  Try to format the drive on another computer and check if it helps.

  In addition, run the command chkdsk (check disk) on the disk.

  Follow these steps:
  1. click on start and then right click on computer.
  2. click on properties.
  3. now click on theTools menu, and then click check now.
  4. Select the external hard drive.
  5. check the "automatically fix file system errors" and "scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors".
  6. click on check now.

  Kind regards
  Afzal Taher-Microsoft Support.
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• implementation of the letters for external hard drives

  I have a new external hard drive and when I plug it, the computer will beep, but when I open my computer, there is no indication of the letter where the external hard disk and I can't open it to see or access what is on it. He worked for some time as E drive but I can no longer access disc can someone give me a simple solution? Thanks for any help.

  I'm not an expert, but I did something similar a few times.  I remember well, I clicked on computer (in the Start Menu), selected to manage, which took me to the computer (via the "C:\Windows\System32\CompMgmtLauncher.exe" command line) Management Console.

  I hope that, when you select disk management from the Console (near the bottom of the menu under storage), you will see a list of your external drives.  Just right click on any player to get a menu which includes 'change drive... letter and access paths. ».    (You know to avoid the 'Format' unless you ready for it.)

• Format external hard drive

  Hey guys
  I used an old hard drive from the laptop to create a usb key recovery for a netbook without a disk drive.
  How do I now the format of the hard drive for use again as it is no longer present on my pc, if I set to boot from it, it get up she just try to run recovery which was copied on it used.

  shig1,
  If the only thing on the external drive is recovering files to the netbook, then chances are that your PC is not going to see this player.  The two computers to the same operating system or are they different?  If you don't need the files on the external hard drive recovery and see it the netbook, you may need to format it on the netbook so then the PC should see it.  But if you need to copy the files of recovery out there, I don't know what to tell you.  I would recommend to put these files on the hard drive of the netbook and get an external optical drive that you can make a CD or a DVD backup recovery files.  The two computers are linked by chance?  You can connect and use the transfer tool to copy the files from recovery on your PC, so you can burn it to a CD and then you could be formatted externally.

  Transfer files and settings from another computer
  http://windowshelp.Microsoft.com/Windows/en-us/help/9e2347fc-43af-4FF9-8E33-0002b9d449561033.mspx

  I hope this helps.  Let us know the status.
  Thank you

  Gloria
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
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