How can I attach an external hard drive for Macbook

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• How to move files on external hard drive for Macbook Air (El Capitan)

  Hello.

  I bought a new macbook air last week. I've been moving files from my old laptop via my hard drive (my ultra 1 TB WD Passport). I was able to move the correct files on the drive, but now I want to move photos and videos to my Macbook, but it won't allow me. It shows a circle of gray with a line through it, when I try to drag the file on the disk. Photos and videos are in the documents in the finder not in the photo library, I don't know if that makes a difference.

  Any help will be really appreciated.

  Thank you

  Ann

  How did the external drive connected to the MBA? I guess that via USB? The freestanding photos/videos or are they in iPhoto or Photos?

• Where and how can I reinstall the external hard drive to the new HD to the computer?

  Original title: HD crashed.

  I want to thank the person who answered my question about the HD crashed I saved all my data and window xp. My next question is, how and where can I reinstall external hard drive for the new HD to the computer? Should I send it to drive c or where? I'm not strong when it comes to computers. I know just enough to get me in trouble. Thank you.

  Hello!

  You will need to use a full copy of Windows XP.  Should be a sticker with the product key on the side of your desk or below if it is a laptop.

  Once you have this drive, you can reinstall Windows XP.  After you have installed all the software and drivers, you will be able to transfer all your data to the new HARD drive.

  If you don't have a copy of Windows XP, you can probably get a copy of the recovery from the manufacturing of computer media.  Just to provide the model and serial number and they should sent it.

• Question: How can I format an external hard drive

  I am trying to use an external hard drive with Time Machine.  He tells me that my external must be formatted in a format "journaled". I can't find any way to do it and the Mac is do not do it either. Can someone tell me how to proceed so that Time Machine works to put in shape?

  If Time Machine is not reformat the disk itself, choose Utilities in the Finder Go menu, open disk utility, select the drive in the sidebar and delete it.

  (144913)

• OK, how can I access my external hard drive after plug it into another computer? Original computer crashed.

  How do I get my new computer and I need access to my external hard drive? Original computer crashed and now I get a message saying ".

  Hi John and Missy Verhoog,

  1. What is the error message you are getting?

  2 have you checked the State of the drive in Device Manager?

  Check to see if the external drive is getting detected in Device Manager.

  a. Click Start, type devmgmt.msc and press to enter.

  b. find the name of the drive in the list of Bus USB controllers.

  c. right click on the device, and then select properties to view general information about the drivers.

  You can also read the following article and see if it helps:

  Install or remove a hard drive

  Hope this information is useful.

• How can I stop my external hard drives being renamed by Lightroom?

  Since early December, I had countless problems with LR and my external hard drives. I have 3 all Western Digital external hard drives, 2 x 320 GB passport and 1 x 1 TB elements. I called the hard disks of the computer named them when I first installed them (E & F). Since then the LR calls what he wants when I plug them so there are always question marks next to my photos as LR think I plugged a different hard drive.

  Although I don't have 1 x 1 TB hard drive WD Elements LR called something different if I unplug it and plug it in again then it starts and then trying to find all my pictures.

  My partner has no such problems as he never unplug his hard drives, but I need that sometimes I'm working on a laptop with the same LR catalog, if I work, so I take a drive with me with the images.

  I could do with:

  (a) a method of naming, my hard drives from WD for LR acknowledges that are connected

  (((b) a very simple digital workflow - I have many books of LR but need a genius LR say 1) cela 2) do this etc - I have about 30 000 pictures and even without the hard drive problems make me a bit stuck trying to be organized - I am a photographer not an administrator and I'm really bad on the organizational side.

  Help, please, I'm drowning in technology - ps I love Lightroom!

  So the question is probably WIndows XP. When you attach a remote drive, Windows XP can arbitrarily assign it to one of the drive letters D: through Z: assignments. A: and B: are reserved for floppy disk drives, and C: is usually indicated on the startup disk where Windows XP.

  The drive letters change generally when you plug external drives in different order. So if you have DriveA and DriveB, and you plug in DriveA then DriveB, then DriveA can get assigned D: and DriveB may be assigned E:. If, however, one branch in DriveB first then DriveA, the order will probably flip over in which case Lightroom lose track of all the photos he had previously in location D: and E:.

  The solution is to use the windows Disk Manager to force the assignment of drive letters. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307844 for more details. Set mailbox that uses Lightroom.

  A problem you may encounter is if you connect a new drive, then attach your photo disks. I believe Windows will give you the new drive D; slot, since it is not used, but then randomly divided the photo viewer because it is defined location is not available. Windows is a manager of poor things, Apple is not.

  The solution is to always attach the disks in the same order, and Windows will affect the drive correctly, assume a has completed the tasks in article.

  Another approach is to use the Windows mount command. If you're brave, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/205524.

  John

• Can I use an external hard drive for my photos screensaver?

  Is it possible to use my external hard drive as the source of the photos of the screen saver?

  I'm running El Capitan 10.11.3 and have a Seagate BUP Slim.

  isabelfromsutton

  Just to clarify, this means the iPhoto somehow? Then, in a version?

• How can I move photoshop to hard drive for the new macbook pro

  My macbook is dead but I have the hard drive connected via a USB docking station. How can I transfer my Photoshop CS5 (and the rest of the suite adobe) on my new macbook? I have the box and CD, but the new machine isn't a hard drive?

  Thank you

  Download here

  Download the CS5 products

• How can I add a second hard drive for my dv7-3060us?

  I am very short of space on my originally installed HP 500 GB hard drive and need more storage space. I have a new Seagate 750 GB drive, 7200 RPM and I would like to install it. When I opened the folder to access the second hard drive compartment, I was blocked when I have not found any pre-installed connector. What should I do to install this player?

  Thank you!

  Hello

  Loss of power for 40mins. Please try this:

  http://PartSurfer.HP.com/search.aspx?SearchText=605415-001

  the links before shows the TWO caddy and cable for dv7 machines.  This article may help:

  http://thessd.com/2012/02/how-to-add-a-2nd-HDD-or-SSD-to-an-HP-Pavilion-dv7-laptop/

  Kind regards.

• I am able to access my desktop to my laptop as part of a homegroup, but can not access the external hard drive that is attached to my office.

  share external hard drive

  I am able to access my desktop to my laptop as part of a homegroup, but can not access the external hard drive that is attached to my office. I want to be able to back up my laptop hard disk external.  Advice please.

  geraintjo

  I do not use homegroups, but 'true' to share, so I don't know how this is supposed to work with homegroups. But usually he should share a drive or folder, first before you can access it from another machine. (for example, click on the drive/folder properties and go to the sharing tab)

• I can't find my external hard drive under 'Computer' but it appears in "Devices and printers" How can I access files on my external hard drive?

  I can't find my external hard drive in "computer".

  I just bougth a new HP computer running Windows 7.  I just copied a bunch of movie files, music and photo of my old Mac (OSX Leopard) on a Western Digital external hard drive.

  I plugged the external drive in my HP via USB 2.0 on the front of the computer.  Windows recognizes the drive.  She appears in the Panel of external control/hardware and Sound/devices and printers as "HARD disk".

  It does not appear in 'Computer' under 'devices with removable storage ".

  I just want to get to my files so I can copy them to my new computer.  How to access my files on the external hard drive?  Why isn't he appear in 'computer '?

  Hello ShamedMonkey,

  Thank you for your message.  The problem you are having is because of differences in formatting between PC and Mac.  You can, however, transfer your files between the two.  I will set out what must be done under and limitations of each.
  First, you will need to format the drive on your PC.  When you format the PC, you can format it in FAT32 or NTFS.
  (You mentioned that you do not see the drive in the computer) To format drive:
  Click 'Start' > right click on 'Computer' > select 'manage '.
  Click on "disk management".
  In the right pane, you should see your drive > you can then do a right click and 'format '.
  FAT32:
  This format will allow you to easily transfer files between the two.  This format becomes problematic when you transfer files more than 4 G.  There is a limit of 4 GB in FAT32, etc. of many movies are bigger than that and cannot be transferred using this format.
  NTFS
  This format has no size limitation, however, in its normal state it will be 'Read only' on Mac.  If you will not be able to transfer all the data itself.  While doing some research on the web, it seems that you can use a program called MacFuse on your Mac to change to NTFS files.  I have not confirmed this, but you can give it a try.  If this program works as planned, it would be the way to go.
  Please let us know if it did or did not solve your problem.
  See you soon

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• How can I get my external cd drive to work on my hp ultrabook

  How can I get my external cd drive to work on my hp ultrabook

  Hello:

  In addition to the above, you will need to also go into the BIOS and turn on legacy Mode in order to boot from another device, but the hard drive with Windows 8.

  You may also need to disable secure both boot.

• How to get personal files on a backup external hard drive for windows 7

  How to get files from a backup external hard drive for windows 7 pro. ? I DON'T WANT TO RESTORE WINDOWS 7, JUST MY PHOTOS & DOCUMENTS.    TO THANK THE TAXI 53 DRIVER

  Hello

  Thanks for posting your question on the Microsoft community.

  Thank you for details on the issue.

  You can restore backed up files lost, damaged, or accidentally modified versions. You also to restore files individual, groups of files, or all files that you have saved.

  If you are restoring files from a backup that was made on another computer, the files are restored in a folder under the user name that was used to create the backup. If the user names are different, you must navigate to the folder where the files are restored.

  I suggest you use the steps in this article and check if it helps.
  Reference:
  Restore files from a backup
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/restore-files-backup#1TC=Windows-7

  I hope this information helps.

  Please let us know if you need more help.

  Thank you

• HP Pavilion dv7 - 3188cl: can I use an external hard drive with my laptop computer?

  Hello

  Can I use an external hard drive from 1 to 2 to my laptop? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

  Hi @ptr1959w!

  Yes, you can use an external hard drive on your laptop - just connect via one of the USB ports on your machine, partition and format it in disk management, and you should be ready to go. Here is an article with the steps you can follow to do this:

  http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?ID=ou7o9Q

  Hope this helps, and feel free to ask any questions you may have.

  See you soon!

• Can not Backup on external hard drive, get error 0 x 810000006

  can not backup on external hard drive

  Close running programs as much as possible. Turn off or unplug the external drive. Market back or plug, wait a few minutes and try again.

  Tom Ferguson