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• Drive mapping: How can I get my external drive be mapped to F: (as he was once) rather than g: which is what happens when I turn on now.

  How can I get my external drive be mapped to F: (as he was once) rather than g: which is what happens when I turn on now.  I tried to unplug and power, reboot etc.  There is no F: drive connected to the computer.

  Go to start / Control Panel / administrative tools / computer management / "disk management and select external reader by clicking on it and then right-click on it and select change drive letter and paths."  It should show the letter currently assigned (G I guess).  Click the button change.  To the right will be a drop of drive letters box.  Go ahead and select F and click on OK.  That should do it. If F is not available, then it is used by the system for something else.  Check disk management to see if you can find it.  If it is not, and is not available in the list, I'm afraid, you will not be able to change until find you what is using drive letter F and remove it, or change it to something else.

  I hope this helps.  If this isn't the case, after return and we will try to understand what is using F or why it is not available.

  Good luck!

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• How can I get a boot drive for windows vista

  How can I get a boot drive for windows vista

  Hello

  Here's how to do a startup, vista etc disc repair

  It is NOT a reinstall drive

  the link below is how to download and get a vista disk startup repair, which you can start from the

  http://NeoSmart.net/blog/2008/Windows-Vista-recovery-disc-download/

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  to boot from the dvd drive to be able to you will see a way to get into the bios Setup at the bottom of the screen or command menu start

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• How can I partition my external drive? (Time Machine)

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  Time Machine doesn't accept my external drive (Seagate Backup Plus thin, 2 TB). It takes the format: "Mac OS extended (journaled):

  

  So I searched Google and found out, that I have to partition the external flash drive.

  So I opened the disk utility. But then I can't partition:

  

  What can I do? I really need to use Time Machine.

  My laptop: MacBook Air, 13', mid 2013

  Thanks for the responses,

  Tlumi

  The drive must be formatted with a GUID partition map, your's with a Master Boot record.

  

  You can copy the content to the Seagate to your mac and format it correctly, partition and copy the data back?

• How to remove clips on external drive with fcpx

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  After doing this for a while, I was wondering how much space I had erased on the external hard drive so I click on 'get info' and find it strange that I didn't win any space at all.  Then in fcpx I I tried to right click on a clip of a decision-making > reveal in finder and I can see all the other clips I had "deleted" always there on the external hard drive!

  Can someone explain to me how to remove clips on an external drive in fcpx?  Also is there a simple way to fix the confusion I have now?  Basically, fcpx displays the content exactly as I want it to be on the external hard drive, it just does not actually all that...  Please don't tell me I have to manually locate and delete each clip - there are hundreds!

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• How to start Mac on external aid on wins 10

  Hi, I have 10 installed on an external windows (I used a portable hard drive, installed windows 10 on that occasion a USB external editor to connect to other PCs)

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  I wanted to install gta V and Fallout for this windows computer without using a lot of space.

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• How to merge pictures of external drive for disc top desk into the same master catalog?

  I have about 900 files raw on an external drive. I edited the files using my master catalog using a laptop while traveling again. When I got home, I copied the master catalog from the external hard drive on the counter top and then opens the master catalog on my desktop. I can see the images published on the external hard drive. So far so good.

  I want to copy images (add) the edited on my counter top. I tried to export images in a new catalog, and then import it into the store of desire on my desktop drive. However, LR5 does not allow that. I get this message: "there is nothing new in the catalogue that you selected. All the photos in the catalogue are up-to-date in this catalogue. "Yes, but the edited images are not on my desk...

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  I use LR5 with Windows 7.

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  Okay, so I copy (and not move) the files/pictures on the internal HD, keep the same folder hierarchy as they are now on the external hard drive. Yes, of course, the drive name will be different, but other than the folder path and name should be the same.

  Then, open the LR catalog that indexes the files and the location of the update folder (details are here: http://www.computer-darkroom.com/lr2_find_folder/find-folder.htm, scroll down to the section "Update folder location")

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• Install Windows 8 on external drive Thunderbolt - Windows could not prepare the computer to begin the next phase of installation

  Hi all

  I'm at my wit's end trying to install windows 8. Let me start at the beginning: I used to have windows running on my Mac Pro ssd internal 8.1, installed via bootcamp. It worked well for a while, and then refused to start, gives me a blue screen KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE. Despite some advice from lonely T, I was unable to fix and ended up wiping the partition and relocation, again via bootcamp. Yet once again, it worked for a few months, then the same problem. I made this one last time, and it only lasted 2 days... So I gave bootcamp.

  I think that the hybrid MBR partition scheme that implements bootcamp is the culprit, but I don't really have evidence to substantiate this claim. In any case, I tried to install windows in EFI mode. (If I understand correctly, the hybrid MBR is set up to allow windows to install in legacy BIOS mode, but that windows 8 may now install efi, which supports my Mac Pro mode.) My Mac is the new Mac Pro (end of 2013, trash in shape), and I can say short UEFI 2.0 (I have the latest efi update from apple installed).

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  3 restart my mac and hold the possibility to put in place to bring up the boot efi menu.

  4. Select the EFI_Boot DVD icon (that's the windows 8 install dvd that I have in my superdrive USB drive)

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  6. now select "Unallocated space" on the good drive and click Next.

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  Partitioning seems to go ok (there is no feedback on this basis, but it proceeds to the next screen, and all new partitions expected are there if I check diskutil list later). He said it is "copy of windows files", but then stops with the error "Windows has no prepare the computer to start the next phase of the installation." To install Windows, restart the installation. "If I restart, I can start the same process all over again and get the same result.

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  How I get this error and get windows install?

  Extra pieces:

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  • After reviewing the diskutil list output after one of installs it without success, I found that a labeled EFI partition has been created after my storage partition (the original efi partition was still there in the upper part of the disc).
  • I have windows 8.1 installed now bootcamp on my internal ssd. It was planned to use it and winToUSB to put windows on my crush, but I found that it only works with usb2. I do not have installed could cause problems with the installation on another disk.
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  • I read a few other posts on this and other sites on this problem, but could not find a pertitnant solution to my situation. I found one that suggested to remove the efi on my disk partition, but that seemed like a bad idea, so I didn't try.
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  • Thank you!

  The other thing I tried also almost succeeded:

  Although I prefer to get the method above works, because it seems the most promising, is something else, I've tried that I thought worth mentioning. If you offer advice pertaining to this method rather than the above, I would appreciate it if you could explicitly declare that at the top of your answer. Thank you.
  

  I tried to install windows on the physical disk using vmware and virtual box. The instrutctions I followed for this can be found here: http://www.andrewsavory.com/blog/2011/2156 (the only thing different, it's because it's on an external drive, I created the Fat 32 partition manually using disk utility). The first time (using vmware) installation seems to go off without a hitch, but I couldn't get my computer to see the windows partition as bootable with the boot efi menu hold-option regular refined or with system preferences-> startup disk. I think that I was using always inadvertently a hybrid-MBR at this stage. I tried to repeat this new beginning with the first two steps above to avoid the hybrid-MBR. But now when I try to create the virtual machine based on the gross vmdk, it starts to copy the files then says not sufficient permissions and fails. I don't know if it's a permission with the disk or the hard problem. I tried chmod 777 and chown $USER of the vmdk disk (/ dev/disk1s3) does not.

  Wow, that was a long post...

  1. when a second drive is detected by the Windows Setup program, he wants to create his own brand of EFI (104 MB) and not to mess with the Mac EFI (200 MB). You can force it to use the EFI to the Mac using Diskpart commands.

  2 instead of HFS/FAT32, create a piece of 750 GB free space and it should only get a new MSR/MSD, without the part of EFI.

  3. on your VM method, the link you have is quite old. You have a MP 2013, with references to the 2010 Mac alumni and is a bit too archaic to be useful. http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/install-a-Windows-7-partition-on-Mac-OSX-Wit hout-optical-car-or - usb.1836959 / #post... seems to work for many and can be useful for a test. It also uses Winclone.

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

• Error: Function of ms - dos invalid when copying on external drive with Windows 7

  FUNCTION OF MS BACK INVALID WHEN PLAYBACK EXTERNAL DRIVE WITH WIN 7

  Hello

  1. you try to save a data of the C drive on an external hard drive using the Windows backup feature?

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• My hard drive has been replaced. I want to restore a backup made on an external drive, using Windows backup software.

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