How to disconnect an external hard drive

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• How to format an external hard drive in el capitan

  How to format an external hard drive in el capitan?

  I have a new iMac and bought a WD 2 TB hard drive. The manual says that I have to reformat the hard disk to use it with OS X.

  I opened the disk utility program, but there is no button to format the hard drive.

  How can I manage to reformat the hard drive?

  Select the external drive, and then click clear. Format Mac OS Extended journaled. If you want the drive to be bootable partition with the Guid partition scheme.

• Disconnected (removed) external hard drive still exploring and using drive letter - how to remove?

  Dear community,

  I recently removed an external hard drive of my computer laptop windows 7, I guess it was not not ready to 'remove Saveli' it at that time. The hard drive itself is fine, but the icon remained in windows Explorer because it is disconnected. I manually assigned the drive letter Q on the drive before, and it always appears like that, since this disconnect. When I click on it, there is of course a mistake ("Q is not accessible. "Access denied"). When I plug the hard drive it is listed in another letter (E), the 'Phantom' to Q drive is not affected by it at all.
  It (the ghost drive) does not appear in the computer/disk management manager and I can also not reassign the letter Q on the original hard drive (or any other - is not in the list!).
  I would use the letter Q again to the hard drive (my paths and associations of are consistent) and want to get rid of the ghost car. Any ideas how?
  Thanks in advance,
  Philipp

  FYI
  It's great that the problem corrected itself, but for general reference or other who can run in the ii, how to fix a ' stuck or ghost hand "is to remove its entry in the registry key below and then open a new market or restart.  This problem is relatively rare, but sometimes and still does not resolve itself.
  (Note this drive letter Q is used by Office, click Run and sometimes mysteriously appears for this reason, unlike your situation.)

  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2]

• How to partition an external hard drive Seagate

  My old external HD Time Machine does not so I bought a 2 TB Seagate Backup more Portable Drive to replace it. It has been formatted for Windows but provided a configuration "NTFS_ Mac download for_ I ran. I'd like to partition the drive & use 1 TB for Time Machine.

  When I go into disk utility, I cannot and select the Seagate HD, the choice of the Partition is grey and not selectable.

  Any suggestion how to get this HD formatted correctly so that it is recognized in disk utility?

  I guess that the external hard drive is formatted NTFS, so disk utility does not have to perform all the tasks in this topic. It you can't format it on some Windows system with the FAT file system? Once the FAT is made, the Mac of THE it reformats with HFS. However if you want to do with the above partition size (1 TB HFS and 1 TB NTFS or FAT) then can try you with a disk management utility. Read more external for Time Machine & Windows hard disk Partition

• How do I unprotect external hard drive write protected

  I am trying to format an external HARD drive, but when I do I can not because a message appears saying that it is write protected.  I don't know how to change this permission.  Help please

  Hello

  Open the file in Windows Explorer and select the drive letter of your external hard dirve (eg. h:\).

  Right-click on it to display the context menu, and then select Properties

  Then, from the Properties dialog box, select the Security tab and give you read permissions / writing.

  You should then be able to use the context menu Format

  or

  Start > computer, right-click and select Manage (you will need the administrator privelleges)... then disk management... With administrator privelleges your should be able to format the drive in the My Computer Management console.

  Kind regards.

• How to use an external hard drive to share files with other computers

  I have a HP Personal Media Drive that is currently used to share files with another computer. However, it is very old and I want to continue the sharing of files. Can I use an external hard drive? and if yes, how I have set up?

  I have an external hard drive, Toshiba-1 t. It is connected with a USB cable. My computer has wireless access, and the other computer does not work. The internet allows us to connect.

  Suppose that your external drive to your is connected to PC 1. When you open Windows Explorer on PC1 then this disk will appear as if it was a local, integrated drive. To make it accessible to PC 2, you need to "share". When you type this phrase in a Google search box then you will get many excellent recipes step by step on how to do this:

  sharing files in Windows

• How to find an external hard drive using bridge

  I use CS4 in a Mac. Due to lack of space, I transferred all folders of photos to an external hard drive Lacie. Now, I can find the Lacie with Bridge and find and open all folders of photos. But when I try to search by keyword, they are not found. How do I do that?

  You will need to reindex all files before that search works.

  I purge the existing cache and then perform a search in the top folder.  Select "Include Non-Indexed files" at the bottom of the search window.

  All files will be indexed, but it will take a while.  It start when you leave work on computer for awhile.

  Hope this fixes the problem.

• How to access the external hard drive iPhoto library

  Hello

  I'm trying to access my iPhoto library that is on my external hard drive.  I try to free up space on my MacBook and want to make sure that I can still pick up stuff if I want to from the outside. I get this message (photo).   OK let me download a photojeeeeeezzzz... You have made changes etc, a newer version of iPhoto... .do you want to leave a use of the latest version, or creat new version etc,... I want to just access my library of tha hard drive...   All ideas

  Heres the phot o

• How to restore Toshiba external HARD drive information system?

  I use macbook aluminum. When I insert my Toshiba Portable External Hard Drive 320 GB (ext. HDD 2.5 ") 3 on my laptop the time machine automatically ask me if I want to use the hard drive as backup. I accidentally said yes and allow him to erase all information from the hard drive and now my only computer can read the disc hard and another laptop / pc can't read.

  As it can store my files, but may not transfer and open on any other computer besides mine.

  So where can I re-download or reinstall back my Toshiba Portable External Hard Drive 320 GB system information (ext. HDD 2.5 ") 3 so that other computer can read?

  Please help me, bought just for 2 days.

  Hello

  I m not sure but I think to me it s no longer tied to your laptop and has nothing to do with Toshiba. Maybe you use the file system that can be read by other computers (Windows)?

  If you connect to the Windows computer, you can see the disk in disk management?

• How to connect two external HARD drive satellite and the same printer?

  Hello

  I have now two laptop Toshiba Equium.
  What is the best way to connect them so that they can access the same external hard drive and the same printer?

  Thank you

  Hello

  I guess the two laptops are in the same network; Home LAN or WLan. Right?
  I this case I recommend you connect HARD drive and printer to one of the portable satellite.

  Then you can share the HARD drive and the printer with other cell phones on the LAN.

  You could add the network permission to others, and in this case the other participants of the network would be able to share the printer and HARD drive.

• How to backup to external hard drive (removable) for windows home server 2011

  Your online help recommend ' to use several external hard drives and rotate the drives between onsite and offsite storage locations", but there is nothing that explains the procedures to be put in place. I have vascular 1 internal disk used as a server backup and the desire to attach a USB key and also back up the server and remove location and still allow regular backups to take place on the interal drive.

  Hi JarjarMack,

  Given that the problem is related to Windows Home Server 2011, for better assistance, you must post your query in the following Windows Home Server Forum.

  Windows Home Server Forum

• How can I make external hard drive, the restore points for windows 7

  Dear experts,
  My laptop Dell Studio 1558, pieces of 7,64 edition windows Home premium. I want to use external drive hard/Pen drives to achieve and many restore points. I have seagate Free Agent GoFlex 320GB.andTranscend JetFlash Pendrives 16 GB external hard drive. Is it possible to do in both of these external gadgets, restore points? Please specify the procedures in detail.
  Thank you very much.

  We must be clear on what you mean by "Restore Point."

  If by a restore point that you refer to the small key files backup made before a system change, it must be stored in the folder System Volume Information hidden on the hard disk the file is actually required, you can't edit this storage point (usually drive c :)). The only option you have is to set the amount of space to reserve for this purpose. Once you have defined, which then restore points are organized on a FIFO basis where when the space is too full for a new restore point the oldest is deposited.

  The alternative is going to be an image of the system. This will obviously be very wide for each backup, so if you want to do a number then you consider doing incremental backups. This way to make a complete and regular backup then or event based backup only the files that have changed. These backups are also defined as available points in the system restore utility.

• How to get my external hard drive to work

  I have all my pictures down loaded on my external hard drive and now I have a windows 7 and cannot operate.

  I have all my pictures down loaded on my external hard drive and now I have a windows 7 and cannot operate.

  Have you tried another USB port?

• How to get the external hard drive to connect to VMWare Player?

  Hi all

  I currently have VMWare Player 3.1.4 and that you have a VM installed on an external SSD that works very well.

  The guest operating system is XP and host operating system is OpenSuSE 11.4.

  The problem is that I have another external hard drive that I want to connect to the virtual machine to store files and other (WD Scorpio Black 320 GB).

  So what I tried was when I opend VMWare Player, I went to add a new SCSI device, found the hard drive, I wanted to use and created it. But when I go in-> "VM" > "Removable devices" > "generic SCSI (SCSI 0:1) ' > 'Connect'-> I get the below error message.

  Device virtual scsi0:1: could not open the device host "/ dev/sdc": not sufficient permissions to access the file. Please make sure that the virtual device is configured to use a Linux generic SCSI device (/ dev/sg *), and that the physical device works normally on the host computer.
  Cannot connect the device virtual scsi0:1.

  Does anyone know if I'm doing something wrong? What are the permissions are they talking about?

  Thanks in advance,

  Matt

  Are back at the office and tested on a variety of Linux Ubuntu and was able to add a second drive HARD/dev/sdb as a physical and even disc was also able to boot from it even if it needs to be dismantled first and I had to start VMware Player using sudo, because I was using a standard account both add the disk and run the virtual machine with the added disk.

• problem starting after trouble disconnecting an external hard drive

  Starting system but touch panel (Mouse) doesn´t work. Shows a window with an error message "not properly disconnected hard drive '.

  Is the possibility of everything during the priming by press some special help keys?

  in the meantime a connected external HD and the message not correct disconneting about disappeared.

  But now she a new message appeared on a problem with finder. I have can´t open finder and I have therefore no change to start time machine or the hard drive service program.

  It would be best if had a DVD with an operating system.

  The question now is how to create a bootdisk from my iMac.