I have western digital drive external hard it is said that it is unreadable

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  I have a Western Digital 1 TB external hard drive, and I am currently running Windows 7.  When I try to move files on the hard drive I get the error 0x8007045D i/o and it won't let me move or copy the file.  What can I do to fix this?

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  Windows 7 questions should be directed to / stationed there.

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• Western Digital USB external hard drive not found by Win XP.

  I have a new USB 2.0 TB WD My Book Essential that my system does not.  I took the first return to BB, thinking it was defective.  A new is similarly, and there is no indication that something is plugged into the USB port.  My system is: 2.8 G P4, 3G of ram, 850 GB on HD 3 internal, under XP SP3.  All 8 USB 2.0 ports work fine on everything else.  My system is well maintained with Virus and Spyware protection and registry cleaning and start cleaning.  Newspaper observer event system is without errors or warnings.  Device Manager reports no problem.

  I tried all the suggestions on bonofan1823 post.  Reinstalled all the drivers and other utilities allowing to scan the USB ports. The drive is formatted NTFS according to WD.  I searched ghosts, 315539 devices. I used the command SFC, 3107747. I ran Microsoft Fix It--I deleted UpperFilters and LowerFilters entries by 925196.

  The WD My Book has its own power supply, all my tensions.  The blue light on the WD drive and it's a small fan is running.  The drive does not appear in disk management or any where.  The icon does not appear on the far right of the taskbar and no audio sound is made when it is plugged into the USB port or powered.

  Someone at - it any other suggestions?  Does anyone else have this problem?

  Thank you.

  Divya R,.

  Thanks for the info.  I've tried the drive on another computer running XP Pro. and it was recognized instantly.

  I found the driver ITS on the website of WD and installed on the computer.  No change, no recognition. WD has also provided a firmware update for the drive that I could not install because he could not find the drive.  I reinstalled the latest version of the BIOS (2005) for the ASUS motherboard.  I used an old record of 250G WD USB years and it still works.

  UPDATE *.

  I bought a $10,00, 3 port USB 2.0 PCI card and plugged.  The WD My Book is instantly recognized and works perfectly. Problem solved.  The problem must be the motherboard ASUS or the BIOS on my P4 system.  I suspect that WD drive information was never getting to Windows XP.

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• Drive external HARD USB will not access the files correctly on Satellite A100-033

  I have a laptop Toshiba Satellite A100-033 (PSAANE-03J02GEN), running Windows Vista Home Basic Edition.
  I have a Western Digital passport external hard drive, which has no power source, because it pulls its power via the USB port.

  Sometimes the player works fine, but I often have huge problems to access files on the drive. Opening a folder can make Windows to hang.

  Open an audio file or a Word can do Word or audio software crash. Copy files often fails and in the process can make the Explorer Windows stop working.

  Recently I tried to copy a 33MB file from the external hard drive to my laptop, and while he did it took more than an hour. So many things can happen, none of them pleasant.

  Problems can occur if the external drive is the only device connected to a USB (apart from an external mouse, I always use), or if the external hard drive is one of a number of devices plugged into my laptop - either separately or through a USB hub (powered or unpowered).

  Anyone know what is happening and how I can make my USB external drive usable? I have two other external drives (powered by their own power source) and they work perfectly.

  Why, most of the time, do drive limp along so badly that they are virtually unusable?

  Hello

  One thing is clear; the problem is definitely related to the external HARD drive and not the laptop. It seems that this problem still occurs if the HD has been connected.

  It of really difficult to say what could be wrong with your external HARD drive
  Maybe HARD drive sectors are corrupt, and therefore you can not open folders and some files stored on the HARD drive.

  Have you tried to format the HARD drive? Check this box and try to save and re-open cases.

  In the worst case that the external HARD drive has a hardware malfunction

• Drive external HARD encrypted in ExFat?

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  I have a new drive external HARD I need to use on a Mac and a PC. I need to access the same files (data analytics), so I don't want to make 2 partitions and have duplicate files. What I've read, it seems that ExFat is the best option for this (they are large files, so that the FAT will not work). My work, however, requires external hard drives to encrypt. When I tried to put it on my MacBook Pro (El Capitan), however, I received an error.

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  102,

  First of all, make sure that it is not the hardware on your computer:

  1.) try all USB ports on the machine in question with the external hard drive

  2.) try other USB devices on the machine as well. You get the same result?

  Sometimes this is also caused by software conflicts. Anything to be downloaded or installed recently?

  It can also be caused by the power surges that occur in your home. Thunderstorms through here lately? Do you use a surge protector?
  If everything else seems to work very well, another cause can also be a virus. Update your virus definitions, then run a full system scan. Thank you, Jeremy M - Support Engineer

• I'm trying to upgrade from windows vista to windows 7 - my western digital not recognized hard driver

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• do I have to buy an external hard drive to transfer my library to another computer?

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  Physically, you can move the HD on your current computer and install it in the new computer.

  You have backups of your photos and files of catalog on another disc? If so, you can physically take the backup HD and install it in the new computer. If this isn't the case, then invest in an external hard drive for backups (and transfers) is highly recommended. You live very dangerous if you don't have backups. I wouldn't bother even to make the transfer until you are sure have backups on a different disk.

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  You could borrow an external HD to a relative or friend.

• Satellite A200-1If - drive external HARD after a while is "unknown device".

  Hello!

  I have such a problem: I work with my external case alu Toshiba 3.5 HDD 500 GB and after awhile of copy of the files in the laptop it disappears and appears this luckily device recognized.
  Can it be caused by not enough power in the USB port?

  THX for any help or the workaround

  Hello

  Yes, this may be caused by the fact, there is not enough power provided by the USB port. first of all, note that external USB hard drives 3.5 inches are generally designed to be used with systems of office due to their higher power needs (this is also the reason that many need an external power supply of their own). my suggestion would be to buy a 2.5 inch drive external hard USB is designed to be used with laptops. Another reason that the hard drive may disappear when copying files, is that there may be a problem with the connection of the USB cable between the laptop and the external HARD drive. I suggest to check that both ends are connected properly and not put any pressure on the cables and keep them stable.

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• Tecra M2: Can I boot from USB/Firewire-drive external HARD?

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  How can I boot from an external USB drive?
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  I have a Maxtor 300Gig external HARD drive that can be connected via Firewire or USB. Usually, I use a PCMCIA card Firewire to connect the HARD drive, which has 3 partitions.

  It would be also possible for a start-up by PCMCIA Firewire?

  Thanks in advance.

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  As far as I know it of not possible to boot from a USB HDD. I know that in some cases it of possible to start compatible USB FDD drives and CD/DVD but the HARD drive note.
  This theme has been removed from the service a lot of time here in the forum.

  Please check this announcement on the other:
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• 250 GB drive external HARD asking to format drive

  I have a 250 GB external hard drive that I had for a few years.
  Recently, one of the folders on it ask format me so therefore I can't access the stuff in it.
  There are about 50-60 GB of music in there.
  Is all the same to recover this music that I do not particularly losing everything?

  Other files with movies and photos it seems to work ok, I don't really understand

  This seems really not good man.
  I personally didn t notice of similar questions on the external HARD drive, but who knows maybe the HARD drive contains bad sectors, and so you can access the external HARD disk
  Is it possible to run chkdsk on this external HARD drive? If not, I don't see any great chances to access the HARD disk and save data from damage.

• Connection drive external hard am.

  Hello world
  I wonder if it is possible to connect the drive external hard am to z3?
  In the light of others do it on the other android device. Got an otg cable, plugged my HDD but the phone is not supported it or I'm doing something wrong.

  Any help with this would be appreciated.

  Yes, you can check what file system that is used if you connect to a PC, right-click on the drive in the Solution Explorer and select Properties.

  It is possible to convert NTFS to FAT without deleting all data, but I do it without the first run a backup in case something goes wrong. And if you have files bigger than 4 GB it will be problems with these as FAT32 does not support that. exFAT supports, but I didn't know of any tool that can convert NTFS to exFAT without wiping the drive.

• Cannot access the files from the internal hard drive that has been converted to drive external hard after the motherboard is dead

  I can't access the files from an internal hard drive that has been converted to drive external hard after the motherboard is dead. I think that my files are still there, as shown in the volume of the player volume ~ 500 gb which is almost completely full. But I can't access most files, including documents and settings. When I took 'ownership' of the folder, I could open the TI but then it showed everything that was in my documents and settings on the computer file I used to open it, not the documents of the car.

  I can't access the files from an internal hard drive that has been converted to drive external hard after the motherboard is dead. I think that my files are still there, as shown in the volume of the player volume ~ 500 gb which is almost completely full. But I can't access most files, including documents and settings. When I took 'ownership' of the folder, I could open the TI but then it showed everything that was in my documents and settings on the computer file I used to open it, not the documents of the car.

  Uhm... I think the issue here is a misunderstanding of what you watch.

  If you want to access your files from the old hard drive - you need to look in the right place.  If the old system was "Windows 7", "Documents and Settings" is the * wrong * place to look and "Users" would be the place to go.

  You * will * take ownership and change permissions on ALL (you want to propagate to all subfolders/files when do - to save time) in order to get them properly.

  New-->: Windows Vista/7 would have your files located in the directory 'Users' of the root of the drive - and then under your username.

  • \USERS\\Desktop\
  • \USERS\\Downloads\
  • \USERS\\Favorites\
  • \USERS\\Documents\
  • \USERS\\Music\
  • \USERS\\Pictures\
  • \USERS\\Videos\

  ... etc...

  Documents and settings to WIndows Vista/Windows 7 is a symbolic link and would lead to what you see if you tried to use it.

• Drive external hard USB - cela used to work now I get an error message = "this device cannot start. (Code 10) "Any suggestions?

  Drive external hard USB - cela used to work now I get an error message = "this device cannot start. (Code 10) "Any suggestions?

  Hello

  I suggest to refer to this link and follow the steps in this link and check if that helps:

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/943104

  It will be useful.

• drive external hard when it is connected to the computer says hd not formatted want format you?

  drive external hard when it is connected to the computer says hd not formatted want format you? but it works fine on my other pc, the problem start when I installed registry booster please help thanks

  Hi keo1,

  We recommend that you connect the drive to a different USB port. Also run the disk check for errors.
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