I need to reformat my external hard drive to use with Bootcamp?

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• External hard drive for use with original hard drive?

  Help I am trying to add an external hard drive to my current computer.  I got the hard drive connected, but I want windows vista to use it as if it were a part of the main hard drive.  Sorry kinda new to this so forgive me if this is a stupid question or is not possible.  Thank you

  These are separate hard drives.

  There is a maximum physical size defined for each of them.
  They have their own physical features sealed

  Use it for storage.

  See you soon.

  Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

• External hard drive for use with FCPX Thunderbolt

  I got a new iMac, but the SSD in it's tiny, so I need to invest in an external drive at least some of TB.  Should I go Thunderbolt because I think it's faster?  I'm looking at Fantom and Lacie but I'm not sure what would work best for use with FCPX.

  Any tips or suggestions for these two manufacturers?

  Thanks in advance for the help.

  Well, a disc of Tb2 (which takes care of your iMac) will offer excellent performances. If you need these speeds depends on really how ask your projects are. A USB3 drive will be fast enough for the vast majority of HD projects. Expect to spend more for the readers of Thunderbolt2.

  Here is a good article on configuring systems with external drives.

  Good luck.

  Russ

• I changed from a PC to a MAC and have reformatted my external hard drive with my photos.  Originally LR pointing the reader as reader J but now I can not use a letter.  Y at - it anyway to solve this problem.  My catalogue works fine?

  I changed from a PC to a MAC and have reformatted my external hard drive with my photos.  Originally LR pointing the reader as reader J but now I can not use a letter.  Y at - it anyway to solve this problem.  My catalogue works fine?

  In the library, go to the folders Panel, right-click on each folder of upper level and "updated to the folder location".

• I can't get my new WD external hard drive to work with Time Machine.

  My Seagate 1 TB external hard drive, connected to my Airport Extreme, use the USB port, was completed (it stores up to 3 1 iMac and MBP), so I bought a Western Digital 2 TB hard drive to replace it. I formatted correctly, connected to my MBP, then connected to the Airport Extreme. When I opened the time Machine, it didn't appear. By selecting "Set up the new TimeCapsule" open Airport utility. By clicking on the router button gave me change. By clicking on the "Record" button showed my new hard drive. The "setup" button is grayed out, unless I unchecked and double-checked all of the options. He warned me that I would be offline for a while, but it did nothing; My wife MBP and MBP my son not a never lose their connection to the internet, and I lose mine, either.

  My Mac guy, who never met a problem he couldn't fix it, is puzzled. So I am. We tried all the usual ideas, restart my MBP, restart the Airport Extreme, reformat the external hard drive, with different numbers of partitions (and Yes, I chose the GUID), but we can not simply Time Machine to connect with the hard drive. It is a Western Digital My Passport Ultra. This external hard drive is not compatible with Time Machine?

  What version is your AE? Backup is supported only on the sector of Tower model.

  You are self feeding Ultra Passport? It really must be external powered... or plugged into a powered hub.

  My passport readers have been consistent in the past... but sometimes strange things... That is, they can change the USB chip without warning, resulting in questions. The USB hub can help.

  There is also something... Plug the USB key into one of your computers and start backup TM on this... proceed very long... but we need to start... Cancel backup... and then plug it into AE and see what happens.

• Is there a driver for external hard drive WDME1600 compatible with windows vista?

  Original title: My Passport Essential WDME 1600

  Is there a driver for external hard drive WDME1600 compatible with windows vista?

  Hello

  Please see this link.
  http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/compatibility/windows-vista/Details.aspx?type=Hardware&p=My%20Passport%20Essential%20WDME1600&v=Western%20Digital&uid=WDME1600&pf=4&pi=7&c=Storage%20Devices&sc=Hard%20Drives%2C%20External&os=64-bit

  It says here that if you have a 32-bit Vista system, then a free download is necessary for her. Click on the link to the breast and download the necessary files. I hope this will get this drive works for you.

  I hope this helps.

• I can't reformat the external hard drive, Buffalo Technology.

  Original title: Buffalo Technology DriveStation JustStore 1 TB external hard drive

  I have an external drive that I had everything stored on and thought that he would never crash. but he did. I tried all the software out there to retrieve the data, and I know now that it is gone forever. I want to use it again (and make sure I save it constantly), but I'm unable to reformat the hard drive.

  I looked online and tried all different types of software to format the hard drive, but I have not been successful. My PC can see it, but I'm unable to format it.

  Any help on this would be highly appreciated.

  Hello

  Here are a few questions for clarity on the issue:

  1. what operating system is installed on the computer?

  2 have you tried to format the drive in Windows Explorer?

  3. what happens when you try to format the drive using different software?

  Let us try the following and see if you can format the external hard drive:

   

  Important note: Run the format, you clear the external hard disk.

  Method 1: Format the drive in Windows Explorer.

  See the following steps:

  (a) click Start, click computer

  (b) right click on the drive and click format

  (c) follow the on-screen instructions for formatting.

  Method 2: Format the drive in disk management.

  See the following article:

  Create and format a hard disk partition:

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/create-and-format-a-hard-disk-partition

   

  If the methods above do not contribute or if you have a question, please answer, to help you further.

• Need help in choosing external hard drive encryption tool (Windows Bitlocker)

  Hello friends,

  I have an external hard drive (model capacity - STBU1000303, - 1 TB Seagate) and I'm looking for a disk security tool so I can encrypt my external drive and protect the password.

  I found a tool Microsoft Bitlocker, so please suggest can make the backup encryption and password for this external hard drive? Or should I try another third party tool?

  Thanks in advance!

  Hello friends,

  I have an external hard drive (model capacity - STBU1000303, - 1 TB Seagate) and I'm looking for a disk security tool so I can encrypt my external drive and protect the password.

  I found a tool Microsoft Bitlocker, so please suggest can make the backup encryption and password for this external hard drive? Or should I try another third party tool?

  Thanks in advance!

  See the following link.

  Getting started with BitLocker Drive Encryption:

  http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd875544 (v = WS.10) .aspx

  "You can use BitLocker to encrypt fixed data (such as internal hard drives) drives and removable data (such as USB and external hard drives, flash drives) drives. To encrypt a data drive, it must be formatted by using the FAT, FAT16, FAT32, or NTFS file system and must be at least 64 MB in size. »

  Use the menu on the left side of this page to view other items all the information on the use of Bitlocker.

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• This external hard drive is compatible with my iMac 7.1?

  Hello, I intend to update my OS X, but first need to buy a hard drive to back up my files.  I found this one, but I don't know if it is compatible with my iMac mid 2007.  Can you please advise me if it will work?

  The external hard drive is this:

  1 to, G-Drive Mobile 5400 RPM, USB 2.0, 2.5 in.

  These are my computer specs:

  Model name: iMac

  Model identifier: iMac7, 1

  Processor name: Intel Core 2 Duo

  CPU speed: 2 GHz

  Number of processors: 1

  Total number of cores: 2

  L2 Cache: 4 MB

  Memory: 1 GB

  Bus speed: 800 MHz

  Boot ROM version: IM71.007A.B03

  Version of the SCM (System): 1.20f4

  Serial number (System): W8 * X 85

  Material UUID: *.

  I know that USB 2.0 will be very slow, but I don't mind.  I've only used 1.4 GB of space on my computer anyway.

  Thank you

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  In General, external hard drives are universal, so they will work with any computer.  The particular drive you say should work perfectly.

  http://www.g-technology.com/products/g-drive-mobile-1-TB-bus-powered-hard-drive

  You don't even have to format it because it comes pre-format for right of Mac Out of the box.

  Given that your Mac has only USB ports 2.0, he "does get a USB drive 3.0" Also the read speed of the internal hard disk will be always much slower than the speed of the USB 2 bus, so no need to have extra speed on the connection, you will not be able to use.  You probably won't notice it in any way.

• External hard drive not detected with the error: "You must format the disk in the J: drive until you can use it."

  Hello

  I have an external hard drive to work perfectly. I'm back from vacation, and it does not appear under "My Computer". It appears under "Devices and printers", however. This is a link to a screencap of Device Manager: http://i.gyazo.com/9e91e1d71ed32c55dba0419e79b499d5.png

  The device in question is that of J:, and it says here that he has 100% free space, that worries me, because he had only 50 GB of free space when I used the latter. After that I open the disk management, I get a pop up message saying: "You must format the disk in the J: drive until you can use it."

  How can I get my hard drive appears again?

  Thank you

  Original title: external hard drive not appearing is not in Windows 7

  Hi John,.

  Thanks for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

  I imagine the inconvenience that you are experiencing and will certainly help you in the right direction to solve the problem.

  According to the error message, I suggest trying the suggestions posted by the NakulShridhar responded on 14 October 2011 and by that alexquiteguy replied on 13 January 2011 in the thread following link and check if it helps.

  "You must format the disk in drive J: before you can use it"

  [Steps apply to Windows 7]

  Hope this information is useful. Let us know if you need more help, we will be happy to help you.

• Using a Mac to partition a USB external hard drive to use to start Windows 7 on a PC

  Hello

  My PC hard drive died recently, and I need to reinstall Windows 7. Fortunately, I have a Windows 7 .iso file on my Macbook Pro. I also have an external hard drive USB empty. I try to use the Mac (in particular the disk utility program) partition this hard drive and load the .iso file in it, with the intention to start the system and install Windows 7 on my PC. (NB. I have a new internal hard drive which I intend to install Windows on to, but it's something that I should be able to handle later and should not be relevant at the moment.)

  As my DVD player also decided to break (I had not used for a long time), I can't burn the .iso to disk image file and start that way.

  So my question is, what is actually in all possible ways to use my WD 500 GB external hard drive to boot Windows 7 from USB? If so, is it possible to configure the hard disk with the .iso image file using a mac? I think I need somehow do "bootable" my hard drive to boot from it, but I don't know how to do this using a mac, so that it will be compatible for Windows startup.

  I've had this problem for days now and nothing I try seems to work - I tried what seems like all combinations of formatting, partitioning, extracting, BIOS-set-up-ing and file-system-change I can think of. Any help will be really appreciated. Also, if you need information such as specifications, just let me know and I will try to provide all the details I can.

  In addition, I understand that there a lot of messages on the boot from external hard drives, but I looked carefully and found nothing for my situation (more precisely using a mac).

  Thanks in advance for help; If all goes well there is something obvious that I'm missing that I can fix it easily.

  Hi Michael,

  Thanks for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

  From your problem description, I understand you want to make bootable Windows 7 disk using Mac computer.

  About a tool to burn an iso image on Mac, I suggest you contact apple support.

  https://discussions.Apple.com/community/desktop_computers

  However, as a solution, I suggest to go to one of your friend who has the operating system windows download Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool and burn the iso image.

  Detailed suggestions are mentioned in the following article:

  http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/HTML/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool

  I hope this helps. If the problem persists or all linked windows queries or issues related to the Windows operating system, please get back to us. We are here to help you.

• External hard drive is compatible with Windows 7

  I have an older SimpleTech external hard drive.  It does not connect with my most recent computer with Windows 7 on this matter. The error I get, is that there are no drivers.  I need TO get all the items on that hard drive... photos of family for the last 10 years... How can I get it connects so that I can just remove the hard drive and move it to my computer?  Help, please!

  VH

  If it is a USB (USB true) it should work on xp, vista and win 7 because they are retro-compatible.

  If you can not easily find someone with XP and your hardware supports you could run a virtual machine and load XP on it.

  It could also be visible on the Open source OS's like Linux.

• External hard drive no use / formatting / causing a lot of problems on Windows 8

  Hello, please someone help me! ??

  I just got a new Samsung M3 2 TB external hard drive and I tried running it on my laptop (Windows 8).

  I tried to partition it into two parts, but now everything goes terribly wrong.

  When I connect it via USB, the computer makes a sound of ping and it seems that 2 drives in my computer. He asks automatically format it... and when I start the formatting process (which takes hours)... in the end it gives me an error report saying "format could not be completed successfully."

  Whenever the HARD drive is connected I can not run the disk management tool, because it does not load. I even downloaded the partitioning of the internet tools, but when the HARD drive is connected those just freeze. When the HARD disk is not connected, disk management and all the partitioning tools work correctly.

  It's as if the HARD drive takes over from the computer in a way since I can't even make a stop down with it connected. There is no way that I can remove it without risk either. Also sometimes it freezes my computer and the screen is blank. So I have to force my PC off.

  It's really driving me crazy. Please can someone advise me on how to solve this problem.

  I don't have access to the other PC to see if it works well on them. I really need to get to this sorting.

  Hello Dezrtroze,

  Thanks for your reply, appreciate the time taken by us keep up to date on the State of the question.

  1. You are able to open the command prompt when the external HARD disk is connected?

  Keep the external hard drive connected and put the computer to boot, check if it makes a difference.

  Also, check if you are able to open command prompt when the device is connected, if so, to run the check suggested such disk in method 3 above.

  On addition to that, you can also run /Scan research on CFS to check any file system corruption and repair it if found any.

  The command sfc/scannow (System File Checker) analyses all protected system files and replaces incorrect versions with appropriate Microsoft versions.

  Use the System File Checker tool to troubleshoot missing or corrupted system files.
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/929833/en-us

  Please reply with the results, we will be happy to help you.
  

• 250 GB USB external hard drive is compatible with Mac OS x on an iBook G4?

  Hello

  I just bought a Toshiba 250 GB Usb external hard drive because the seller advised me telling me that it works in my iBook G4 Mac OSX computer.

  I made it and I see it on my desktop with a folder called System Volume Information and 2.32 GB available.

  I tried to copy a file and I got a message saying that the disk is not editable.

  Where can I find the instructions to initialize if it's compatible?

  Thanks in advance,

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  Post edited by: jinglada

  Post edited by: jinglada

  Hello

  I'm not sure on this subject, but maybe you have to format it.
  Are there issues listed in the Device Manager?

  Good bye

• MY external hard drive PASSPORT ULTRA with Mac.

  I have a new external hard drive 'MY PASSPORT ULTRA' which is supposed to work with Apple computers. However I'm unable to do so. I'm working on El Capitan on an IMac. If restructuring is necessary can anyone provide a very clear explanation? YouTube videos on the subject are very confusing.

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  Ignore comments on the creation of a boot disk.