Impossible to format or use USB - external HDD - storage device.

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• Administrator has restricted this computer to access the USB/1394 mass storage devices

  This message just started showing unexpectedly. Sometimes windows load. It is not and has never been a business machine, so I am the administrator.

  He has blocked my external hard drive up and now won't let me even to read a memory stick. In this case, I get «the administrator has denied access to USB/1394 mass storage devices»

  I searched through everything, and everything seems ok. I ran several controls of virus and spyware checks, but all come clean.

  I hope someone can help me. Thank you.

  You use Acer computer?

  If so, then uninstall: Acer LanScope or update and see if that resolve the problem.

• Satellite A30 series can boot from USB external HDD?

  Hello

  I have a satellite a30 series laptop. Anyone know if I can boot from usb hard drive? My bios has an option to boot from removable devices. I want to install linux but my laptop has only 30 GB of internal space and most of that is out of stock, that's why I want to install and run linux from a disk usb external hard.

  Thank you

  As far as I know that something like this is not possible. To see if anyone has any other theories. ;)

• Unrecognized USB external drives. Device Manager sees them. Explore and Disk Manager can't.

  It is a Mobo of P5ND Homebuild under XP SP3.

  External hard drives have been installed and running. However, it was necessary to reformat the operating system. After that, some of the XHDDs have been recognized, but at this point none of them are recognized.
  Device Manager sees 'Generic peripheral storage device USB' for readers, or in a case simply the letters of WD.
  The devices are not detected on my computer (Windows Explorer) or disk management.
  I swapped the cords and cables. I checked that hubs work, and I would stress that the hubs have external, and their own power of stand-alone XHDDs feeding.
  I suspect that readers have damaged file structures, perhaps they have been disconnected because of a loss of power, or my incompetence...
  In any case, they are there in Device Manager, but not in disk management or in computer.
  They do not appear on other computers either.
  The details of the driver for the XHDDs are the same as the internal hard drives. The XHDDs are all PATA. The IHDDs are all SATA.
  There is a noise clear when they are attached and detached from the computer. The computer recognizes that something is happening.
  My level is probably above beginner, but not to the expert, as I build my own units.
  The XHDDs are different manufacturing. They contain data of the value and I do not want to format.

  Have you tried plugged directly into the PC rather than through the hubs?

• USB not installed correctly, print USB media, mass storage device USB Composite device

  I am running XP and I get these 3 messages peripheral USB Composite USB and USB Mass Storage Device not installed correctly print media. What should I do? Thanks for any help.

  Have youre pc hardware written info if necessary (chipset), & its mfg (intel, amd, etc.).

  go to the website mfg, downloads, get the chipset Chipset youre Installer and install it.

  This gets you drivers/software for sound, USB etc.

• Impossible to format Toshiba 250 GB external HARD drive

  Hi I have a problem formatting external 250 GB drive HARD Toshiba with XP on NTFS. When I format it with disk management after 99% always comes the message format is not ended. When I use the command prompt to format goes to "Creating file system structures." and then "Format failed.

  Anyone know if there is a possible way to format this HARD drive.
  Thank you.

  Hello

  Please take a look in this thread:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=20565

  He s on a similar theme: how to format a HDD external 400GO

• Boot from USB external HDD - Tecra M5

  Hello!

  Does anyone know is it possible for an OS boot from disk external DRIVE connected to the laptop via USB? There are 'Priority HARD drive' in the configuration of the BIOS with a possibility to choose: USB - integrable - second HARD drive. But it does not work :(

  I tried to start Windows 98 from the external USB - HDD even on my computer at home. Everything is OK...

  My Tecra M5 BIOS version is 3.20.

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• USB (external hard drive) device no power down / off when safely removed in Windows 7

  Well, I asked this question and no one seems to respond, I also found that many people want to solve this problem so here, it's once again

  Whne you have a hard drive that is not a switch on/off button that you who wait when you remove safely from the windows, he stops, so you shouldn't have to disconnect form the usb slot to do.
  And it happens in WIndows XP, but it is NOT in Windows 7 (or that I read, in Vista as well).

  I want to know, because it bothers me really, what is the solution?

  What I want is, after I click on "remove" my external hard drive, that what he would have turned off (standby) as it does in Windows XP!

  Help please.

  Hi gala,.

  Thank you for visiting the community Microsoft Windows 7.  The feature remove the device safely does not power supplied to a USB device in Windows. By design, the port to which the device is attached is not interrupted in Windows when the unit is softer.

  Please let us know if this helped.

  Dena
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• Possible to use USB with ADF Mobile devices

  Hi guys,.

  I have found a few reader (include chip) chip card that works with a mobile device through their ports (port 30 pins, micro usb) in mobile native development(iOS/Android)

  but I want to know can be used with ADF Mobile as we Smartcard reader SDK JAR that working in the 1.4 jvm that I'm not sure on the support of usb-host function in ADF Mobile.

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  Hello.

  In the current version, the only way to get what you want is to build your own plugin of Cordova. This means that you will need to write native Android and iOS code to interact with the device, but also a JavaScript wrapper that will expose your API to Mobile ADF application. You can find more information in the Documentation of the API Apache Cordova.

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• If you have two hard drives, can you wipe the second and just use it as a storage device?

  If you have two HARD drives in a PC Windows 7, can you remove everything (including the System 32, Windows users, literally everything) in the second and still use his computer? All my programs on the first HDD would remain on my PC, but all the files of the second being scratched? I'm running out of space on my first HARD drive and need to know if I can keep the second as storage just pure.

  Thank you.

  Hey Elliot,

  Thanks for posting your query in the Microsoft Community Forums.

  According to the description, it seems that you want to delete all the data on the secondary hard drive without affecting the first hard drive operating system files.

  I'll be happy to help you with this.

  If the operating system (Windows 7) is installed on the first hard drive, it has nothing to do with the second hard disk. You can go ahead and delete all data without hesitation.

  Note: Make sure that you remove the data from the hard drive where Windows 7 is installed.

  If you want to reduce the number of unnecessary files on your hard disk to free up disk space and help your computer run faster, use disk cleanup.

  For more information, see the link.

  Delete files using disk cleanup

  If you have any other questions, feel free to let us know. We will be happy to help you.

• addition of external backup storage device

  Hi all

  I have 5 ESX 4.0 servers in a farm.  I use vRanger connection to a SAN backup images and this is configured on a virtual machine.  I would like to set up an external tape drive in the virtual machine to start the tape backup.

  Can someone point me in the right direction please and tell me how in a few easy steps?

  Looking for a decent documentation on it but can not find anyything to date on that.

  Thank you

  Looking to the SCSI Pass through of the unit band directly to a virtual machine?  It all works very well, it has quite a few limitations you should be aware of:

  (1) it is only supported if you are using the SCSI cards on the VMware HCL, which there is not a great list.

  (2) with this configuration prevents the use of VMotion or HA as this virtual machine becomes bound to the physical device on the ESX host.

  Another solution, in that you should look at is a SCSI-> device converter iSCSI for this tape drive.  That will allow you to drive to a virtual machine through the iSCSI initiator of Microsoft inside the virtual machine, which frees you from linking the player/SCSI card type to an individual ESX or VM host.  You will be able to use VMotion, DRS, HA, etc., while being able to perform your backups with your usual software to backup (Backup Exec, etc).

  I have had good success with the following company products.  I think it is worth to investigate and potentially spending another $1,000 for the flexibility of this offer.  I hope this helps.

  http://www.attotech.com/products/category.php?id=2&CATID=5

• Pavilion G4 1303AU: impossible to format the hard disk in any case

  I had 8 current enforcement windows on my system, then I thought to install linux (distribution mageia) on it. Before I formatted the entire system and created primary and extended partitions as well as some allocated space was left for linux.

  Then I installed windows 8 on a primary partition C. I installed linux on the unallocated space, and follow the steps in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLu1NwsZr48

  I don't understand what was going on well.

  After I don't have grub GUI screen 2 so I rebooted the system and windows 8 started normally and automatically.

  Now, I decide to remove the linux partitions cz they did not appear on the home screen (for the dual boot option)

  I went to dskmgmt.msc and tried to delete the partition containing linux. The removal process has continued and eventually hanged. So I rebooted my pc and boom, the pc will not boot into windows 8.

  It shows crashes and win8 logo... I tried to format it, there also, it shows the start with logo screen and crashes in windows 7, it loads the files, comes up to the part where the logo builds up and crashes, tried mageia live cd also, there also it hangs on the splash screen.

  I tried default BIOS, I tried to format it using usb, everything.

  The hard drive gets detected as "laptop hard drive" in the bios... so I don't think that it must be a hardware problem.

  I hope there is a solution, because the laptop repair shops say that he died. I did not trust them because how can a partition physically damaged hard drive!

  Please respond quickly with a solution...

  I should be grateful!

  Piyushshekhar wrote:
  I used the seagate seatools too... but it hangs when I move the box and refresh!
  I know that my hard drive is not permanently damaged... He has just damaged its nd of mbr partitions, but not able to clean or to format these partitions... Also I don't have a big electromagnet to erase all data... So help

  You can refuse to accept it, but if Diskpart--> List volume or drive list does not see the drive when the data and power connectors are active, then the disk controller has not.  The hard drive is the material of the trash. Replace it with another new hard drive.

  An electromagnet not wip data from the hard drive. The hard drive uses magnets neodymium as p [art of its design.

• Why each Storage device I plug my usb slot shows all files as shortcuts? Help, please!

  I am foreigner working abroad. A co worker lent me his portable external hard drive, as soon as I connected it to my laptop to access ALL the files were in the shortcuts. I thought oh OK, this is how he has her but, when I went to reach my own HHD is also in the same format (all THE shortcuts) now each storage device I plug into my laptop computer does the same thing. I know it is a form of virus, but I do not know how to fight. Some people have suggested Kapersky and various other anti virus programs. I don't want to lose ALL my data either which I said anti virus programs. Any advice would be extermely useful.

  Hello

  You can scan the computer for virus/malware using the check and scan Microsoft security if it helps.

  http://www.Microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx

• Cannot find the 1 TB external storage device

  Recently, when I connected the external storage cable unit (1 TB) portable power source cable and power icon shows not on the bottom right of the task bar.  Oppening desktop computer icon also does not show the external device IE. "removable F drive '.  Is there a way I could locate my external removable storage device.  Thanks Chris

  By any chance, you might try: http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-21877-windows-xp-won-t-recognize-wd-ext-hard-drive

  "Could not imagine that connect this unit to a surge protector would cause only not to work." However, it was easy to try. I unplugged from the surge protector plugged into the wall, and he immediately started working. A big thank you to you all. It really worked.

• Impossible to safely remove external USB HDD - ejection of mass storage device problem

  Hello

  I have a 250 toshiba external hard drive. "When I go safely remove device and click on stop, guests me that ' ejection of mass storage device problem and try later.

  Is there a reason for this? As I have heard it is dangerous to pull the cord without stopping it first.

  This happens usually when something is always access to the USB - HDD.
  Yes, it s dangerous to pull on the cable, because you can lose some data and the file system may be damaged. But if you have a situation where you need the drive to take with you and want to just get out the cable to the USB port there is a little trick to disconnect the security apparatus:

  Do right click on 'My Computer'-> click on Hardware-> click "devicemanager"-> go into "diskdrives"-> then you need to click on the drive that is your USB - HDD-> with the right button and then click on 'Properties'-> in the menu properties of this drive, you must go on "policies" and click on "optimize for quick removal"-> and then click OK and exit this menu and all-> perform a reboot-> closing information fact. :)

  After that, it s safe for remove you your drive even if it s not ejected. :)

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