Impossible to format Toshiba 250 GB external HARD drive

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• Toshiba 500 GB external HARD drive is no longer detected - after only 1 hour

  Hey,.

  I finally got my Toshiba 500 GB external hard drive delivered today. I had no problem setting up and to turn my laptop on, it immediately recognized and I started to transfer things for her.

  However, I accidentally stood on the USB cable to the HARD drive and disconnected. I plugged it in, but my computer did not recognize.

  Nothing I've tried has worked, always, the laptop does not recognize the hard drive.

  Please help, I've only had the one hour thing, and it already does not work! I really hope that I have not only lost £56...

  All advice is appreciated, thanks in advance.

  NEW: My father just tried plugging the HARD drive in the desktop PC is on the ground, and as soon as the USB when it is in the port, you stop the computer... causing him to lose a lot of important business email, he wrote. It starts the computer, the USB and you stop again... and this has happened 3 times until he gave up. What on Earth is wrong with this thing? I've never heard of a USB cable, stop a computer permanently, or a hard drive that does more after an hour of use...

  Post edited by: Sam_V631

  The USB port on the HARD drive may have been damaged and may be causing the PC detect a short power.

  You can try another USB cable? If it is not the cable, then the HARD drive should be sent to a Service Center for repair or replacement.

• Simple Technologies Signature Mini 250 GB external hard drive espresso does not

  Original title: Simple Technologies Signature Mini 250 gb External Hard Drive espresso

  has anyone found a driver or a "Supplemental Software" to make this product work with Windows 7?

  Hi lacrawford,

  Thank you for writing to Microsoft Communities. The problem description, I understand that you are not able to access the external hard drive. Before you start the troubleshooting steps, I need the required information:

  ·         He has already worked?

  ·         What happens when you try to access the external hard drive?

  ·         You get the error message?

  ·         The question is limited to this device?

  Follow these methods.

  Method 1: Run the tool and troubleshooting hardware devices.

  Method 2: Try using the device on another USB port and check.

  Method 3: Try using the device on another computer and check if the problem persists.

  Method 4: Uninstall and reinstall all USB controllers, follow these steps:

  (a) click Start, type Device Manager in the start search box and press enter.

  (b) expand Bus USB controllers.

  (c) right click on each device under the Bus USB controllers node and then click Uninstall to remove them one at a time.

  (d) restart the computer and reinstall the USB controllers.

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  Tips for solving problems of USB devices (Applicable to Windows 7)

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  If please follow the methods and let us know if you need more assistance. We will be happy to help you.

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• Toshiba 500 GB external hard drive is no longer recognized

  I have a Toshiba 500 GB USB 3.5 "external hard drive of office which was working perfectly until what a few days, but now it is no longer recognized by my computer (the device does not appear on"my computer"as it used to). Help, please!

  I had a similar problem with drive external 3.5 ". After a trip he stop working. In my case, the index has been connected to the PC (not portable) IDE channel and formatting.

• Toshiba ph3100u-1exb external Hard Drive will not stay On

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  I recently bought a Toshiba ph3100u-1exb 1.0 TB external hard drive. It works fine, but the problem that I am running is that it does not stay on for more than a few minutes. I don't know that its a kind of function, but if there is a way to turn it off, energy saving, I would have the accessible reader at all times, I use the information stored on it a little.

  When he died, I can always press the power button to bring it up, but I would like to have it on all the time. Is it at all possible to do? A setting on the drive, or even within Windows?

  I have the player hooked up through a USB cable, this PC is a little older and does not use for hard drives-eSATA cables.

  Hello

  In my opinion, the HARD drive must be checked with different computers and different OS (Vista, Win 7, Win XP). If the external HARD disk doesn't work using different systems and computers then it s definitely a HARD drive problem.

  I have 2 different external drives a HARD drive died and I had to replace it.
  In my opinion, if a HARD drive starts to malfunction then it s mostly a hardware related issue and there is nothing to replace the defective drive

• TOSHIBA 500 GB external HARD drive

  Hello

  Please I need help...

  My system is not able to recognize all available on my hard drive capacity.

  What should I do to use the hard drive full?

  500 GB is the ability, now its GB full but only 256 and the rest I can't fill, I get a message 'not enough of free space.

  Thanks in advance for you're help!

  Luka

  That's the problem with the file system of your external hard drive,
  Check your external hard drive file system.
  -Open my computer
  -Right-click on your external hard drive
  -Select Properties
  -written to see if it is the file system FAT32 or below this (FAT or FAT16)
  you will need to format it in NTFS. Why? I'll explain later.
  -to format your external hard drive, right click on the external hard drive.
  -Select format
  -in the file system drop-down menu, select NTFS
  -Choose the quick format
  -Press OK

  After the process is finished, you can now copy the file.

  EXPLANATION:
  This happens because the FAT family of file system have the 4 GB limit only (if I'm not mistaken) in the 1 file size.
  NTFS have much higher than that, but I forgot how big it can manage 1 file. ^. ^
  but it will be far from 8 GB.

• Clicking on Toshiba 1 TB external hard drive

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  Hello

  You should be troubled if the HARD drive starts making strange noises.
  It could be a first sign of a HARD disk crash.
  On the other hand, my HARD drive clicks also but not always it happens sporadically
  I couldn't find a reason for this, but I created some backups to be on the safe side.

  I think that you must back up the data too.

• Toshiba 320 GB external HARD drive all of a sudden think this is my 160 GB drive!

  PC: Toshiba Satellite A305D-S6848
  Accessories: Toshiba 320 GB USB external hard drive; MODEL: HDDR320E03X
  Toshiba 160 GB USB external hard drive;
  MODEL: HDDR160E03X

  The other day I started my laptop with these two drives already connected. Suddenly, my 320 USB drive, that's half full of music and video, insists that it is the only capacity of 160 GB and if it is full but shows no files.

  I already tried to run diskcheck... nothing helps... Suggestions to recover the date on this drive because it is only a few weeks old and has all of this information on this subject.

  Thanx

  It works on another PC? Maybe the user has installed a bad USB driver or something.

  If this does not work on another PC, you can try data recovery tools. Google search for "data recovery utility.

• Windows 7 asks Me to format the Seagate FreeAgent external hard drive I've used for more than a month

  I used Seagate FreeAgent as my external hard drive for more than a month now, but recently I am unable to access Windows 7 asks me to format it to use it. Somehow I can format the HDD without losing my data?  Or does perform a work around?

  Hi NuVille,

  Before perform us any of the steps, first of all I suggest you to create a backup of the data stored in your external hard drive on another computer.

  To save the data, you can connect your external hard drive on another computer and copy all the files and folders on the other computer. Later, you can connect the external drive to the Windows 7 computer and try to run the disk error checking and check if that helps you solve the problem.

  Access the link below and follow the steps to check the drive for errors and fix it.
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/check-a-drive-for-errors

  After completing the disc you error checking, try to check if you can access the drive.

  If the steps above do not I suggest you try to format the hard drive. Access the link below and follow the steps to format the hard drive.
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/create-and-format-a-hard-disk-partition

  Note: there is no way to format without losing any data on the disk. Formatting the drive will erase all data.  This is why you must back up the data before formatting the hard drive.

  I hope this helps. Let us know the results.

  Thank you and best regards,

  Srinivas R Microsoft technical support.
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• Toshiba 320 GB external HARD drive make my very slow computer

  Hello.

  I bought this product a few weeks ago now, and every time I use it, it makes my computer go tp so slow to the point where I can't actually do something on this subject, due to the fact that everything becomes inadmissible. Also, the rate at which I transfer files to it is also very slow. Any ideas why and what I can do to speed things up a bit?

  Thank you.

  Hello

  You suggested that the laptop becomes slowly during the use of the external HARD drive.
  I guess that transfer you a data from the HARD drive internal to the external USB HDD.
  I think that it s not very rare, that the laptop runs slowly during the transmission of the data.
  It depands on the program that runs in the context of the operating system.

  I put t know which interface you use USB2 or USB only, but data transfer depends on the interface.

• Can Toshiba 500 GB external HARD drive - I use for backup?

  Hello.

  Can I use my Toshiba 500 GB external drive that is currently back up My Documents via the Microsoft files history * also * as a hot spare for the enjoy backup & recovery?
  Currently, the external drive has 346 GB free.

  Thanks Howard
  Warwickshire, United Kingdom

  Why not be honest the backup & recovery from other manufacturers of portable computers are not known to me, but you can store and back up all files on the HARD drive.

• The E of Toshiba STORE alu external hard drive.

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  I have a laptop Toshiba P500-16 t.
  Yesterday, I bought a disc external hard Toshiba (E STORE alu 750 GB USB 3.5 "), it works perfectly, but today the red and blue light no longer works, the hard drive still normally works well.

  Try it in another PC or another USB Port, if the LED still does not work then you can go back to the place of purchase for a replacement drive.

• Toshiba 1 TB external HARD drive

  I purchesed one of these comments amonth ago, to the day where I plugged the machine a turned on nothing happened. I left for about an hour and tried again, again, nothing happens, what could be the problem and how would approach I solve this.

  Congratulations in advance.

  Maybe you should really get in touch with your dealer (where you bought of). For me, this looks a bit like a hardware problem

  But what you could do is to unplug the laptop HARD drive, go to the Device Manager and remove all USB hubs and controllers from the list of devices.
  Restart your computer, wait until the USB ports are recognized and reconnect the HARD drive

• Toshiba 1 TB external HARD drive does not work

  I have a 1 to external drive what cards via usb cable, Ive put a lot of multimedia files on it and have been using it without problems don't have nothing put on for a little while, went to look for some files off it and comes up with usb not recognized, put it in another computer and the light comes done hard disk a rattling for a few seconds then hummes just as if it turns While the light stays on and is not all pulse, on the computer, it emits a sound to say ive plugged the on the bottom, it says safely remove hardware.

  Ive tried on two computers when in my computer it does not record.

  PS im not the tool sharper in the hangar when it come to tech stuff.

  The same problem. I bought edition 2015 last fall. It has a power supply problem (electrical problems). I thought it's because of my laptop. He made her crazy, but SMART was ok. Yesterday, it makes noises again and now it does not work. I saw light blue and only a little sound of pcb as start start. I saw that head of player on the Board.
  It's really a defection from the factory.

• Toshiba 1 TB usb 3.5 "external hard drive will not format

  Hi all, my Toshiba 1 TB external HARD drive has just arrived, was in FAT32 so told to format it. Started to format it in Windows Vista when all of a sudden the pc froze so he didn't finish. Now it doesn't let me format at all or to access. I tried to do outside of windows, but not joy. Is there a way I can work around this problem and it back on track? The HARD drive seems fine towers etc but leaves me any access. It shows in my computer.

  If I understand you as soon as the HARD drive is connected it is listed in Windows Explorer.
  What happen when you try to access it? Is there an error message?