Impossible to get WD external hard drive to save

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• Impossible to duplicate to external hard drive using the CCC

  Hi all

  I wanted to make a clone of my HD, because it started acting weird lately and decided not to make a clone of it when I get a new HD, but when I use ccc I select my boot drive (the one doubtful), then my drive external usb (2 TB) as my destination and copy everything BUT after 4 hours no progress but 4 points work but nothing is transferred. I formatted the external hard drive as it should be set to format less 10.8 in disk utility. So what I'm doing wrong here? Is there an easy way to do it? I think that I have V. 3.5 ccc, y at - it a bug with this version? BTW, my external hard drive is a USB 3 but compatible for 2 and my mac has no problem reading and writing to it. Any help with this or other means or programs to clone my drive is welcome.

  Thank you!!!

  Have you checked for an update of the CCC?

  Have you considered Time machine? You can restore from that.

  Clone-data backup

  Clone-Deja Vu

  Clone - SuperDuper

  Clone - Synk

  Clone - 6 tested Applications Software

  Time Machine from the Clones and Archives

  Commonly used backup methods

  Try using disk/restore to copy the data to a new location. Please note that this will reformat the destination partition.

• Impossible to format an external hard drive?

  So, I am trying to format a 1 TB WD My Passport external hard drive but get the error messages.  I recently completely wiped out this player because he was running extremely slow and when I try to create a simple format through the disk management I get an error message "request cannot be performed because of an i/o error".  He also sees the drive, in disk management, but there is no associated letter and he said that all of the disk is not affected (931 GB).  How do I get this problem?

  In cases where the Disk Manager does not work, I use a 3rd party application EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition (freeware @ easeus.com). It allows to create a partition in the unallocated space, and then name it and assign it a letter then put it. Then, Windows will recognize the newly formatted disk.

  I don't know why Windows won't do, but I had this happens on two external drives, and it works.

• 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.

• Impossible to connect an external hard drive

  I unplugged my hard drive of the computer and re plugged. I can feel and hear it runs that power is connected but there is no light on and the computer keeps telling me that it is unplugged. I have checked and re checked all connections. If the wire to the computer could be broken and if so what call? He isn't a regular usb cord. There is a wide connector at both ends.

  Original title: ex hard drive does not work

  Hello Ellen,.

  I understand that you have a problem when connecting your external hard drive to your computer. This could be a hardware or to issue drivers. It is also possible that your cable is defective. You can try to reconnect the hard drive to another USB port. If you use an external hard drive or a hard drive internal SATA cable /IDE cable.

  Please, try the following and see if it helps.

  Method 1:

  Run the hardware troubleshooter and check the issue.

  Open the hardware and devices Troubleshooter

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/open-the-hardware-and-devices-Troubleshooter

  Method 2:

  Run the fixit available at the following link.

  Hardware devices do not work or are not detected in Windows

  http://support.Microsoft.com/mats/hardware_device_problems/

  I hope this information helps.

  Please let us know if you need more help.

  Thanks and greetings
  Sarandeep S - Microsoft technical support.

• 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?

• I can't get my external HARD drive to open

  I have a number of backups from HARD drive external.  With 2 of them, the usual information of 'loading' is not pop up.  When I go to "Computer" I can not find them.  When I approach using control devices Center I can find them but can not open them.  My all says device driver works.  I have no records, but at least there's nine. I have an acer e-machine with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.

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  Hello

  -Have you tried to connect the external hard drive on another computer?
  -You receive an error message while trying to access external hard drives?
  -Did you do changes on the computer before this problem?
   
  Method 1: I suggest you follow the steps to run the Troubleshooting Utility from the link and check if the problem persists.
  Open the hardware and devices Troubleshooter
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/open-the-hardware-and-devices-Troubleshooter
   
  Method 2: I also suggest you to check the status of the external drive in disk management and check if that helps.
  Create and format a hard disk partition

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

  For reference:

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/update-a-driver-for-hardware-that-isn ' t-work correctly

  Hope this information helps.

• Impossible to mount the external hard drive on iMac

  I have a Seagate NTFS hard drive mounting problem on my iMac, do anyone know why?

  I am aware that iMac does not support the NTFS format. Already when I plug the hard drive NTFS, it has been able to mount the hard drive and the drive will appear on the desktop. I am able to read the disk, but cannot write , which is perfectly fine.

  The problem occurs when I finally had to write my iMac on the hard drive, so I downloaded the paragon of Seagate and software of dashboard that were meant to allow a Mac write to the hard disk. However, after installation, everything went haywire and the hard drive would not rise again. Remove the seagate software wouldn't help.

  My iMac still detect the drive when I plug the hard drive, but I can't mount the hard drive to use it. All I want is to be able to read the drive.

  Anyone know how I can get my iMac to climb back from the hard disk NTFS?

  I'm on El Capitan 10.11.2.

  Try to uninstall the "Seagate dashboard and paragon software" and restarting your iMac.

• How can I connect my iPhone 6 s to an external hard drive to save my videos 4 k?

  My iPhons 6s has 16 GB of memory.

  Iwould like to do 4 videos k during my vacation, save them on a hard drive and delete from my iPhone every day to have one free space for the other 4 videos k.

  Is this possible?

  Read http://www.redmondpie.com/best-external-storage-devices-for-ipad-and-iphone/

• Impossible to get more big HARD drive to be recognized on DV9420CA

  DV9420CA laptop came with TWO 120 GB drives. Phoenix Bios has been updatded for the last authorized by ch. Trying (2010) to upgrade the second drive on a 1 TB drive. It crashes on sizes larger than the original 120 GB drive. WHY?

  Thank YOU in advance.

  Expert?

  Taken at the local comp store, they understood.  You CAN upgrade to any drive size, BUT you should replace BOTH drives at the same time with exactly same size disks. Chipset has two outputs for Sata, one for the DVD and one for hard disks that is split in two, so they must have the same size. I have now two 500 GB drives and it works very well, thank you. Don't forget to replace the two discs with the same exact size discs and it should work.

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• Drive external hard drive does not appear under "devices."

  Hello

  I just updated my OS to Sierra of MacOS. I have connected my external hard drive (HDD) and it does not appear under "Devices" in my Finder window. It worked fine before the update.

  I use a MacBook Pro (end of 2013), currently running MacOS Sierra (Version 10.12). My external HARD drive is a SeaGate Slim SL Media (500 GB).

  The external HARD disk appears in disk utility application. He also appears on the about this Mac > system report > USB. I don't know what the problem is, the external HARD disk is identified but does not appear for use in the Finder window.

  I read that it could possibly be in mode 'sleep' and putting the MacBook to sleep (while it is plugged into the external HARD drive) and it to wake up again should solve the problem. However, it did not work. No more restarting my MacBook. It was mentioned in another post that it may require extra power, so I attached power adapter and again, without success.

  I do not want to clear the contents of the external HARD drive.

  Is there a way to get my external HARD drive works as expected with my MacBook?

  Thank you much in advance.

  I also have this problem.

  My camera is Macbook Pro 13 "retina 2015 and Seagate Backup more 1 TB (NTFS - Paragon NTFS)

  * Edit *.

  

  My HDD show in report system > hardware > USB

  but it does not show in Finder or Desktop.

• You can save the projects that you are currently editing on an external hard drive?

  I went travelling this summer and want to make a video of all my photos / videos. As you can imagine there are many of them and they are on different cards memory. So I bought a disc external hard samsung which is comparable with Mac to store all my content. The first batch of files that I imported from my hard drive to iMovie went on well, but then I tried to import some more and I do not have enough memory space on my Macbook Air.

  Is there anyway you can get iMovie to use my external hard drive to save projects as default? So instead of import content and she being temporarily stored on my macbook while editing, it would save on my hard drive?

  I am very new and relatively new to mac for iMovie so I apologize if this doesn't make much sense.

  Yes you can.  For a long time I used iMovie 11 but transfer events to and external drive is covered in the help files to: http://help.apple.com/imovie/#mov3ac6d42c

  and the transfer of projects to: http://help.apple.com/imovie/#move7d66613

  Note that the disk should be in Mac format.  If you are not sure, check using disk utility.

  Geoff.

• Do I need an external hard drive if I use iCloud?

  Do I need an external hard drive if I use iCloud?  I had used a Western Digital My Book Essential Edition, 500 GB, for the past 7 years.  It kept blinking and blinks so I unplugged probably too old.

  Now, I'm wondering if I should get another external hard drive or if iCloud does automatic backups.  I'm not too knowledgeable on these things and would appreciate help.

  I use a Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite.

  Thank you!

  Yes, you need an external hard drive to back up your Mac.  iCloud or iCloud library reader are not a backup of your data and documents.  Are the copy job. Get a new external drive with enough storage - Lear three times the size of the internal drive of your Mac and then set up Time Machine.

• My Windows XP Dell computer does not recognize the external hard drive when it is placed in a port of USP to work.

  I can't get my external hard drive to be recognized by my computer, a Dell PC running Windows XP, SP3. Any suggestions?

  Hello

  I suggest you follow the troubleshooting steps form the article and check if it helps.

  A computer that is running Windows XP cannot detect a USB, an Apple iPod flash drive or an external hard disk drive

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/925196

  Hope this helps,

• Cannot format external hard drive

  Formatting an external hard drive
  I can't get my external hard drive to format, the window says it is not formatted, so can someone please help me get this format?

  It is a 20 GB 2.5samsung, or is this even compatible with a Telechareger?

  Hello

  1. What is the brand and model of your external hard drive?
  2. you have any data on the disk?

  Try to format the drive on another computer and check if it helps.

  In addition, run the command chkdsk (check disk) on the disk.

  Follow these steps:
  1. click on start and then right click on computer.
  2. click on properties.
  3. now click on theTools menu, and then click check now.
  4. Select the external hard drive.
  5. check the "automatically fix file system errors" and "scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors".
  6. click on check now.

  Kind regards
  Afzal Taher-Microsoft Support.
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