Mac external hard drive recognition problems

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• USB external hard drive recognition problem

  I recently copied a large number of music files FLAC from a NAS drive to an external hard drive. When I plug the hard drive into the USB port on my computer, it is not recognized or appear in the screen 'computer '. Instead, I have an icon in taskbar icon (bottom right of the screen) and when I fly over it says "safely remove hardware and eject the media.

  Please, what this mean and is there a problem with my external hard drive

  Thank you very much

  John

  Start the disk with the connected player manager.

  In the lower panel, check disks and look at the left panel. It must indicate the status of the disc attached. If shown as a foreigner do a right click and "import foreign disks".

  This does not affect the data on the disk and not the alternative option of having to write a signature to the disk. You may also define a drive letter in the right side, until a drive has a letter, you can't see its contents.

• External hard drive has problem by being recognized from my Win7 desktop PC. How can I fix?

  Hi This is the first time I post something, but I always read your thread, which helped me a lot!

  Now I'm having a problem and I can not find answers: C

  I use a desktop PC

  • Windows 7 Home Premium
  • Service Pack 1
  • 5.1 index of Windows performance
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-2300 @ 2.80 GHz 2.80 GHz CPU
  • 8.00 GB OF RAM
  • System: 64-bit

  And I'm having a problem with an external hard drive, Toshiba Stor.E Canvio 3 TB USB3

  Specifics:

  • Brand: Toshiba
  • Model: HDWC130EK3J1
  • Capacity of 3 TB
  • External interface: USB 3.0 (compatible USB 2.0)
  • Power:
    • Power AC adapter cable.
    • Input: 100-240V, 650mA
    • Output: 12V - 2A
    • Head of exchangable taken EU/UK
  • Compatibility: PC & Mac
  • System: NTFS (MS Windows) * the disk can be formatted the system filesystem HFS + for Mac compatibility.
  • Requires:
    • Windows® XP / VISTA® / Windows® 7
    • With 750 MHz or faster CPU
    • 10 MB of disk space system hard
    • 256 MB of system memory
    • a USB 3.0 or USB 2.0 port

  HERE, WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME:

  I turn off the pc and I keep the hard drive is connected.

  I start windows. No problems so far.

  I open windows Documents, I want access to my hard drive, and first of all, she has another name, not the one I gave to her when I formatted, it (like two weeks there are other problems, but that's another story) and when I click on it an error message appears saying that my local drive has been damaged and cannot be opened and is necessary for formatting.

  I tried to unplug it after the shutdown of the PC (when the PC is on I can't unplug it because that always seem to be used, even if everything is closed) because I thought that during the start-up in somewhere so it might be confused with a drive of the computer, for three days, he stopped to do today after I plugged it again.

  I unplugged and plugged a different device, you see correctly, so I unplugged and re-connected to my PC, now we see normally.

  I'm ok with this, but I am aware that it is not normal behavior, what should I do?

  Thank you

  Since the watch test failed, the hard drive must be replaced. If it is under warranty, you can take it to the Toshiba service center to get it replaced. Another thing, the new hard drive is the recommended option.

  Before in both cases, make sure that you back up all of your important and personal data from the hard drive.

• I used migration assistant to transfer to new mac external hard drive. All files seem to be there, but when I tried to add a comment photo to FB, photo albums of library and events have been grayed out. How can I fix?

  I used the migration assistant and an external hard drive to transfer everything from my old macbook pro to my new. All files appear to have burst, but when I wanted to add a comment of the photo on FB, the library is grayed out and the album of events could not be considered. Any ideas how I might solve this problem?

  Use the media browser - towards the bottom of the download on the left window under media ==> photos ==> Photos

  LN

• Update of Windows, external hard drive + sound problems

  I have a laptop Dell Inspiron 1720 with Windows Vista installed. I recently bought a Western Digital 1 TB external hard drive, which I forgot to unplug a couple times when I turned off the computer... Windows normally the thing 'install updates & stop', and I'm sure that he accidentally put the files to one of these updates on my hard drive, because a little bit ago, I noticedthis new file . He also said that the hard drive is used whenever I'm trying to remove it safely, even if I did open / running. I wonder if there is a way to solve this problem...? Is it safe to just delete the files from my external hard drive?

  In addition, around the same time, through the speakers of my laptop stopped working. He still works perfectly with headphones plugged in however. In playback devices, speakers/headphones (SigmaTel High Definition Audio CODEC) is active and supposed to be 'working '. When I check with Device Manager, it says that the software is up-to-date and fully functional. I wonder if this could possibly be linked to a bad Windows update... and also how to fix it.

  Thanks in advance for any help!

  Hi greenteacup,

  Read the following article which can help your situation:

  http://support.Microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB; EN-US; 937454

  I hope this helps!

  Debra
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
  Visit our Microsoft answers feedback Forum and let us know what you think

• Not able to recognize the Mac external HARD drive in Windows 7?

  When I plug in my external HARD drive friend formatted in Mac, window recognizes a new device, but the drive does not appear in Explorer winndow.

  Anyone have any suggestions on how to access this Ext HDD in Windows 7?

  Thanks in advance for your suggestions

  I don't know why someone marked the message confused and imprecise by Ganesh B aissa as response - please fix this.
  In any case, perhaps this will help you-

  For OS X native file system is HFS +, it is unreadable by Windows natively.   If the drive is formatted in HFS + you might be able to read with tools 3rd party.
  See a here-
  http://www.PCAdvisor.co.UK/how-to/Windows/3369574/how-read-Mac-OS-HFS-drives-in-Windows-for-free/

  In general, if you plan to use an external hard drive on a PC and MAC, it may be preferable to use the FAT32 format which support two operating systems.

• Backup on external hard drive Iomega problems

  Dear all

  I got an email notification that it has been an answer to my original question, but couldn't find it on the forum. First time user!
  Here's the info so I have asked me to help solve my problem.
  1. the model number of the drive is external hard drive Iomega 1 TB 31758600 LDHD-UP S/N: 97AW 1321 B1
  2 spin Microsoft Security Essentials on Windows 7 Professional. I don't know how to turn it off!
  3 PC has been recently upgraded to Windows 7 Professional to Windows XP Professional.
  4. when I'm trying to back up to the top of my old Quicken 2002 personal finance software I get the error message that the drive are not available despite appearing as an ikon in "My Computer".
  5. I'm trying to backup Quicken data.
  Hope you can help me solve this problem. I have an another external hard drive with two USB connections, who does not have this problem. My Iomega hard drive has a USB connection and requires an external power supply, and therefore comes with a plug.
  CHRIS Gryce

  Hello

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows_vista-performance/back-up-and-restore-Centre-unable-to-back-up-to/3fdd24cb-70b2-4794-91b4-efbb0b3dc5d7

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/Windows_7-performance/error-code-0x80070020-when-backing-up-to-the/d8376f66-3f5e-4BCB-8005-8e8b7f5fa45b

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/Windows_7-hardware/Iomega-HDD-160GB-external-hard-drive-not-getting/cc9021ac-032d-4FBE-81f2-a661c96451bc

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows_vista-files/backing-up-my-music-files-to-an-external-hard/f6c48fd4-4e18-4B57-8373-7c3c52212a99

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/Windows_7-windows_programs/backup-and-restore-for-Iomega-external-harddrive/f017d408-9584-4A88-9DAF-20bda34ee64b

• External hard drive recognition

  I didn't have this problem at the beginning, but now my computer recognizes my external hard drive, but it won't it backup my files because he says he does not recognize it. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

  Have you checked the flash on another PC? He works there? If his work there then Exchange plug in the port and then display the results.

• best way to store photos on mac + external hard drive that will update automatically?

  Hello

  I like iPhotos to see my photos, but I need a back-up. If I save photos using an external hard drive, then I might save the photos twice, three times or more! What is a good way to sync it?

  Thank you

  Use the synchronization of like CarbonCopyCloner or TimeMachine backup software (I use both so I have several backups)

  LN

• ITunes for Mac external hard drive

  I have an external hard drive Seagate Backup Plus slim and I am trying to export all my music to it. I learned all the way to consolidate the files, and once I click 'OK' a message appears saying "copying files failed. You do not have the privilege to make changes. "I can't understand how to do this, go away so I can export my support to my external hard drive.

  What format is the external drive in? See also make a library of portable split.

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• How to mount EXT2 or EXT3 on a Mac external hard drive (10, 8 - 10.10)?

  A unit DVR records TV programs on an external USB drive, as long as the disk is EXT2 or EXT3 format.   No other format is acceptable.

  I want to view these files, which are about 1 GB each.

  How you get such format on a MacBookPro to view files?   Tried two programs, and he had no success.

  The Mac does not support the Ext disks in standard format, but there is a third party tool to add this feature. See - https://www.paragon-software.com/home/extfs-mac/

  It is said that he supports Ext2, Ext3 and Ext4.

  Paragon have a history long and good reputation for producing tools to do this kind of thing on a Mac.

• Since the update of Vista on my external hard drive problems

  I have a problem with my external hard drive. A week ago I reinstalled Windows Vista Home Premium on my PC. Everything worked very well, my external hard drive, too. But after installing all the new updates and SP2 my external hard drive has problems. If I copy something from her, or just listen to the music is recorded on it, so overall if I work with her, after 1 to 3 minutes it stops working. I have to sign in to get access to it again. But before installing SP2 updates after SP2 everything worked out very well. So I think that there is a problem with SP2 or the following updates. My Pc is a Dell Dimension 9200 and the external hard drive is a Verbatim 1 TB external hard drive and USB 2.0

  I tried to bbot with Ubuntu and delete the Autorun.inf. Now everything works fine again.
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• 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".

• my external hard drive is no longer appears on vista after using it on a mac, how can I solve this problem?

  I tried to update my drivers and everything suggested on the website of the manufacturer of the hard disk

  Hello

  Check if the drive is detected in disk management. If it is detected, and then assign it a drive letter and check if this solves the problem.

  NOTE: first back up all the data on the external hard drive.

  To open disk management, follow these steps:
  a. click on the ORB start.
  b. Type diskmgmt.msc and press ENTER.
  Check if you can see the drive.

  Refer to this article for more information on how to assign a drive letter to a drive.
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/change-add-or-remove-a-drive-letter

  Kind regards
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• Problem with external hard drive (an unexpected error - 50)

  I've had this problem for a few months now. Sometimes, I can't delete a file from my external hard drive, or export a file to it. The process is impossible, and I get a message "Cannot perform the action due to an unexpected error - 50". Ejecting the disc gives the message "eject impossible because another program can use it." Ejection force becomes the only option. After re-login, the problem goes away, like nothing ever happened.

  The question is not constant, but quite common to become a nuisance, the one I want stopped.

  That's what I think it is (a bad connection with the cable, defective contact), or is this a virus? I need to know.

  The hard drive is 1 TB Toshiba Canvio Basics and is formatted as Mac OS extended (Journalized).

  not a virus, and not only because there is no virus mac at this time.

  negative errors on the discs can be a signal indicating that the file is corrupted or worse still, the drive is failing. While it can also be a problem with the cable or the connector that it commonly goes back on the disc itself.

  Currently, it is recommended that you backup your data if a backup fails, you may need to save what you can manually and sometimes that means go to this folder by folder or file by file

  Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac - Apple Support

  All HARD drives (and SSD') eventually fail and while this isn't a your statement you should check the drive with disk utility (Macintosh HD/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility) after you got what you possibly can off and consider replacing the disk with a new one.