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• Installation of Vista on the new hard drive was interrupted, and now I can not start the computer

  So I decided that I need a bigger hard drive. I got a 500 GB hard drive, so I have it PLOPPED in my Acer Aspire 5517 with my vista boot drive, turned on and began to go through the process. Once he got to the phase 'installation complete' it seems to take a while, so I let it run all night. Once I got up, it was on a black screen with the mouse, I let stand a few more minutes but still nothing. I turned off and started it expects to find to return at the beginning of the installation, but instead he began to start from what is on the hard drive at this time. It got to the screen with the loading bar and the sign 'Microsoft Corporation'. The loading bar was very frigidity and stopped and started randomly. I let it do this while I went to school, but when I got home, it was always the same loading screen. I rebooted and tried to start in safe mode, but when I do it it stops at crcdisk.sys, and never forwarded charges. I tried to do the reset thing factory start it but that doesn't seem to work. My other puny hard drive still works, but the other does not. I searched the internet but have not seen any other problem like it. I want to just start completely clean of my new 500 GB. Please help!

  Hi James,

  1. What is the number of brand and model of the hard disk of 500 GB?

  2. How did the 500 GB hard drive connected to the computer? It is external or internal?

  To troubleshoot the unable to start the issue to cause corrupted driver, some files that can not be loaded during the startup process must be fixed or restored. So, let's check the disk by using the Windows Recovery Console.

  (a) put the Windows Vista installation disc in the disc drive, and then start the computer.

  (b) press a key when the message "Press any key to boot from CD or DVD ".

  (c) select a language, a time, a currency and a keyboard or another input method, and then click Next.

  (d) click on repair your computer.

  (e) (click on the operating system you want to repair), and then click Next.

  (f) in the System Recovery Options dialog box, click command prompt. Type chkdsk c:/f to try to correct the errors.

  (g) Note: answer them when chkdsk asks you if you want to check the disk next boot Vista

  (h) after the recording of the disc, and then run sfc/scannow to check the corruption of system files.

  Important: when running chkdsk on the drive hard if bad sectors are found on the disk hard when chkdsk attempts to repair this area if all available on which data may be lost.

  Check out TechNet help links and check if that helps:

  The computer starts stops at crcdisk.sys

  Help! Vista won't start... (crcdisk.sys)

  Let us know the status of the issue. If you need help, please after return. We will be happy to help you.

• I can't find my external hard drive under 'Computer' but it appears in "Devices and printers" How can I access files on my external hard drive?

  I can't find my external hard drive in "computer".

  I just bougth a new HP computer running Windows 7.  I just copied a bunch of movie files, music and photo of my old Mac (OSX Leopard) on a Western Digital external hard drive.

  I plugged the external drive in my HP via USB 2.0 on the front of the computer.  Windows recognizes the drive.  She appears in the Panel of external control/hardware and Sound/devices and printers as "HARD disk".

  It does not appear in 'Computer' under 'devices with removable storage ".

  I just want to get to my files so I can copy them to my new computer.  How to access my files on the external hard drive?  Why isn't he appear in 'computer '?

  Hello ShamedMonkey,

  Thank you for your message.  The problem you are having is because of differences in formatting between PC and Mac.  You can, however, transfer your files between the two.  I will set out what must be done under and limitations of each.
  First, you will need to format the drive on your PC.  When you format the PC, you can format it in FAT32 or NTFS.
  (You mentioned that you do not see the drive in the computer) To format drive:
  Click 'Start' > right click on 'Computer' > select 'manage '.
  Click on "disk management".
  In the right pane, you should see your drive > you can then do a right click and 'format '.
  FAT32:
  This format will allow you to easily transfer files between the two.  This format becomes problematic when you transfer files more than 4 G.  There is a limit of 4 GB in FAT32, etc. of many movies are bigger than that and cannot be transferred using this format.
  NTFS
  This format has no size limitation, however, in its normal state it will be 'Read only' on Mac.  If you will not be able to transfer all the data itself.  While doing some research on the web, it seems that you can use a program called MacFuse on your Mac to change to NTFS files.  I have not confirmed this, but you can give it a try.  If this program works as planned, it would be the way to go.
  Please let us know if it did or did not solve your problem.
  See you soon

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• Bought the new computer windows 10, itunes has changed location of support for external hard drive. The music does not appear in itunes.

  BOUGHT NEW COMPUTER WINDOWS 10, CHANGED ITUNES MEDIA LOCATION FOR EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE. THE MUSIC DOES NOT APPEAR ON ITUNES.

  Changing the iTunes media folder location setting affects only where new additions to your library will be stored.  To use a disk external drive to store your library complete (and assuming that you have access to the original data of the library on an old computer) you must copy the iTunes folder, by default in C:\Users\username\Music, on the external drive - structure library and its records should be like this:

  

  The hold button SHIFT DOWN when you start iTunes and when you see this message:

  

  Click choose a library... then find and select the iTunes Library.itl in iTunes on your external drive folder.

  For more information, see user turingtest2 on make a library of portable split.  You must also acquire a 2nd external drive and allows create and maintain a backup your library.

• Daw was working but now won't

  I have a hp elite, with a mixer, alesis io26, reason and cubase, that everything worked perfectly. the only problem was Windows media player work so I had so I had ay cds in cubase, could not play movies or burn CD/DVDs. one thing I have confused for me are within reason and you configure your audio preferences of cubase, but, in windows media player it seems to have no way to configure my blender. so, recently, I've updated my computer that I have never done, and messed with the settings sound a little trying to get media to work, which has been unsuccessful player. now I open reason as often it appears a bit slow. then I try to load the song and it freezes and says its engine didn't check sound card or installation (cubase does the same thing). I reinstalled the reason did not. I checked the sound card in the program and it has a green check mark next to it, theres a red x if it does not work. I then reinstalled reason on my old COMP to make sure that the disc has not been damaged, and it worked. Then, I saved all my songs on an external hard drive and plugged into the COMP. old and it all works. I looked for a solution for hours with no progress. any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

  the problem is resolved. I just needed to uninstall and reinstall the driver for the alesis io26. only problem that remains is the media player window does not work always and never. I don't know what the problem is. I thought I was because I am using recording studio speakers wired through the instead of computer speakers alesis io26. and there is no way to configure routing audio windows media. I would be grateful for any thank you more suggestions

• USB external hard drive stopped working

  I use Vista Home Basic Edition on a Dell Inspiron 1525.  I use a WD external hard drive for storage (almost a year) and it has been fine until today.  All of a sudden he disappeared.  At microsoft I used the fix tool and it said: relocation that the driver can solve - I say yes - device driver comes up saying installed successfully - but the disc puts to work continuously until I have unplug the USB or turn off.  Then everything went again.  I tried a dozen times, but it's always the same.  The only new thing that was installed today was a color laser printer & I don't see why that would stop the hd.  Any help or thoughts would be greatly appreciated as I need my data!

  Hello KBS406,

  Have you tried using a different USB Port? It maybe your H.D. must be assigned a letter given that your printer may have replaced it, itself when you install.     How to change a drive letter: to change an existing drive letter on a drive, on a partition, or a volume, follow these steps:

  1. Sign in as an administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.
  2. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click performance and Maintenance.
  3. Click Administrative Tools, double-click computer management, and then click disk management in the left pane.
  4. Right click on the drive, the partition, the logical drive or volume that you want to assign a drive letter to and then click change drive letter and paths.
  5. Click change.
  6. Click assign the following drive letter if it is not already selected, click the drive letter that you want to use, and then click OK.
  7. Click Yes when you are prompted to confirm the drive letter change.

  The letter of the drive, partition, or volume that you specified is changed, and the new drive letter is displayed in the appropriate drive, partition, or volume in the disk management tool.

  Hope this helps you. Let us know anyway. Make it a great day!

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• 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.

• External hard drive is recognized but cannot see the content

  My external hard drive PX1393E - 2 32 is identified as removable media, if I connect it with my laptop. But there is no possibility of access. Size is shown as '0' and you can't see the content.

  I work with Windows Vista Home Premium SP 1. I tried to use the hard drive with a second computer (also Vista): same problem. If I connect the hard drive with a laptop that works with XP, I can see and use all my data.

  Drivers and the operating system are the last level.

  Does anyone know a solution?

  (I ask forgiveness because of my bad English.)

  Hello

  You can see the size of the HARD disk in disk management?

  Normally the external HARD drive should also work on Vista if it works properly on your XP computer.
  You use different cables? Maybe you should try other on Vista laptop.

  In addition, I would recommend formatting the HARD drive again. It's maybe something s wrong with the structure of the partition.

• Iomega external hard drive is attached but not found by printers & peripherals

  I had an external hard drive Iomega two years and removed to add a printer.  When I reinstalled it the light is on, but it is not displayed during the backup or the devices of & printers.  I uninstalled and reinstalled but can not use it.

  Hello

  Please contact the Microsoft Community Forums.

  It looks like Iomega drive external is not detected in Windows 7. We will analyze and identify the cause of the problem.

  Please answer a few questions to refine the question.

  1. what happens when you try to plug in the device?

  2. are you able to connect other USB devices to the computer?

  3. do you receive any error messages?

  4. What is the status of the device in disk management?

  This may be caused by the following:

  • Your player does not have a drive letter assigned in disk management
  • The player can be disabled or offline
  • Your USB driver is maybe corrupted
  • Damaged registry keys may be the cause of problems with connection of a CD player or DVD toyour

  I suggest you perform the steps described in the article and check out them.

  My drive does not appear in Windows Explorer

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/330140

  Hope this information helps. Get back to us if you have more queries about Windows.

• 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?

• external hard drive contains files, but the folder in lightroom is empty

  I have all my photos on an external hard drive. Years 2006-2015 are only on the external hard drive, they are all organized by month and they all appear in the lightroom Library 5 very well.  2016 is on the internal hard drive of my mac (fine organized and functioning properly) and I also backed it up on the external hard drive. If I go to the finder, I see the 2016 files are on my external hard drive, but 2016 in the lightroom hard disk library is empty. I can't import on the external drive again because when I do that all the files are gray because they are already there on. Any ideas on how to get the files appear in the library?

  If you follow the instructions of dj_paige, Lightroom will then see the photos on the EHD, but will no longer see the pictures on the internal drive.  -What are you trying to do?  I got the impression you want Lightroom to see pictures in both IHD and DHM.

• I encrypted my external hard drive with bit locker, now how to decrypt after reinstalling windows 7

  Original title: Bit Locker question!

  I encrypted my external hard drive with bit locker, I had just installed windows 7 ultimate, I found in a hurry I have does not support for 7 and decided to reformat and to return to my pro victory, I did and when I plugged my external in my cp asked if I wanted to format my external , that's when I realized in my haste I forgot to decipher my outside, so my Q should I do to decipher my external or I'm out of luck?

  Hello

  See the bottom of the articles that might help you.

  Learn more about BitLocker Drive encryption
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/learn-more-about-BitLocker-Drive-encryption
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  http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd835565 (WS.10) .aspx

• I can't open Gmail in Firefox. Used to work but now nothing.

  It seems that I'm the same as others. Google works very well. Gmail works in Google, but not in Firefox. Was OK but now get the error message; "Firefox has detected that the server redirects the request for this address in a way that will never end."

  Have tried all suggestions, but nothing. Have the latest Firefox.

  Help!

  Hello

  Many issues of the site can be caused by corrupted cookies or cache. To try to solve these problems, the first step is to clear cookies and cache.
  Note: This will be you temporarily disconnect all sites, you're connected to.
  To clear the cache and cookies to do the following:

  1. Go to Firefox > history > clear recent history or (if no Firefox button is displayed) go to tools > clear recent history.
  2. Under "Time range to clear", select "all".
  3. Now, click the arrow next to details to toggle the active details list.
  4. In the list of details, see the Cache and Cookies and uncheck everything.
  5. Now click the clear now button.

  More information can be found in article to clear your cache, history, and other personal information in Firefox .

  This solve your problems? Please report to us!

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• External hard drive not recognized, but...

  I can't find a similar problem anywhere online.

  Drive external DRIVE is Toshiba Stor.E partner (green), 1 TB.

  About 2 years ago.

  One day last week, I realized, it was not mounted in the usual place (on my Time Capsule), so I connected it to my Mac Mini, but no difference.

  Screenshots show Mac specs, more the HARD drive in the disk and repair utility failed drive.

  It is partitioned into two 500 GB, but I can't really remember why I did it.

  For more than a year it is connected to the back of my time Capsule, so it is not included in the automatic backups. From time to time I move to my Mac Mini for a day or two and include it in the back up - but now that I enter Time Machine can't find a backup of it so I was probably passing on this topic in the wrong way? Also had a problem during the summer, this year, where my TC got indigestion and decided to throw all that, which means that I had to start from scratch, backups but it was not biggy time.

  I bought a new cable (best reviews on Amazon), in which case it was a problem, but no difference. Have not yet tried a Y-cable but will if someone recommends.

  I'm sure that people will need more information, ask so far.

  Also displayed in the Mac Mini to the Web site, but this has farrrr less followers then thought that it would be wise by the bash too.

  Thanks in advance

  

  

  

  

  Seems to me that the drive has failed. It happens.

• Changed the record office to another drive, but now nothing appears on my real desk

  Hey everybody,

  So, I recently had a hd crash and decided to try a hybrid ssd/hdd. I have my boot of my ssd, which I guess by default placed the desktop folder in the same drive. After some research, I found how to change the path to the C: Office, which was the ssd, K:, that was the hard drive. Now every time I save anything on the desktop, it saves on the K: drive but nothing comes up on my real desk.

  I guess it is because the path Office is on the C: drive, but can I change it so that it displays all of my K: drive?

  I am running windows 7 Professional and use the double disc WD Black2.

  Thanks in advance!

  Moving files in Windows 7 and Windows 10 user

  1 this is the standard way to work [I've included in the procedure to move all user folders rather than just the desktop folder you mentioned and I spoke also defining the IE file downloads].

  1.1 create a folder K:\Documents & moving * your data inside files [move content from C:\Users\yourusername\Documents not the folder \Documents C:\Users\yourusernamehimself].

  [* Windows will offer to move the files on you when you change the location definition in subsection 1.2 tab, but it can get really annoying if it fails, then it is safer to move yourself in advance.]

  1.2 set the location in \Documents C:\Users\yourusernametab to point to K:\Documents.  You do this, as you must already know, by doing a right click on the file C:\Users\yourusername\Documents and selecting Properties and then click on the location tab.

  1.3 set permissions to K:\Documents by clicking right on & selecting share with specific people or one right click on it & select Properties then the sharing tab.  [You can allow yourusername & accounts Admin reading & writing, but other users ['allowed users'] to have, for example, list only permissions].

  1.4 repeat 1.1 - 1.3 for these other user folders [I showed records that I moved them just for example]

  Music K:\Documents\Music,

  Photos K:\Documents\Pictures,

  Videos K:\Documents\Videos,

  [IE] Favorites K:\SystemSettings**\Favorites

  Links K:\SystemSettings**\Links***,

  Search K:\SystemSettings**\Searches.

  [* SystemSettings - it just suited my backup plan to separate these parameters in one group different file.]

  [* Links - This is the entrance to 'Favorites' that appears at the top of the Windows Explorer Navigation pane - he has very wisely been renamed in Windows 10 quick access since that's what it is dedicated]

  A folder of additional user exists in Windows 10 - the screenshots folder and my advice on the use of this facility and moving his file is in setting and checking of the screenshots folder

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  2 verification of the task and correction of errors by using the registry; check the IE, downloads folder

  2.1 it is probably possible to change the parameters of location in the registry manually rather than use the location tab, but I only looked at him subsequently to check happened correctly and to correct an error I had made.

  2.2 as it is to change the registry the usual warning apply [back to the top of all, make an image of the system, test the system repair disc / Windows installation disc so that you know that you can start with something to be able to restore the image if Windows will not cooperate].

  2.3 open RegEdit [C:\Windows\regedit.exe] - I always open it by right-clicking and selecting run as administrator, but I don't think that it is essential for the special keys used in this task.

  2.4 I checked how to implement by accessing user ID

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

  and clicking each entry in the list to see what number S-1-5-21-NNNNNNNNNNNN-100X is the name of the affected user.  The user name appears in the right-hand side of the RegEdit window you look at each entry.  The number of S-1-5-21-etc., it will be the X at the end between your user accounts.

  2.5, go to this entry [using the S-1-5-21-etc number you just found]

  HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-NNNNNNNNNNNN-100X\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

  2.6 checks if the value of the personal in the right side by double-clicking on the personal and changing that value to that of the new way you have implemented already.  [Staff means entry of user my documents ].

  2.7 checking the values of the other user folders that you moved.

  2.8.1 [Windows 7] while you're there, check IE, location of the downloads folder.  It is in the key

  {374DE290-123F-4565-9164-39C4925E467B} which is normally the second entry down just after {Default}.  This sets the folder you would normally define in IE, Tools, view downloads, Options.  I saw that the normal procedure fool you once, and there is no adverse consequence to set the correct value in the registry instead.

  2.8.2 [Windows 10] you must manually set this folder once for a corresponding registry entry must be created.  Thus, as a first step, set the folder in IE, Tools, view downloads, Options.  Subsequently, you will be able to check & to change the setting to Explorer\Main HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-2568008921-1580239441-348697478-1001\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet with its default download directoryentry.

  2.9 you will also see a few lines up key

  HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-NNNNNNNNNNNN-100X\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell records

  and the corresponding entries in there match those in which you have worked in.  I mention the existence of the second series of entries just because you could see the and might get scared that something has gone wrong.  When I made this correction, I just couldn't get the second set until later so I have whatever it is worry.  You will notice that some entries exist in two of these areas, while others exist only in one of them.

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  3 while I saw some threads in this forum who allege that registry changes can achieve more than using the box location tab [i.e. more than my procedures in article 1 & 2 cover], I see no convincing evidence that it worked [and I saw at least a thread who said that subsequent attempts to run a repair installation wouldn't work - the system has just said that he could not. work with unexpected folder locations that he discovered].  I think that these discussions said that they had moved all of the user profile on the data disk, but I have no notes thereon as they seemed to me to be questionable procedures.

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  4 benefits of the relocation of the user folder

  The separation of your data files of your operating system & its applications is not just free up some space on the OS disk [normally C:\], it also allows to make images of system regular training of the BONE that are almost certainly going to be 40 GB or smaller [and only take 25 minutes to do].

  It would take you back to excellent capabilities as response to the corruption of the serious system could then be to boot from a system repair disc or a Windows 7 USB/DVD installation and restoration of this image, i.e. restore the system drive, exactly what was on it at the time that the image was made.  This restoration only takes about 25 minutes.

  I did a couple of years and would never set up my system any other way now.  I had previously considered images of the system as a tool of INFORMATION services used to avoid the difficulty of flaws correctly, but I was wrong.  Now, I make them regular system on external drives and can therefore get reliable disaster & quickly.  You can hunt with confidence the flaws or just to do experiments in knowing that you will be able to go back to square one, even if everything goes wrong.

  With separate system & datafile discs, you can continue to do backups of simple file of your own files on your disk data using Windows backup or another backup of file utility.