My external hard drive won't format properly

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  Thanks a lot for your help.

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• External hard drive does not work properly

  Hi all

  It is a slightly different external HARD drive problem.  I had my faithful media ATMT bin since my first laptop with XP (2003) and I bought it in 2005.  It's a little wobbly as the fan vibrates a lot, but this isn't a problem.  What is the problem, is that I have a windows machine 7 who thinks that drive a need to put in shape, but my previous laptop which has vista on it was absolutely no problem to read the files IN ALL and you can open one of them without a hitch.  I tried to run CHKDSK I:\I (it is labeled as the I drive :) and 7 claims that it is in the format RAW.  I had a look at CHKDSK on my old machine and it is in FAT32, I since changed it to NTFS, but seems to have no effect.  I also tried the hunting of the drivers for the external hard drive, but I come only through links to Amazon as these things are always available.

  I really need to access this drive on my current computer as the older one needs a considerable cooling method to make it work therefore the latest machine.  What I also don't understand, it's that it was working absolutely fine on this machine too until quite recently.  He worked on it that I need, but have not been accessed for a while and so solutions in this regard would be greatly appreciated.

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  Your drive has reached its copy by date and it works on time taken (if he is stil)

  If this does not work on another PC then it's probably dead.

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• External hard drive no use / formatting / causing a lot of problems on Windows 8

  Hello, please someone help me! ??

  I just got a new Samsung M3 2 TB external hard drive and I tried running it on my laptop (Windows 8).

  I tried to partition it into two parts, but now everything goes terribly wrong.

  When I connect it via USB, the computer makes a sound of ping and it seems that 2 drives in my computer. He asks automatically format it... and when I start the formatting process (which takes hours)... in the end it gives me an error report saying "format could not be completed successfully."

  Whenever the HARD drive is connected I can not run the disk management tool, because it does not load. I even downloaded the partitioning of the internet tools, but when the HARD drive is connected those just freeze. When the HARD disk is not connected, disk management and all the partitioning tools work correctly.

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  I don't have access to the other PC to see if it works well on them. I really need to get to this sorting.

  Hello Dezrtroze,

  Thanks for your reply, appreciate the time taken by us keep up to date on the State of the question.

  1. You are able to open the command prompt when the external HARD disk is connected?

  Keep the external hard drive connected and put the computer to boot, check if it makes a difference.

  Also, check if you are able to open command prompt when the device is connected, if so, to run the check suggested such disk in method 3 above.

  On addition to that, you can also run /Scan research on CFS to check any file system corruption and repair it if found any.

  The command sfc/scannow (System File Checker) analyses all protected system files and replaces incorrect versions with appropriate Microsoft versions.

  Use the System File Checker tool to troubleshoot missing or corrupted system files.
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/929833/en-us

  Please reply with the results, we will be happy to help you.
  

• CR.2 files from external hard drive won't open.  Said «you are not allowed to open the doc...» "But I can open the .psd of the same post HD files.

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  It seems that there is a problem with the files on the external hard drive, even the mac os is not able to copy the files from the external hard drive.

• I've just backed up with an external hard drive for the first time, but my profile with my folders for photos, documents, and movies are not there

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  So, I finally got an external hard drive. I formatted for Mac (the device has been verified as being correct), and then he started to do a backup, which stated that a full backup would take 95GB. However, it only supported 19GB.  When I have my 'open' backup drive, I saw that only 'Macintosh HD' received support upward, not my user profile with all my folders containing documents, photos, movies, etc...

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  This is an image of what's inside my external hard drive:

  

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• 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.
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  -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.

• Backup file on my personal profile to an external hard drive impossible. I get an error saying "the directory is read-only, please select another.

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  Last backup in the month of August without problem.

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  Hi LovingMN,

  · What is the full error message that you receive?

  · What type of backup you make?

  · Are there data saved on the external hard drive?

  Change the attributes of the file. You can check the link for the steps below: how to set, view, change, or remove special permissions for files and folders in Windows XP: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308419

  This can also be caused by the destination drive. If there is no data saved on the external hard drive, you can format the drive and then try to save and check the results.

  With regard to:

  Samhrutha G S - Microsoft technical support.

  Visit our Microsoft answers feedback Forum and let us know what you think.

• WMP NOT ME LETS NOT RECORD SOME MUSIC FILES ON MY EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE I ADDED IT IN ORGANZE AND AN ERROR POPS UP IT CANT RIP, ONE OF THE FOLLOWING SONGS HE USED TO STORE THEM THERE BUT IT WON'T SAVE TO THE FORMAT MP3, FORMAT OR ANY SIZE

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  Select 'Enable' closing msc... Also, in WMP, go to tools, options, 'music rip tab' select external

  HD as a default value, leave options, or change the other tabs as necessary.

• 320 external USB HARD drive won't boot

  Hello!
  After working fine for 5 months, my disk 320 external HARD USB is now showing that it is not initialized. When I go to disk management and click to initialize it, it won't boot. Can someone tell me how to make this work? I'm sure I'll have to format too, but can't find any way to make that without initializing the HARD drive first.
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  Hello

  Try removing the USB ports in Device Manager. After restarting again the USB ports should be recognised again.
  Then again connecting the external HARD drive.

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• I bought an external hard drive, but my mac won't let me transfer all files that it

  My mac won't let me transfer all files on an external hard drive.

  Why not?  What is the error you get when needed?

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  If it is formatted for Windows, OSx impossible natively to write about it.

• External hard drive formatted with Linux OS

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  The drive is formatted with a Linux file system, probably ext3 or ext4.  Assuming that there are no files that you want to, you must delete all partitions, repartition the disk, and then the NTFS format.   These operations are done on disk management.  You can access by right-clicking on computer and select manage or control panel, administrative tools, computer management - Storage / Disk Management.

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  Note also, sometimes, these operations do not work through a USB adapter and it may be necessary to connect the SATA hard drive.

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