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• Starting from installation, recovery - on - external hard drive

  Computer: Gateway MD2614u laptop, AMD Turion X 2 64-bit processor, designed for Windows Vista

  External hard drive: WD My Book Essentials (surrounded by Western Digital 500 GB drive external hard)

  Background: laptop was dropped, crushed physically the internal hard drive, all other aspects of the laptop appear to be in working condition.

  Vista says: Windows Setup cannot install another USB or IEEE 1394 device.

  It is important to note that the external drive is a SATA.  ALSO that there is NO hard drive internal to the computer right now.

  I pulled the drive from its casing and place in my desktop computer.  I have installed Vista in this way, and placed the disc in its case, confident, would solve the problem.  "The found operating system"

  I wiped the drive and tried again, this time using my Windows 7 to format the drive make a primary partition active and used the WD SmartWare to disable the password on the external, as well as VCD (Virtual CD, which contains the software for backup on and retrieve the external hard drive) on the outside.  Then installed Vista back once again, the drive in the enclosure, and again, I got 'the operating system not found '.

  I tried to use the "gateway recovery disc" the computer asked me to do immediately after I ran it the first time.  They have installed the Vista gateway on the external hard drive without any problem, the recovery software has taught me that I had to press OK to restart the computer, but again once 'the operating system not found"happens.  I advanced and rebooted the computer out of habit and that the computer starts in what concerns the loading of "microsoft" bar (the green bar moving left to right while loading vista), and then it restarted itself.  This new responsible for the 'green bar' and restarted again.

  3 times I let him, then I placed the regular 64 bit Vista disc in the status bar and try a startup repair.  "Windows cannot resolve the problem, do you want to send the information to Microsoft" or something that nearby.

  I then tried using the disk for 32-bit Vista in the same way.

  32 bit Vista disc completed the repair, but now the 'green bar' vista loading screen comes up, runs for a few seconds, and then I get a quick flash of a blue screen, and until I can see what he says, the computer restarts.

  Help!

  Hello

  This seems to be a hardware problem, so you may have to contact the manufacturer, follow the link given below to communicate with the gateway.

  http://support.gateway.com/support/default.aspx

  Amrita M

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

• Satellite M45 - does not start after restoration on the new HARD drive

  I installed a new PATA 250 GB HDD on my pc. The BIOS is configured to boot from CD/DVD. Toshiba Recovery disk started cold, start follow-up statement to load a new system on the HARD drive. He made a (quick) format on the HARD drive, spent 50 minutes, copy the files from the CD to the new HARD drive. Followed the instructions to remove the CD and reboot the pc. Did. I get the Toshiba homepage for 2-3 seconds, and then I get a white screen with a white block cursor in the upper corner of the LH of the screen. Looks like it does not find the block on the HARD disk?
  The procedure of collection 3 times with the same results. Checked the BIOS to check that it is configured to boot from the HARD disk after installation.

  The recovery CD is blank. Never used because I bought the PC (3.5 years). Put the new HARD drive in a USB enclosure and formatted with Windows, tried again with the same result? Put the old HDD, PC starts and works very well. Put the live CD Knoppix and boot from that, works very well. See the new HARD drive.

  Thus, any suggestions are appreciated. The recovery CD Toshiba is defective? In any case to test?

  Thank you
  -J

  Hello

  Sounds like a problem with the recovery disk or the new HARD disk if your computer starts up fine with the old HARD drive...

  In your case before you start a lengthy discussion, you should try a Microsoft Windows disk to install Windows. If he work it seems that only the recovery disk is defective.

  Otherwise, the HARD disk must be defective. Maybe a bad sector or something else

• Problems with El Capitan w / WD external hard drive

  I have trouble with El Capitan find the external hard drive. I put a couple of external hard drive in both my mac mini.

  OS X El Capitan

  10.11.3 version

  Mac mini (late 2014)

  Processor: 2.6 GHz Cose i5

  My external 2 TB USB drive working

  My not-so-working external WD My Book

  • FireWire 800
  • FireWire 400
  • USB 2.0

  It was before mini mac OS El Capitan. But lately, my mac mini showed that the WD My Book was read-only. Then, the WD hard drive disappeared from my finder! Same with Disk Doctor app.

  What format is the external drive in?

  If you have used NTFS before OS X El Capitan your third-party NTFS software will need to be updated.  OS X can natively read NTFS volumes, but the third party software is necessary to allow write access.

  If your player is in HFS +, then it could be a permissions problem.

• What to do after I wipe an external hard drive?

  I just used KillDisk to erase a 1 TB external hard drive. I still want to use this hard drive but my computer does not recognize it. I read that I might have to reformat or something? Also read something about Fdisk. Don't know if this is the case for me, no one knows anything about what I should do next? And how to do it? Thank you.

  This is the site with instructions. Unfortunately, I'm not very aware when it comes to technology. Help, please!

  http://www.killdisk.com/KillDisk-FAQ.htm

  Press start, search diskmgmt.msc, open that appears in the search. (should be "diskmgmt")

  Find your external drive, which, on the lower part of the screen, should have a giant bar with black on top of it. If it is blue, read the paragraph after it and ignore the following sentence. Right click after making sure is your external drive (you can tell by looking at how big it is), and then select new simple volume.

  If the bar is blue, and you are sure it is your external drive, it has already been formatted. In this case, right click, select change drive letter and paths, and if there is no letter listed, click Add, choose a letter and press Ok. It should be shown in my computer.

  If it's black, continue reading below.

  Press next, and then it will ask you what size you want the partition, and it should already have filled the maximum space, you can do. Press next. You can then select a drive letter, that will most likely be E, of course you can change it to any desired letter.

  In the next screen, it should have already chosen "format this volume with the following settings. Make sure he put the NTFS file system, allocation unit size must be default which is very good, and you can choose a name for the drive.

  Quick format is selected automatically and I would say leaving just checked, as a normal on a 1 format to player would take a few hours.

  Pressing should then start formatting. On this bar where you initially right click to start this, admittedly, formatting. When he's ready, he'll say: formatting (0%) and then it should finish quickly, because you have chosen to do a quick format.

  After that, the drive appears in my computer and can be used.

• Disconnected (removed) external hard drive still exploring and using drive letter - how to remove?

  Dear community,

  I recently removed an external hard drive of my computer laptop windows 7, I guess it was not not ready to 'remove Saveli' it at that time. The hard drive itself is fine, but the icon remained in windows Explorer because it is disconnected. I manually assigned the drive letter Q on the drive before, and it always appears like that, since this disconnect. When I click on it, there is of course a mistake ("Q is not accessible. "Access denied"). When I plug the hard drive it is listed in another letter (E), the 'Phantom' to Q drive is not affected by it at all.
  It (the ghost drive) does not appear in the computer/disk management manager and I can also not reassign the letter Q on the original hard drive (or any other - is not in the list!).
  I would use the letter Q again to the hard drive (my paths and associations of are consistent) and want to get rid of the ghost car. Any ideas how?
  Thanks in advance,
  Philipp

  FYI
  It's great that the problem corrected itself, but for general reference or other who can run in the ii, how to fix a ' stuck or ghost hand "is to remove its entry in the registry key below and then open a new market or restart.  This problem is relatively rare, but sometimes and still does not resolve itself.
  (Note this drive letter Q is used by Office, click Run and sometimes mysteriously appears for this reason, unlike your situation.)

  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2]

• How to disconnect an external hard drive

  I'm new to using Dynex external hard drive.  Dynex instructions say to "double click on the remove the system tray icon.  Where can you find the bar of State system on a Dell Inspiron 530 with Windows XP.  Probably a stupid question. but I checked the Windows glossary and did not find this term.  I went to control panel, System icon and open, but did not find "Remove icon".  Thanks in advance!

  Help me with my product

  http://dynexproducts.com/support.html

  Start, run dialog box and typing the following:

  RunDll32.exe shell32.dll, Control_RunDLL HotPlug.dll

  Click OK and the Manager of HotPlug Safely Remove Hardware icon should appear. The dialog box should open and display all connected devices. That's all it takes!

• RAW files missing changes after moving to an external hard drive

  Hi, I use lightroom 4 and I cleaned a part of my images on my laptop and then exported in JPEG files. My hard drive has started to fill up, so I moved all my files on raw on an external hard drive but now when I come back to make adjustments to these images it tells me that the file is missing. How the raw return file so that it shows the changes I made?

  The changes should have been stored in the catalog file or in an XMP Sidecar file. Also moved the XMP Sidecar files. These XMP files can be marked as system files in OS X, and unless you have show system files (which, with OS X for that option and turn it you may need to use Terminal), and or display all files, Finder can hide on your part.

• Moving after projects effect on external hard drive

  How can I move all of my After Effect projects and their associated files on my local drive on a hard drive so that in the future all the work of EI will be saved on the external hard drive?

  The easiest way is to use the service to collect files to put a single project in a separate folder, including a copy of the original project and then move that or as backup to an external drive.

  The other option is to duplicate your original files that contain assets in the project and copy it to an external drive and then open the project and recreate a link to missing images. The first option is easier.

  

• I have a problem with the appropriation of an external hard drive.

  Original title: hard Ex property issues

  I am a local administrator and I am currently taking possession of an external hard drive. The drive is NTFS. He said currently the owner of the car is unavaible. I can't open the drive and I get E:\ is not accessible. Access is denied. When I try to change the permissions, it says I don't have the right to change permissions and when I try to take ownership of the drive I get E:\ is not accessible. Access is denied. My user use this player to switch between two computers on different networks. A computer is one out of a COMPLETE domain name and others is a stand alone however he uses his ACC even to connect the two systems. None of these machines can see the owner. I am at a loss someone running into that? The drive is completely useless unless I can understand that. Also, I tried to format the drive. Thanks in advance for any advice anyone can give.

  v/r

  Vince

  If you have tried formatting the drive, why not repartition it first?

• laptop does not start after you install a new hard drive

  HP G60-630us laptop... .replaced hard drive... .installed 3 boot disks... After you remove the last drive, when you click on continue it is supposed to start... .it reads no boot device... . If put you the first disc to start, you end up back where you started... I changed the boot order and put the hard drive first... even starts

  Hello

  That sound great for the hard drive.

  With regard to the problem you have with Windows activation, it's because your laptop is listed as originally came with Windows 7 Home Premium - as I mentioned in my guide for the creation of a sale installation disc at retail, the image that you use needs to be also be Home Premium - IE you cannot move to professional or ultimate edition as the key on your COA label will not work for a different version of Home Premium and there is no way around that.

  The image that should be used is on the following link.

  Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.

  You will need to create another disc of installation using the above Image and then use it to reinstall Windows 7 - the activation methods I described previously, then will work fine.

  Kind regards

  DP - K

• Cannot associate .bkf after a backup on external hard drive

  I am running Windows XP Home edition. I downloaded my Windows CD backup. I backed up my files to an external drive. It took 40 minutes, so I'm pretty sure they did backup. I can't access the files as it says they are .bkf files and have no association on my computer. What did I miss, or what more I have to do.

  Ian

  File type: Backup utility backup set
  The BKF file type is primarily associated with 'Windows XP' by Microsoft Corporation.
  For XP Home this utility is not installed by default. You must install it from the directory of the added value of your disc XP Home distribution. Once installed shows upward in the start menu. Programs | Menu accessories. If you make several backups a catalogue of these backups is kept on the hard drive in the folder \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows NT\NTBackup\catalogs51.
  If you have a backup file you want to recover files from and this file is not listed in the catalog, then the Windows backup program will not restore from this file, unless you delete the catalog. Then, with no other data to work from, Windows backup will recover the backup files.
  There are many programs that you can download to extract BKF files, I do not use them because they are likely to have viruses. There are those who have a claim registry problem if there is no file association, DO NOT USE A REGISTRY REPAIR TOOL OF DIFFICULTY or PROBLEM!
  Hope this can be useful

  MR. BEAN ROCKS!

• Pavilion DM4-1265dx does not start after the restoration, the new hard drive

  Hello:

  I have a laptop of clients that a hard drive has been giving an iminent failure message.  I was able to create a disc of recovery and replaced the original HD (640 GB) with a 500 GB HD.  I can't do the factory recovery because the hard drive is smaller, but it allows me to perform a recovery of the operating system.  The question that I am running is after he read the DVD 6, the system wants to re-start and then it crashes just in the HP splash screen.  If I turn it works, I get could not find a boot device.

  How can I get around that, before the establishment with a win 7 CD?  Is this process of recovery to a waste of time, as I did on the previous model HP computers and it has always worked.

  Thanks in advance for any ideas.

  Mike

  Hi cloud:

  To be more precise, of memory, there are two options, reset and factory restore.  Factory restore won't do it because the disk is slightly smaller.  Factory reset will allow me to put the recovery disk hard, but when he re - start, it crashes just in the hp splash screen.  When I do the three fingers of salvation, then I get cannot find the boot device.  I made the internal test and everything passes with flying colors.

  I finished download an iso image and install from scratch, but I can tell you that it is the system more screwed up that I never ran into 30 years of working with these toys.  I tired to do a repair, but that creates just again the same symptom.

  I have an Acer Tablet that I've been able to use the computers acer recovery disk that was not intended (but had the same version of the operating system) and at least was able to get the operating system and software and finished to the top with the right drivers, size of the hard drive has been ignored in their case.

  Thanks for help you, it is appreciated, but I doubt I can recommend HP to one of my clients in the future based on what I've run here.  This is inconsistent with a solution of recovery as far as I'm concerned, that MS requires manufacturers.  Lets get real, hardware fails for various reasons, and you may not necessarily the same size hard drives with the rate of change occurring in the industry.  Personally, I prefer a game of installation for the operating system and drivers disks.  Dell is one of the only ones I know who did this, and as much as their material is so so, they do at least that right of the party.

  Once again thank you.

  Mike

• Problem with the use of the external hard drive.

  I was using a disk external hard seagate to store pictures. All of a sudden, it wants me to format the drive. If I do this, will erase all my photos? Is anyway around that I wouldn't lose thousands of photos.

  On Sunday, August 3, 2014 20:49:55 + 0000, CEDGR1208 wrote:

  I was using a disk external hard seagate to store pictures. All of a sudden, it wants me to format the drive. If I do this, will erase all my photos? Is anyway around that I wouldn't lose thousands of photos.

  See Zigzag3143 answer you and I would add the following:

  If you have only one copy of all the files that are important to you,
  whether on an internal hard drive, external drive, or anywhere else, you
  are always in danger of losing. It is always possible that a hard
  car accident, near Thunderbolt, user error, virus, attack the same
  stolen computer, can result in the loss of everything on your drive.
  As it has often been said, it is not a question of whether you'll
  such a problem, but when.

  I hope you succeed to save your photos, but for the future, be
  of course, you always have a backup of these and any other
  important files on external media.

• Access my files after converting HD internal external hard drive?

  I was using a Lenovo Thinkpad notebook that had initially installed, Windows 7 upgraded to Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 then. Screen of the laptop was accidentally crushed, and while the laptop was working fine, it was unusable because the screen was totally destroyed. As I'm travelling and I wanted to replace it anyway, I took the hard drive and put it in an external enclosure.

  I try to access my files from the hard drive on another computer. This computer is running Windows 7. When I plugged in the drive for the first time, I authorized the computer analyze and correct (I think, I don't remember the exact words) the hard drive. Now, I'm trying to get my files. I believe that they are under "Users--> last" but then an error message will appear, telling me "you don't currently have permission to this folder. Click on continue to get a permanent access to the folder. "I click on continue, then get"you have been denied access to this folder. To win access to go to Security tabs. "But I do not know what parameters to change in the Security tabs, as I can in all. More on the Security tabs, it shows me that the folder is empty.

  I can't unlock this file? If so, how? I screw it up by leaving this analysis of the computer the drive? Is there a chance that it works on a Windows 8?

  Any help is VERY appreciated!

  ---

  EDIT: This is a public library computer so I can't access the administrator user. When I get to 'Properties' for the record, there no tab 'security', just general, "sharing, previous versions, customize. So maybe I should try it on a computer where I can access the administrator user?

  LR

  You must take possession of the HD.  Instructions for which are here

  http://www.SevenForums.com/tutorials/1911-take-ownership-shortcut.html

  http://www.howtogeek.com/HOWTO/Windows-Vista/add-take-ownership-to-Explorer-right-click-menu-in-Vista/

  It should not interfere with the computer of libraries, but not sure how they would feel on this subject. (it can always be reversed when finished)