Unable to connect the external hard drive on the computer of Windows 8

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• Windows detected new hardware wizard appears each time I try to connect an external hard drive via the USB port.

  Whenever I try to connect an external hard drive into a USB port, Windows detected new hardware wizard will appear. He then not recognize the external drive at all. It does not appear in disk management. In Device Manager, it is listed as a 'device' USB bus controllers not. Under "other devices", there the question mark yellow and says the device is not configured correctly (code 1). External hard drive works fine on other PCs. It's a plug-and-play device. Port and USB cable work fine with other devices. Just this external hard drive has never worked on this PC.

  Hello

  I suggest that you try to remove USB controllers to the clean boot state and control.
  How to configure Windows XP to start in a "clean boot" State
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/310353/en-us
  Note: When you have finished troubleshooting, proceed as explained in the article to reset the computer to start as usual.
  See also:
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/310575

• 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.

• I connected an external hard drive to my MAC pro. I want to delete a folder, but there is that no move to trash option shows the jury. Kindly help me on this.

  I connected an external hard drive to my MAC pro. I want to delete a folder, but there is that no move to trash option shows the jury. Kindly help me on this.

  In the Finder, right-click on the drive and select information. Under sharing and permissions have read and write privileges?

• XP hangs after connecting an external hard drive via USB port

  When I connect an external hard drive of 250GB via a USB port on my system XP - SP3, the computer crashes immediately after the sound signal from the recognition of a normal connection PnP. There is no assignment of the station. I don't know that he had worked as can be expected before. A new 500 GB external hard drive is recognized as new hardware, the driver installed and ready to use, but after that, the PC shuts down completely new. However, when I do a system startup after connection of the same two drives, everything looks OK. Also, no problem with a USB stick of 2 GB. How to find what's the problem?

  Well - it's Windows for you, sometimes. :/

  Good luck with your new installation!

• Can not see the external hard drive to my computer only in devices & Printers I tried many patches & need help please

  I do not see my external hard drive in my computer but I can't in my devices and printers.  I too see the drive in disk management.  There is a lot of data on my hard drive that I need to save. It says that I have to initialize so the computer sees the drive but it clears my data. How to recover data? The drive works and makes no noise. Help, please. I uninstalled the RPG player

  and reinstalled. I've also updated the driver and I still don't see the drive in my computer.

  Hello

  Welcome to the Microsoft community.

  I understand that you have a problem with finding printers and external hard drives in the computer. We apologize for the unhandiness caused to you and appreciate your efforts in trying to solve the problem.

  To help you better I would like to know the details.

  1. What is the brand and model of the computer?
  2. You did changes to the computer before the show?
  3. Have you tried to connect the same external hard drive on another computer?

  I ask you to run the hardware and devices Troubleshooter and check if the problem persists. It is an automated tool that checks the hardware attached to the computer for known problems and provides details on how to correct them.

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

  I ask you to install optional Windows, including updates updates and check if you are facing the issue.

  Reference http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/wiki/insider_wintp-insider_devices/how-to-install-and-update-drivers-in-windows-10/a97bbbd1-9973-4d66-9a5b-291300006293

  Keep us updated on the issue to help you better.

• How can I get movies on an external hard drive to my computer

  I have an external hard drive that I have ownloaded several movies fron my dish network dvr that I want to watch on my computer how di to access these films

  Connect your external hard drive, right click on my computer, double-click your external hard drive, then double click on the movie you want to watch.

  I hope that it will open up WMP!
  See you soon,.
  Jerry

• Hi, I have a macbook 13 "retina pro and for some reason any when I try to plug in my external hard drive or a computer SD cards don't regencies them because they do not open on my screen. Does anyone know how to fix this?

  Hi, I have a macbook 13 "retina pro and for some reason any when I try to plug in my external hard drive or a computer SD cards don't regencies them because they do not open on my screen. Does anyone know how to fix this?

  Have you looked in the Finder?

• I want to be able to view television programs recorded on an external hard drive WD brand computer.

  I want to be able to view television programs recorded on an external hard drive WD brand computer.
  However, windows media player says that it cannot read the file. Is there something that can be downloaded for recorded (to a receiver HD DIGITAL) TV show can be considered?

  Hi waynekd,

  (1) have you tried self-production TV recording in Windows Media Center?

  (2) what is you receive the exact error message?

  Method 1: You can record TV shows and movies to several partitions of hard disk on the same computer or on an external drive. If only one drive is available, the - and + buttons under record on drive will be unavailable.   For more information, see link below

  This management recorded TV in Windows Media Center: frequently asked questions

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/Managing-recorded-TV-shows-in-Windows-Media-Center-frequently-asked-questions

  Method 2: Recorded TV files to play in Windows Media player are.wtv install KB 956147 and all Windows Update available (Service Pack 2)

  Download and install the Cumulative Update for Media Center TV Pack for Windows Vista

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/956147

  Install Windows updates

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/install-Windows-updates

  Learn how to install Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2)

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/learn-how-to-install-Windows-Vista-Service-Pack-2-SP2

  You can check the link below for more information

  A problem of recording TV on your computer

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/troubleshoot-problems-with-recording-TV-on-your-computer

• How to connect two external HARD drive satellite and the same printer?

  Hello

  I have now two laptop Toshiba Equium.
  What is the best way to connect them so that they can access the same external hard drive and the same printer?

  Thank you

  Hello

  I guess the two laptops are in the same network; Home LAN or WLan. Right?
  I this case I recommend you connect HARD drive and printer to one of the portable satellite.

  Then you can share the HARD drive and the printer with other cell phones on the LAN.

  You could add the network permission to others, and in this case the other participants of the network would be able to share the printer and HARD drive.

• Connect an external hard drive to an iPod?

  I have an external hard drive Free Agent for my computer, y at - it a cord that I can buy that I can plug my iPod so that I can play music/movies from my external hard drive to the iPod?

  No, there are no cords.  There are devices available "HD" including wifi and with the application provided by the manufacturer of the drive, you can access and save files/media to the engine and the iPod.  The iPod is to use the application given that native apps of the iPod can not access the device.

  This is such a device

• "My external hard drive does not appear in Windows Explorer and cannot open 'Help and Support', an error message" Windows cannot open help and Support because a system service is not ongoing.

  Original title:

  Everything was fine until yesterday. Juice now, when I plugged the external HD into the USB port it does not appear in the 'my computer' window. It is recognized by the computer as it is present on the list of the "Disk Clean Up" and it also appears when I click on ' Safe Remove Hardware ' on the taskbar. But if she does not appear in the 'my computer' window I can't work with it or don't even know what it I have arquived in it.

  Trying to find a solution, I realized that same 'information system' to 'System tools' is also not available. Pops up a window saying that "Windows cannot open help and Support because a system service is not ongoing enforcement. " To resolve this problem, start the service named help and Support '. OK, I tried to open 'Help and Support' ' Start Menu ' and the same window appeared again to "not have a system service that runs". I don't know what her soul precisely and I have not the slightest idea of what I need to do to correct this 'disappearance' of Service 'system '. There is nothing without the appearance of HD in the window of thw work? Everything else works fine and the calculation is virus-free. What should I do?

  Hello

  You did changes to the computer, before the show?

  Solution A:

  For the problem with the external drive not appearing is not in Windows Explorer, see the following methods.

  Method 1:

  Check out the following link.

  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

  Important: This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems can occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you proceed with caution. For added protection, back up the registry before you edit it. Then you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click on the number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  322756 how to back up and restore the registry in Windows

  Method 2:

  Connect the external hard drive on another USB port and check.

  Solution B:

  For the problem with the help and Support, check if the service is enabled.

  a. click Start, click run. In the Open box, type services.msc and press ENTER.

  b. right-click on the service called Help and Support , and then select Properties.

  c. under the general tab, set the type Startup to Automatic and click Start.

  d. close the services window and check for the issue.

• Moving files from an external hard drive to my computer

  I'm trying to move files from a disk external HARD connected to a router on my pc, and whenever I try to do the system show me a window with this message. IO error 0x8007045D error, I see a permission problem, then I configured for the 'Full' destination folder security access for everyone and nothing happened.

  Drive external hard there network permissions to connect with the computer and move files through the router?  Have already transferred files with the disc external hard connected this before?  It would work a lot better if you just connect the external hard drive directly on your computer.

  I hope this helps.

  Good luck!

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• External hard drive HP SimpleSave incompatible with Windows Vista 64-bit

  External hard drive HP SimpleSave installed my Dell Studio XPS.  When you use the reboot option, is unable to start Windows.  When I unplugged, everything works fine.  Called HP and they told me it was a windows problem, probably in my BIOS.  Called Dell, who was kind enough to check my BIOS, but they did solve the problem.  Has learned to work around the problem by disabling SimpleSave any time I want to use the restart.  I can do it, but I think that things work as advertised.  Would appreciate any help.

  Again, check the boot order in your BIOS to ensure USB enabled starting isn't the 1st in the boot order.

  Go to your Bios/Setup, or the Boot Menu at startup and change the Boot order to HARD drive to drive 1 in the boot order.

  At the startup/power on you should see at the bottom of the screen either F2 or DELETE, go to Setup/Bios or F12 for the Boot Menu

  Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

• External hard drives not recognized / work in Windows 7

  I see that many people have problems with Windows 7 does not recognise external drives. I have a SimpleTech Pro 1 t external drive used to be recognized with Windows 7, but is no longer recognized. He wasn't arrested only recently recognized. I if it is the car, so I bought an external drive of Hitachi LifeStudio 2 t. It does work on my desk. However, two external drives work with my laptop running MS Vista. So the problem is not with the external drives. On the contrary, the problem is with Windows 7 is no longer recognizing external drives. I read a lot of posts here and see that many people have the same problem, but none of the solutions are presented. Windows 7 does everything just not with external drives? It's frustrating.

  Hello
   
  Have you tried the troubleshooting steps?
   
  Step 1: Try to run Automated Troubleshooting Services and check out what he has to say.
  Reference: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/hardware_device_problems
  
  Step 2: You can also check in the device if Manager disk external drive is listed.
  
  a. connect the external hard drive to the computer.
  b. to open Device Manager, type devmgmt.msc in the search box start and press ENTER.
  c. check if the external drive is listed.
  d. in Device Manager, expand the hard drive listed in the list of devices.
  e. If the hard disk is listed, right click on it > click Properties.
  (f) in general, under control of device for the message status. After back if there is no error message.
  Step 3: Check to see if the external drive is getting detected in disk management.
  
  If the hard drive recognized in disk management and if there is no drive letter assigned, I suggest that you right-click on the drive and assign a drive letter and check to see if it helps:
  Reference: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Change-add-or-remove-a-drive-letter
  Step 4: Since external hard drive is detected earlier, I suggest that you try to perform system restore.
  Reference: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/system-restore
   

  Step 5: Remove and reinstall all USB controllers.

  To remove and reinstall all USB controllers, follow these steps:

  a. clickStart, click run, type sysdm.cpl in theOpen box and then click OK.

  b. click on thehardware tab.

  c. click theDevice Manager button.

  d. expandBus USB controllers.

  e. right click on each device under theBus USB controllers node and then click Uninstall to remove them one at a time.

  f. restart the computer and reinstall the USB controllers. Restarting the computer should automatically install the drivers.

  g. plug in the removable USB storage device and perform a test to ensure that the problem is solved.

  Step 6: Install the windows updates and check.

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/install-Windows-updates

  Step 7: Install the latest chipset driver. For this I recommend you contact the manufacturer of the system.

  Thanks and greetings
  Umesh P - Microsoft technical support.

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• External hard drive is not recognized after Windows Update

  Original title: XP Pro wants to install driver for external hard drive that is Plug-and-Play

  I think that using Windows Update can cause problems (unintentinally or not) for users of Windows XP.

  In a series of accidents with an old computer and reinstall the XP Pro operating system, I discovered that MS Money installing only if it was made before the Windows updates.  (planned obsolescense?) The issue has to do with the removal of the registry AUTORUN file. INF for some new and improved files through Windows Update.  Before the updates, the file exists, and I could install MS money.  After updates, AUTORUN. Missing INF file of the registry.

  Now, I encountered a new problem, and I think that it is also a result of Windows Update.  My external hard drive to IDE, that worked perfectly before on this computer (newer), is no longer recognized and want to reinstall the driver.

  The problem is that it is a Plug-and-Play device, and no driver was needed before updates.  I read somewhere in my many attempts to find a solution that the MS Plug and Play system was replaced by a universal version of this feature (UPNP?)

  It's on a more recent, computer replacement, which came not with a copy of the Windows XP Pro operating system, and I can't just reformat the hard drive and start all over again.

  Someone else has encountered this, and if so, have you found a solution?

  Double Post suite-

  Where is my external hard drive?

  I'm under XP Pro on a Dell Optiplex PC with all the current Windows updates (SP3. Net4, etc..) and last month, I added a USB IDE hard drive. the hard disk enclosure is MASSCOOL, and I used a 250 GB Seagate Barracuda7800. The car worked perfectly until this week. I had the Windows Update critical update automaticlly value and security updates.

  The hard drive has disappeared from "my computer." I tried to plug and unplug in different USB ports, restarted the computer, but continues to receive the "new hardware detected by saying me that new hardware has been detected and that I need to install the necessary driver.

  The problem is that Seagate does not provide any driver for this drive, because it is supposed to be (and was so far) recognized by the Plug-and-Play of Windows XP software. The hard drive enclosure came with a mini CD, but this contains software to use the unit as a back-up, not for storage.

  I can't understand that this change suddenly to believe that something in the Windows updates that have been installed recently changed the command structure, registry files or the drivers themselves.

  I know this is possible, because I've seen what's happened to any program that relied on self. INF file that was originally part of XP. This resulted in programs like Microsoft Money and older versions of MS Office, not being able to be installed by those of us who are not 'technically lit.

  I'm here in left field, or other people have had similar problems? And is anyone know how to solve this dilemma?

  Hello Ron Caley.

  Perform the steps in the link and check.

  Advanced troubleshooting tips for General USB for Windows XP problems

  Hope this information helps.