Using the external USB drive to the computer to start up?

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• Loading file to the Virtual Machine by using an external USB drive... Please help

  We have an environment that we would like to import and create a virtual machine. The files are on the external 1 TB external hard drive USB puppy with NTFS. The files are approximately 430 GB. I tried almost all the options to get the files to the HOST that is running the server ESXI 4.0.

  Whenever we tried to get the files using the USB drive and Vsphere client connected to a local computer running windows on the ESXI 4.0 Server somehow transfer stops after a while. Some time around after ro possibly around 250 GB 200 GB. So far, we are not able to get the hard master file that occupies about 430 GB in the ESXI data store.  We also tried the third "Fastscp" software to transfer files to the ESXI host, but we had the same problem that the transfer stops at some point.

  Another option that we tired was to start a machine with Linux live CD and USB directly attached to this machine. As the Linux version was newer USB NTFS partition hard drive has been detected without installing any NTFS disks. We have mounted the drive USB on this machine and exported the mount point. In the ESXI server using CLI not supported (Alt - F1) we were able to ride the point of editing exported and tried to copy the files to the folder main datastore but same problem the transfer stops after a few hours sometimes even near 300 GB.

  Y at - it somehow I can bypass the file transfer by using not not the network, which means that if we reach directly the USB key to the ESXI server machine does not recognize it (using Alt - F1 not CLI) because it is partitioned into NTFS. I read that ESXI only supports FAT partition.

  We also tried to start the machine running ESXI server with the latest versions of Linux, in this case, we were able to mount the USB drive directly, but because ESXI stores files with VMFS partition we couldn't mount this partition in linux.

  Could you please recommend any solution to get the files the server ESXI 4.0?  Is there a way to allow us to start the EXSI with Linux server and can mount the partition VMFS use third-party drivers? OR what you would do. Advice would be nice.

  Welcome to the forums - using the vSphere client should work - block of what size did you use to create your VMFS data store? If you left it at the default of 1 MB, then the bigger file, you can copy that VMFS datastore is 256 GB - you'll need to create the data store with a block size of 2 MB which will allow you to create a file upto 4 MB or 512 GB keast and a size of 1024 GB.

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• Cannot use disk utility to create the partition of the free space on the external USB drive.

  I have a red 3 TB Western Digital drive in a USB hard drive docking station.

  The reader is GPT, and I have two volumes on it (a single volume is "Microsoft reserved", another volume is NTFS).

  The other part of my drive is 1.5 TB of free space. I want to create a new partition with free space so that I can put backups Time Machine encrypted external hard disk.

  I checked free space on the drive with my Windows machine:

  
  DISKPART> list disk
  
  Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
  
  -------- ------------- ------- ------- --- --- 
  
  Disk 0 Online 167 GB 20 GB
  
  Disk 1 Online 465 GB 0 B *
  
  Disk 2 Online 2794 GB 1526 GB *
  
  DISKPART> select disk 2
  
  Disk 2 is now the selected disk.
  
  DISKPART> list part
  
  Partition ### Type Size Offset
  
  ------------- ---------------- ------- -------
  
  Partition 1 Reserved 128 MB 17 KB
  
  Partition 2 Primary 1267 GB 129 MB 
  
  DISKPART>
  

  DiskPart displays 2 partitions - a 128 MB and the other GB 1267 with 1526 MB of free space.

  I took the hard drive of my MacBook Pro running OS X El Capitan 10.11.3 and pulled towards the high disk utility, but for some reason, that it does not resemble the disk utility it is to see the free space, so I can't create a new volume.

  Here are a few screenshots:

  ... of the physical disk in disk utility (notice how it doesn't seem be all unallocated space on the disk to create a new volume):

  

  ... of the NTFS volume in disk utility:

  

  ... of information for the drive in disk utility:

  

  ... of information for the NTFS volume in disk utility:

  

  ... of the partitioning settings page. Notice how the sign is grayed out (I can't create another partition):

  

  

  I'm a new Mac user. My company recently gave me a Mac, so the first thing I want to do is to create a new partition on this external USB drive to put backups Time Machine figures on it.

  In the research I did find a way to do it on a mac computer without erasing the drive and starting over. But you can go to your windows computer and partition the free space of disks. Then use the mac to set the free space as mac os extended journaled. Here's what I found. http://www.PCWorld.com/article/2066191/how-to-partition-a-hard-drive.html the only other way would be to copy the file on the external drive, somewhere, so you can delete it and re partition for windows and mac. Then reinstall windows files. I'm not familiar with windows systems.

• When the computer is turned off to stop is no longer the Vista 64 external USB Drive (SeaGate/Maxtor)

  Vista 64 - bit SP2. TB external Maxtor OneTouch 4 drive, worked well, now he wants to run continuously. The USB disk drive does not stop when I go through the steps to Remove material for it, then shut down the computer normally. Or the last step of the computer stops the disk external closing. Now the external hard drive keeps spinning, I don't know about the heads of read/write being parked or not and the white light comes on. This disk is used for the storage of photos; 30 backups; and several databases. I can't wait to have the drive platters turning 24 x 7, and I can't confirm that the read/write heads were parked safely. The error message associated with this question is below in bold. The player is now like the rabbit, continuous running.

  Diagnosis of Maxtor for this drive have been executed successfully.

  Maxtor check driver indicates that the driver is the most recent.

  Device driver Vista says the car is fine. I checked that the drive can read and write. Different backups have been recorded on this disc. I have not tried a restore because of this problem.

  Maxtor says that there is not any change in firmware pending for this drive.

  Seem like a command to close jammed somehow being sent on disk.

  Apparently the Maxtor One Touch USB Device, property, to optimize for quick removal of the external drive, you just completely shut down the computer and the external hard drive finished last (no need to use the hardware logic safely remove). The other option here is "optimized for performance (you must use the material logic safely remove) to turn off the player."

  These flags are defined in the Device Manager-online records-online Mass storage Drive L:

  Anyway, you try to stop the external hard drive, it will fail with the following error message:

  "Windows can't stop your 'Generic Volume' device because he's busy." Try again later. " Or a statement to this effect."

  The only software running when the error is Vista 64 bit and the logic of trying to stop the player.

  Thanks for any help you might be able to offer. Bill Sullens

  Hi Bill,

  Thanks for the detailed explanation

  I you suggest to activate the clean boot and then test to see if this works very well as expected

  Step 1: Put the computer in a clean boot

  Follow step 1 in the link below,

  How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista or in Windows 7

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/929135

  If everything works well after a clean boot, you can deduce that some third-party services are at the origin of the problem.

  Continue with the remaining steps to pin-point on the third party service.

  After find you the program that is causing the problem, you will have to perhaps to update or install a newer version of the program, if you rarely use that you should consider uninstalling the software.

  Important: n ' forget not the computer to start normal follow step 7 in the link.

  Let us know if this helps

  Thank you, and in what concerns:

  Ajay K

  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer

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• How can I get my computer my external USB drive (portfolio) after that I repeatedly get the message that the device "can not be removed?

  Original title: I need a market to resolve the problem remove the instrument.

  How can I get my computer my external USB drive (portfolio) after that I repeatedly get the message that the device "can not be removed? I have closed all other programs and waited for varying amounts of time, and tried all of the fixes that have been proposed on this site. Nothing works. I don't want to turn off the computer whenever I have to remove the device.

  I can't know what "all patches" you've tried, but:

  Make sure that the system restore does not monitor the external drive.  SR does need to control the system drive and to the system drive, SR has only about 1 GB of space max.  Make a right click my computer and select properties then the System Restore tab to configure SR.

  Make sure that the Indexing Service is turned off (at least for the external drive).  To disable disk indexing completely, which will also speed up your computer a bit, see http://lifehacker.com/031440/turn-off-indexing-and-speed-up-windows-xp.  For the external drive, right-click on the drive icon in my computer, select properties and uncheck the indexing disc

  There are different workarounds short to shut down the computer, but you might want to try this third-party app first:
  http://safelyremove.com/index.html  Among other features:

  The device cannot be stopped now. Why? Never encountered the situation when Windows does not allow you to remove a device? Unlike Windows, USB remove will show you programs which prevent the device to be stopped and let you close these programs or just files that they opened on the device.

• I can't use my external hard drive from toshiba on computer in the window, but I can use it on apple.

  I can't use my external hard drive from toshiba on computer in the window, but I can use it on apple. Is there someone who can help me solve it I will be grateful for it :)

  When it is connected to the PC, it is visible in disk management?

  Was this a drive that has been formatted using your Mac with the mac file system? If so it will not turn on the PC, without the use of third party software

• Disable the external USB drive autoplay function? Windows 7 Pro.

  I have two external USB drives connected to my computer. Whenever I start, an AutoPlay window will appear for each reader, asking me what I want to do with it. It gives 2 choices "Open folder to view files", or "View more AutoPlay options in the Panel". If I choose to view more AutoPlay options, my USB keys do not appear at the bottom of the AutoPlay under devices. I want to continue to use AutoPlay for my CD/DVD players, but I want to stop AutoPlay Windows popping up whenever I start the computer. It's frustrating to have to click the X on both of these windows, whenever I start the computer.

  Any suggestions?

  I have two external USB drives connected to my computer. Whenever I boot, an AutoPlay window will appear for each reader, asking me what I want to do , but I want to stop AutoPlay Windows popping up whenever I start the computer. It's frustrating to have to click the X on both of these windows, whenever I start the computer.

  Any suggestions?

  Click on the round to START and in the search box type "regedit" (without the quotes).  .
  Click once on the COMPUTER (upper-left) and then click the EDIT menu and click FIND.

  Type "NoDriveTypeAutoRun" and .
  In the left pane, right click EXPLORE and click EXPORT.
  Type "autorun" in the FILE NAME box, choose a folder of your choice and press the "SAVE" button.
   
  Back in the editor of the register, in the right pane, right-click on the NoDriveTypeAutoRun entry and click EDIT.
  Change the number 91 to 95.   Press OK.

  Reset.  If no joy, double-click the file that you saved, to merge into the registry.

• You can use an external hard drive with the Mac Mini?

  I've seen videos that say that we cannot increase the ram on a min of Mac, but I'm curious if this works like an ordinary computer, if we can attach an external hard drive to store some of the memory to free up space. Sorry if this is something stupid just need to know what I can do with it.

  You can use an external hard drive to boot and run with any Mac. Its not going to improve or replace your ram. If you use a mechanical hard drive in any Mac then help and boot from an external drive, especially if it's a SSD will be significantly faster.

• When you connect 1 or several external USB drives, why is the letter a * shoot?

  When you connect 1 or several external USB drives, why is the letter a * shoot? Referencing external drives through library (Windows V7) becomes a really shiny, totally useless feature without consistency of drive letter. Or unnecessary to be a design goal? I almost had it still works but who finally to 3 minutes). What it will take to make useful new features?

  Windows assigns the first available on the first hard drive connected and one drive letter to another and so on.  Always has, always will. What will help sometimes (but), is to open disk from an elevated command prompt management and adversely affect permanent a letter from your external drive which is much higher than the letters in use.  This will often allow the will to keep a letter.

• 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.

• Use LR5. Because of volume and the size of the photos, I use an external hard drive. When opening LR5 it references only the local hard disk. How can I change the refernce to read the external drive. Thank you

  Use LR5, due to volume and the size of the photos, I use an external hard drive. LR refers only the Local Drive C not outside. Where do I change this by LR read the external drive. Grateful for the help.

  Thank you

  LR is not a file Explorer. He knows only the disks that you imported photos of.

  If you have previously imported these photos, then later moved into the external hard drive, go to the library files and "update location" Panel on the files that you moved.

  If you have never imported these images on the external hard drive, perform an import by using the option 'Add' (not ' copy') to keep the images on the external hard drive during import.

• I need to be able to access the external USB drive

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  Hi, here is how to set up the pass through usb, please see the following article KB http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1022290

• HP Pavilion dv7 - 3188cl: can I use an external hard drive with my laptop computer?

  Hello

  Can I use an external hard drive from 1 to 2 to my laptop? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

  Hi @ptr1959w!

  Yes, you can use an external hard drive on your laptop - just connect via one of the USB ports on your machine, partition and format it in disk management, and you should be ready to go. Here is an article with the steps you can follow to do this:

  http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?ID=ou7o9Q

  Hope this helps, and feel free to ask any questions you may have.

  See you soon!

• Is it possible to perform a clean installation of Windows 7 using an external USB DVD drive. We will ask for a driver

  Is it possible to perform a clean installation of Windows 7 using an external USB DVD drive.  We will ask for a driver.

  I did will need you you will need to Prime boot in the BIOS and set to boot from it.

  For information about how to modify your BIOS options to boot from the DVD drive, see the following tutorial:

  http://notebooks.com/2011/05/05/How-to-load-BIOS-and-change-boot-configuration/

• I had a power surge and I couldn't use the computer. Blue screen error: RQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

  Original title: RQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL blue screen

  Windows Vista Home Pemium

  System
  Hewlett-Packyard
  Model:-s3580a
  RAM memory (RAM) 2.00 GB
  Type of system: - 32 bit - OS

  I get a blue screen with this message. Sometimes it's memory something...

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• Whenever I use the computer, I get the message "install new updates"

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  Whenever I use the computer, I get the message "install new updates"

  How to set the flag that says I have miserable things?

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  Original title: upgrades

  Hello Tworg,

  Thank you for the update on the question and sorry for a delayed response.

  If your Windows Update history shows that .NET Framework 4.5.1 is installed successfully. If troubleshooting says ' registration for the service is missing or corrupt... not fixed "then you can try the methods provided below and see if help."

  Method 1

  I suggest to reset the Windows Update components and for this, try to run the fixit described in the following article.

  How to reset the Windows Update components?

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/971058/en-us#LetMeFixItMyselfAlways

  Method 2

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  Cannot install updates in Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/2509997

  Registry warning : 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:

  You can use the following link to back up and restore the registry in Windows: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756/

  Important:

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

  I hope this helps. If the problem still persists, post back with the current state of your computer and the result of the proposed suggestion, we will be happy to help you.

  Thank you.