Why do I unplug my external drives when I reboot

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• Why Photoshop CS5 using my external drives?

  I keep having a problem where I can't take it apart my external hard drives while Photoshop is running.  I have unchecked in the system for "scratch disks" preference, "then what else can cause Photoshop to use external drives?  It's a real drag to have to leave Photoshop every time I want to spend my laptop in another room.

  (By the way, the only reason why this disc is attached is that it contains my music library, so no, I'm not open files on this disk is.)

  You have no files to everything that Photoshop can use on the drobo? Brush Tip shapes, patterns, etc.

  None open at present, but what about files in the list of recent documents?

• Can I automatically ejecting external drives when I stopped my iMac?

  Every time I stop my iMac (mid-2011 with the help of El Capitan 10.11.5) and then launch later, I get messages that my external drives have not ejected correctly.

  Is it possible that readers can be ejected automatically during the closed iMac?

  Thank you very much.

  Drees8

  Is what kind of readers this?  I have often in the past quarter century end Macs with disks attached and that they were all ejected correctly.

• Why volume TM on my external drive recording also 2 other volumes to TM?

  As above.

  I have 3 volumes on My Passport for Mac external hard drive.  One is for backups of TM and the 2 others dedicated to Carbon Copy Clone volumes (just in case my mac turns on fire etc).

  In Finder, when I attach my passport, 3 volumes appear, if I eject the 2 that I don't need it or not, the TM volume record as TM should, but it records also 2 other volumes.  What I am doing wrong?

  Are you sure that TM is actually backup volumes on the same physical disk?

  To open system preferences the Time Machine pref pane, then EXCLUDE what you do not want saved by TM.

• I get a 0x000000003b System_Service_Exception shortly after starting... (graphics driver as possible, external drive possible?)

  Not quite sure the cause.

  I was in the shower, my wife tried using my computer and he went to two monitors go black screen. I hardbooted he took.  When he started my vga monitor showed the charger of the bios, the loader of windows, then double black screen for about 10 seconds and then it restarts.

  I reboot with only the vga is plugged, I started having chkdisk running on one of my external USB drives.  I'd get to the user interface of connection and choose profile admin / default and before the screen goes to the office is blue screen with the error above, 10 seconds passes, it restarts.

  I unplug my external drives and still only vga, (and he only ran chkdisk on just an external, not both my references external and not on one of my internals 2.)  and boot it - I get to connection ui - i can choose my profile or my profile comments/woman and he goes to the Office - until it finish loading all the stuff of taskbar, bluescreens on me, the same error and restarts after 10 seconds.

  I start and go to safemode still only vga, I get desktop on my profile but safemode is no way to really "use" a computer. It is stable, so I hope someone nice enough here can help me recover.

  More moderately Pertinant.

  Its Windows Vista 64-bit Acer
  4 GB shared video and system
  NVIDIA 9200 series card
  AMD Phenom triple core
  BESTFIT VGA resolution is 1440 x 900
  BESTFIT connection Polaroid HDMI HDTV resolution is 1920 x 1080
  The HDMI is normally my main video screen

  for these 2-3 weeks I stayed on my profile, have restarted, there a few times and everythings been groovy.
  About 2-3 weeks ago, I updated a bunch of patches, one of them being my nvidia drivers.  -THAT was a huge problem.

  I had the HDMI connected only at the time of the update. After the update - it defined the default resolution as 13xxby768.  My TV do not like this resolution and cannot evolve in it - so it glitches out my TV and says he has a resolution of 1 p. It also disabled supported dual monitor after the patch, if it is used to run monitors separate dualview.  I had to unplug hdmi, vga only in.  change it back to its best fit of 1440 x 900.  the driver blasted nvidia won't let you set resolutions for screens nonhooked upward, and it won't let you turn on dualview without these two things hung or cloneview.  so I flew over my mouse of choice of resolution area, removed the vga, plugged into the socket hdmi, clicked on a random selection and press ctrl + A to apply it. Once the monitor flickered and remained black, I knew I had an another nonscaleable to resolution, I hit down arrow, ctrl + has once again and got on my second try - a few ridiculous low resolution, then put to scale up his goodness was 1080 p best.  Since that time, I wasn't going to the profile of my wife.

  I think that its possible she hit my making usb cable unplugged the external hard drive.  Or it may have been when she has "changed the user" instead of "disconnecting" as repeatedly, telling him not "change user" he had a huge conflict with trying to keep my resolution and possibly default resolutions on their profile which has been forced by the patch (but does not explain why I can return to my office with nothing connected for a few seconds and it's good resolution for vga).

  I tried to read other messages on this forum and it seems that this may be associated with two graphics cards and removal of hard drives.  However, all the stuff on the disassembly of the drives appeared to apply to the winserver 2003, however, I could be wrong.  I wish myself a an extremely capable user but the drivers and hardware are 1up me.  Thanks a lot in advance to anyone who can help me.  If I need to do a dump or something, to give you more information, would you please tell me how to do this - I know very well my way around safe mode.

  Hello children of the light.

  Thank you for your message.

  You can check your profile for corruption:

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/fix-a-corrupted-user-profile

  Chris
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
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• Windows Vista backup on the external drive stopped working

  I have a LaCie 750 GB hard drive external (total size 698 GB) who I've been saving my drive C and D to a Dell XPS 410 using Vista Home Premium software.  He contended until the end with a backup automated on-demand for once a week.  He performed the backup 30 times since 11/09/09, but sometimes did so sometimes (shorter range) other than the weekly on-demand.  When I compare the total size with the free space on the external drive and my drives C and D, the amount of used space is respectively 131 GB, 5,11 GB and GB 665,5.  I am not very computer savvy, but if the backup program backs up only what of new each time, why used on my external drive space is so superior to what is still on my C and D drive?  I assumed that the backup software would just copy the previous backup, each time that a new backup or write on the oldest backup, but apparently is not.  So now all I get are messages saying that the backup was not successful because a file was in use or something to that effect.  I'm doing something wrong or do I have to reformat the hard drive external when it is "full" to start the backup of my computer again?

  Hello
   
  Your assumption is correct. Cross check if a new backup is created and saved in the external hard drive. If a new backup is not too write the old backup, the use of the space will be very high.
   
  Two particularly useful automatic backup features are the ability to do a scheduled backup and the ability to save your files.
  We recommend that you cross check if backup settings are intact. To do this, try the following steps.
  1. open backup and restore by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking system and Maintenance, and then clicking the backup and restore.
  2. click on change settings.  If you are prompted for an administrator password or a confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
   
  For more information on "back up and restore: frequently asked questions" visit this link:
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/back-up-and-restore-frequently-asked-questions
   
  You get the error message, unplug the external drive and restart the computer. Connect the hard drive and check if you get the error message.
   
  I hope this helps.
   
  Kind regards
  Syed
  Answers from Microsoft supports the engineer.

• My external drive thunderbolt causes 10 Windows to reboot into Bootcamp. Normal?  Difficulty?

  I have an imac of retina.  I use Parallels to begin Windows 10 without any problem at all.  Unfortunately, due to a problem of graphics card, one application will not work properly.  They advised me to install Windows 10 using Bootcamp, repeat this application and see if it works.  This resolved the conflict with this software.

  Unfortunately, Windows kept re-booting and ultimately would crash and must be put back in place (at least it seems).  I did this same process several times.

  Process of elimination, I found that if I unplugged the external drive thunderbolt, it resolved 100% of the problem.  No more problems with the re-start.

  I tried researching and I see people have problems with the Thunderbolt and Windows 10 screens, but really nothing else mentioned.

  My understanding is that this is not a conflict when you use Parallels because I am still running off the Apple ecosystem, but thanks to bootcamp with Windows only running, it gets confused by the thunderbolt connection.

  I know that this may be more a problem of winner - snoozing, but is there any work around this other disconnect me the Thunderbolt disc whenever I want to use the version of Bootcamp for Windows 10?

  Thank you.

  What is the year/model of your iMac?

• How to stop Windows Update by creating temporary files on my external drives?

  Any ideas on how to tell Windows Update to stay away from my external drives?

  I have several external drives I use for backup projects, archives and collections of major media. They are connected to my laptop very irregularly and rarely more than a few hours. In recent years they have been inundated with folders with long as names d84fa74b9585277339 as the seams related to Windows Update. I think it has already started on the laptop with XP I had before this one. Sometimes I see these files on the internal hard disk, but there are theyalways disappear after some time. On external drives, I have to delete manually. On an NTFS disk partition I use for backup, it's not easy, sometimes I have to take ownership of the folder. Drives FAT32 / exFAT is easy.

  I guess people who have developed Windows Update realized that you can not trust USB or eSATA connected drives to be there when the cleaning is executed (BTW when cleanup runs it?). So I must have screwed up a setting somewhere. And I have to be very consistent in this because the same thing happens with friends and relatives, I contributed to the installation of Windows 7...

  Cheers, Willem

  WYSIWYG. Windows Update download installers for updates on the drive with the most free space.

  Tips:

  1 see http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Strategies-for-freeing-disk-space

  .. .and maybe http://blogs.technet.com/b/joscon/archive/2011/02/15/how-to-reclaim-space-after-applying-service-pack-1.aspx

  2 make it a habit to unplug all external drives are not currently used.

  3. disconnect all external disks before you run a manual check of Windows updates.

  4. run Disk Cleanup every 2-3 months or more.

• Help... I have Adobe cc with Lightroom installed on my macbook and iMac and photos on an external drive... but

  I edited several photos with lightroom and this external hard drive via my macbook pro. When I unplug my external drive and connect to my iMac and import a folder (no copy and move), none of my edits are here! or the sides. I can see all the photos of perfectly fine, but how do I get my cc in lightroom on my iMac to see my photos as they have been published on my instance mackook of cc in lightroom? They are certainly on the drive? I don't want to put this folder of images into space cloud that I have not the download speed or space provided. Any help appreciated.

  The changes are saved in the catalog, not for pictures.

  So to see the changes on both computers, you will need to keep the file containing the LR catalog and previews on the external hard drive.

  Use the Finder to copy this folder since the Macbook pro hard disk external. It is usually located inside the images folder or similar.

  Now make sure you always open the catalog from the external drive. To avoid confusion you can rename the catalog if you like, you then have to rename the folder seen accordingly. Make sure you do it with closed Lightroom. You can launch LR by double-clicking the file catalog.

• Problem with a Toshiba PX1267E 320 external drive

  Hi all

  I have a problem with a Toshiba px1267e 320 external drive, when everything was ok with it I would like to move on and the blue led would come and change blue /violet as it was found on my laptop, a small vibration could be felt if I handled the case which indicates that the d/d engine was on.

  After that fateful morning I turned on one explores in my computer and found no ext drive, checked the blue led disc on affected the case allowed to detect any vibration, eclipsed the reader of the case put my ear to hear low clicking.

  I removed the device and connected to shopping cart, this time I could feel the engine goes, connected to the laptop, new hardware found made my computer explore and didn't find any drive, Device Manager enabled and found it so I uninstalled and reconnected the usb with the same result.
  I don't know what to do next.

  I had a Word with computer store if they could recover some time I wait they told at least 6 hours work, if possible (don't want to shop)
  Bought me another model of the same digital Western not and new power to try to exchange the electronic circuit just in case he finds also the and/or possible fault we power/s but I'm clutching at straws here.

  Anyone of you guys, here you have something like this happen? any suggestions?
  I'm curious to know what they were going to try in the store to retrieve even if he said that he could not guarantee the results.
  I would appreciate any helpful suggestion (not throw it in the trash)

  > I removed the unit and connected to shopping cart, this time I could feel the engine goes, connected to computer laptop, new
  > hardware found made my computer explore and found no drive, checked Device Manager and found it so I
  > uninstalled and reconnected the usb with the same result.
  > I don't know what to do next.

  I think that the external HARD drive is dead
  Maybe it s a head crash which would explain the low clicking and other noises
  Unfortunately, I have this case you can't do anything

• driver not installed reinstalls automatically when I reboot, need to reinstall automatic shut-off

  Must uninstall the display driver and replace it with another.  However, when I restart my Windows 7 HP Pavilion automatically reinstalls the old driver!  How can I stop the automatic relocation of the old driver when I reboot?

  Than you.

  Discussions were merged.

  Deleted duplicates.

  You can find here - help

  Remove a driver Package from the driver store

  http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc730875.aspx

  There is a risk in that property. I see a possible problem where you could lose all the screen if you have a problem with installation of the other driver. I would be very careful and do a full backup everything first, if you try to change the driver store.

• Drive mapping: How can I get my external drive be mapped to F: (as he was once) rather than g: which is what happens when I turn on now.

  How can I get my external drive be mapped to F: (as he was once) rather than g: which is what happens when I turn on now.  I tried to unplug and power, reboot etc.  There is no F: drive connected to the computer.

  Go to start / Control Panel / administrative tools / computer management / "disk management and select external reader by clicking on it and then right-click on it and select change drive letter and paths."  It should show the letter currently assigned (G I guess).  Click the button change.  To the right will be a drop of drive letters box.  Go ahead and select F and click on OK.  That should do it. If F is not available, then it is used by the system for something else.  Check disk management to see if you can find it.  If it is not, and is not available in the list, I'm afraid, you will not be able to change until find you what is using drive letter F and remove it, or change it to something else.

  I hope this helps.  If this isn't the case, after return and we will try to understand what is using F or why it is not available.

  Good luck!

  Lorien - MCSA/MCSE/network + / has + - if this post solves your problem, please click the 'Mark as answer' or 'Useful' button at the top of this message. Marking a post as answer, or relatively useful, you help others find the answer more quickly.

• Why the files are stored on an external drive not appearing in the "other" classification on my iMac HD?

  I'm running OS X version 10.11.4 on an iMac, retina 5 K 27-inch/3.5 GHz Intel Core i5 with 24 GB RAM/1 TB HDD and I have had for about a year, although I migrate some files over my old machine, but most were on an external.  I have almost all my larger files on an external drive 2 TB - for the most part hi res .eps, .jpeg, .png.

  I run CleanMyMac 3 as a utility. When I saw recently that I had more than 600 GB of 'others' I decided I have to spend the day to clean my files and machine - and have therefore been sucked into this rabbit hole.

  After cleaning duplicate files, empty the caches, removing unused applications and clean the external hard drive, I have still 570 GB of "other".  When you click on the bar in their own my Mac, it gives you a list of what is included in each of the classifications of file storage.  I understand, including all Documents to plain text, PDF and even files .docx, ect...

  what I don't understand is why:

  1 .pages (documents created in the clean Apple program) are not classified with documents, rather than as 'other '.

  2. why each of my .eps files that are stored on an external drive also claim space on my Mac?  It would potentially be the preview images displayed in the Finder? And if so, why it store a snapshot of the same size as the actual file?

  AND, most importantly, I can recover some of the disk space consumed by the huge amount of .eps files?

  Thank you

  Christina

  A

  'CleanMyMac' is a scam and a frequent cause of instability and poor performance. Depending on which version you have, the developer's instructions may not completely uninstall. Please follow these instructions, then do as below.

  Back up all data before proceeding.

  Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select this option:

  /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.macpaw.CleanMyMac3.Agent.plist

  Right-click or Ctrl-click on the highlighted line and select

  Services ▹ reveal in Finder (or just to reveal)

  the contextual menu.*, a file can open with a selected item. If so, move the selected item to the trash. You may be prompted for administrator login password.

  Repeat with this line:

  /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.macpaw.CleanMyMac3.Agent

  Restart the computer and empty the trash.

  You may also delete one or more of these elements in the same way:

  ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.macpaw.CleanMyMac.helperTool.plist

  ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.macpaw.CleanMyMac.volumeWatcher.plist

  ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.macpaw.CleanMyMac3.Scheduler.plist

  Never install "CleanMyMac" or something like that.

  * If you do not see the item context menu copy the selected text in the Clipboard by pressing Control-C key combination. In the Finder, select

  Go ▹ go to the folder...

  from the menu bar and paste it into the box that opens by pressing command + V. You won't see what you pasted a newline being included. Press return.

  B

  For the other category in the display of information storage, see this support article. If the display appears to be inaccurate, try to rebuild the Spotlight index.

  Empty the trash if you don't have it already done. If you use iPhoto, emptying his trash internal everything first:

  ▹ iPhoto empty the trash

  In pictures:

  ▹ Show of the recently deleted ▹ file delete all

  Do the same thing in other applications like Aperture, with an internal feature of the trash. Then, restart the computer. Temporarily, which will free up space.

  According to the documentation from Apple, you need at least 9 GB of free space on the boot volume (as shown in the Infolog) for normal operation, not the mythical 10%, 15% or any percentage. You also need enough space to allow the growth of the data over. There is little or no advantage in terms of performance to get more free space than the minimum Apple recommends. Storage space you'll never use is wasted space.

  See this support article for some easy ways to free up storage space. A common waste of space is old backups iTunes to mobile devices. As shown in this support article, select the devices tab in the iTunes preferences window, select the backup that you want to remove and click on delete the backups. Keep at least a backup of each device you use yet.

  You can use a tool such OmniDiskSweeper (ODS) to explore the volume and discover what is take up space. You can also delete files with it, but not unless you don't know you know what you remove and that all data is stored safely. This means that you have several backups, not one. Note that CESO works with OS X 10.8 or later.

  Deletion of files inside a photo library or iTunes will damage the library. Such a library should be changed within the application that created it. It is the same for e-mail files.

  Go further than if the problem is not resolved by the steps above.

  ODS cannot see the whole file system when you run simply by double-clicking; He sees only the files that you have permission to read. To see everything, you must run it as root.

  Back up all the data now.

  Install the application in the Applications folder as usual. Quit it runs.

  Triple-click any where in the text line below on this page to select, then copy the selected text in the Clipboard by pressing Control-C key combination.

  security execute-with-privileges /A*/OmniDiskSweeper.app/*/M*/* 2>&-

  Launch the Terminal application integrated in one of the following ways:

  ☞ Enter the first letters of his name in a Spotlight search. Select from the results (it should be at the top).

  ☞ In the Finder, select go utilities ▹ of menu bar or press the combination of keys shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

  ☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.

  Paste in the Terminal window by pressing command + V. You will be asked for your login password.

  The application window opens behind other open windows. When you scan a volume, the window will finally show all files in all folders, sorted by size. It may take a few minutes for the app to finish scanning.

  I do not recommend that you make a habit of doing. Do not delete anything as root. If something should be deleted, make sure you know what it is and how it got there, and then remove by safer alternatives. If in doubt, leave it alone or ask for advice.

  When you are finished with the app, he quit and also to leave Terminal.

• Should I unplug external drives during the upgrade?

  Contemplating upgrading to El Capitan.  I have an iMac end of 2014, so I know that it is correct.  My question is - should I disconnect all external drives and devices before you run the upgrade, or it doesn't matter?

  
  

  I remember too, when I updated before, the new operating system does recognize the Time Machine backups.  Should I do to be able to access the TM of the previous operating system?

  Thank you

  Barbara
  

  It can't hurt to unplug external drives.

  Time Machine should recognize the previous backups. Which means, you should be able to go back to the backups made since previous versions of OS X. I know when I upgraded from 10.10.5 to 10.11.3, I could see/restore back ups in 10.10.5.

  Another thing to consider is once the Installer OS X El Capitan.app file is downloaded and before you click continue to install, copy this file from / applications to another folder (for example, downloads) so that you have it if you need it in the future. Download time records.

• Why a laptop HP dv6 not see a 3 TB external drive

  I have a HP dv6 laptop.  It's a Core i7 Windows 7 Premium.  I don't know the model number.

  When I plug in a hard drive Seagate external 3 TB laptop is not see it.  I have an i7 desktop which has no difficulty to see TWO of these external sources.

  Why the laptop doesn't see the 3 TB external drive?

  If someone can tell me how to find the model number, I'll be happy to oblige.

  It comes with a 320 GB and 4 GB HARD disk but an extra 4 GB has been installed by the retailer, when I purchased from Harvey Norman.

  I'm SO sorry!  

  In desperation I tried a different cable and it works   

  I apologize for wasting time for everyone.

  Well would you believe?  The * cable!