External Hard Drives

External Hard Drive for Workplace

It's me. The 291 guy again.  Anyway. I work in a relatively small enviornement. And, over the last year, have been updating all the PCs there. I am actually the graphic designer at my company. But, about 30% of the time, I install software and troubleshoot LED signs that our company installs and...

1t external hard drive...

I was wondering if they make a 1t external hard drive that runs off strictly a usb. (there is no power plug in needed). I know they make them for 500 GB, but that is all I have been able to find. Please help if you can. THANK YOU!!!

External Hard Drive Repair

I took apart a LaCie 2TB external hard drive because one of the drives was bad; it was clicking when I turned the hard drive encasement on. It has 4 500 GB hard drives set to RAID 0, and two hard drive controller cards so the hard drives are set in pairs as 1 master and 1 slave. I don't have a...

USB 1.0 to connect to a USB 2.0 external hard drive

I have an old laptop with a 1.0 USB but it has all my pictures on them. I would like to move them to an external hard drive, but I can't find one that is compatible. How can I download all of my files to a hard drive? Is it practical to do it over a wireless network?

Looking for a good hard drive for backup

Looking to backup 2 laptops..both are in gigabytes. How and what kind of hard drive would hold both? I want to backup boths laptops on it..

Backup to an external drive

How can I specify as target drive an ext. drive.? Right now a: is only option. Am using W XP Home Edition

External USB hard drive keeps using the same drive letter as a mapped natwork share

I have an XP Professional computer that I use to backup the contents of a network share (just for redundancy's sake). The problem I keep having is that when I connect the hard drive, it keeps assuming the drive letter of a network share that already is being used. This is a problem as I want to...

Lost info on external drive

I was using a sandisk 80G external drive. I was working on a word document saved on it. I saved many times while working on the document. When I tried to close it, I was prompted as asked if I wished to save the document before closing. I clicked on yes and the prompt went away but the document...

Suse booting on external Hard drive problems

I have a Dell 1520 w/ Vista home basic, also an external hard drive. I am trying to use the external HD to boot my Linux on. I installed Suse the first time, and it set up shop on the external, but put the boot section in my MBR on the internal HD on the laptop. Now, not a big deal, I reinstall...

My external HDD won't show

Hi My PC has suddenly stopped recognizing my WD5000h1U-00 External Hard Drive. I am running windows xp. It has been working perfectly up untill now. I have tried a different PC but the same thing applies. If someone could give me some help to resolve this issue that would be appreciated.

Boot problems with missing DLL file

Desktop computer Dell gx260 ,xp pro,160gb 1gb ramm, got black screen with cursor top left, unable to start in safe mode or safe mode with command prompt etc.l have taken out hard drive to scan to in external case (drive reads fine)have done scan disk,backed up files to laptop,put hard drive back in...

Raid 0 Set up internal to external drive

I have a Dell 420xps. It came with a 320gb sata drive. I have added a 500gb "internal" hard drive. I also added a 250gb USB "external" hard drive and a 500gb eSata "external" hard drive. I would like to run raid 0 on the 500gb internal and 500gb external and leave the other 2 as they are. Can this...

External Disk (USB) not detected on some machines including the server

Hi all, i have an external backup disk that connects to the server using USB. recently it just coulnt be detected. i tried it on one of the mcachines on the network again it failed. i tried it on the laptop and it was detected and accessible. there is one other desktop that i tried and it worked....

External hard drive suddenly gone crazy

I use a USB hub with my laptop, which has only two USB 1.0 ports. Until recently, I had a hub into which I had two USB plugs from a Seagate external 40 GB hard drive, a scanner, a printer, and an external floppy drive. I noticed the laptop suddenly didn't recognize the external drive. I got a new,...

Partitioning an external hard drive.

I have just bought a new 500gb external hard drive to back up all my files before having the internal hard drives looked at as one of the is overheating and cutting out all the time. How do I pertition the new external hard drive so that I have two drives, one of say 100gb and the other 400gb?

Can/should I move programs on C: Drive to external hard drive & how?

I bought a 1TB external Hard drive for our computer after a recent fire in our area and was wondering if I can/should move everything from C: drive to external hard drive to improve the speed of computer? And is it something I can do or do I need professional help?

I want to retrive my files , I can not get past safe mode.

I have a windows xp, home edition, serv.pack 2 os that has been shutting down about every six mos. Ive been backing up on an external harddrive but, I have not for the last 3 mos. the comp. is down again and I can only get into save mode. I can not get my pictures the are save in my documents. what...

External Hard Drive - 1TB - What is working for you?

What has worked (and not crashed) for you when looking at a 1TB External Hard Drive. Most of the feedback I find is from a very short user timeframe. I need to know who has used something for more than 6 months or a year.