External Drive

My Laptop toshiba satellite C50 -A was on Win 8 OS, I formated the hard drive using it as an external drive on another PC. Now that i tried reinstall a Win 7 OS it keeps saying "No bootable Media found, please restart". From BIOS, I can see that the HDD, CD Drive and USB are all connected when...

Long story short, ended-up with a corrupted BIOS tonight. It turns on, the screen doesn't come on, and it's giving me the corrupt BIOS blinking lights error. On some tries to turn it on, the lights do not flicker and the screen comes on, but the underscore up in the corner just sits there and...

Unable to restore my Acer Backup files located in my external drive. I have backed up latest files on Drive F are called NEW Backup 2014-11-07 20-34-58_C_1NBF i HAD DONE A DISC COPY AND NOT A FILE COPY. cAN YOU RETREVE INDIVIDUAL FILES FROM A DISC COPY?

I was considering replacing the video cards on my 6 year desktop, but I figure its a losing battle since I'm sure as soon as I replace them something else will break. I have decided to get a new gaming laptop and was wondering if it would be possible to pull my hard drive from my desktop and run...

I was wondering can this laptop play blu-rays form a external drive and play civilization beyond earth. The laptop is Asus X550CA-XX957H http://www.amazon.co.uk/X550CA-XX957H-15-6-inch-Multimedia-Notebook-i5-3337U/dp/B00I1BRCLK/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1414969235&sr=8-3&keywords=i5+laptop...

Hello, A friend locked a folder on his external drive and now cannot remember the key to unlock it. Is there a way to remove that key or unlock that folder? Thanks

I made an image by going to the control panel in Windows 7 and went to backup and restore and made a factory image after I set my laptop up when I first got it. I have an external USB drive a Western Digital my passport USB 3 which is where I backed it up to. when I use my Windows restore...

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I have a 4-Tb WD "My Book" intended for external backup which I would like to use with a multiboot system which includes XP and Win 7. Will the XP back up to it, ignoring the unreachable space? Can I partition the unit to stay within XP addressing limits? Or am I limited to using it for...

I have software that I copied to a extenal l drive to install it on a laptop with no cd drive. Every time I start the install process it after i put in my product key code then it click install it ask for the cd to be put in the cd rom drive. Now I have installed this program on 2 other of my...

I've got an old iPod 1st gen 160 gig and I was wondering if it could be used as an external hard drive for my android tablet?

This had to do with different things but basically uses the free log me in software to use a laptop elsewhere to log in to a home pc and access a external hard drive . My question is can it be done to watch my movies on my laptop from my external hard drive . like a cloud for instance if i...

I recently bought a Samsung Book 8 Windows 8 and replaced the 1 TB hard drive with a solid state drive. I put the 1 TB hard drive in a case, planning to use it as an external drive for backup. However, my laptop won't recognize the drive. I also tried attaching it to my PC, but it wasn't...

I just bought a 2tb external drive and also just bought Dxtory to record some pc gameplay. When i record the gameplay it always goes to my main drive instead of my external drive. Is there a way i can fix this so all the recordings will go to the external drive? If you know what to do please...

I have a ONE 722 Aspire. I need to connect an ODD via usb. Which port on the Aspire should I use for data and which port for power?

My external harddisk has bitlocker and I know the password but I don't remember whether I saved the recovery key or not. Now it is asking for recovery key. I use windows 7 and I formatted the windows yesterday and reinstalld it I don't know if is because of that! Can anyone help me please?

I want to use my desktop as an external drive for my laptop

Hello, why do I need no password to "unlock" my western digital 500 gb "my passpot" external drive. This is only on one of my computers. any other computer requires the password??? I plug in the external drive and the "unlock" menu pops up. If I just hit "unlock" with no password it unlocks...

Hello, I have bought a cheap external CD drive for my Samsung N10 netbook. The netbook recognises the drive and the drive will read files from a CD with no problem and displays then on the netbook and will transfer them to the hard disk BUT when I put a program CD into the drive to install...

Hello so I have what may or may not be an interesting situation. I dropped my wife's laptop the other day and on starting it up it went to the startup repair prompt (before "starting windows") however whether I select to go through the startup repair or try to start windows, the result us the...