External Hard Drive

Hi Tomshardware. I have a odd problem with my LG tv. I have a 1 TB Seagate Backup Plus Ultra (STEH1000201) and wanna use it with my smart tv. When i plug it in, it blinks once and then the light goes out. My TV don't recognize it at all. I then returned it and got a new one, and that one...

Hi. I used trial version of usb secure 2.1.5 on my external hard drive after i gave password my data locked and it hides my data . and now when i try to open my data. usb secure 2.1.5 not asking for password in otherwords not responding. because it says one of my video file contains an invaild...

I have a Sony Blu-ray Player BDP-S580 that works great, plays disks, streams Netflix, plays movies on USB flash drives. Bought a 1TB WD My Passport, wiped it, formatted it to FAT32 GPT, put some MP4s on it. Plugged it into the player's USB drive, get error message "USB device (front) unknown...

how to sync hard drive with external hard drive

My laptop has 180~ some hard disk space, its slowing my laptop incredibly considering it is a razer blade gaming laptop, please help me and let me know if an external ssd or hdd would help

I would like to set up a system that I can watch movies saved to a external hard drive on my TV. The TV in question has USB2.0 ports from which I plan to interface the HD. Most of the units I have looked at so far have been 5400rpm - 4TB units and was wondering if this would fast enough tp push...

12 volt power supply for external hard drive has three wires yellow red and white one is 12 volt one 5 volt one ground cant find diagram anywhere flypower powersupply

Hello all! Okay, so I am going to start out by saying that I'm about 90% sure this topic has not yet been discussed because I can't find a single thread that pinpoints my situation, but I'm going to fill you in with all the detail you need before posing my inquiry. If any other information is...

Can I download and play The Sims 4 from Origin on a hp stream 14” 2gb 32gb laptop with a 1tb external hard drive installed?

Hi, I have very important data and need to keep them backed up always, I am looking for these features 1) the software must sync the data to multiple destinations simultaneously, like another local drive, external HDD or shared folder, and cloud like Google Drive, One Drive 2) it must support...

I am looking to buy a laptop for general programming use. I will not be playing video games, and no CAD, just general browsing and programming. My programming is mostly in labview, python, java, C, ROS, and some open cv. Price: Ideally around $700 Display Resolution: 1080p CPU: i5-i7...

When i put my portable hard disk western into my computer.. First it wouldn't copy anything,then it won't open and stops the computer from working It doesn't make any sound of beeb or anything like that and light flickers normaly It's new and didn't fall or we didn't use it like brutally And i...

Hi everyone, PROBLEM: - I am trying to transfer my files from my external hard drive (WD, my passport, Ultra) to my laptop. - The transfer takes forever. - I can transfer some files, but only a folder or a file at a time but then with some files/folders the transfer stops and it goes suddenly...

One of my family friends is wanting to get a new laptop. I don't know much about laptops, I am a desktop guy. He is willing to pay up to $1400, but I dont think we need to go that high. Here are his requirements: Back-lit Keyboard (MUST HAVE) No more than 17" (Flexible, but nothing huge) SSD...

Hello the other day I accidentally got infected by a virus that changed certain file extensions to .LOSERS files. Certain mp3, wave, jpg, mp4 etc. files all have the extension .losers after their original extension, and are not accessible. I backed up all the files to an external hard drive and...

I got a Seagate USB 2.0 external HDD connected to my Vizio TV via USB. The HDD is powered by its own cord. At first I could get a movie to play back fine, but lately the drive will make a clicking sound & then the video will freeze & either eventually start playing or I'll have to pause the...

Hey, I never been a TV guy, watched every movie on my PC but I moved now and need a TV in my bedroom. Here's what I wish to do: I want to download videos directly to an HDD that the TV can recognize, so I was thinking to get a router that has an USB port and connect an external HDD to it (mount...

How can I connect my external hard drive to my Mitsubishi projector (only has S video, RCA jack - video, and VGA) inputs? Thank you

It keeps saying there is a problem; will restart. But it keeps repeating and says will reboot. I just connected it and now can't go any further. I can open my drive folder. Thank you.

my toshiba 1 tb external hard drive needs to be recovered but i have videos and music i cannot lose is there anyway to save them for free?

How do i connect my old PCs Harddrive to my new laptop to take backup while I reinstall windows ? I Have about 180 Gb of data that I cant keep on a pen drive or something .I do still have my old Pc which works fine except for a few issues , But its hard drive works. But I dont know how I can...

I just bought a asus rog702vs and it works fine until yesterday when two of three usb ports stopped working for usb 2.0 like flash drives and gamepads but still works fine for my external hdd. I have already tried reinstalling some usb drivers but still doesnt works.

Hi, I have a HP laptop (HP350) that I haven't used for a number of years. I pulled it out today as it has all my sons baby pics on it and I want to transfer them to an external hard drive. However, I have forgotten the password to access it. I think the laptop is running home vista It...

I have a 2.5" 5400rpm HDD that I've put in a generic Anker enclosure in order to carry media on. The HDD has worked with every pc I own, 2 others. I just bought a new Windows 10 laptop, and I'll start a file transfer from the HDD to the laptop, and windows will stop recognizing it at some point...

whats the best kind of storage device for backing up and playing my films and TV mp.4 files. i was suing a 2TB segate external hard drive but it failed i think i need some thing more robust or some thing meant for film files. Can anyone help or have any teach suggestions.

This could be interesting for those who are new to the forum and those who are interested in backup technologies. Feel free to post your solutions and what/how/when do you backup your data, where you store it and how convenient/inconvenient it might be. Feel free to be more in-depth about the...

Hello everyone, My new laptop (ASUS A555LF X409T i3 version) with windows 10 Home edition got infected with W32-Tapin Worm (Diagnosed by Avira) I believe that it got infected with W32-Tapin worm while I was copying data from my old laptop’s HDD – I had used the old laptop’s HDD (as an external...

Have 500GB internal drive (IHD) and 1G external USB3-attached hard drive (XHD). IHD is GPT, XHD has not been formatted. I need to be able to create a bootable clone on the XHD, +++AND+++ I need to be able to reverse-clone from the XHD (larger) to the IHD (smaller). I'm tired of wading through...

i have an old LG 20" 720p LCD HDTV 20LS7D and i want to connect my 1TB WD My Passport Ultra to it to watch movies. I tried a WDTV Gen 1 but it wouldn't connect to my hard drive. I dunno if it was an issue with the WDTV or user error but i've since returned it. I don't want it to have internet...

How to download movies direct to external hard drive on my Android device

Movies are ripped to external hard drives. I want to play them on my TV's TV. We have power but no wifi. We used to use boxee but I've noticed few media streamers are wired nowadays. Options?

Apologies for not knowing, but I wanted to know if it was possible to play steam games off a external drive? I heard that it would need to be at least 7200 rpm and usb 3.0. Is it okay? and regardless whether or not it does, can anyone recommended one?

My 32 inch led tv (lg) is connected to sony sa d10 multimedia speakers through audio input and ouput. It works fine when i stream movies through my cable or listen to music on channels.. when I connect my hard drive to my tv to watch movies which I have downloaded , the movie's output or sound...

hi I have a Asus r554l laptop can i use a HP Pocket Media drive - 500 GB - USB external hard drive to store my pics? My USB port is a 3.0 I think the hard drive is a 2.0 USB port I am running windows 10 thank you

I HAD TO REINSTALLED WINDOWS 7 AND THEN UPGRADED TO WINDOWS 10. I DID NOT NOTICE THAT EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE WAS TURNED ON. WHEN I GOT READY TO RECOVER FROM BACK UP ON E.H., NOTHING WAS THERE. I CHANGE MY DRIVE TO E: STILL NOTHING. HAVE I LOST OVER THREE YEARS OF WORK? PLEASE HELP! JODI

My laptop is running Windows 8.1. Last night I ran the HDDScan utility program to do a erase test on my new external hard drive that I just bought. I left the program running over night. This morning when I checked, I noticed that it was showing the Aptio Setup Utility screen. Whenever I...

Hi all, My laptop seems to have developed a problem over the last couple of days..I currently have it on its side, the air vent on left exposed to allow ventilation I have installed CPUID hardware monitor and it seems my Intel Core temperatures are way too high. All I have running on my PC...

I want to transfer files from the hard drive of my HP Pavilion laptop that won't turn on to an external hard drive until I'm ready to purchase a new laptop. Besides the obvious external drive, what else exactly will I need to complete this? Just an additional HDD adapter kit for the hard drive...

I just bought a WD 4TB my book and hooked it up to my TCL LE48FHDF3300Z tv but it says there is no media. I formatted to NTFS and it didn't work. I then formatted to exFAT and still didn't work. Any advice?

I have an external hard drive that I had to format in ExFat because I was using both a Mac and a PC at the time. When I plug my Ext HD on my Samsung Smart LED LCN40 it says there are no videos to be played. When I plug the HD on my LG 4K it reads every content inside (except mp4's, apparently LG...

I have use the external HDD for TV-recording. It was formated by the TV. Now I want to use it on PC/Labtop. Understand need to format it but the PC/Laptop not able to assign a drive designator to the HDD....so not able to trigger the format command. When connector to the labtop, under Computer...

Hi guys, i am trying to do a clean OS install on a new HDD i installed on my laptop, an older dell latitude E6440. here is what i have tried so far: 1) plug external HDD in, manual boot from USB 2) double check legacy boot was on and change boot order so USB is 1st 3) check onboard NIC...

Looking for a Fast Budget Laptop thats travel friendly, for photo/video editing and a external hard drive in case i need more memory which i will especially with such a low budget 1. What is your budget? 400-550 ish 2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? 15" ish decent...

I own at sea gate external hard drive and a MacBook Air. Previously when connected the MacBook would read and allow the hard drive to connect. Now, when plugged in. The device makes a humming noise but the mac does not recognise or read the device

Hello everyone My laptop came with a 256 GB SSD, I knew its very less but I went ahead with it considering SSD is much better than HDD and I could always buy an external HDD. I find it very hard to carry around and plug the external HDD everytime. Is it possible to have an internal SSD+HDD...

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Hi, I am writing to ask for any advice but hope this might be helpful to others as well. My old computer blew up. I have bought a new T540p (lenovo) with Win 8.1 64bit OEM installed on a 500GB HDD. I have removed the 500GB SDD from my now defunct Thinkpad X61 (also ran Win 8.1 64bit) I tried...

Okay so here's the problem. I bought a JBL Amplifier, to watch shows from my external hard drive onto my projector. But for some reason, the amplifier cannot read the hard drive's content. Any way to get this to work?

I have an external hard drive that has a lot of movies and other media files on it and i watch them by connecting the drive to my bluray player via usb... (it is just a hard drive, non-system, no programs or operating system, just files) i want to encrypt all the files or the whole drive, which...

i need to extract data from my external hard drive. Its very important for me i need it urgently my hard drive creates a secret zone inside it which is password protected my hard drive is Maxtor 1tb it created a file inside it with a extension .msr i just wanted to know if in extract the data...

I need help on transfering games over to my new laptop so i dont have to re-download them. I dont have an external hard drive or a usb drive so is there a way i can transfer the games through a different way without re downloading the games?

I have a laptop provided by my office which has 6500u cpu, i think fairly good to some low end video games sometimes. I shouldnt be installing many softwares unrelated to office work so I was planning to buy a 1TB External shock proff HDD, connect it to laptop and install a windows on it by...

Hi, I'm looking for recommendations for software to actively mirror an internal drive to my external hard drive when plugged in, but all software solutions seem to create an image rather than copy individual files documents. I want to be able to unplug my external hard drive and have up to...

We have an Apple MacBook pro we also have an external hard drive with shows that have been recorded. We can get the sound but no picture also it does get the image of our Laptop.

My laptop running Windows 7 64bit forced the Windows 10 update which I then reverted back to 7 as I preferred it. Any time I connect an external drive of any type and try to copy files to or from these drives I get the message that Windows is not responding and then Windows is restarting. I have...

Hey everyone. Long story short, my internal Samsung 1 TB HDD is giving me trouble. It is about 3 years old and its almost full. Want to back it up but 2 of my external HDD's are full too. I need to buy another one and pay day is 13 days away. Just did a SMART test on HD Tune Pro and got the...

I have a WD Passport Ultra 4TB drive that I have a lot of old TV shows I've copied from my DVDs. In order to play files from that large of a drive, I had to buy a refurbished WD TV media player, which works well, but I still have one complaint. I used to be able to upscale old 720p SD files to...

I own a MSI ge70 2pe apache pro gaming laptop, i had it for a bit over 2 years and i never really opened it to blow the dust out because i have never used a laptop before this one and i'm not confident or sure of how to do it properly and i read a lot that you can break the fans if you're not...

Hello, I have read through the threads and can not find a specific answer to this. I want to be able to watch my 4k movies that I have on my external hard drive to my TV. As well as be able to transfer new movies to that hard drive via my network. I know I can connect the hard drive directly...