External Hard Drive

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