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Time Tested Removable Backup Media Solutions: 1 - 25 of 342
 
I am trying to INSTALL Windows XP FROM a USB Flash drive.. I have been messing with this for over 2 days with no luck. I have a PC that is able to boot from USB. I was able to boot Acronis...
My friend has a dead western digital MyBook (Essential edition 250 gb) that contains important data. However it seems the HD may be still be good and the only reason it doesn't turn on is ...
Hi friends ! I have a problem in my Flash Disk. When I plug it in the USB port, my PC detects it and I can see removable disk (G:) in My Computer. When I double click and open the disk, I c...
Under device manager I have an unknown HID device.  I also happen to have an external harddrive thats not working.  The harddrive is detected when I plug it in, but its not under disk manageme...
The first time I connected this device to USB Port on my Windows XP Professional Desktop professional, it was recognised and HP application s that probably cam preintalled on the hard disk sta...
I see from this post ( http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Misc/Q_21529419.html ) that you can create an autorun USB Memory Stick... I have the opposite question: How do I remov...
I have a SanDisk 4 GB U3 Cruzer Micro flash drive that does not show up on my drive list in Windows Explorer on my work PC, but it is does on my home PC.  The flash drive does show up in the D...
I have a P4 2.53 MHZ system with 3 HDs C is 60G,D is 40 G, G is  200G Maxtor One TouchII It uses USB connection, as does my Hp Scannr  4470c, as does my Logitech wireless Keyboard and mouse. T...
I have a Seagate External Hard drive - ST300003U2 - Serial No. 5LS4ERT2 - that when I plug in via USB - Windows Explorer does not recognize it.   I've gone into Computer Management - and se...
Can someone enlighten me as to how to format a flash drive to NTFS with WinXP Pro? I have a couple of 4GB & an 8GB that I would like to format to NTFS to eliminate the restriction on file sizes.
I bought a western digital passport external hard drive a few months back and didn't face any problems regarding its usage, now when i connect it to my pc with win xp, it just hangs or my disp...
Hello all. My first question here - been a member for about 3 years. OK. I am simply trying to create a bootable ERD2007 "thumb drive" that I can use to fix issues on my companies pcs. I ha...
I have an external hard drive connected to a computer.  I want to see if NTBACKUP can backup the My Documents of the computer.  I would like it to backup to the drive and either append or over...
I have a hard drive that I have installed in an external USB case and power supply.  I have used this unit on a Win XP machine as an external drive, formatted as NTFS, but now want to use it o...
I have a SanDisk U3 Cruzer Micro USB drive that has the Launchpad software pre-loaded on it. I understand that the Launchpad software can be removed to enable the USB drive to function as a re...
I have a requirement, wherein I have to develop a software to access the USB disk drives (flash memory). The constraints are where ever this software is to be used, the USB drives should on...
I want to be able to install Windows, OSX, and other OS's as well as bootable programs from a USB drive.   I have found a program that does windows installs called http://www.msfn.org/board...
I have a western Digital 160GB USB 2.0 disk. It is servicable however recently I had a need to reset windows 2000. Becasue Windows 2000 had frozen I did this before the USB disk was disconnect...
Hello everyone. My place of employment is having trouble with flash drives not being recognized on some machines. For instance on one machine no matter what type of drive is inserted it always...
I have a WD external HD that is recognized in my computer but when you attempt to access the drive, the computer "locks up" any explorer-related activities (virus scan, data recovery, etc.) an...
Hi Experts, Objective: To be able to remove a USB HDD using a batch file and devcon.exe utility. Scenario: Running Symantec Backup Exec 12, backing up to a rotation of USB HDD's o...
Hi, I have an external USB hard drive formatted with Fat32.   I would like to reformat the drive (leaving it in the FAT32 format).   Basically I want to wipe everything off of the drive ...
I have repaired a Windows XP Sp2 Instalation, but after that, I cannot get USB Mass storage devices (USB MSD)to work. Everytime I plug in a USB MSD I hear the sound that I pluged in a new devi...
Greetings, My boss & I were given USB flash drives at a convention we went to that contain a presentation.  The drives are 128MB apparently.  They look like standard flash drives, and are s...
I bought a new passport (white/silver) 250GB hard drive. I was able to connect it only once. Now I keep getting USB device not recognized error. Any help will be appreciated. I could not r...