My sister wanted to play the sims with an external hard drive and did some mklink commands with the documents folder from the PC to transfer data to the external hard drive in Windows Powershell. When the computer restarted the same documents folder that is on the PC ...
My external hard drive doesn't show up on "My Computer", but when I check "Device Manager", it show up inside "disk drive", and the "Device status" inside the "Properties" shows "This device is working properly". What's wrong? Computer_Commando Hacker Posts: 5,646 Logged #1 July...
backing up photos on external hard drive I would like to factory reset my computer (macbook air) and placed my photo library in an external hard drive i would like to know if the photos will be affected after the factory reset when i connect my external hard drive again. 4 years ago ...
I have an external Toshiba 4TB hard drive attached to my computer. Yesterday, for the first time ever it started to freeze my Mac Studio on startup and the computer would proceed to restart and begin the process again. I have been using this drive for a number of years with no problems...
Power off the external hard drive. Restart your computer. After your computer has fully restarted, reconnect the external hard drive and power it on. Use a Different Computer: If possible, connect the external hard drive to a different computer to see if it can be recognized there. This he...
OneDrive ate my hard drive and external hard drive: I enabled OneDrive on my computers. My main computer seemed to get slower and slower. I clicked on "This PC" and my internal drive was red - showing about 20 GB space where there had been close to 200 GB a short time before. My ...
When your USB storage drive is not showing up in My Computer (Windows 7), This PC (Windows 8.1/10), or File Explorer, you should first make them detectable in Disk Management. And below tips will help you make it: Step 1.First, insert and connect the USB or external h...
Occasionally, attaching a drive to a computer will appear to work, but the drive's nowhere to be found. I'll walk through one common solution.
- When an external hard drive is connected, there should be a sound indicating the connection, and the light should show the activity. However, there is no sound or light after connection. - Occasionally, when the external hard drive is connected, the entire computer might slow down or becom...
If not, save your files and restart your computer, then attempt to plug in the external hard drive. Be sure to use alternative USB ports, if possible. If the hard drive does not function, it is then important to try it on another computer. If the hard drive does not function on any...