My external hard drive just crashed so can anyone suggest a Portland, OR, based data recovery service?
posted on Aug 25, 2008 - 9 answers
My Seagate FreeAgent external HD may have been damaged in a move. Making clicking noises and not being detected by my computer. [more inside]
posted on Aug 19, 2008 - 9 answers
Can I get my WD external hard drive back to the way it was? [more inside]
posted on Aug 19, 2008 - 8 answers
Great MeFites, I come bearing but a humble request. I bought a MacBook Pro about six months before Leopard was released. When it finally came out, I installed it on a partition on an external drive, which I would boot from (because OS X is awesome like that, amirite?) so I could test out all my apps. Now I'm ready to commit to Leopard full-time - what's the best way to go about transplanting my Leopard partition? [more inside]
posted on Aug 18, 2008 - 6 answers 
Is there a desktop search solution that will index my external hard drives? So far I have had no luck with Google Desktop search.
posted on Aug 16, 2008 - 9 answers
I have a Fantom Drive 500GB 7200RPM USB 2.0 External Hard Drive - MDU500. The connection for the power cable came loose from the board and nothing I tried could get it to power up. I removed the drives and connected them to a Linux box running Ubuntu 8.04. It saw the two drives as one and even knew the drive name I'd given it. However I cannot get it to mount. The error message in Linux suggests trying SoftRAID or dmraid. Dmraid didn't work. (At least I couldn't get it to.) The message also suggested trying to access the drives in Windows. Windows XP will also see the drive as one unit but wants to format the drive. Can someone provide me some advice or direction in how I might get this drive to a state where I can move my data onto another drive? [more inside]
posted on Jul 24, 2008 - 5 answers
My external hard-drive's on the fritz. What can I do to make sure I get all my data off it before it goes? [more inside]
posted on Jun 3, 2008 - 5 answers
What kind of external hard drive should I buy? [more inside]
posted on Apr 20, 2008 - 27 answers
I think I'm finally switching to Ubuntu on my main machine. I have two 160GB external drives, currently both with NTFS, currently mirrored (by software, not a RAID). With what and how should I format/use these guys? [more inside]
posted on Mar 14, 2008 - 8 answers
I have an external hard drive on my Christmas list. I'd like to make the shopping easy on them by giving specific choices. I've done some searching (here and via Gooooogle) but I need that extra oomph from the genius that is the hive mind. [more inside]
posted on Dec 9, 2007 - 12 answers
Are there any particularly awesome external firewire hard drive enclosures that I should be aware about? [more inside]
posted on Oct 29, 2007 - 7 answers
When using an external hard-drive with a Mac, is a speed advantage gained by using a drive formatted with HFS+ (over FAT32/etc.)? And while I'm asking... [more inside]
posted on Oct 29, 2007 - 11 answers
I have a Mac laptop, which replaced my PC which I used for many years.....I recently found out that there is some files and such on my PC that I need to take of my computer and store onto my new external hard drive....Yes, I should of did this before hand.... [more inside]
posted on Sep 20, 2007 - 12 answers
External Hard drive USB device not recognized, how do I fix?
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posted on May 26, 2007 - 9 answers
External hard drive failure: halp! [more inside]
posted on Apr 22, 2007 - 5 answers
My Lacie Big D2 500gb external hard drive is no longer seen on my powerbook or pc – how would I retrieve the data off it without handing it to a data recovery company? [more inside]
posted on Jan 5, 2007 - 10 answers
I have a hard disk that I pulled out of a dead computer. It has been formated and has data on it. Are there any external adapters that I can plug it into so that I can use it as an external drive?
posted on Sep 30, 2006 - 13 answers
A little help please in getting my computer to fully recognize an external hard drive. [more inside]
posted on Jan 21, 2006 - 5 answers
My external USB Hard Drive is freezing my PC!
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posted on Jan 12, 2006 - 4 answers
iTunesFilter. How can I have iTune "see" tracks already present on my external drive? OS 10.4.2 [more inside]
posted on Jan 7, 2006 - 8 answers
How can I get an External Hard Drive to show up in WinXP SP2 again? [more inside]
posted on Dec 18, 2005 - 4 answers
A few questions about our Pro-Tools setup. [more inside]
posted on Dec 12, 2005 - 7 answers
I am turning to the Meta community for help since I am at a loss on how to answer this question. A good friend of mine has suddenly lost a lot of data from an external drive that he keeps on all the time. He has a Western Digital 320GB drive that stores mostly live recording of the DMB. The drive reads as 298GB total size and 78GB free space, but the only folder on the external is showing that there is only 123GB of data being stored (therefore ~98GB of data is missing). He has searched the drive for the folders but they are not showing up.
Any idea of what could have happened to his files? Also, would it be safe to shut down the external (since its always on) and see if that fixes the problem?
posted on Dec 8, 2005 - 12 answers
Best external hard drive for backing up & additional storage for a Powerbook G4 with OS X 10.4? [more inside]
posted on Nov 30, 2005 - 11 answers
I've overfilled my laptop and want to move files to external drives. But moving keeps getting stopped for various reasons (and what the hell is a cyclic redundancy??) and I'm going nuts. Please send me your speed tips and procedure suggestions! The specifics: Toshiba satellite running windows xp; total c drive size 55.8gb, free space 12.6. External drives: f (in fat 32 which I'd like to reformat to ntfs) has a capacity of 152gb, and has only 66.1 free. Newest drive g (i've just formatted it to ntfs) has a capacity of 111gb, with 103 left after my abortive attempts to put an image disc of c on it. Thanks ... [more inside]
posted on Nov 1, 2005 - 14 answers
My work computer's motherboard crashed and fried itself. My IT guy was able to salvage the hard drive, which is now an external hard drive, but the major program that I need from it has not been running. Could the move into the external hard drive shell have damaged the program? [more inside]
posted on Aug 30, 2005 - 14 answers
How robust/durable are LaCie firewire drives? [+]
posted on Feb 7, 2005 - 15 answers
