Trying to get my music library from my external hard drive back onto my iPod while maintaining my sanity. [more inside]
posted by Jaltcoh on Oct 15, 2009 - 21 answers

Lightroom is not cooperating with my external hard drive. [more inside]
posted by shothotbot on Sep 23, 2009 - 1 answer

I need an external firewire hard drive for video editing on a Mac at university. Is there a product that will also let me access the footage stored when I'm at home on my Vista PC? [more inside]
posted by saileyn on Sep 10, 2009 - 11 answers

How can I get my mac to recognize my external hard drive again? [more inside]
posted by veryhappyheidi on Apr 25, 2009 - 16 answers

How can I repair any broken files resulting from power loss during defragmentation? It seems that most file recovery applications want to move everything to a new disk, but this is not a good option for me because I don't have any other drives large enough. I was using iDefrag on my terabyte (My Book) external hard drive. It had gotten almost 21 hours in, and somehow the power cable got unplugged and the battery died. To make a long story short, iDefrag can't see the disk at all, Disk Utility sees the hard drive but not any of the data or the partition itself, and verify and repair are not selectable. [more inside]
posted by N2O1138 on Feb 22, 2009 - 6 answers

I have a Macbook and a new external hard drive. I'd like to set up Time Machine, but I don't want to devote my entire new hard drive to back ups. I'm new to this, but I think I want to partition my drive- how do I go about doing that? And how large of a partition do I need for Time Machine? [more inside]
posted by MadamM on Jan 6, 2009 - 13 answers

How to use wifi, a PS3, and external hard drives to stream media to the tv? [more inside]
posted by Ghidorah on Dec 22, 2008 - 17 answers

What is the best/easiest way to backup my hard drive? [more inside]
posted by AZNsupermarket on Dec 19, 2008 - 18 answers

Why can't I format my new MyBook USB external hard drive? [more inside]
posted by NoMich on Aug 11, 2008 - 17 answers

What's the best way to setup a 500gb external hard drive to backup windows and linux? [more inside]
posted by kraigory on Aug 4, 2008 - 8 answers

Why does my external hard drive (OS X) keep spinning up? [more inside]
posted by one_bean on Jul 7, 2008 - 15 answers

I was transferring a lot of mp3 folders from my laptop (MacBook Pro) to an external hard drive (160 GB iomega) and overwrote some of the folders, losing a lot of mp3s in the process. Help! [more inside]
posted by Falconetti on May 4, 2008 - 8 answers

Why does Microsoft Outlook insist on spinning up my external hard drive before letting me see any e-mail with attachments? [more inside]
posted by roomwithaview on Feb 23, 2008 - 7 answers

I can no longer open a number of raw and jpg files in a single folder on an external harddrive. What's going on? Is my harddrive about to die? [more inside]
posted by msbrauer on Feb 16, 2008 - 5 answers

Can I run Microsoft Office (2003) off of an external hard drive? [more inside]
posted by waywardgirl on Feb 16, 2008 - 14 answers

I have some novice questions about a re-install with dual booting in Windows XP. More inside.... [more inside]
posted by Huplescat on Dec 21, 2007 - 1 answer

What is a good external HD option for around $100 that focuses on reliability and capacity? Speed is unimportant and I am willing to use an enclosure/internal HD as an option. [more inside]
posted by Empyrean_72 on Nov 28, 2007 - 14 answers

I have an external firewire drive attached to a Mac Mini. I have enabled file sharing on the Mini and added the external drive as a shared folder. When I browse to the Mini over the network, I can access the internal hard drive but the external does not show up. Both Macs are running Leopard. How can I get it do show up?
posted by nivekraz on Nov 7, 2007 - 4 answers

I need to stop my external (USB) drive having a petulant fit (and hiding/refusing to play ball) on an annoyingly regular basis during normal service. How? [more inside]
posted by Brockles on Oct 22, 2007 - 3 answers

Do airport x-ray machines damage external hard drives? [more inside]
posted by Afroblanco on Aug 28, 2007 - 7 answers

I was going to repartition an external USB hard drive in Mac OS X 10.4 in Disk Utility, and after I clicked Partition, I thought I clicked Cancel when I learned it would result in data loss. I guess I actually clicked OK, and then I quickly quit Disk Utility and disconnected the drive (it had already been unmounted). Now, when I reconnect the drive, it shows up as having been repartitioned, and all of the data on there is gone. Can I get my data back? [more inside]
posted by jbb7 on Jul 7, 2007 - 6 answers

iPhone has OSX and USB. Can I hook it up to an external USB hard disk? [more inside]
posted by jstrater on Jul 4, 2007 - 6 answers

How do I move only songs from a certain playlist from my external hard drive to my computer? The easy way, please. [more inside]
posted by evilbeck on Dec 31, 2006 - 4 answers

Windows XP Home Edition won't recognize my Simpletech external hard drive. The USB ports are fine, the computer recognizes -every- other USB device I own (15+ devices.) Help! [more inside]
posted by JFitzpatrick on Oct 20, 2006 - 9 answers

Can you help make my computer talk to my external hard drive? [more inside]
posted by betterton on Sep 29, 2006 - 16 answers

Per an earlier question, I've finally bought an external hard drive for my iMac. How do I go about backing stuff up? [more inside]
posted by the_bone on Sep 4, 2006 - 6 answers

Why the @#$% did this external hard drive do to my computer's CDRW drive!!?!?!?! [more inside]
posted by radioamy on Aug 1, 2006 - 13 answers

USB/Firewire External Harddrives - how can I get simultaneous access from 2 computers? [more inside]
posted by crazy finger on Jun 25, 2006 - 16 answers

Can you help me, in words of one syllable, get my new external hard drive working again or at least rescue my music and pictures? [more inside]
posted by mygothlaundry on Jun 6, 2006 - 6 answers

I'm in the market for an external hard drive. I'm running XP on a PC and know nothing about external hard drives except what I'd like it to do. [more inside]
posted by misanthropicsarah on Apr 26, 2006 - 9 answers

Running programs from an external hard drive... good idea or bad idea, and why? [more inside]
posted by the_bone on Apr 8, 2006 - 14 answers

Partitioning an external hard drive for a Macintosh Powerbook? Why? [more inside]
posted by jeff-o-matic on Jan 12, 2006 - 9 answers

What is the best way to share an external hard drive between a PC and a Mac (both laptops) so that both computers can read and write to it? Can it even be done? [more inside]
posted by LouMac on Dec 29, 2005 - 11 answers

I've searched Apple Forum, iPod Lounge, and others, yet have not been able to get a satisfactory answer. I need a plan, a strategy if you will, concerning iTunes for Windows on my Toshiba, iTunes for Mac on my iBook, an NTFS formatted external drive, and an iPod...too many elements. [more inside]
posted by sourwookie on Dec 15, 2005 - 12 answers

Methinks my fairly young firewire HD has died. Has it? [more inside]
posted by o2b on Aug 1, 2005 - 8 answers

I'm looking to buy an external firewire hard drive for my aging G4. [more inside]
posted by Item on May 16, 2005 - 14 answers

I have a hard drive in an external enclosure. Recently, it (sometimes) has been making disturbing noises. Is my hard drive dying, or is it my enclosure? [more inside]
posted by TheIrreverend on Mar 28, 2005 - 16 answers

I have a Maxtor 250GB OneTouch FireWire and USB external hard drive. It has been connected to a LinkSys NSLU2 network storage device. That is until I could no longer access my drive last Friday. [more inside]
posted by rglasmann on Feb 22, 2005 - 9 answers