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Question on my external USB HDD enclosure
Is it even possible to format an brand new unformatted, un-partitioned hard drive in an external USB case using WinXP?? A1. Yes - use disk management Q2. If it is possible, does the error I am getting indicate the drive is possibly faulty. A2. Unlikely. Q3. Should the HDD in the external case be set to slave or

Code 10 External USB 2.0 HD
Rod Speed rod.speed....@gmail.com aus computers Phred <ppnerkDELETET...@yahoo.com> wrote A friend of mine recently went to the local Tandy shop and bought an external case and HDD that connects to the PC through one of the USB (series 2) ports. He's using XP Home as the O/S, and this external drive was NOT one of

Q:how to mount external USB-HDD
Jeff J...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows server sbs I'd like to get an external USB HD like the Seagate FreeAgent to do some backups to; however, the FreeAgent does not list Windows 2K3 server as a supported OS. The server is stable so I do not want to install anything that is not fully

external HD's and multi-booting?
Fred Garvin Gar...@Truss.net comp os linux setup alt os linux suse Will Suse 8 install on an external USB hard drive? This may be an alternative to my problem of not being able to put a new HD in my new Dell. Thanks again for all your help and sorry to be a pain... -- "Milk got?" - Yoda.

External USB disks? (now usb2 v firewire external HD)
External HD's -- what a brilliant idea! One could simply hook up a different HD when (s)he wanted to boot a different OS. I'm thinking of the freedom this would give me, at the ...or do non-disruptive backups then take off-site which is why I originally looked at USB 2.0 drives for FreeBSD.

Portable program to encrypt/decrypt data from a external usb HD
USA_Guy _ USA_2...@webtv.net alt comp hardware homebuilt WROTE ========= I'm very tempted to buy an external HD enclosure which will (supposedly) make any IDE HD (or CD-rom device) into a hot-swappable USB or firewire device. Specifically, I'm referring to the ones here: http://tinyurl.com/1hhc Has anyone used one

Question on my external USB HDD enclosure
Edward W. Thompson thomed...@btopenworld.com microsoft public windowsxp general I use True Image to image to an external USB HDD that is formattted FAT32. The Image is bigger than 4GB and the program (True Image) automatically breaks the Image into two files. I wouldn't format an external drive NFTS as it restricts

Boot to USB HDD?
Mark Linimon lini...@lonesome.com lucky freebsd stable On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 11:42:26AM +0200, Momchil Ivanov wrote: accidently unplugged the USB hub to which my external hdd together with a mouse were connected and this caused my machine to freeze for some seconds and then reboot. Yes, this is a known problem,

problem in stopping an external USB HDD.. pls help
Fen Lad m...@privacy.net cam misc "Fen Lad" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message news:2u1vemF24uebnU1@uni-berlin.de... External case, USB preferred, to convert standard 3.5inch IDE hard disk drive to external/portable unit. If you have one lying around or to sell please contact: Oops, wrong email try this: bookdealer

usb external hd to store photos on ?
Has anyone had a problem formatting an external USB hard drive in the NTFS format? My friend has a 4550 and an 80gb drive partitioned to 60gb and 20bg. The 60 will only allow NTFS, but the 20 will allow NTFS as well as Fat32. Neither will format with NTFS, but the 20gb can be formatted with with Fat32.

removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot?
NTFS partitions To the USB2-IDE Maxtor, it took 1min 35 secs, in comparison it took 3min 7 secs to copy the same to a 2.5" external USB disk. Which gives a speed of about 38mbits/sec and 18mbits/sec. Not very scientific of course! But interesting I've now got a combined usb2/firewire external disk (original

USB Sux- problem with external HD drive
I have installed Windows 2000 Server on an external USB drive (by creating an image of the internal HDD and restoring the image to the external USB HDD). The bios has been changed to boot from the USB drvie, which is recognized as a hard disk. On boot, the USB drive is used, up until the Windows splash screen and

Spinning down external USB HDD
First thing I did was to connect it to one of my Toshiba laptop's USB 2.0 ports, then re-format the drive as NTFS. MB/s Average Read 21.7 MB/s Random Access 21.2 mS LaCie 250GB 7200 RPM External HDD: Burst Speed: 33 MB/s Average Read 32.2 MB/s Random Access 14.7 mS (Note: HD Tach identifies the HDD in the LaCie

external USB HDD
A USB 2.0 card is very inexpensive. Or even Firewire, which although roughly equivalent in spec does seem be a bit faster with external drives in real world performance. Lisa Ole uncle ted wrote: im looking for suggestions on a usb external hd (between 100-200 gig ) to store photos on . pricewatch.com has some good

external usb hdd questions
ray r...@zianet.com comp os linux hardware On Fri, 04 May 2007 21:06:44 +0200, Hendric Stattmann wrote: Hi all, I have recently bought a 2,5" external USB disk with 120GB It comes with one single FAT32 partition. I want to use it as backup for one Win XP and one Linux (Suse 10.2) box. My initial idea is to simply

External USB hdd case
Mike S. retsu...@xinap.moc comp os ms-windows misc In article <1163709239.962433. 286...@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, <horacius....@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, is there a portable program (no need to install, just can be stored on an usb key) to encrypt/decrypt data from a external usb HD.

Bootable USB HDD
I first noticed problems with the usb disk being detected while still on SP1. And thought SP2 would cure the problem. The hard drive is a toshiba MK4025GAS sold as a branded mobile hard disk called "flight case". - The usb HHD works fine on my w2k3 SP1 machine and on my XP SP2 machine - I have updated to the latest

Installation of Windows server 2000 on external USB HDD
I have a 60gb external HD on a 4500 with XP Pro and can format it either way.. HTH "Chuck" <Ch...@Chuck.Chuck> wrote in message news:2iCcb.152607$0v4.11369623@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net... Has anyone had a problem formatting an external USB hard drive in the NTFS format? My friend has a 4550 and an 80gb

IOMEGA External USB HDD 250 GB Problem
I understand that some Sony VAIOs have the same licensing agreement with Microsoft too. Disgusted with WinXPs recovery provisions, I'd like to install a parallel WinXP on an external USB HDD. Can laptops be booted from an external USB HDD? All? Some? None? It depends on if the BIOS supports booting from USB.

External 80GB USB HDD Format with Fst32
Hey everyone, I have an external 40GB USB Hard Driveformatted to NTFS allready. I need to reformat it fat32, in order to attach it to an old Win98 workstation to transfer some folders and files, but it does'nt read the NTFS formatted HDD . How can I format this external Hard Drive to Fat32? Any suggestions would be