Can I delete files from my simpletech 250gb - SimpleTech 250GB USB2.0 7200 RPM External 250 GB IDE Hard Drive

click with right button and select run as admin

It could be that it is mapped to a drive letter that is already in use. Under device manager, (right click my computer and select manage then click on disk management) If you see the device in there then you can right click on the bar graph representation of the disk and select to change drive letter and paths. This will allow you to remove the conflict and have it show up again.

If you do not have enough hard drive space to perform a time machine backup then you will need to either get a bigger external hard drive or delete files that you do not need.

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check for virus or
2 scandisk or
3 copy the files then format the disk again

click start right click on my computer select open
Right click the icon of your Flash Drive (It should be F:/ or something)
Click Properties in the menu that comes up
Click the Sharing tab
Click permissions
And finally, click Allow next to Full Control.?
hope this helps

Your internal drive is different than your external drive. If you put more files onto your SimpleTech drive, then that one is going to fill up faster. The best thing to do would be to go through your SimpleTech drive and delete anything that you don't need. I don't remember my SimpleTech drive coming with any software on the drive, but if it did, it didn't take up much space.

check the cable change it check your pc about viruses and scandisk

You may use data recovery software to see if you can rescue the files. It may unable to recover all the files, but at least most of them.

Hi Blakelynefit;

All my not be lost. You've a lot of really great freeware options for file recovery if you're running Windows. Notable apps include Undelete Plus , PC Inspector File Recovery , and Restoration. Undelete Plus is the most user-friendly option of the bunch, with advanced filtering options that make it easy to find your needle of a file among the haystack of deleted garbage, but in my tests I found both Restoration and PC Inspector File Recovery to be more effective at recovering files. (Of course, your mileage may vary.) As an added bonus, the bare bones Restoration is portable, which makes it an excellent addition to a thumb drive or external SimpleTech 250GB Drive.
UPDATE: Per several readers advice, you may also want to check out Recuva another freeware Windows file recovery tool.

Good Luck,

Mark

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i) i think this type of behaviours speciall due to presence of spware, virus in your system, initially to perform a full system scan on your disk and make sure that this not repeating in near future ...


ii) after do this try to change its mode(read only) by right-click on the folder or file u want to use and at the bottom you have to uncheck read only.........


Thanking youy

M. Sridhar