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Andy Barker Posted on Jan 13, 2013
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I have a Freecom 160Gb external drive which I've used to back up various files (mostly photos and iTunes) which were loaded on the pc with Windows Vista installed. The pc recently had a failure o

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Windows-based PCs b> Plug your iPod into your computer to open iTunes; if it doesn't automatically open, open it manually. A window will pop up on your computer asking you if you want to sync the contents of your iPod with the contents of your iTunes library. Click cancel. In the iTunes source list, choose the iPod, and make sure that you have selected the Summary tab in iTunes' main window. Open up the My Computer icon from either your desktop or the Start menu, and select your iPod from the window. In the My Computer window, open up the Tool menu and click on Folder Options. This will open up another window. Choose the View tab, and find the heading for Hidden Files and Folders. Click on the button that says "Show Hidden Files and Folders," then click the "Apply" button at the bottom of the Window. Close the Folder Options window. Find the iPod's icon on the desktop and double-click it. This will open more folders in the iPod window. Find the folder called iPod_control and double-click it. Now you will have a number of folders to choose from. Locate the music folder, and drag it to the main desktop so that it's copied to your computer. When the Music folder is on the desktop, right-click on it. From the window that appears, choose "Properties." In the Attributes area of the General tab, uncheck the Hidden option, and then click "Apply." A window will appear that will ask you to confirm the attribute changes. Make sure the box next to the Apply Changes to this Folder, Subfolders, and Files option is checked, and then click OK. Drag the folder and its contents into the iTunes library.

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Oct 11, 2008

SOURCE: SIMPLETECH 160GB EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE

Is this compatible with vista?
Ensure all the plugs are right and try on a different pc to see if its the pcs or the exhdd's problem

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Anonymous

  • Posted on Oct 18, 2008

SOURCE: Freecom Hard drive

I have a 500 GB external HDD from freecom, wich was working fine in the beginning.
It was fat32 pre-formatted when i bought it, so i formatted it to NTFS becouse i want to put big files on it. When I connect it to my computer, everything goes allright. But when I start a program such as:
Azureus (torrents)
Defregmantation
Virusscan
etc.

wich are using my drive, it just *shuts down*. Well, it's not shutting down actualy. The light indicator goes off, and windows can't acces it anymore (it's still in your list of my computer though) , but the drive inside is still running. When I hit the switch to shut it off, it goes off, you can hear the drive stop spinning, then you get all kind a errors in windows with drive write errors (becouse i shut it down ofcourse). This is not happening when i connect it to a hub. i connected it to a 2.0 hub (wich is not 2.0 full speed ofcourse, but it's faster then 1.0) and then it's not *shutting down*, but it's very slow ofcourse.

Please help me out, becouse I can't do anything with it right now, unless under low speed. )-:

Anonymous

  • 128 Answers
  • Posted on Nov 04, 2008

SOURCE: REMOVE WRITE PROTECTION FROM EXTERNAL DRIVE

insert your memory stick or your external drive / go to My Computer / right click your drive / go to properties / under the Security tab, just check the Full Control under permission / click apply then ok
hope this helps

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Oct 15, 2009

SOURCE: Error OX80070052 displayed when copying files to brand new drive

This might not help but my mate brought round his external and we had lots of similiar problems then we found out it was caused by the portale being fat32 and i'm running ntfs it worked for a bit and then we kept getting errors but he wasn't willing to format it to NTFS could work goo luck mate.

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Nov 02, 2009

SOURCE: maxtor basics 160gb portable hard drive is showing error performi

This article explains the resolution for the problem when formatting external hard disk:
http://www.altafkhatri.com/Altaf/External-Harddisk-Formatting/Portable-Harddrive/eGo-Mac-Edition-WindowsPC

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(02) Just to make sure, the photos and not just a catalog of the photos were originally stored onto the external HDD, yes?

(03) Do you still have access to the computer where you originally had the external HDD connected at the time you encrypted the files (photos)?

Even if the protected files were on the same external HDD that you are using now, the protection software is possibly associated w/ the computer on which the files were fist stored.

(04) Please, tell us exactly what mechanism (the name of the software, etc) you used to originally encrypt these files.

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