HOWTO SETUP SIMPLETECH 96200-41001-057 - SimpleTech Computers & Internet

Try here: http://www.hgst.com/support/external-drive-support/simpledrive-mini-technical-support

Just plug the Simpletech in the old computer that has the songs on it. Your computer will recognize the Simpletech drive. You can copy (from your old computer) and paste your songs to the Simpletech drive. Maybe all the songs you want will be in your My Music folder under My Documents. If so, you can just copy the whole My Music folder to the Simpletech.

Once you have the songs on the Simpletech, you can now plug it into the new computer. You can copy an paste from the Simpletech to your My Music Folder on the new computer.

You can also use the drag and drop instead of copy and paste.

Hi ,
This is neo , When did the setup for win XP the file system would be FAT32 . FAT32 is not supported in windows7. You can format the external drive BUT note the files in the drive will be deleted.

Right click My Computer, Properties, then click on Device Manager.
Select Disk Drives then on tab menu Action, Add legacy hardware. Go through the setup and use CD's that came with Hard Drive otherwise search company site for drivers.

Double check all the power options on your PC to make sure it is not set to go to sleep or hibernate or any other process that may interrupt the backup itself.

Also make sure there is enough space to back up to.

Make sure that the interface you use to connect also has any power saving turned off.

Many devices have the option of going to sleep or turning off to save power and you would need to check the full properties of your usb or firewire card to check that.

Make sure your antivirus or any other application is not set to scan or run during the same time interval as your backup


when you have checked all that you may find that it now works as it should.

http://www.ehow.com/how_5097708_turn-off-power-saving.html has some useful info as does
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/disable-power-management-on-windows-vista/




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You might have two drives with the same drive letter. try the link at the bottom for more info.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/find-your-missing-usb-drive-on-windows-xp/

Hello sir, let me give you some tips, you can dismantle it and get the HDD unit, buy a cheap external SATA usb hdd enclosure with USB 2.0 . Well all of them are 2.0 compatible (the unit without the HDD) and put it there. you can always keep the old one for posterity. hope this helps.

Usually a protected hard drive has been in a laptop and the hard drive password is setup from the laptop's BIOS configuration. This password is embedded on the hard drive's chip.
This password protects the data from unauthorized access and must be removed before reuse in another laptop or as an external hard drive.
There are no backdoor passwords available and needs to be removed using that laptop's BIOS configuration, you need to know the password to enable you remove the password peotection.

One thing to remember is the some of the Simple drives requires the USB mini to conect to the drive and the TWO USB connects to be plugin to the computer.