SimpleTech 250GB USB2.0 7200 RPM External 250 GB IDE Hard Drive - Answered Questions & Fixed issues
SimpleTech portable hard drive 250gb
are you using a power source for the unit, it has to have its own power supply to work. if you have the cable connected for the power and the usb connected to the laptop/pc, go to the windows log and right click on the logo, a menu will pop up. click on device manager on the device manager settings you should see your drive probably with an x on it, click on the drive and go to the update drivers and make sure you're on the internet. and click update drivers, if there is a driver that windows can use it will install the driver if not, then windows will not load a driver. if still not working try this web site
Solvusoft Microsoft Gold Certified Company and download the drivers from them. if this still does not work then replace the usb cable as it may be faulty.
I do not want to restore a backup, I want to read files from the backup files
Typically back-up files made by back-up programs are encoded, and depending on which back-up software this may or may or may not allow you to access the backed-up files individually. How you access your backed up files will also depend on the back-up software you use.
For HP's back-up utility, "to recover a deleted file, simply use the Restore Wizard" - be careful not to recover the file on top of the current version of that file though.
http://h20331.www2.hp.com/Hpsub/cache/312352-0-0-225-121.html
see also the instructions (manual) for this utility
http://www.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01824301.pdf
This procedure should work for any back-up software.Copy your back-up. Restore your back-up to a new location. Access the files you want from the restored back-up. Now you have access to the files in the back-up as they were when they were made, while still retaining your back-up and your current files. Be careful not to confuse 'old' for 'new' and 'copy' for 'original'.
25.April.2014
Something is using 200GB
you may have a hidden partition. Use a partioning software to see all of the drives partitions; any there more than one is your problem.
Plugged in external hard drive and does not appear on desktop
Go to Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Disk Managemant and see if the drive appears there. If it does, you may need to delete the partitions on the drive and create new ones. If this doesn't work, you may need to contact the manufacturer for a possible replacement.
I have a SimpleTech 500 GB external hard drive
Listen closely to the drive, if it sounds like it is clicking then it is probably not getting enough power through the usb. You should have received a cable with a split dual USB plug for extra power. Make sure that both large USB plugs are in the computer while the smaller one is attached to the drive, this will give it enough power to start working. If it is not clicking and has plenty of power then 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.
96300 40001
Log in to your laptop as the administrator, it should install automatically (Windows will recognize it).
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Log in to your laptop as the administrator, not as a user or guest. Then you should be able to install the drive.
I removed the back up drive from my iMac with out
Before you unplug an external hard drive, you need to unmount it first. If you don't, you can cause all kinds of problems.The term "unmount" basically means to prepare a drive to be unplugged from the Mac. In addition to external hard drives, "thumb drives" a/k/a "jump drives" as well as some cameras need to be unmounted before they are unplugged.When you unmount a drive, Mac OS X checks to see if you have any open files that are stored on that drive. If you do, the drive cannot be unmounted. This is a safety feature because if drive is removed with open files on it, the application that is using those files can become confused and you can lose or corrupt your data.If you unplug a hard drive that has not been unmounted, Mac OS X will pop up a box with a red Stop icon and a message that you shouldn't have done that. Nice info, but a little late at that point.I'm not saying that you will lose data every time you unplug a mounted drive, but the danger is there. I recently worked with someone who had his iPhoto Library on an external drive and he never unmounted the drive before unplugging it. It wasn't a problem for a long time but one time he opened iPhoto and all of the photos were missing.Unmounting a drive is easy. There is an Eject icon to the right of the drive name in the DEVICES section of a Finder window. Just click that icon.If you have multiple partitions to unmount, you can hold down the Option key when you click the Eject icon to unmount them all at once.I thought about it and did some looking and I couldn't find anywhere in Mac OS X that states the need to unmount before unplugging, other than the big Stop icon you get after the fact. I don't think it is something you are likely to think of on your own, either. But now you know.
I've switched my SmartTech drive from an XP
This is a common failing when connecting XP to windows from 7 on. It is possible that the external drive, built in hard drive controller has been killed by your laptop(or just failed with age) Try it in a computer with an older operating system to see if the drive itself is at fault.
Drivers
ARE IT FORMATED IF NOT HAVE TO FORMAT IT.GO TO CONTROL-PANEL.ADMINISTRATORS TOOLS.STORAGE.DISKMANGMENT.
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