20 Most Recent Verbatim External, USB 2.0, 750GB Capacity, Silver . 750 GB Hard Drive Questions & Answers

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Because the first few records stored on the disk-drive have been corrupted (or are physically unreadable), you get the "please format" message. Hopefully, the other 99.9 percent of the data-blocks stored on the disk-drive are OK.

Search online for 'data recovery' software -- it reads through the disk-drive, block-by-block, trying to merge blocks of data back into files that can be copied onto your 'C:' drive.

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I checked the Verbatim website for common Windows/USB drive problems. Since I don't know your exact model the information I'm giving is pretty general, but from the Verbatim website it looked like something that could help.

For one, Verbatim says you don't need drivers for your drive to work, but if you're having issues installing their driver might help. Go to their website (Verbatim.com) and in the top left go to "Support". From there you should be able to enter your model and download drivers. The installation instructions are usually on the same page.

The second potential fix is to increase the USB power to the drive. The Verbatim site says that some of their drives require plugging into 2 USB ports to get enough power to run the drive. If this is the case for your drive, you should've gotten a USB cable that is shaped like a "Y". The two wires at the "top" of the "Y" go into two USB ports on your computer. It also said that if even you didn't get the cable you could still be having power issues. You'll have to go to the Support section of the site and enter your model number to see if this could still be the problem.

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bad hard drive, try it on another laptop makesure there's power going to it the usb cable by itself wont work it needs power


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Format the drive in NTFS format.. You will be able to store larger files..

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Connect the external drive.
Open 'My Computer'.
One of the icons should be associated with the external drive.
Double-click the icon to "open" the external drive, to show the files/folders on the drive.

Have rou repaired permissions, there is a how to in the tips section.

You can format your external hard disk for Mac and Window. To format hard disk that usable for Mac and Windows, you need to select "MS DOS File System" for formating your hard disk. To format your hard disk for Mac and Windows on Mac follow the steps below:-

• Go to Finder -> Application -> Utilities
• Double click for Disk Utility
• Select the external Hard Disk you wish to format at the left column
• Click on the Erase tab
• At the "Volume Format" select "MS-DOS File System"
• If you confirm to format your hard disk for mac and windows, Click on "Erase" button.
• Pop up window will ask to verify the erase procedure. Click the erase button again in the window to start the erase process.
  * All the data in the external hard disk will be permanently removed after this steps.
• Once the erase process finish, your external hard disk may be able to use in Mac and Windows.

P/S: This tutorial is also suitable for format thumb drive to be used on Mac and Window.
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You can read up about it here.

Should work just like viewing your files on any other storage media. Click on the file and it should open with the application that created it.

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delet it and reinstaling it its missing a driver.

All you have to do is open the window for the external drive and click and drag the folders that you want to copy. Always put files in folders or the drive will say it's full before it is.

An external storage-device has four major components:

* the USB cable

* the power-adapter

* the disk-drive inside the enclosure

* the USB-to-disk-drive adapter inside the enclosure.

One of these components has failed.

Try a different USB cable.

Try connecting to a different USB port on your computer.

Try connecting to a USB port on a different computer.

Take a "multi-meter" and measure both the voltage and amperage output from the AC adapter, and compare with the specifications on the label on the adapter.

Open the enclosure, and remove the disk-drive, and then connect it as a "slave" disk-drive in a desktop computer, to see if it works at all.

Purchase a new, compatible, disk-drive, and install it in the enclosure, to "revive" your external storage device.

Get the part-number and serial-number from the label on your disk-drive, and access the manufacturer's web-site, and use "check warranty status", to see if they will replace the device, at minimal cost to you.

There exist commercial "data recovery" services that can try to repair your device, just long-enough to rescue and copy your files. For example, see: https://services.seagate.com/index.aspx?lng=en-US for a "no data - no charge guarantee".

The NERO software is most-commonly used to write to CD/DVD/BluRay recordable media.

With Mac OS, just "drag-and-drop" your files and folders onto the icon for the drive, to "copy" the files.

This is not really a solution but for information. There is no direct upgrade path from Windows XP to Windows 7. So, unless you have a compatible program installed on your Windows 7 PC, you will not be able to import a backup from your XP PC. (To My Knowledge).