20 Most Recent SimpleTech SimpleDrive Pininfarina 320GB External USB 2.0 Hard Drive - Blue - Page 6 Questions & Answers

yes, just plug it in.

You can use any 12V, 2A tip positive adapter. You can find one at Best Buy, Radio Shack, etc.

if you are having trouble with your drivers here is a general look at the drivers and how to update them if your computer came with a motherboard disc the drivers could be on it click start control panel administrive tools ,computer management ,device manager look through all of your devices if you see a yellow question mark?or exclamation mark ! or red x right click to reinstall drivers or if you can see your usb but its not working ports(com&lpt)right click update driver make sure the lead/s that attach to this drive have a secure seating and are not bad/faulty the light on only tells that its getting power it might not be getting enough power you might test the lead/s or just replace the cable of the hard disk, when you plugged the external disk drive you got that windows could recognize the USB device change the cable everything should work fine again, sometimes the wires inside the cable will be damaged due to bending or stretching or placing heavy equipment upon the cable, check the USB leads that attach to the motherboard usually red-white-green-black make sure they are securely seated and have no dust build up on them dust will cause static and a lot of unforeseen problems hope this helps

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please right click computer then Manager under storage, click Disk management. if you see you usb drive there, simply right click on it and format to exfat. fat32,or ntfs. if it doesn't show up, it pretty much shows that it needs an upgrade.

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Please the the adepter for the mention below Inputs

Input 1000-240v-1.0aMAX
50-60Hz
Output +12v 1.5a


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The drive has just died. You might be able to salvage something from it if you take out the hard disk from it and you plug it inside a desktop - but don't expect too much, usually when they die they die for good and all the data is lost.

Hello, Assuming the drive works and the laptop's usb port is good then the problem could reside in a couple of areas.. 1. The file system of the Blue hard drive may not be recognized by windows on your Vaio, this is most likely due to the fact its was formatted with a Mac (and therefore probably using HFS). If this is the case and you need to read the contents of the disk then you can install mediafour's macdrive (http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive) this will allow your vaio to read the mac disk. It is free for 5-days so if you just need to access some files you can do this at no cost. 2. The drive may not have been partitioned and formatted yet, in which case for windows XP follow this microsoft guide http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313348 and for windows 7 follow this http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Create-and-format-a-hard-disk-partition
Hope this helps

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If you have a new laptop, you should not need the install disk to see the drive as the drive is USB 2.0 compliant.

And no, nothing will get erased unless you erase it on purpose.

Plug the drive into you laptop (USB cable).

Plug power into to the external drive.

Turn the drive on.

It may take a minute or so but your laptop should recognize the drive. It will get assigned a drive letter (assuming you are using Windows).

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The SimpleDrive requires a 12V/2A tip positive power supply. A 14-17V supply might work, but you run the risk of damaging your drive.

It is a 12V, 2A, tip positive supply.

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Hi, there could be multiple reasons for this error. How old is your hard drive? Did you unplug the device while transfering file to it. You could try to replug it on the last pc where it was working and try to do a scandisk. Thanks

This should be plug & play. Your USB drivers should work for this.

there is probably something wrong with it. the hard drive was probably catastrophically damaged. you can take it to stores like best buy for data retrieval, but this can get expensive and sometimes is not guaranteed to 100%.