Cant Open Files On External Disk
Mar 23, 2008Cant open files on external disk and try to get Take Ownership and no resaults
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Write To Disk Can't Open The Files
Jul 24, 2009I have been trying to write to a CD. I have a Toshiba Laptop with Vista. I insert a new disk, but nothing happens. The Control Panel says the drive is O.K. Can someone tell me what I can do the check the drive? It works in opening programs and files.
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Oct 31, 2009I have Windows Vista, and I like to make my external usb hard disk stay at D: drive even after I reboot the system.
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Aug 3, 2009I can't copy to my USB flash disk (Kingston Data Traveler 8GB) or my external hard drive - Toshiba 2.5'' 160 GB HDD in a USB powered external enclosure. I can copy very small files to the flash drive - like 500-800 kb. Anything bigger results in "preparing to copy" window with a scrolling bar. Nothing happens if i wait... The first time i plugged in the USB hard drive, Windows recognized it and tried installing drivers for it but it just hung on "Windows is installing drivers for this device" and i had to unplug the drive since nothing was happening. Now nothing happens, i don't even get the previously mentioned balloon in the bottom right corner, though the hard drive powers up.
And to make this even crazier, my USB mouse and keyboard work just fine, no matter of what USB i connect them (front panel, back). I tried uninstalling them from Device Manager, enabling/disabling Legacy USB Support from the BIOS (was set to BIOS Setup Only), plugging them in all the USB port i have, including front panel. There is nothing wrong with both the USB flash drive and the USB hard drive - they work perfectly on my laptop the second i plug them in.
USB External Floppy Disk Drive-New Purchase Recommendation
Mar 23, 2008I need to purchase a USB 3.5 inch external floppy disk drive to transfer files from from my old computer, which is running Windows 98, to my new computer running Vista Home Premium. The external floppy disk drives I've looked at on NewEgg.com all support versions of Windows up to Vista but not including Vista. I do not want to deal with driver problems so I'm doing this research up front
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Feb 7, 2009i am a novice at this and would apreciate any advise you could give,i have a hp vista home premium 32 bit pc.i backed up my files onto an external hardrive as i have read was the proper thing to do.i think one of my downloads was infected with a trojan horse so i tried a system restore,that did not help,so i did a system recovery back to factory settings i would now like to install my files from the external hardrive but i dont know where to begin as i understand when they get backed up on the hardrive they are in a compressed state
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Mar 23, 2008I am trying to transfer files from my old computer hard drive using an usb 2.0 enclosure. My new computer is running Vista, the old hard drive is running xp. When I plugged it in, my computer sees it as a mass storage device, but I cannot access nor see any files on the old hard drive. I'm getting kinda frustrated, I tried to link the two computers via ethernet that didn't work. My old computer has motherboard issues and the usb ports don't work. And it will not burn dvds it errors out, so I couldn't transfer my info that way. Am I doing something wrong here? Can someone give me some advise?
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Apr 8, 2009Our new computer vista home premium, I use windows mail as e-mail (no outlook avaible because I only have Office home/studend edition). On old computer (windows xp) I used Outlook, I copied al my e-mails to an external harddisk, so now I try to open the mail (on ex. harddisk) and can't open them because they are all msg files (?) I searched every where if it is possible to open these files. If I change the extension to open them (e.g. word etc.) it is still abacadabra for me. Maybe I had to change the extension of the e-mails before I copied them to ex.harddisk??? Old computer is gone already so I have a "problem" now. I don't know I this is the right communitie
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Feb 21, 2009Recently I upgraded my computer. I have some hidden files on my external from my old system (XP). I cannot, for the life of me get these files to open.
Here is what I have tried:
- Changing ownership (after disabling the easy sharing folder option)
- Working with the admin command prompt (every time it said the folder on my external was a bad or syntactically incorrect entry).
- Changing user permissions.
- Logging in on safe mode and trying the above things.
The files show up as green text, and even after all of these attempts (and copious head-against-wall banging) I cannot open the files. Every program I try to open them with says “You do not have permission to access this file”. A similar message is displayed every time I try to move or change the files.
I have been able to open a few of the files (since the problem began) even though they do not seem to be different file types or status’.
I read a few threads similar to this, but every method has failed, and my problem seems a little different given the XP to Vista nature of the problem and the green text nonsense.
Moving Files To External HD Using Command Promt
Apr 22, 2009guide me to move my files from the harddrive to an external hardrive, using command prompt?
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Feb 15, 2009I have Windows XP 2003 with service pack 1 on it. I wanted to transfer itunes, pictures and my documents to my newly purchased laptop (Vista). I had a simpletech ex. hard drive that i kept my stuff on from my old computer. Well I tried to take that hard drive that was in sync with my old computer and plug it into my new laptop through a usb port and my laptop didnt recognize it at all. I tried to figure it out for hours and nada.
so later i re-plugged my hard drive back into the old computer through usb port thinking, I wonder if it will read it on there still?, and it doesnt recongize it there now either. what do I do? did my hard drive fail? and i s.o.l now because i tried to transfer files, pictures and music from windows xp to vista without doing microsofts easy transfer program?
Can't Open Input Files Because Of Splittet Files
Aug 1, 2009I bought a new computer for college recently and I cannot download limewire. Everytime I try I get an error message that says "....can't open input files because of splittet files." I have no idea how to circumvent this.
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Jun 10, 2009My laptop broke. It no longer has any power to it...without spending money to confirm, I believe the motherboard is bad and all is lost. I know I can get an external HD to retrieve my photos & files from the computer buit what about my Windows Mail? I had 200-300 emails on it (and no, I didn't save a copy on the server 'cause I didn't know better). Do I understand correctly that there is no way for me to forward them into Windows Mail on my new computer?
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May 6, 2009I am writing because i have an external 500Gig Western Digital HDD that I have been using for months now...it has not been exposed to extreme temperatures, banged around or overused in any way. I plugged it in today and it showed up under "My Computer" as Local Disk(F: ).
Then a message came up stating "You need to format the disk in drive F: before you can use it." Next it asks if i want to format now, and i can choose Format, or Cancel. I am not sure if this is some sort of driver issue, something more serious with the computer, or if this is something with this drive.
Low Disk Space: When Open A New Folder
Apr 3, 2008On Windows Mail (I am running 32-bit Vista) every few hours when I go to open a new folder a message appears where the message thread is usually shown which says that the message can't be shown because of low disk space and system memory. It does not appear to be because of a stuck email, as there are no emails in the Outbox and everything sends OK. Also, it happens when I click on random folders, from being in an existing folder.
For example, I may be in my inbox and want to check sent messages, so I'll click on the sent folder and then all messages will be hidden in all folders, and I'll just see the message about low disk space etc. If I exit Windows Mail then open it back up, the problem remains, though if I restart the computer it goes back to normal, for a few hours
Exe Files Open As Text Files
Sep 26, 2009I have encountered a very strange problem. I have downloaded two exe files recently. When I doubleclick on the exe file, instead of the application installing, what should happen but Word of all things opens with, in the case of one of them a box headed 'File Conversion - arw5setup.msi', and a similar wording in the second, asking me to select the encoding that makes my document readable. Whatever I select, the exe file then opens as a text file.
(The reference to an msi file is baffling as both files were exe files.) When it happened the first time I thought it was a corrupt file, but when it happened again it has to be that there is something wrong with my system. Is this a virus? Spybot has just come up with a clean slate ...
Install External Hard Drive: Open Drive Not
May 21, 2008I just bought and installed a external hard drive. I am fairly knowlegable about computers but this is my first Ex. Hard drive and know very little about there use. So what I want to know is how to save my Family Tree Makers files to it. And once I do that how do I know for sure it is opening from my new drive and not my computer C: drive? I saved it to a DVD one time but when the time came when I needed it all that was there was a short cut but no files.
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Aug 9, 2009Vista open a rar (archive) file? I can open zip files OK, but cant find a way to open a rar file.
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Dec 30, 20091. I have Vista Home Premium and Internet Explorer v 8. I never set anything about users or administrators since I am the only one using this computer.
2. I have many old graphics tutorials in HTM format which I downloaded some years ago when I was using Windows 98. They opened in Windows 98.
3. I can't open them with Vista. If I use FILE > OPEN in Internet Explorer, I get the HTML code. If I double click on the file in Windows Explorer, I get a message saying that Windows Internet Explorer is not responding.
4. I have a similar problem with HTM files which I have recently downloaded from the internet news groups. Are there some settings or updates to correct this problem.
Open Rar And Zip Files
Apr 30, 2008I ordered some files and they came in rar and zip format. I know nothing about them. I downloaded winrar to read them. I guess I'm not using it right or something. All I get is codes and stuff. I need to open these files so that I can read them in plain english. I want to use these files on my web-site.
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Apr 20, 2008I have a friend running Vista who says he cannot open .TIF files. I am not sure if he is running the Business edition, but could someone tell me what utility that ships with Vista could be used to view the files? I know in XP you could even use Paint, but I don't know what utilities come with Vista. If there is such a utility, is it in both the Vista Home and Business editions? This situation has been discovered recently, and I don't know if it has ever worked, just in case SP1 might be involved. I don't even know if he has that update.
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Apr 6, 2008at window xp, I can open more 15 files at one try(ctrl+a, enter). but window vistar, I can't. I want to open more 15 files at one try.
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Feb 21, 2010I cannot open any programs or .exe files on my computer without a box appearing stating that WINDOWS CANNOT OPEN THIS FILE. To open this file windows needs to know what programs you want to use to open it etc etc It then gives me 2 options either to USE the web service to find what will open it
or
select a program from a list of installed programs. This puzzles me because the programs im trying to open like SKYPE are in themselves the programs that open by themselves. What can i do to fix this?
Can't Open Zip Files
Jul 24, 2009I am using 7zip for my vista home premium 32bit since 6 months ago. Its works fine for me and i am happy with it. Recently, i encountered vista shown pop up message saying that application not found, incorrect command line, when using 7zip. And i even can't download any zip files. I did uninstall and reinstall the latest version of 7zip, it seem does not associate with vista? even the 7 zip icon show differently not like before. Of course, i can't open any zip files.
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Oct 18, 2009I've never had this problem before but I downloaded WINrar 390, And It will not open! It comes up with an error message 'C:Users(My Name)Downloadswrar390.exe - The Directory name is invalid' Now, It seems I can't open ANY .exe files!
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Apr 23, 2008I am running Windows Vista Home Premium Edition and IE7. For the past year I have never had any problem saving a web page thru IE& for off line reading,. The file was always saved as a 93Web Archive, Single file (*.mht).94 I must have done something wrong in playing around with my computer because I now cannot open any mht files that I save. This has been happening for the past week. When I click on the file to open it a dialog box pops up stating 93This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the Set Association control panel. I tried this but I guess I 92m too slow in my thinking cause I still cant get it to work. I 92ve read the help files to know avail. Does anyone know what program opens these .mht files?
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Jul 20, 2009what can I use to open a .rar file? I have looked, but a few friends told me that just installing some of the programmes to open the .rar files gave them viruses!
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Aug 10, 2009Where may I get some guidance regarding what Files I may always delete and what files may be of some benefit not to always delete.
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Mar 23, 2008I try to install an application (Windows Installer), the wizard Installation opens smoothly, but when you start copying Files to disk bypasses the following error: "The system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation" What could be the problem? I have Windows Vista Home Edition and i'm the 'Administrator'!
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May 17, 2008How can I import my contacts and files from a disk?
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