How do I import a lot of songs to itunes without doing them one by one?

sweetdream

I have a lot of song on my portable hard drive that I want to add to my itunes so I can put them on my ipod but I don't know how to do it? Or is there a program that can scan my computer and find them?

Answer
In Itunes select file>import folder to Itunes and select to import, or drag that drive from my computer over the library icon in Itunes.
Note that doing that by default will only have Itunes map where the files are not copy them to your local hard drive so, if your Ipod is set to auto sync and you had later disconnected the portable hard drive it could remove the songs it can't find the files for off the Ipod. IF you don't plan on keeping the portable drive connected when syncing your Ipod, I would suggest using manual sync with your Ipod or first copying the songs from the portable drive on to your main hard drive.

Calling all computer experts!?

Dr.

I've got an external hard drive and I want to copy all my files onto it from my lap-top as back-up.
How can I do that and when I do this again in the future, how do I copy just the new files added since the last back-up?

Thank you.

Answer
The solution I recommend is to buy an external drive the same size as the drive in your laptop.

The size of the actual hard drive, not "Available space" or the main "partition"

And remember that there is a difference in the size of drives as your system will identify it and as drives are sold (the difference between 1024 and 1000) so a 320gb drive will be identified as a 297 or 300, a 500 will be identified as a 465 or 488 (depending on mfg) etc...



Then use cloning software.

this will make a complete copy of ALL partitions (visible or "hidden") of your hard drive.

the cloning software that works best for me is called "Clonezilla" (a free download from Clonezilla.org)
this will burn to a CD-R disc that you boot from

To actually use it start your computer and open the CD drive
Shut your computer down, insert the clonezilla disc and connect the portable drive

Start the computer and clonezilla will launch. there are a few things you'll need to choose,
"work direct from local disc to local disc"

You will need to CORRECTLY choose the "source" drive and then the "destination" drive
for the cloning operation (do this wrong and you get two blank drives...)

Choosing the basic mode and say Yes to copying the boot loader

After it actually starts cloning it will take about an hour, maybe a bit more depending on how fast your computer is and how much stuff you have stored on the drive but when it's done it'll prompt you to remove the CD and then ask you to press 0 to shut down.

when it shuts down disconnect the USB drive.

Now at this point everything is backed up and by everything I mean EVERYTHING.

Should something "Bad" happen to your Notebooks internal HDD you have two courses of action
1)Buy and install a new hard drive in your notebook connect the USB drive
and insert the Clonezilla disc in the CD/DVD drive but this time you want the USB drive to be
the "source" drive.
2)Break open the plastic case of the USB drive and install that into your notebook.
(This method is THE fastest way to "Recover" from a hard drive crash)

Either method requires that you use a portable drive for NO other purpose and that you keep it in a safe place at all times.

Simply copying all your files protects your data, but not the operating system installation and any bundled software applications that came with your computer.

And there is always something you miss when backing things up, that you only discover are missing after you really need your backup.

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Will everything be erased on my ipod?

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Lauren:]

So i have an ipod and it has 1000+ songs on it. we used to use limewire to load all of the songs onto the ipod but then limewire had a viruse and we had to get rid of limewire. now we have a new computer and we have another account for another ipod loaded onto the computer and it has other songs that i dont want. so if i plug my ipod into the computer will i loose all of my songs? please help with this!

Answer
You can also save the files to your new computer

How do I transfer my itunes library from my iTouch/iPod onto a computer?

1. Connect the iPod to your PC. If iTunes starts syncing (ie erasing) your music automatically, hit the X in the upper right hand corner of iTunes display, to the left of the search box, to stop it.
2. In Control Panel, Portable Media Devices, double-click your iPod.
3. In the Tools menu - Options, in the View Tab, check Show hidden files and folders.
4. Navigate to the Music folder. On my 2nd gen 'pod, the full path is
Portable Media DevicesUSER'S IPOD (F)iPod_ControlMusic
5. Select all the music folders, and drag and drop them into a folder on your hard drive, or directly into iTunes.

And you're done! The iPod music folder structure is strange and inexplicable, but once you move your files into iTunes you can set it to automatically organize your folder by artist and album to clean that up. (To do this, in iTunes Edit menu, choose Preferences and in the Advanced tab, check Keep iTunes Music Folder organized.)

This has work for 3 other yahoo answer users on here, good luck i know you can do it.




Syncing ipod manually

If you've tried syncing Podcast music and movies and they wont work try syncing manually.

1. Connect your iPod to your computer and open iTunes.

2. Select your iPod in the DEVICES section of the iTunes Source list.

3. In the main iTunes browser window, select the Summary tab.

4. Select the "Manually manage music and videos" option. This will deselect the automatic sync settings for the Music, Movies, and TV Shows tabs. Automatic syncing for Podcasts, Photos, Contacts, and Games can be individually disabled by selecting each of those tabs. Note: When manually managing iPod, disk use is enabled and iPod must always be manually ejected in iTunes before disconnecting.

5. Click Apply.

6. To manually add music, audiobooks, movies or TV shows to your iPod, choose one of these categories under LIBRARY in the Source list

7. Select and drag items you want (to choose multiple items, Command-click items on a Mac or Control-click items in Windows), then drag them onto your iPod icon in the Source list.

8. To add a playlist, select it in the Source list and drag it onto your iPod in the same ways as a song.

9. When you are ready to disconnect your iPod, select it in the Source list and click the eject icon.

My portable hard drive keeps connecting and disconnecting.?

Diondre Th

Earlier I was at least able to access it but when I click on a file it would freeze my laptop until i disconnect the hard dive from it. The problem may be that hard dive is corrupt. It got disconnect mid way through transferring a 100 MB file from my laptop to my portable hard drive. Now when my hard drive is connected to my laptop, every minute or two I get 2 messages saying " you need to format the disk in drive G: before you can use it"and "you need to format the disk in drive H: before you can use it". by the way it works on my Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360

Answer
Try rebooting with it plugged in, sometimes that well restart the file transfer.

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How will i sync the songs FROM iPod TO my computer?

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Q. I want to transfer all the songs from my iPod to my computer to my computer. I have no copies of the song in my computer. please help me.

Answer
I had this exact problem, and someone sent me this link. It really does work. Good luck :)


Option 1:
Assuming you're moving files legally between your own computers, check out iPodAgent at http://www.ipodsoft.com/
________________________________
Option 2:
The manual way around this problem is to use the iPod in its alter ego - that of portable computer disk drive. Successfully tested under iTunes for Windows 4.2, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7; Windows XP Home.

- Start with the iPod disconnected from the computer - DON'T CONNECT IPOD YET
- open iTunes
- open iTunes Preferences - this blocks iTunes from seeing an iPod connection; leave the preferences window up and running
- connect the iPod to the computer, wait about 15 seconds before continuing
- open 'My Computer'
- Tools menu, Folder Options, View tab, enable 'show hidden files /folders'
- open iPod icon in My Computer
- open iPod_Control folder
- you should see a folder named music
- drag this folder to somewhere on your computer hard drive
- after the copy completes, right-click the new Music folder on your hard drive and select 'Properties'
- clear the checkmark next to 'Hidden'
- Close that explorer window
- eject iPod from System tray "Safely Remove Hardware" icon. This icon looks like a small gray rectangle with a green arrow floating above it. It's only there when a removable device (like the iPod in this case) is attached to the computer. Right-click & select 'Safely remove..', then click 'Stop' in the next window, OK in the next window, and then Close to complete the ejection.
- disconnect the iPod from the computer

- go back to iTunes, cancel the preferences window
- File menu \ Add folder to Library \ find that Music folder copied over from the iPod

Your iTunes library should be back in action! But wait - there's more!!

Long time forum regular Otto42 has a java script/program that can also retrieve the playlists themselves from the iPod as well. Here are his instructions and a link to the most recent thread discussing this tricky process:

] This is really useful when you're pulling all the songs off of an iPod to put them back into iTunes, because you lost your library or anything along those lines. Come up with your own reason for using it.

] Download this program:
http://otto.homedns.org:8888/iTunes/iPodGetXML.zip
(If you can't download it, try again later. The connection goes up and down a lot.)

] Now, put the iPod into Disk Mode or otherwise access the iPod as a drive. Make sure you can see hidden files, then go to the drive and the iPod_Control folder and find the iTunesDB file. Copy it to your PC.

] Put the copied iTunesDB file in the same directory as this program, then run the program. It'll read the iTunesDB, get all the playlists, and create an XML file for each one. Now just import those XML files into iTunes to recreate the playlists.

] Notes:
- The songs in playlist must already be in the iTunes library. If any one of them isn't there, iTunes throws up an error when you try to import the XML file.
- The song names, artist names, and album names in the library all must be identical as to what the iPod has. If you just copied all the music off the iPod and into iTunes, this will be the case, so it's generally not a big deal. but you'll get an error if it can't find the song in the iTunes library, so it's something to keep in mind.
- It probably won't be able to cope with unusual characters in song names. Sorry, not worth my time to fix. Dealing with unicode is way annoying.
- Smart Playlists get changed into regular playlists. It's *possible* for me to add the smart playlist stuff in there, but it'll take a while to work it all out.

This all from a post on the Apple website, and i hope this helps. Option 2 is what i did, and it works. But follow the directions carefully. If you don't open the itunes preferences, the ipod will b updated..

Why does my macbook pro keep breaking?

Magic Mith

For two years it worked fine but after....

First the processor broke, then the motherboard, then the operating system and now it takes ten minutes to start up.

Defective model?

Answer
Here are a couple of things that you could do that will get your laptop up and running better.

Resetting your Mac's PRAM and NVRAM
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379

Repair Permissions routine located in Hard Drive> Applications> Utilities> Disk Utility
http://www.gballard.net/macrant/OSX_Permissions.jpg


Resetting the SMC on Mac portables with a battery you can remove

1. Shut down the computer.
2. Disconnect the MagSafe power adapter from the computer, if it's connected.
3. Remove the battery.
4. Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds.
5. Release the power button.
6. Reconnect the battery and MagSafe power adapter.
7. Press the power button to turn on the computer.

Always run Combo Updates DON'T use Software Update

UPDATE:
As to the computer being a defect if it doesn't run at all or boot up or the screen, keyboard, hard drive errors if none of these are bad. Then it really comes down to the System Software and the update that were installed even a minor update like a 'Apple security updates" have been known to be the culprit.

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is it possible to transfer my transfer itunes library to my laptop?

portable hard drive keeps connecting and disconnecting image

moneygrinc

if so, how? if not, is there something else i can do?

Answer
Check this out ... Extract from
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=159372&start=0&tstart=0
Option 1:
Assuming you're moving files legally between your own computers, check out iPodAgent at http://www.ipodsoft.com/
________________________________
Option 2:
The manual way around this problem is to use the iPod in its alter ego - that of portable computer disk drive. Successfully tested under iTunes for Windows 4.2, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7; Windows XP Home.

- Start with the iPod disconnected from the computer - DON'T CONNECT IPOD YET
- open iTunes
- open iTunes Preferences - this blocks iTunes from seeing an iPod connection; leave the preferences window up and running
- connect the iPod to the computer, wait about 15 seconds before continuing
- open 'My Computer'
- Tools menu, Folder Options, View tab, enable 'show hidden files /folders'
- open iPod icon in My Computer
- open iPod_Control folder
- you should see a folder named music
- drag this folder to somewhere on your computer hard drive
- after the copy completes, right-click the new Music folder on your hard drive and select 'Properties'
- clear the checkmark next to 'Hidden'
- Close that explorer window
- eject iPod from System tray "Safely Remove Hardware" icon. This icon looks like a small gray rectangle with a green arrow floating above it. It's only there when a removable device (like the iPod in this case) is attached to the computer. Right-click & select 'Safely remove..', then click 'Stop' in the next window, OK in the next window, and then Close to complete the ejection.
- disconnect the iPod from the computer

- go back to iTunes, cancel the preferences window
- File menu \ Add folder to Library \ find that Music folder copied over from the iPod

Your iTunes library should be back in action! But wait - there's more!!

Long time forum regular Otto42 has a java script/program that can also retrieve the playlists themselves from the iPod as well. Here are his instructions and a link to the most recent thread discussing this tricky process:

] This is really useful when you're pulling all the songs off of an iPod to put them back into iTunes, because you lost your library or anything along those lines. Come up with your own reason for using it.

] Download this program:
http://otto.homedns.org:8888/iTunes/iPodGetXML.zip
(If you can't download it, try again later. The connection goes up and down a lot.)

] Now, put the iPod into Disk Mode or otherwise access the iPod as a drive. Make sure you can see hidden files, then go to the drive and the iPod_Control folder and find the iTunesDB file. Copy it to your PC.

] Put the copied iTunesDB file in the same directory as this program, then run the program. It'll read the iTunesDB, get all the playlists, and create an XML file for each one. Now just import those XML files into iTunes to recreate the playlists.

] Notes:
- The songs in playlist must already be in the iTunes library. If any one of them isn't there, iTunes throws up an error when you try to import the XML file.
- The song names, artist names, and album names in the library all must be identical as to what the iPod has. If you just copied all the music off the iPod and into iTunes, this will be the case, so it's generally not a big deal. but you'll get an error if it can't find the song in the iTunes library, so it's something to keep in mind.
- It probably won't be able to cope with unusual characters in song names. Sorry, not worth my time to fix. Dealing with unicode is way annoying.
- Smart Playlists get changed into regular playlists. It's *possible* for me to add the smart playlist stuff in there, but it'll take a while to work it all out.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Original thread for Otto42's playlist recovery: http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?128@@.689c78f2/0

Will everything be erased on my ipod?

Lauren:]

So i have an ipod and it has 1000+ songs on it. we used to use limewire to load all of the songs onto the ipod but then limewire had a viruse and we had to get rid of limewire. now we have a new computer and we have another account for another ipod loaded onto the computer and it has other songs that i dont want. so if i plug my ipod into the computer will i loose all of my songs? please help with this!

Answer
You can also save the files to your new computer

How do I transfer my itunes library from my iTouch/iPod onto a computer?

1. Connect the iPod to your PC. If iTunes starts syncing (ie erasing) your music automatically, hit the X in the upper right hand corner of iTunes display, to the left of the search box, to stop it.
2. In Control Panel, Portable Media Devices, double-click your iPod.
3. In the Tools menu - Options, in the View Tab, check Show hidden files and folders.
4. Navigate to the Music folder. On my 2nd gen 'pod, the full path is
Portable Media DevicesUSER'S IPOD (F)iPod_ControlMusic
5. Select all the music folders, and drag and drop them into a folder on your hard drive, or directly into iTunes.

And you're done! The iPod music folder structure is strange and inexplicable, but once you move your files into iTunes you can set it to automatically organize your folder by artist and album to clean that up. (To do this, in iTunes Edit menu, choose Preferences and in the Advanced tab, check Keep iTunes Music Folder organized.)

This has work for 3 other yahoo answer users on here, good luck i know you can do it.




Syncing ipod manually

If you've tried syncing Podcast music and movies and they wont work try syncing manually.

1. Connect your iPod to your computer and open iTunes.

2. Select your iPod in the DEVICES section of the iTunes Source list.

3. In the main iTunes browser window, select the Summary tab.

4. Select the "Manually manage music and videos" option. This will deselect the automatic sync settings for the Music, Movies, and TV Shows tabs. Automatic syncing for Podcasts, Photos, Contacts, and Games can be individually disabled by selecting each of those tabs. Note: When manually managing iPod, disk use is enabled and iPod must always be manually ejected in iTunes before disconnecting.

5. Click Apply.

6. To manually add music, audiobooks, movies or TV shows to your iPod, choose one of these categories under LIBRARY in the Source list

7. Select and drag items you want (to choose multiple items, Command-click items on a Mac or Control-click items in Windows), then drag them onto your iPod icon in the Source list.

8. To add a playlist, select it in the Source list and drag it onto your iPod in the same ways as a song.

9. When you are ready to disconnect your iPod, select it in the Source list and click the eject icon.

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Will everything be erased on my ipod?

portable hard drive keeps connecting and disconnecting image

Lauren:]

So i have an ipod and it has 1000+ songs on it. we used to use limewire to load all of the songs onto the ipod but then limewire had a viruse and we had to get rid of limewire. now we have a new computer and we have another account for another ipod loaded onto the computer and it has other songs that i dont want. so if i plug my ipod into the computer will i loose all of my songs? please help with this!

Answer
You can also save the files to your new computer

How do I transfer my itunes library from my iTouch/iPod onto a computer?

1. Connect the iPod to your PC. If iTunes starts syncing (ie erasing) your music automatically, hit the X in the upper right hand corner of iTunes display, to the left of the search box, to stop it.
2. In Control Panel, Portable Media Devices, double-click your iPod.
3. In the Tools menu - Options, in the View Tab, check Show hidden files and folders.
4. Navigate to the Music folder. On my 2nd gen 'pod, the full path is
Portable Media DevicesUSER'S IPOD (F)iPod_ControlMusic
5. Select all the music folders, and drag and drop them into a folder on your hard drive, or directly into iTunes.

And you're done! The iPod music folder structure is strange and inexplicable, but once you move your files into iTunes you can set it to automatically organize your folder by artist and album to clean that up. (To do this, in iTunes Edit menu, choose Preferences and in the Advanced tab, check Keep iTunes Music Folder organized.)

This has work for 3 other yahoo answer users on here, good luck i know you can do it.




Syncing ipod manually

If you've tried syncing Podcast music and movies and they wont work try syncing manually.

1. Connect your iPod to your computer and open iTunes.

2. Select your iPod in the DEVICES section of the iTunes Source list.

3. In the main iTunes browser window, select the Summary tab.

4. Select the "Manually manage music and videos" option. This will deselect the automatic sync settings for the Music, Movies, and TV Shows tabs. Automatic syncing for Podcasts, Photos, Contacts, and Games can be individually disabled by selecting each of those tabs. Note: When manually managing iPod, disk use is enabled and iPod must always be manually ejected in iTunes before disconnecting.

5. Click Apply.

6. To manually add music, audiobooks, movies or TV shows to your iPod, choose one of these categories under LIBRARY in the Source list

7. Select and drag items you want (to choose multiple items, Command-click items on a Mac or Control-click items in Windows), then drag them onto your iPod icon in the Source list.

8. To add a playlist, select it in the Source list and drag it onto your iPod in the same ways as a song.

9. When you are ready to disconnect your iPod, select it in the Source list and click the eject icon.

My portable hard drive keeps connecting and disconnecting.?

Diondre Th

Earlier I was at least able to access it but when I click on a file it would freeze my laptop until i disconnect the hard dive from it. The problem may be that hard dive is corrupt. It got disconnect mid way through transferring a 100 MB file from my laptop to my portable hard drive. Now when my hard drive is connected to my laptop, every minute or two I get 2 messages saying " you need to format the disk in drive G: before you can use it"and "you need to format the disk in drive H: before you can use it". by the way it works on my Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360

Answer
Try rebooting with it plugged in, sometimes that well restart the file transfer.

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How will i sync the songs FROM iPod TO my computer?

portable hard drive keeps connecting and disconnecting image

Q. I want to transfer all the songs from my iPod to my computer to my computer. I have no copies of the song in my computer. please help me.

Answer
I had this exact problem, and someone sent me this link. It really does work. Good luck :)


Option 1:
Assuming you're moving files legally between your own computers, check out iPodAgent at http://www.ipodsoft.com/
________________________________
Option 2:
The manual way around this problem is to use the iPod in its alter ego - that of portable computer disk drive. Successfully tested under iTunes for Windows 4.2, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7; Windows XP Home.

- Start with the iPod disconnected from the computer - DON'T CONNECT IPOD YET
- open iTunes
- open iTunes Preferences - this blocks iTunes from seeing an iPod connection; leave the preferences window up and running
- connect the iPod to the computer, wait about 15 seconds before continuing
- open 'My Computer'
- Tools menu, Folder Options, View tab, enable 'show hidden files /folders'
- open iPod icon in My Computer
- open iPod_Control folder
- you should see a folder named music
- drag this folder to somewhere on your computer hard drive
- after the copy completes, right-click the new Music folder on your hard drive and select 'Properties'
- clear the checkmark next to 'Hidden'
- Close that explorer window
- eject iPod from System tray "Safely Remove Hardware" icon. This icon looks like a small gray rectangle with a green arrow floating above it. It's only there when a removable device (like the iPod in this case) is attached to the computer. Right-click & select 'Safely remove..', then click 'Stop' in the next window, OK in the next window, and then Close to complete the ejection.
- disconnect the iPod from the computer

- go back to iTunes, cancel the preferences window
- File menu \ Add folder to Library \ find that Music folder copied over from the iPod

Your iTunes library should be back in action! But wait - there's more!!

Long time forum regular Otto42 has a java script/program that can also retrieve the playlists themselves from the iPod as well. Here are his instructions and a link to the most recent thread discussing this tricky process:

] This is really useful when you're pulling all the songs off of an iPod to put them back into iTunes, because you lost your library or anything along those lines. Come up with your own reason for using it.

] Download this program:
http://otto.homedns.org:8888/iTunes/iPodGetXML.zip
(If you can't download it, try again later. The connection goes up and down a lot.)

] Now, put the iPod into Disk Mode or otherwise access the iPod as a drive. Make sure you can see hidden files, then go to the drive and the iPod_Control folder and find the iTunesDB file. Copy it to your PC.

] Put the copied iTunesDB file in the same directory as this program, then run the program. It'll read the iTunesDB, get all the playlists, and create an XML file for each one. Now just import those XML files into iTunes to recreate the playlists.

] Notes:
- The songs in playlist must already be in the iTunes library. If any one of them isn't there, iTunes throws up an error when you try to import the XML file.
- The song names, artist names, and album names in the library all must be identical as to what the iPod has. If you just copied all the music off the iPod and into iTunes, this will be the case, so it's generally not a big deal. but you'll get an error if it can't find the song in the iTunes library, so it's something to keep in mind.
- It probably won't be able to cope with unusual characters in song names. Sorry, not worth my time to fix. Dealing with unicode is way annoying.
- Smart Playlists get changed into regular playlists. It's *possible* for me to add the smart playlist stuff in there, but it'll take a while to work it all out.

This all from a post on the Apple website, and i hope this helps. Option 2 is what i did, and it works. But follow the directions carefully. If you don't open the itunes preferences, the ipod will b updated..

Why does my macbook pro keep breaking?

Magic Mith

For two years it worked fine but after....

First the processor broke, then the motherboard, then the operating system and now it takes ten minutes to start up.

Defective model?

Answer
Here are a couple of things that you could do that will get your laptop up and running better.

Resetting your Mac's PRAM and NVRAM
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379

Repair Permissions routine located in Hard Drive> Applications> Utilities> Disk Utility
http://www.gballard.net/macrant/OSX_Permissions.jpg


Resetting the SMC on Mac portables with a battery you can remove

1. Shut down the computer.
2. Disconnect the MagSafe power adapter from the computer, if it's connected.
3. Remove the battery.
4. Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds.
5. Release the power button.
6. Reconnect the battery and MagSafe power adapter.
7. Press the power button to turn on the computer.

Always run Combo Updates DON'T use Software Update

UPDATE:
As to the computer being a defect if it doesn't run at all or boot up or the screen, keyboard, hard drive errors if none of these are bad. Then it really comes down to the System Software and the update that were installed even a minor update like a 'Apple security updates" have been known to be the culprit.

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My portable hard drive keeps connecting and disconnecting.?

portable hard drive keeps connecting and disconnecting image

Diondre Th

Earlier I was at least able to access it but when I click on a file it would freeze my laptop until i disconnect the hard dive from it. The problem may be that hard dive is corrupt. It got disconnect mid way through transferring a 100 MB file from my laptop to my portable hard drive. Now when my hard drive is connected to my laptop, every minute or two I get 2 messages saying " you need to format the disk in drive G: before you can use it"and "you need to format the disk in drive H: before you can use it". by the way it works on my Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360

Answer
Try rebooting with it plugged in, sometimes that well restart the file transfer.

Whats Wrong With My Portable Hard Drive?

Luciie

On my portable hard drive i kept all my pictures + videos + movies, i had copied a movie onto it one day, and then about 1 month later and plugged the hard drive into my laptop and i clicked onto it, it let me onto the hard drive, but when i tried to click on the pictures folder it just freezes and then doesnt respond, i've tried it with every folder on the hard drive and it does the same thing over and over, ive even tried it on two other computers and it still wont work, i dont know what to do as it has alot of my old pictures + videos on which i dont have a copy of. please help?

Answer
You can try unplugging then replugging the hard drive a few times. That includes the data cable (if any) and the power cord. I suspect either the driver or a system file is corrupted.
You can also try to visit that portable hard drives manufacturer web site and look for support links. Maybe they have a solution or some file you can download to your computer that might help.
But don't be surprised if the drive is dead.

I use two large capacity memory sticks to backup all my data (not the applications since I have their CDs and DVDs). In case one breaks, I purchase another memory stick and transfer everything from the good stick to the new stick. This way I always have two backups.
I am also considering purchasing an external hard drive that will be used strictly for backing up files. So the only time I connect it is when I do my weekly backups. Otherwise, it remains disconnected and powered off. That will lenghten it's life since the internal disks won't be spinning the whole time.

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Whats Wrong With My Portable Hard Drive?

portable hard drive keeps connecting and disconnecting image

Luciie

On my portable hard drive i kept all my pictures + videos + movies, i had copied a movie onto it one day, and then about 1 month later and plugged the hard drive into my laptop and i clicked onto it, it let me onto the hard drive, but when i tried to click on the pictures folder it just freezes and then doesnt respond, i've tried it with every folder on the hard drive and it does the same thing over and over, ive even tried it on two other computers and it still wont work, i dont know what to do as it has alot of my old pictures + videos on which i dont have a copy of. please help?

Answer
You can try unplugging then replugging the hard drive a few times. That includes the data cable (if any) and the power cord. I suspect either the driver or a system file is corrupted.
You can also try to visit that portable hard drives manufacturer web site and look for support links. Maybe they have a solution or some file you can download to your computer that might help.
But don't be surprised if the drive is dead.

I use two large capacity memory sticks to backup all my data (not the applications since I have their CDs and DVDs). In case one breaks, I purchase another memory stick and transfer everything from the good stick to the new stick. This way I always have two backups.
I am also considering purchasing an external hard drive that will be used strictly for backing up files. So the only time I connect it is when I do my weekly backups. Otherwise, it remains disconnected and powered off. That will lenghten it's life since the internal disks won't be spinning the whole time.

I copied music files from my portable hard drive but when i disconnect the portable hard drive i can not play?

ashncory20

I have a portable hard drive, I copied songs from a friend on it.I brought it home and put it in my usb port. autoplay opend up. I tried to transfer music using media import but is says that Roxio cd creator trial has expired. I have an 80gb zune. I tried to change it to copy to there but there was no option. I created a shortcut to the file on my desktop. It worked while I had the portable HD connected and loaded all the songs to my zune. But when I unhooked the Portable HD My zune software would not let me play them. So I need to know how to transfer files so I dont need to keep plugging in my portable HD everytime I want to listen to select songs. Thanks anyone who understands my problem and can help. Ialso I am running a Dell Laptop with crappy Vista.( i mean windows vista)

Answer
You didn't copy the files. You created shortcuts to a file. Yes, they are very different. A shortcut can only be used when the original files are present. You need to select all the files you want to copy. Select edit at the top of the window. Go the copy to.. Select the location and you're done. Adios

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