Comments on: Speed up External USB Hard Drives in Windows Vista

By: dummyspitta

dummyspitta — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:38:12 +0000

Amazing… just click “optimise”…. true genius. Maybe u should write a book.
Yes I am being sarcastic.

By: wingchun

wingchun — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:52:23 +0000

i have an iomega 500gb external hot plug it with the 3 computers at home 2 with vista remium and one with xp emachines, compaq and toshiba are the computer makes had no probs with it hope this helps had it 1 1/2 years format once

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:52:38 +0000

Note also you can do this with a removable device as long as you “safely eject” it each time.

I love the fact that “display adapters” is expanded as well… lol did I mention what a nice gfx card you have?

By: Joe Cosmo

Joe Cosmo — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:20:29 +0000

I had an odd problem with my external Western Digital 250 gb harddrive, and my solution, though a bit time consuming, may help you above poster. When I first plugged it in, it had previously been on my Windows XP Pro machine, and when I turned it on, it was also picked up, but it didn’t ask for drivers, rather it hung during some sort of reading process and the disk was spewing odd crackling noises. Well, I hooked it up to another xp machine I had and it worked fine, I transfered my data from taht disk onto my vista machine, and formatted it in the xp machine. After all that was said and done, I reconnected it to my vista machine and it picked up the disk when I turned it on, and no more hang ups. Just to be on the safe side, I reformatted it in Vista assuming Vista might have some funky new formatting techniques up its sleeve. Well, either way, my data is all safe and back on that disk and it works fine. So, long story short, I’d format it and try again.

By: Paul Stockwell

Paul Stockwell — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:45:32 +0000

Hi. I don’t know if this actually relates to the above post. I have recently bought a new laptop with Vista Premium home edition installed. The external hard drive which I have had for a while, worked fine with with it up until last night. I hot swapped the external hard drive with my mates laptop (XP) and when I plugged it back in, it picks it up, but is now asking for drivers which it has never done before. Any simple solution to the problem as drivers from the manufacturers(Iomega) website don’t seem to solve the problem.

By: vickie cloud

vickie cloud — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 03:03:59 +0000

no website…my sons laptop hp has windows vista on it…only has 120gb’s and is already used it up..he puts little videos on it..well, he needs an external hard drive…we are looking and according to consumer reports..Iomega is the best .and then seagate and then and then simple tech, and then maxtor and then western digital and then LaCie……now..with all that info…there is a differenc in windows xp then vista…what external…hard drives will work best with vista….and prices vary depending on where one buys it..I dont want to pay an arm and a leg…but…I dont want it to break down easily either and want it to be easy to use..my son isnt a computer geek..he wishes he was…but..if you have any advice on it..let me know…or to which degree of external hard drive does a vista need..like say we decided on a seagate…is there a particular seagate that works with vista and one that doesnt…let me know thanks..vickie

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