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    external HDD help! wd portable

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by vinceboiii, Dec 18, 2008.

  1. vinceboiii

    vinceboiii Animals are friends, not food.

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    hi i got the older western digital my passport hdd and right now. i want to get all my stuff from my laptop into and usually i have to open WDSync_v7_1_020.exe to get into my profiles but every time i open it, it crashes..and when i try to do the SAFE stop it says its being used by a program but im sure it isn't.
     
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    Hep! sees beauty in everything

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    ...so... uh... what happens when you just open my computer, right click the drive, and hit "explore"?
     
    Hep!, Dec 18, 2008
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    vinceboiii Animals are friends, not food.

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    this does nothing.

    this is my problem.

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    vinceboiii, Dec 19, 2008
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    Hep!, Dec 19, 2008
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    . it won't let me register my hd. also can i format my hd then take out all that program and just simply drag and drop to use it?
     
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    Yes, that's the smart thing to do anyway. Any software puts your data in a format that it can't be read without that program is terribly designed IMO, unless it's performing some high level of compression on that data.

    I always get rid of that crap when I get a new drive, including my WD Passport and my Seagate Freeagent Pro.

    Keep in mind that formatting the drive will delete ALL data on it!
     
    Hep!, Dec 20, 2008
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