In message , HB writes:
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OK... I'll download the 1st on Paul's list and see what happens. I'll make
sure it burns as an ISO.

_From_ an ISO - if you see an ISO on the disc after you've burned it,
you've done it wrong. But I think - from what you say in a later post -
you've done it right.
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If "every time you plug it in it loads" stuff, then you obviously
_haven't_ deleted it from the Seagate. (It can't load it if you've deleted
it.)

I understood that if it was deleted from the PC, SG would not copy it again
in the next update. But it appears to copy the new files and adds them to
the old, whether they're on my PC or not anymore. WTH... I'll just clean it
off when I get the time and start again.

You've thoroughly confused me with that paragraph (even if I guess "SG"
means the Seagate external drive). What are the various "it"s? Something
that has been deleted? Something that copies something? And you're
referring to "SG" as if it does copying. A drive will not of itself
copy. It might conceivably have software on it which, if allowed to
autorun, will copy something.

Why it puts hundreds of things on the DT is a mystery to me.

It may even be virus-infected.

LOL!!! That would be just my luck.


Turn off autorun, autoplay, and anything like that, before connecting it.
Then connect it and format it.

I have to connect it as here is no way to do anything with it unil it's
plugged into the USB port.

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When the TD is plugged it is shows below C: and D: with a list of folders
if
they were sent to it.

(I was guessing you mean Thumb Drive when you say TD.)

As E: or F: or whatever. (I'm guessing you haven't partitioned your HD
into more than one partition, so D: is your CD/DVD drive.)

C: is the OS on this old W-7 DT.
D: is the Recovery drive and
E: is the DVD RW drive, and there's an
F: that says Boot, System Volume Information and Recycle Bin.

If you right-click on D: or F:, and select properties, you should get a
pie chart showing amount used and free, so you can work out the total
capacity, which should enable you to figure out which is which, assuming
you know what capacity your "TD" is.

We'll put the docking on hold for awhile. I need to get this Toshiba either
running or recycle so I can tackle the next issues with the other PCs again.


Look for tiny screws, or it might be a pop-together case - try
(carefully!) prising it. You might be right that it can't be opened: I've
never myself seen one that can't, but that doesn't mean they don't exist -
I've not looked at many that closely.

Once opened, if that's possible, what would the next step be?

Inside it, there will be a drive! Hopefully, it will be the same sort -
i. e. a SATA, with two connectors - as the one you have taken out of the
poorly laptop. If it _is_ the same kind, then if you take out the
existing drive and put it somewhere safe, and put the drive from the
laptop in its place. You should then be able yo connect the USB cable to
one of your working computers, and examine whether you can see it,
probably as E: or F: on that computer. If you can't, can you see it with
the partitioning tool (in Windows 7, I get to that by typing parti into
the start box and then going for "Create and format hard disk
partitions"; it may be different in 10), which should be able to "see"
through a USB interface.

(Do you know what the capacity of the drive from the poorly PC is?)
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I'm trying.

Yes, very. (Sorry, couldn't resist; you're not really. Both my parents
were teachers, and "This boy is trying. Very trying" was a standard
teacher joke at report-writing times.)
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Maybe - I think at least one of Paul's posts suggested where you can get a
rescue disc for 7 (I'm pretty sure that would be a DVD rather than a CD),
but I'm not sure, as he's made lots of posts in this thread!

Yes he did but it's out or warranty and the Serial number was rejected.

I think it was rejected because the number you gave it was an OEM one
not a retail one, rather than it being out of warranty.

Do you perhaps know someone - friend/relation, neighbour, work colleague,
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I should be so lucky. We're not living here long enough to have friends and

Pity. That would have been useful.
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