Using 2 ext HD's, one always freezes

So I have Time Machine going on a G-drive.
I had a WD drive storing all my Pictures, Movies, Music, etc.
(I was trying to keep my iMac as clean as I could)
Almost daily, sometimes more than once, if I'm in the middle of something and Time Machine starts going... lets say I'm in Firefox and uploading a photo. Well, the WD would be accessed, but it appears stuck. Meanwhile, Time Machine icon is stuck, spinning away... trying to back up that other drive. Firefox gets stuck because the drive can't be accessed. And Im left with hard resetting the machine all the time.
After a while, I gave up and figured it was a WD thing. So I bought a Seagate as the main documents drive. (G-drive is still set for Time Machine). Well, the Seagate is doing the same thing!
Is this an issue with Time Machine? the iMac? or am I getting bad drives that keep locking everything up?
This was happening with 10.5, 10.6, and now 10.6.1.

On a whim, I'm currently trying the WD as my Time Machine and Seagate as my file storage. I'm beginning to think it's the G-Drive somehow causing the errors.

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Program freezes when used through ext. hd...

So, I upgraded, blah blah blah.
However, after struggling to get Classic back on here, which I finally did...
Now, my Microsoft 98 and Microsoft Office for OS X both freeze when I am editing a document or after I've printed it or something. It takes a few minutes but it eventually beach balls.
Then I try to Force Quit, which then doesn't work right away at all for some reason. Then I try to do something in Finder then finder starts to beach ball. So annoying. So after a while it will say if I want to continue to force quit even though Word isn't logging out and I click continue but still it's all so strange!
So, finally it dawned on me to drag the Microsoft OS X folder to my desktop. So it copies, then I eject my ext. hd... Then when I use the Word app. running through my int. hd, then it works.
Anyone know what could be the deal? I don't want this to be a sign that my LaCie is going to die soon... But if it is I need to know.

I noticed that no matter what program or even file I was using through my hard drive it would freeze. So I repaired permissions and the disk and it seems okay for now...

My iPad Air always freezes during FaceTime calls using wifi. I switch to my iPhone 5c on the same wifi, and it never freezes while I'm sitting in the same location. Is there maybe a setting I have that is causes this? I am un to date on the OS also.

My iPad Air always freezes during FaceTime calls using wifi. I switch to my iPhone 5c on the same wifi, and it never freezes while I'm sitting in the same location. Is there maybe a setting I have that is causes this? I am up to date on the OS 7.1.1. Video and audio is froze on my end, only video freezes on the other end. It doesn't make a difference who makes the call either.

No, there isn't any setting that you are missing. Have you tried force closing FaceTime, and resetting your iPad?
In order to close FaceTime, you have to drag the app up from the multitasking display. Double tap the home button and you will see apps lined up going left to right across the screen. Swipe to get to the app that you want to close and then swipe "up" on the app preview thumbnail to close it.
Reset the iPad by holding down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider if it appears on the screen - let go of the buttons. Let the iPad start up.
If that does not make a difference, you could try resetting all settings, if you reset all settings you will have to enter all of the device preferences again in the settings app. That takes some time to accomplish, but you will not lose my data, media, apps or anything like that. Settings>General>Reset>Reset all settings.
If that doesn't help, the next step would be to restore the iOS software. Backup your iPad first, restore the iOS, then restore the backup.
Use iTunes to restore your iOS device to factory settings

I just ordered a iMac!! Never used one always had PCs

I thought now was the time to upgrade as I xcanalso run Windows on it. I ordered 20" 2GHz, 320Gb HDD, wireless mouse.Expected 20th Dec
Ok , what shall I read/prepare before it arrives?
Ive never used one, always used PCs. IS there a book I should get? its coming with Leopard pre installed (or so Apple Tech chat said)
What shall I do for my emails? can I migrate my outlook emails from Oulook to Apple Mail prgram?
What is the best info source to red up and learn before I eget it please?

Congratulations and Welcome!
Spending $10 on Little Machines' O2M (link) is probably the easiest way to migrate your email.
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Ask for refund for upgrading to lion, since lion always freezes at start up.

I want to know if I can get a refund for upgrading to lion. I have been really frustrated with this upgrade. Ever since the upgrade, I have not been able to start up normally. It always freezes at start up. I don't want to waste my time on fixing this issue any more.

No refunds that I know of.
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2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Quit DU and return to the installer. Install Snow Leopard.
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If you have Snow Leopard Time Machine backups, do a full system restore per #14 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions. If you have subsequent backups from Lion, you can restore newer items selectively, via the "Star Wars" display, per #15 there, but be careful; some Snow Leopard apps may not work with the Lion files.
After seeing what you have to do to return to Snow Leopard you might rethink your position of not wanting to fix the problem you have with Lion which probably arose from existing problems with your Snow Leopard system. The fix is pretty easy. Back up your data, erase the drive, reinstall Lion, restore your files.
Install or Reinstall Lion from Scratch
If possible backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive.
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Erase the hard drive:
Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Erase button and wait until the process has completed.
Quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion: Select Reinstall Lion and click on the Install button.
Note: You can also re-download the Lion installer by opening the App Store application. Hold down the OPTION key and click on the Purchases icon in the toolbar. You should now see an active Install button to the right of your Lion purchase entry. There are situations in which this will not work. For example, if you are already booted into the Lion you originally purchased with your Apple ID or if an instance of the Lion installer is located anywhere on your computer.

Curve 8330 always freezing

Hi,
I can't take this anymore, my curve is ALWAYS freezing at least 4 times a day, and this happens during any activity. It happens during phone calls and I am unable to hang up, or do anything in a call, this happened while I was on the phone yesterday and lasted for 7 minutes. It also freezes almost EVERY TIME i try to access the app world, so I have given up on using that, and often when it happend with the app world I have to do a battery pull reset. I pretty much cant upgrade any apps due to this.
Also at times when I try to exit applications (even basic ones such as Options), the phone stays frozen on a solid white screen for several minutes.
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2. I only have the basic background apps running ( home, phone, messages, browser, blackberry messenger, Enhance G-mail plug-in
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I just bought this phone about 2 months ago and I am so sick of it already with how slow it is.
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Im with Telus also, the freezing when I tried to end a call has happened to me a couple of times, usually I just take the battery out, but if it's doing that often, I would do a back up on you bb desktop, wipe the phone clean, back to default settings (telus technical support can help you with that) then restore the phone. If that doesnt work, take it back to Telus and they will send the phone off for repairs or they will replace the phone.
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How to set up and use multiple Ext HD compatible with Windows w/o emulating

I am in deep doodle and confused, sit down and get a cup of coffee cuz is going to be loooooong.
I need some suggestions for my present situation. I have posted a similar question but I only got partial answer and I need to complete this task.
I migrated to my Mac from Windows, and I still have a Windows XP laptop. At first, I formatted my Ext HD as FAT 32 but I noticed that it was too slow. I was suggested to reformat the drives back to Journal. However, recently I had to replace my internal HD and backed up all my data to several Ext. HD. Oh brother what a mistake, while my Mac was at Apple I couldn't get access to my files using my Windows XP laptop because all drives were formatted as Journal (only for Mac).
At the moment, I have the following:
1- Seagate (350 GB orig)- complete back up images 110 GB avail
2- Maxtor ( 500 GB orig) - " " second copy 330 GB avail
3- Old int w/ casing(150 GB orig) 3rd copy 78 GB avail - is working but not sure if it will last, I had this DR for a long time. All 3 DRs formatted as Journal
4- Western Dig 1TB (new FW) 1TB avail
I realized that at the rate that I am shooting I would be running out of space on the current Drives. So I bought 1TB Ext HD FW, but I am in great need from others with more experience than me in setting up a strategy to back up and using my Ext HD. I only use the Int. HD DR 250 GB for Apps only, anything else I use exclusively my Ext HD.
So I would like to know which drive should I use as my primary one, and how I should set up the other subsequent drives as shown above. Do you think that I should reformat all the drives back to FAT 32, (what a task)? I'm also aware the 4 GB limitations. Or should I just format to FAT 32 the 1 TB, and can I partition the this drive and Format each partition with different format,ie. a couple NTFS and one FAT32.
Thanks in advance to all

You can also share a printer between the Mac/PC as well as files and mounted Volumes, see the Tiger articles here
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/
You may want to use Bonjour for Windows on your PC
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bonjour/
Then there are VNC clients for Mac/PC that also allow you to actually control the other machine, if they aren't in the same room and you just need to check something quick that can be handy, it's kind of slow though for regular use.
The main benefit of partitioning is being able to have different versions of bootable OS on them. You can try out Leopard on a new partition, while keeping your Tiger partition intact, you can have a XP/Vista partition for parallels or BootCamp, etc... other than that drives are pretty much fast enough, having smaller partitions probably won't realize any significant speed ups over searching the whole large drive.

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I've been using my Macbook Pro for about 5 months. The first 3 months were great. But now it makes my life harder!!!
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Welcome to the HP Forums!
I understand that your HP Officejet 6110 all-in-one always prints in color on Windows 8. I am happy to look into this for you!
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Hope this information helps, and have a great day!
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