I'm getting infrequent messages "An error was detected on device
\Device\Harddisk2\D during a paging operation" in the Events log. According
to the Windows Disk Manager, Disk 2 is the external Seagate usb-connected
drive, which I use for backup storage. According to System Properties, that
drive has no page file, so I'm wondering if the error description is simply
incorrect -- or maybe I'm mis-interpreting what it means.

Has anyone seen this message in similar circumstances?

Seagate diagnostics detect one bad sector on the device and I will be
attempting to repair that. But I also want to make certain that the device --
which is relatively quite slow -- is indeed NOT being used for paging.

TIA for any advice,

Phil

See the following MS Knowledge Base article. It explains this error
in good detail:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244780

"cellist" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I'm getting infrequent messages "An error was detected on device
> \Device\Harddisk2\D during a paging operation" in the Events log.
> According
> to the Windows Disk Manager, Disk 2 is the external Seagate usb-connected
> drive, which I use for backup storage. According to System Properties,
> that
> drive has no page file, so I'm wondering if the error description is
> simply
> incorrect -- or maybe I'm mis-interpreting what it means.
>
> Has anyone seen this message in similar circumstances?
>
> Seagate diagnostics detect one bad sector on the device and I will be
> attempting to repair that. But I also want to make certain that the
> device --
> which is relatively quite slow -- is indeed NOT being used for paging.
>
> TIA for any advice,
>
> Phil
>