EXTERNAL USB DRIVE

[D.H. Cesare]

Using WinXP Pro on 2 different machines; one is 500mHz w/640MB RAM and the
other 2.8mHz w/1024MB RAM. The 2.8 is not hooked to the internet and the
machines are not networked.
I have a 120G Western Digital USB2 external drive that was working fine on
both machines. Suddenly, after adding about 5G of data to the drive off the
500 machine, neither machine will read/see the drive. The 500 does nothing
(no messages, etc.) and the drive does not show up in Windows Explorer; the
2.8 tells me the drive is no good. When I took the drive to a friend's and
connected it to his machine, it worked perfectly. I run regular virus scans
and run a spyware scan every 24 hours.
This just doesn't make sense and has me confused and frustrated. Can anyone
help?
Thank you.

 

[Elmo]

Using WinXP Pro on 2 different machines; one is 500mHz w/640MB RAM and the
other 2.8mHz w/1024MB RAM. The 2.8 is not hooked to the internet and the
machines are not networked.
I have a 120G Western Digital USB2 external drive that was working fine on
both machines. Suddenly, after adding about 5G of data to the drive off the
500 machine, neither machine will read/see the drive. The 500 does nothing
(no messages, etc.) and the drive does not show up in Windows Explorer; the
2.8 tells me the drive is no good. When I took the drive to a friend's and
connected it to his machine, it worked perfectly. I run regular virus scans
and run a spyware scan every 24 hours.
This just doesn't make sense and has me confused and frustrated. Can anyone
help?

Maybe one of these sites?


USB Help site
http://www.usbman.com/WinME USB Guide.htm

General USB troubleshooting in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310575

Troubleshooting for USB drives
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html

 

[Guest]

I dont know what reply you got here.
I use USB every day. I have two cables IDE to USB and more than 30 disks to
change. If your problem is not the jumper, normaly they need to be masters
all of them. If that is not the problem its the drive letter.
I use intern disks inkl card reader like A to H,
I to O, something like that is reserved for these USB disks and
P to Z is reseved for virtual volumes.

How many disks do you use internally? Up to e or f?
The USB drive must be higher. Windows cant manage to change drive letter
properly.

I change disk while Windows is running, not so good thing to do I think but
I have done it for more than a year now. A friend tried with two disks and
fried both.

 

[D.H. Cesare]

The problem is that the drive was working fine on both machines and the
computers just quit reading the drive. No changes were made, and the drive
works fine on my friends computer. It doesn't make any sense that it would
quit working on both machines.

 

[granjan]

This is just a guess, but try unplugging some of your usb devices
before you plug in the drive. It worked for me to unplug my
printer.

| Using WinXP Pro on 2 different machines; one is 500mHz w/640MB RAM
and the
| other 2.8mHz w/1024MB RAM. The 2.8 is not hooked to the internet
and the
| machines are not networked.
| I have a 120G Western Digital USB2 external drive that was working
fine on
| both machines. Suddenly, after adding about 5G of data to the
drive off the
| 500 machine, neither machine will read/see the drive. The 500
does nothing
| (no messages, etc.) and the drive does not show up in Windows
Explorer; the
| 2.8 tells me the drive is no good. When I took the drive to a
friend's and
| connected it to his machine, it worked perfectly. I run regular
virus scans
| and run a spyware scan every 24 hours.
| This just doesn't make sense and has me confused and frustrated.
Can anyone
| help?
| Thank you.
|
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| D.H. Cesare
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