External USB hard drive problems

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I recently purchased an Iomega 80GB USB 2.0 external hard drive & upgraded my
PC with a USB 2.0 card. Everything worked well until about Feb 8. Since then
I have had problems with both the hard drive & my printer. The Iomega hard
drive is recognized when I fisrt plug it in, but soon I get messages saying
that there are problems writing to it. Does anyone have any idea what may
have happened? I've tried uninstalling it & re-installing it to no avail.

Jamie
 
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I recently purchased an Iomega 80GB USB 2.0 external hard drive & upgraded my
PC with a USB 2.0 card. Everything worked well until about Feb 8. Since then
I have had problems with both the hard drive & my printer. The Iomega hard
drive is recognized when I fisrt plug it in, but soon I get messages saying
that there are problems writing to it. Does anyone have any idea what may
have happened? I've tried uninstalling it & re-installing it to no avail.

Jamie
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Could well indicate problems with the USB port or USB add on card if
you're using one. Try moving the printer or the Iomega drive to
another USB connector. If that doesn't work, open device manager and
check the status of your USB to see if it's working properly. You may
have to remove the USB device and reinstall if it's not.
 

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