Help with USB Hard Drive

[Don Retfird]

I have a new external USB 2.0 hard drive. I partitioned
it to have four storage drives. All drives on it have
been reformated.

The Problem:
When transfering files from or to External Hard Drive,
system pops up blue screen and crashes during file
transfer. Size of files do not matter. Although larger
files tend to have more time to crash.

Problem Two:
If external hard drive is connected and the power is on
while the computer is restarting or booting up, the
system crashes. The time of the crash is when I log in
and windows is loading all start up programs. Everything
loads up fine, until the "safely remove hardware" feature
loads then the system pops up a blue screen and crashes.

I am running WinXP Pro
Any types of suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!

 

[Mike Brearley]

Sounds like a driver problem. I'm not familiar with USB hard drives, but if
they have manufacturer specific drivers, have you downloaded the latest ones
and installed them?

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Posted 'as is'. If there are any spelling and/or grammar mistakes, they
were a direct result of my fingers and brain not being synchronized or my
lack of caffeine.

Mike Brearley

 

[Fred S]

Don,

Could be associated with partitioning the external drive. There are
hardly any manufacturers that recommend doing so and those that do
provide a utility to do it. Windows assigns a drive letter to the
external drive and could be getting confused with your four partitions.
Did you have any problem before you partitioned the external? How did
you do it? What software?

If you can, remove the partitions, go back to one formatted partition,
see if that works without problems. Then, use four folders in place of
your partitions (that's what I use for separating image files).

Fred