Testing a USB Hard Drive

[Daniel]

Hi

I have Vista Ultimate. I have bought a 250G Seagate Hard Drive, an internal
one, but I have connected through a USB Hard Drive adapter.

I am having some problems with the drive, Vista keeps on wanting to format
it. I format it and it works for a day or so then after a couple of reboots
it is not there in Explorer and I have to format it again, in Disk
Management.

Is there some way to test the Hard Drive, Seatools for Windows or DOS does
not find it, and nor does WD Hard Drive test..

Thanks for any help.

Daniel

 

[Cal Bear '66]

This solution has worked for some people with problematic USB devices:

Locate the file INFCACHE.1 in C:\Windows\inf

Right click on the INFCACHE.1 file, select Properties >Security > Edit, and give
your account full control.

Delete INFCACHE.1, or rename it to INFCACHE.1.BAK or temporarily move to your
desktop.

REBOOT

If this solution work for your problem, you can delete the INFCACHE.1 file.
Windows will not recreate it.


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