radish Wrote: > The disk problems are almost certainly due to the crashes - if the > system dies while writing to disk (and you're not using NTFS) you'll > get corruption. The underlying problem is a hardware instability caused > by the USB card or it's drivers. Check for updates, if none exist, take > the card out. Reinstalling windows will almost certainly be a waste of > time and the longer you leave it the more likely you'll lose something > important on the disk.
The PC is an old one that I was hoping to use in conjunction with a Squeezebox3, this will be its sole usage. I bought the PCI USB card because the motherboard in my PC only suports USB 1.1. I would have preffered to just stick a big HDD inside the PC (250GB) but it will only support upto ~130GB due to lack of 48bit addressing. Hence I went the PCI USB2.0 card route. It does appear that after installing this problems have occurred. However, the crashes also happen when I just use internet radio on softsqueeze (ie i don't even turn on the external HDD that is attached to the USB2.0 card) I'll check for updated drivers for the USB card. I may have to re-install anyway because of the curruption. I'll ensure that I format with NTFS this time instead of FAT32. I have no important data on this PC so I can do as many experiments as my patience will allow. -- MrGadget ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrGadget's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5287 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23515 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
