G'day all For several months one of my external hard drives has been acting a bit 'flaky'.
The drive is permanently attached to the PC but when the computer boots there is no sign of the drive in Windows Explorer. However, after about 10-15 minutes, the autoplay window magically appears and the operating system reads the drive, which then becomes available. The drive continues to work properly thereafter - until the next boot when the process starts over again. My question is whether the hard disk itself is on the way to hard disk hell or whether the drive controller is likely to be the culprit. Or could it be a faulty USB cable? Would it be worth extracting the drive from its case and try installing it in a new case? The drive is about three and a half years old. Note that I'm not relying on this drive as a primary back up any more, but it is convenient if it keeps working. And I'm just curious as to why the drive would be behaving like this. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
