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Your situation sounds a bit like mine with a disk a few years
ago. I had a 2tb usb drive a few years ago, a WD usb disk that worked for about a week in my system without issue. One day I had to reboot, and found the system just simply wouldn't even post bios or anything. I'd actually forgotten about the disk as "the last new thing added" and began to freak out that my mobo died. Eventual rational troubleshooting kicked, and I began removing hardware, which was just usb connections. Rebooting it then it came right up, and narrowing things down, found it was that damn disk. I ended up voiding the warranty and gutting the disk from their crappy enclosure to test in another generic one I had around, and it worked fine. All I could presume was that the crappy little mass-mass produced usb chip was more unstable chinese garbage shipped in ignorance by vendors, and simply wrote it off. It was a big reason I don't buy WD drives today, and or "pre-made" usb drives in general. Almost every one I've ever had has been crap, and gets a fraction of the life of any other drive. I presume disk vendors use thei mobility as an excuse to sell off the crap that doesn't pass enterprise or desktop QA, and thus gets shrifted down into something people expect to fail. Best I can say is get a real desktop disk with a real warranty (more than the 1yr only usb disks always give you - with reason), and get yourself an external enclosure to diy. -mb On 12/10/2016 08:23 AM, Mark Phillips
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