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Disappearing External Hard Drive
Hi All,
I'm just about at wits end here. I've got an external HDD (Cavalry 2 X 500 GB = 1TB) that I usually plug in via e-SATA. It is currently setup in a SAFE33 configuration. It was working great on my old XP machine, and when I changed that machine to Vista Business (same everything, just plugged in a different boot disk and unplugged the old one) it continued to work great. Then I did the following two things: 1) Tinkered with some permissions to allow only administrators access to some backups on the eHDD. 2) Went back to my old boot disk and tried to find the drive in XP. When I did this the drive was not visible at all in XP. Now it is not visible in Vista either (not under Computer, Disk Management, or even BIOS). It is also not visible on my laptop (it had been previously). I have tried both e-SATA and USB connectors in multiple ports. When I turn the drive on while either OS is running the machine freezes about 1 out of 5 times. Other times the eHDD turns on and I hear the disks spin up to speed, but the drive access LEDs never come on. Don't know if this is related or not but I am also unable to load XP now, it stops on a driver called SPTD.sys. Please tell me there's a possible solution other than the drive being cooked. Thanks! |
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Correction: XP will boot with the eHDD off. Neither OS will boot if the eHDD
is on. -- Marshall D. Connecticut, US "Marshall_D" wrote: Hi All, I'm just about at wits end here. I've got an external HDD (Cavalry 2 X 500 GB = 1TB) that I usually plug in via e-SATA. It is currently setup in a SAFE33 configuration. It was working great on my old XP machine, and when I changed that machine to Vista Business (same everything, just plugged in a different boot disk and unplugged the old one) it continued to work great. Then I did the following two things: 1) Tinkered with some permissions to allow only administrators access to some backups on the eHDD. 2) Went back to my old boot disk and tried to find the drive in XP. When I did this the drive was not visible at all in XP. Now it is not visible in Vista either (not under Computer, Disk Management, or even BIOS). It is also not visible on my laptop (it had been previously). I have tried both e-SATA and USB connectors in multiple ports. When I turn the drive on while either OS is running the machine freezes about 1 out of 5 times. Other times the eHDD turns on and I hear the disks spin up to speed, but the drive access LEDs never come on. Don't know if this is related or not but I am also unable to load XP now, it stops on a driver called SPTD.sys. Please tell me there's a possible solution other than the drive being cooked. Thanks! |
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Disappearing External Hard Drive
I had this problem constantly happening. I removed service pack 1 from vista and have not had an issue since. Give this a try, I am convinced it is happening with updates. -- daredvl_edm |
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Disappearing External Hard Drive
Try with what? You give absolutely no description of your system.
"daredvl_edm" wrote in message ... I had this problem constantly happening. I removed service pack 1 from vista and have not had an issue since. Give this a try, I am convinced it is happening with updates. -- daredvl_edm |
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Disappearing External Hard Drive
Have u not been reading the previous posts and how no one is resolving a disapearing sata drive. Where have u been?????????????????????? I have Vista ultimate and removed the service pack from the eqauation and my disapearing Sata HD has reappeared. I have no issues with it anymore. I am posting my findings as others seem to have the problem, and no one seems to be finding out a fix for this issue at all. Colin Barnhorst;749953 Wrote: Try with what? You give absolutely no description of your system. "daredvl_edm" wrote in message ... I had this problem constantly happening. I removed service pack 1 from vista and have not had an issue since. Give this a try, I am convinced it is happening with updates. -- daredvl_edm -- daredvl_edm |
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On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:08:38 -0500, daredvl_edm
wrote: Have u not been reading the previous posts and how no one is resolving a disapearing sata drive. Where have u been?????????????????????? You clueless twit! The post you replied to was from LAST MARCH and those of us that are not using that pitiful web interfaced bulletin board that you are using don't see what you are replying to when it's that old. You can work this one out on your own after that smart-assed and brainless reply. I have Vista ultimate and removed the service pack from the eqauation and my disapearing Sata HD has reappeared. I have no issues with it anymore. I am posting my findings as others seem to have the problem, and no one seems to be finding out a fix for this issue at all. Colin Barnhorst;749953 Wrote: Try with what? You give absolutely no description of your system. "daredvl_edm" wrote in message ... I had this problem constantly happening. I removed service pack 1 from vista and have not had an issue since. Give this a try, I am convinced it is happening with updates. -- daredvl_edm |
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Another of your wonderful replies SAVED!
-- Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia "Nonny" wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:08:38 -0500, daredvl_edm wrote: Have u not been reading the previous posts and how no one is resolving a disapearing sata drive. Where have u been?????????????????????? You clueless twit! The post you replied to was from LAST MARCH and those of us that are not using that pitiful web interfaced bulletin board that you are using don't see what you are replying to when it's that old. You can work this one out on your own after that smart-assed and brainless reply. I have Vista ultimate and removed the service pack from the eqauation and my disapearing Sata HD has reappeared. I have no issues with it anymore. I am posting my findings as others seem to have the problem, and no one seems to be finding out a fix for this issue at all. Colin Barnhorst;749953 Wrote: Try with what? You give absolutely no description of your system. "daredvl_edm" wrote in message ... I had this problem constantly happening. I removed service pack 1 from vista and have not had an issue since. Give this a try, I am convinced it is happening with updates. -- daredvl_edm |
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On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:24:01 -0700, Mick Murphy
wrote: Another of your wonderful replies SAVED! Keep saving them old bean... you'll never match the selection I picked up from your drunken outbursts the past month or so. |
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There are NO previous posts showing here.
"daredvl_edm" wrote in message ... Have u not been reading the previous posts and how no one is resolving a disapearing sata drive. Where have u been?????????????????????? I have Vista ultimate and removed the service pack from the eqauation and my disapearing Sata HD has reappeared. I have no issues with it anymore. I am posting my findings as others seem to have the problem, and no one seems to be finding out a fix for this issue at all. Colin Barnhorst;749953 Wrote: Try with what? You give absolutely no description of your system. "daredvl_edm" wrote in message ... I had this problem constantly happening. I removed service pack 1 from vista and have not had an issue since. Give this a try, I am convinced it is happening with updates. -- daredvl_edm -- daredvl_edm |
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Hi, Colin.
That's because daredvl_edm is not really the OP. He is just tagging onto a thread that he found in some "forum" on the Internet, and that forum relayed his post - but not the prior posts in the thread - to Microsoft Communities. As with so many of these cases, we get into the middle of the conversation with NO context. :( As usual, the faint, easily-overlooked clue is in the poster's address and in the headers of his post, in this case: X-Newsreader: vBulletin USENET gateway Perhaps you already know that YOUR posts - and MINE - are also shown in whatever forum "daredvl" happens to be using, just as though we had posted there. Even if we never heard of that forum. The managers of that forum MIGHT credit Microsoft public newsgroups, but often they do not. It's good that our advice gets distributed widely, but it is not good that the conversations are chopped up, with missing or delayed or out-of-context posts. And it is deplorable that such messages simply show up here, as though originally posted here, with no warning of what is happening. Sorry for the rant. Sorry that it is even called for. :( RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP (Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1) "Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message ... There are NO previous posts showing here. "daredvl_edm" wrote in message ... Have u not been reading the previous posts and how no one is resolving a disapearing sata drive. Where have u been?????????????????????? I have Vista ultimate and removed the service pack from the eqauation and my disapearing Sata HD has reappeared. I have no issues with it anymore. I am posting my findings as others seem to have the problem, and no one seems to be finding out a fix for this issue at all. Colin Barnhorst;749953 Wrote: Try with what? You give absolutely no description of your system. "daredvl_edm" wrote in message ... I had this problem constantly happening. I removed service pack 1 from vista and have not had an issue since. Give this a try, I am convinced it is happening with updates. -- daredvl_edm -- daredvl_edm |
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