Re: USB hard drive lockup

Jeff,

This is probably a superfluous question, but did you try the drive on all available USB ports?

Met vriendelijke groeten / Best regards,

Peter Colpaert
Software Engineer - PLM Development Team
IT Operations Cluster Benelux, Philips IT

Philips Consumer Luminaires
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-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
Sent: woensdag 9 oktober 2013 13:34
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: [PCTECH] USB hard drive lockup

All,

My Win XP desktop has 2 hard drives. The 2nd is a 1TB drive where I store a bunch of things. PDF manuals, copies of install CD and DVDs, electronic magazines, My Documents backup, Eclipse workspace backup, etc. If I want some install CD I don't have to go scrambling to find it.

None of it is irreplaceable, but about 18 months ago I decided it would be a real pain to recreate it, so I bought an external USB drive and, once a month, I use Allway Sync to back up this hard drive to the external USB drive.

Yesterday it wouldn't work. My PC just sorta locked up. Had an hourglass mouse cursor, but I could move it around. I could slowly get my other apps closed but couldn't reboot or shut down. I had to press and hold the power button for 4 seconds.

So I tried it again after reboot before starting anything else. Same result. Had to use the power button.

So I plugged the USB drive into a Win 7 laptop. Everything was fine.
Checked to USB drive for disk errors, none found.

This morning I tried it again on my desktop with no joy. Same result. The only thing I can think of since last month is that last week I plugged in a number of USB thumb drives to select one for Firefox portable (to get at ASMI on a System i 520 if you remember that discussion). One of the thumb drives appeared defective so I just pitched it, but that was before I successfully set up Firefox, so at least that thumb drive worked after that.

Anybody seen this before? Ideas? Does Windows have some kind of "cache"
or something for remembered USB drives that's been hosed? I'm afraid to plug in thumb drives at this point.

Thanks.


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Jeff Crosby

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