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The issue is resolved.

After formatting the external USB drive, it now works on Win XP again.
Something must have gotten corrupt on that drive that Win 7 could handle,
but Win XP could not. And Win 7 CHKDSK couldn't fix it, only a reformat.



On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

That format has now been running 9 hours and is 62% done.

I think it will be done by morning. :)



On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Another update.

The CHKDSK completed without error. I attached the drive to a USB port
on the _back_ of my PC. It still locked up.

Now I am reformatting the drive, which will take a while. Then I'm going
to try it on my PC again.



On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Just an update at this point.

I attached the offending drive to a laptop and am running chkdsk /F /R.
It's at stage 5 16% with no errors so far. This will probably still be
running when I leave work today.

Tomorrow I'm going to try plugging it in to a USB port on the back of my
desktop instead of the one on the front.

If that fails, I may just reformat the USB drive and try it.

My mouse is USB. I've got several USB-to-PS2 converters, but the mouse
stops working if I use a converter to get to the PS2 port. (Never had that
on other boxes.) So removing all USB devices and such might be an issue.







On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 3:49 PM, John Jones <chianime@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Assuming you're not using a USB keyboard & mouse, you can try going in
to
Device Manager and deleting all USB devices, controllers, and root hubs.
Then do the hardware scan to let it add them back in. If it's a device
config problem that might take care of it.


On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Gary Kuznitz <docfxit@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Did you try running chkdsk /r /f on it. You may need to run it more
than
once. Run it
until it show no errors.

Gary

On 9 Oct 2013 at 7:34, Jeff (Jeff Crosby <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>)
commented
about
[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
VP Information Systems
UniPro FoodService/Dilgard
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531
www.dilgardfoods.com

The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the opinion of my
company. Unless I say so.




--
Jeff Crosby
VP Information Systems
UniPro FoodService/Dilgard
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531
www.dilgardfoods.com

The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the opinion of my
company. Unless I say so.




--
Jeff Crosby
VP Information Systems
UniPro FoodService/Dilgard
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531
www.dilgardfoods.com

The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the opinion of my
company. Unless I say so.





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