Hi:smileyhappy:
I've recently purchased a 500GB DriveStation HD-CE500U2 external drive and've been the using this drive, as two partitions (partitioned it myself, as a primary drive with an extended drive), for storage purposes and downloading video torrents.
The problem is that sometimes after a few hours, i.e., overnight and while I'm at work slaving my bollocks off, or after a couple of hours when I try to defrag either partition, the two drive letters disappear. I extract and replug the drive's USB cable back into the USB port, but to no avail, I must reboot the PC to get the drives back up and showing the drive letters again. Even went as far as unplugging the power cable and reinserting it!
Thought it may have been a power shortage, so upgraded to a 600 watt PSU, however the same problem still occurs.
Any answers to solve this problem? Is it my PC. a common problem (with a just as common fix), or should I just return it to the retailer? Could it be overheating (it's not sitting near anything which throws out heat, i.e., PC tower or monitor, not even the ADSL modem) or maybe a faulty USB cable?
This is one irritating water buffalo.
:smileyindifferent:
BTW, whilst the drive letters are missing, the drive still shows up in Device Manager.
Could it be possibly corrupted sectors in the drive itself? Can a poster recommend a suitable drive scan-repair tool?
If I was to return it to the computer shop which I bought it from, in the meantime I'd have to find somewhere to store 350GBs of data, so I rather not take this road and get it up and running on my own, with the forum's help, of course.
In dire staits here.
Beam me up Scotty! Is there anybody out there?
Message Edited by Somchai111 on 11-11-2008 08:38 AM