Re: USB Drive Blue Screen Partmgr.sys

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I forgot to mention it in the message text, although I included it in the subject line, that the BSOD mentions "Partmgr.sys" as the "culprit". This surely is an essential fact.
Have you checked for driver updates for your computer? << Well, no, but drivers for what? The disk? The USB bus? Other? I thought Vista was pretty good at keeping itself up to date on that front. What I have wondered is whether there is an intermediate level of driver involved i.e. for the external disk housing??
For information, in addition to a couple of communciation devices (Blue Tooth dongle and WiFi transponder) connected to USB ports, there is also another external storage device, namely a card reader, which also works perfectly well.
To repeat, Partmgr.sys would appear to be the essential player (that's why I tried deleting the partition on the Maxtor disk and recreating it).

Peter

"GTS" <x> wrote in message news:ORAMYZMTJHA.1332@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Crashing the system with a BSOD is not a common problem. Issues with drive recognition are far more common. What is the error shown on the blue screen? Are you able to use a different USB device on your port (e.g. a thumb drive)? Have you checked for driver updates for your computer? Do you have a lot of USB devices connected? If so try with all others disconnected to see if there may be a power issue or device conflict.
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"Peter A" <jpyepsa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:e9fxY1JTJHA.4916@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I know there are threads around on this and similar topics, but they don't help me and I should like to at least identify where a solution should be coming from.
I have an external disk housing (Canyon) that connects an IDE disk to a USB port. As soon as I switch the thing on, the system crashes with a blue screen within a couple of seconds. Connected internally to the IDE interface the disk works fine. I have tried with two different disks (WD and Maxtor) - both give the same result. I have tried deleting and recreating the partition on the Maxtor, with no effect. The external disk configuration worked perfectly well under my old XP system.

Those are the basic facts. My first question is, is this a known issue? (Judging by my searches on the internet, it is.) And secondly, of course, is this recognised as a Vista problem and can a solution be expected?
Naturally, if someone can tell me there is already a solution somewhere I shall be happy. But otherwise it would be for me a step forward just to know that the problem is recognised by "the powers that be".

Thanks

Peter
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