Re: Hard drive problem

Correction: File system used to be NTFS before problem. After another boot
up now "Properties" can get file system = NTFS, used = 103 GB, free = 147 GB.
Intermittently can get directory list, mostly not. Properties on any
directory on H: show 0 files, 0 bytes. Getting frequent error message
"Windows - Delayed write failed (on H:). Windows can not complete error check
on H:. Think PC's USB port (#2) OK because CDRW and USB flash drive work OK
on that USB port.

"Lem" wrote:

PSRumbagh wrote:
My external USB 2.0 hard drive (H:) is a 250 GB Seagate Free Agent about 22
months old. Windows XP Home SP3 is no longer recognizing it. "Device
Manager" sometimes says that it is working properly, other times that there
is no driver installed. "Properties" shows File system = RAW (used to be
FAT32), used = 0 bytes, free = 0 bytes. For the last several weeks I have
been getting warnings that there are mixed file types on it during boot up.
Several shut downs ago I got warning that a write to H: had failed. Hard
drive "ON" light is on and disk is spinning. USB port is working OK. I
don't have another PC to test hard drive on. Has Seagate had a catastrophic
failure or something else perhaps OS?

Could be the USB port (even though you "know" it's OK). Could be the
USB-to-drive electronics in the external case. Could be the power
supply. Or it could be the drive. Get/use the appropriate tool for your
particular drive from Seagate and check out the drive:
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools

--
Lem -- MS-MVP

To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm

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