RE: External Hard-Drive Not Working Properly

No offense, but I think the discussion is going towards a dead end here. Even
if I find out what motherboard I have, etc., here's the thing: THE HDD IS
SUPPOSED TO WORK WITH ALL COMPUTERS! What difference does it make what
motherboard I have?

I can tell you what I know:
--I know that the cable of the external hard-drive converts from IDE to USB.
--I know that I have 1 internal hard-drive, 1 DVD-RW and 1 CD-ROM
--From the BIOS settings, I found out that Primary Master is the internal
HDD, Primary Slave is 'Not Detected', Secondary Master is the DVD-RW and
Secondary Slave is the CD-ROM. The rest (Third Master and Slave) are also
'Not Detected'.

Can anyone help me, given that information?

Maybe someone has a BIOS configuration I could use. I would be glad to try
to change those settings, because I know I can change them back.

Thanks in advance.

"Swordlord" wrote:

> Could anyone help me with the following issue, please?
>
> I bought a hard-drive which connects through USB. Although it works fine
> with Windows 2000 and Millennium, on my Windows XP Professional computer I
> get this error:
> Whenever I connect it and I try to copy/move files (either from the external
> hard-drive to the internal hard-drive, or from the internal hard-drive to the
> external hard-drive), it tells me that it cannot copy <name of file> because
> it cannot find the file specified. And then I get a 'Windows Delayed Write
> Failed' message. And I cannot move anything, even though the computer sees
> the hard-drive just fine.
>
> From what I understood from the Internet, I presume it might be a security
> issue. But I'll be damned if I know how to fix it.
>
> Can anyone help me, please?
.

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