Re: External hard drive paging operation error

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It came NTFS (same as the others although those I had converted from FAT32).
I reformatted it to try to fix the issue (NTFS again) but that didn't help.
What gets me is that I have other external drives that don't cause this
problem.

"Mistoffolees" <mistyfac01@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Shawn E. Hale wrote:

I recently purchased a Seagate FreeAgent 320GB USB external drive and
plugged it into my desktop computer (Gateway running XP Pro). The drive
was recognized immediately and I copied files to it with no problems.
While reviewing my Event Viewer, I found the following (truncated)
entry - which was repeated about on an hourly basis when the computer was
idle:

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Disk
Event Category: None
Event ID: 51
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\D during a paging
operation.

I tried plugging it into different USB ports, running chkdsk /r and /f,
Seagate utilities, reformatting it, etc. and the same error occurred. No
errors were detected in the tests and I would not have known about the
error message if I didn't happen to see it in the Event Viewer. I got
the same message when the Seagate was plugged into another laptop and my
work laptop. Google results and MS Knowledge Base indicate that this
error can be ignored and "no user action is required" if this error
occurs on non-primary drives. I brought that drive back and exchanged it
for another one with the same errors. I have other, older external USB
drives that I use (Iomega 80 GB and Western Digital 250 GB) but these
drives do not generate the paging errors when hooked to my desktop or
laptop computers. Despite the directions to ignore the error message, I
don't feel comfortable with an Event Viewer log full of disk error
messages. Am I over-reacting? Am I wasting my time looking for another
external hard drive or do all newer external drives generate that error?
Thanks for any advice.



Perhaps not significant. However, how is this external HD partitioned?
FAT32 or NTFS?


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