Re: Corrupted drives

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I was wondering if anyone knew why my external western digital drives
(500GB) always end up "corrupted".
We use all XP stations at work and somehow XP corrupts the drives so
we can no longer access them, delete the partition- reformat...it
pretty much kills our drives.

Rule #1: The external drive is only connected to one XP system,
and ONLY that ONE system can/should use it (i.e. never share an
external drive).

Does anyone know what causes these corruptions?

Are you discovering what happens when rule #1 gets violated? :)


Ed


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