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External USB when booting issue
I keep a fair number of external hard disks more or less always connected and turned on on one of my pcs. They've all been assigned specific drive letters using Disk management which they all seem to respect. There are two issues I have. First is "only sometimes" the shares on the various external drives doesn't happen and I have to manually do them after booting. The drives are assigned expected drive letters but the shares didn't hapopen? This only happens sometimes but when it does it's all shares on external drives but not on the internal drives which always show up. Second is that one of the externals seems to delay booting by an appreciable amount. System eventually boots but drive shows up in device manager as unknown, Turning off the drive and back on cures the issue. I'd like to know why that happens and if there's anything I can do about it short of insuring disk is powered off when booting. |
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External USB when booting issue
make sure everything is pluged in before you boot. If you do it
afterwards even slight with 6.1, it will know, and screws up. You also may have a flaw in one of the plugs, which could make it act funny On 3/28/2017 8:10 PM, pjp wrote: I keep a fair number of external hard disks more or less always connected and turned on on one of my pcs. They've all been assigned specific drive letters using Disk management which they all seem to respect. There are two issues I have. First is "only sometimes" the shares on the various external drives doesn't happen and I have to manually do them after booting. The drives are assigned expected drive letters but the shares didn't hapopen? This only happens sometimes but when it does it's all shares on external drives but not on the internal drives which always show up. Second is that one of the externals seems to delay booting by an appreciable amount. System eventually boots but drive shows up in device manager as unknown, Turning off the drive and back on cures the issue. I'd like to know why that happens and if there's anything I can do about it short of insuring disk is powered off when booting. |
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External USB when booting issue
In message , Wolf K
writes: On 2017-03-28 23:10, pjp wrote: [...] Second is that one of the externals seems to delay booting by an appreciable amount. System eventually boots but drive shows up in device manager as unknown, Turning off the drive and back on cures the issue. I'd like to know why that happens and if there's anything I can do about it short of insuring disk is powered off when booting. Could be the drive is failing: get a new one, copy data from old to Or the electronics in the external housing; we had one that caused no end of trouble, and we didn't think of it being the little portable external drive. The drive itself was fine; just the little PCB in the housing was at fault. (Made far more than you'd expect malfunction.) new, then do a thorough disk diagnostics (lots of utilities available for this). A cure that sometimes works is reformat (not "quick" reformat), which will mark any bad sectors. I'm not sure if modern drives still do that. (The formatting routines may still work with drives that do, but I think the electronics in modern [last decade or two] drives remap bad sectors and the like, so that the host PC never actually sees such.) I think to actually do a low-level format of that type now requires non-standard commands to the drive, if it's even possible at all. Good luck, -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf what - recession? Up north? What we gonna have - more nowt? (News Quiz 2013-7-26) |
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says... On 3/29/2017 6:27 PM, pjp wrote: In , says... make sure everything is pluged in before you boot. If you do it afterwards even slight with 6.1, it will know, and screws up. You also may have a flaw in one of the plugs, which could make it act funny On 3/28/2017 8:10 PM, pjp wrote: I keep a fair number of external hard disks more or less always connected and turned on on one of my pcs. They've all been assigned specific drive letters using Disk management which they all seem to respect. There are two issues I have. First is "only sometimes" the shares on the various external drives doesn't happen and I have to manually do them after booting. The drives are assigned expected drive letters but the shares didn't hapopen? This only happens sometimes but when it does it's all shares on external drives but not on the internal drives which always show up. Second is that one of the externals seems to delay booting by an appreciable amount. System eventually boots but drive shows up in device manager as unknown, Turning off the drive and back on cures the issue. I'd like to know why that happens and if there's anything I can do about it short of insuring disk is powered off when booting. Well seeing as it's an external enclosure I'll just have to live with it until I have a spare SATA drive to swap in and see if problem persists. At this time it doesn't appear like it's a hardware problem, drive passes all tests fine, SMART is ok etc. and the USB ports work as expected for everything else gets plugged into them including flashdrives, webcams, various game controllers and the like. It appears more like the enclosure only "informs" the pc properly about "something" only when it gets powered up and not when the usb port comes alive during boot if it was previously powered up and remained so during reboot process. There has to be some dialogue happens at some point for OS to know it's a hard disk rather than a flashdrive or burner etc. etc. well, try check properties and make certain quick release in the policy tab is bulleted. Do this in Device Manager. The other, makes you be silly about disconnect of the drive. So I dont use it. Im using two Hard Drives, that are external, one is sata Since I was creating device drivers for Windows 2.x when it came out I do believe I've seen enough to not need your advice, no insult intended |
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External USB when booting issue
On 3/30/2017 8:41 PM, pjp wrote: In , says... On 3/29/2017 6:27 PM, pjp wrote: In , says... make sure everything is pluged in before you boot. If you do it afterwards even slight with 6.1, it will know, and screws up. You also may have a flaw in one of the plugs, which could make it act funny On 3/28/2017 8:10 PM, pjp wrote: I keep a fair number of external hard disks more or less always connected and turned on on one of my pcs. They've all been assigned specific drive letters using Disk management which they all seem to respect. There are two issues I have. First is "only sometimes" the shares on the various external drives doesn't happen and I have to manually do them after booting. The drives are assigned expected drive letters but the shares didn't hapopen? This only happens sometimes but when it does it's all shares on external drives but not on the internal drives which always show up. Second is that one of the externals seems to delay booting by an appreciable amount. System eventually boots but drive shows up in device manager as unknown, Turning off the drive and back on cures the issue. I'd like to know why that happens and if there's anything I can do about it short of insuring disk is powered off when booting. Well seeing as it's an external enclosure I'll just have to live with it until I have a spare SATA drive to swap in and see if problem persists. At this time it doesn't appear like it's a hardware problem, drive passes all tests fine, SMART is ok etc. and the USB ports work as expected for everything else gets plugged into them including flashdrives, webcams, various game controllers and the like. It appears more like the enclosure only "informs" the pc properly about "something" only when it gets powered up and not when the usb port comes alive during boot if it was previously powered up and remained so during reboot process. There has to be some dialogue happens at some point for OS to know it's a hard disk rather than a flashdrive or burner etc. etc. well, try check properties and make certain quick release in the policy tab is bulleted. Do this in Device Manager. The other, makes you be silly about disconnect of the drive. So I dont use it. Im using two Hard Drives, that are external, one is sata Since I was creating device drivers for Windows 2.x when it came out I do believe I've seen enough to not need your advice, no insult intended not my fault you dont understand it. But then again, i dont really know if your doing that or not, unplugin before the machine is off. For that can also cause it to not recognize itself on the power up. And since your like this, we will remember not to help again. |
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