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September 12th 06, 11:30 AM
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USB HDD reads for 1 min before being available
Hi,
Recently I have reformatted an external USB2 80GB 2.5" HDD (USB powered) using XP's disktools. One partition FAT32 (for compatibility). Since I have done this, every time I plug the drive in any of 3 PC's, the READ/WRITE light is on (rapid flickering) for about 20 seconds before the drive is recognised. I get the exact same behaviour with a 3.5" 250Gb Powered drive that I have similarly formatted in the same way, except that with this one it takes about a minute. I have read about bad cables and underpowered Hubs, but using two different cables (for the 2 drives) and having tested going direct without the HUB, it has to be something else. Is this something to do with XP formatting, or a parameter of the formatting process? Coudl it be a MBR issue? 
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September 12th 06, 11:37 AM
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USB HDD reads for 1 min before being available
wrote in message ups.com... Hi, Recently I have reformatted an external USB2 80GB 2.5" HDD (USB powered) using XP's disktools. One partition FAT32 (for compatibility). Since I have done this, every time I plug the drive in any of 3 PC's, the READ/WRITE light is on (rapid flickering) for about 20 seconds before the drive is recognised. I get the exact same behaviour with a 3.5" 250Gb Powered drive that I have similarly formatted in the same way, except that with this one it takes about a minute. I have read about bad cables and underpowered Hubs, but using two different cables (for the 2 drives) and having tested going direct without the HUB, it has to be something else. Is this something to do with XP formatting, or a parameter of the formatting process? Coudl it be a MBR issue? it could be windows "indexing" the files on the drive.
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September 12th 06, 12:27 PM
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USB HDD reads for 1 min before being available
Virus scanner checking the files??
-- Dave Vair CNE, CNA, MCP, A+, N+ wrote in message ups.com... Hi, Recently I have reformatted an external USB2 80GB 2.5" HDD (USB powered) using XP's disktools. One partition FAT32 (for compatibility). Since I have done this, every time I plug the drive in any of 3 PC's, the READ/WRITE light is on (rapid flickering) for about 20 seconds before the drive is recognised. I get the exact same behaviour with a 3.5" 250Gb Powered drive that I have similarly formatted in the same way, except that with this one it takes about a minute. I have read about bad cables and underpowered Hubs, but using two different cables (for the 2 drives) and having tested going direct without the HUB, it has to be something else. Is this something to do with XP formatting, or a parameter of the formatting process? Coudl it be a MBR issue?
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September 12th 06, 07:37 PM
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USB HDD reads for 1 min before being available
No virus checker enabled...
and it does this without having any files on the disk. It does feel like it's reading some stuff like Partition info or MBR Saying that, I have noticed that in the last few days, at least one of the drive seems to loose its connectivity, with a "Delayed writing failed" or something to that effect... Could it be the cables after all? David Vair wrote: Virus scanner checking the files?? -- Dave Vair CNE, CNA, MCP, A+, N+ wrote in message ups.com... Hi, Recently I have reformatted an external USB2 80GB 2.5" HDD (USB powered) using XP's disktools. One partition FAT32 (for compatibility). Since I have done this, every time I plug the drive in any of 3 PC's, the READ/WRITE light is on (rapid flickering) for about 20 seconds before the drive is recognised. I get the exact same behaviour with a 3.5" 250Gb Powered drive that I have similarly formatted in the same way, except that with this one it takes about a minute. I have read about bad cables and underpowered Hubs, but using two different cables (for the 2 drives) and having tested going direct without the HUB, it has to be something else. Is this something to do with XP formatting, or a parameter of the formatting process? Coudl it be a MBR issue?
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September 12th 06, 08:10 PM
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USB HDD reads for 1 min before being available
I would do a full check disk on the drives, have it check the system files sounds like there may be
something wrong the drive. -- Dave Vair CNE, CNA, MCP, A+, N+ wrote in message oups.com... No virus checker enabled... and it does this without having any files on the disk. It does feel like it's reading some stuff like Partition info or MBR Saying that, I have noticed that in the last few days, at least one of the drive seems to loose its connectivity, with a "Delayed writing failed" or something to that effect... Could it be the cables after all? David Vair wrote: Virus scanner checking the files?? -- Dave Vair CNE, CNA, MCP, A+, N+ wrote in message ups.com... Hi, Recently I have reformatted an external USB2 80GB 2.5" HDD (USB powered) using XP's disktools. One partition FAT32 (for compatibility). Since I have done this, every time I plug the drive in any of 3 PC's, the READ/WRITE light is on (rapid flickering) for about 20 seconds before the drive is recognised. I get the exact same behaviour with a 3.5" 250Gb Powered drive that I have similarly formatted in the same way, except that with this one it takes about a minute. I have read about bad cables and underpowered Hubs, but using two different cables (for the 2 drives) and having tested going direct without the HUB, it has to be something else. Is this something to do with XP formatting, or a parameter of the formatting process? Coudl it be a MBR issue?
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