On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:56 -0400, "John Sessoms" <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > From: "Brian Walters" > > G'day all > > > > For several months one of my external hard drives has been acting a bit > > 'flaky'. > > > > The drive is permanently attached to the PC but when the computer boots > > there is no sign of the drive in Windows Explorer. However, after about > > 10-15 minutes, the autoplay window magically appears and the operating > > system reads the drive, which then becomes available. The drive > > continues to work properly thereafter - until the next boot when the > > process starts over again. > > > > My question is whether the hard disk itself is on the way to hard disk > > hell or whether the drive controller is likely to be the culprit. Or > > could it be a faulty USB cable? Would it be worth extracting the drive > > from its case and try installing it in a new case? The drive is about > > three and a half years old. > > > > Note that I'm not relying on this drive as a primary back up any more, > > but it is convenient if it keeps working. And I'm just curious as to > > why the drive would be behaving like this. > > > > Is this perchance a Western Digital MyBook external drive? Perchance, it is. A My Book 500GB.
Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
