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workinonit · 04-11-2008, 10:15 AM

I am not an expert but I wanted to share with you that I have been battling this exact problem for a month now and I was at the point of throwing my computer out of the window. I have no idea if this is the fix but you could try it.
I have an external Intel 80g hard drive that just stop showing up and was acting like what you described. I also had an annoying problem with my office trying to reinstall. When I followed a friends advice to fix the office problem it also fixed the hard drive problem like a charm.
I uninstalled the hard drive completley.
did a search (including hidden files) for any normal.dot files and removed them.
THAT'S IT
easy huh--I am so excited! haha
let me know if it works for you.

04-11-2008, 10:15 AM	#3 (permalink)
workinonit Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 14 OS: winXP	Re: I/O device error I am not an expert but I wanted to share with you that I have been battling this exact problem for a month now and I was at the point of throwing my computer out of the window. I have no idea if this is the fix but you could try it. I have an external Intel 80g hard drive that just stop showing up and was acting like what you described. I also had an annoying problem with my office trying to reinstall. When I followed a friends advice to fix the office problem it also fixed the hard drive problem like a charm. I uninstalled the hard drive completley. did a search (including hidden files) for any normal.dot files and removed them. THAT'S IT easy huh--I am so excited! haha let me know if it works for you.