Watch... as my hard drive disappears...

1921680151 · 05-07-2009, 08:35 PM

I got tired of slow USB transfer speeds between my 500GB Maxtor OneTouch4 and my desktop so i took the hard drive out of the enclosure and added it as a secondary internal drive in the desktop. It showed up in vista right away and greatly increased transfer speeds etc. However, after varying amounts of time it unmounts itself and doesn't show up in my computer, disk management, or device manager. sometimes it doesn't even show up on reboot. I can bring it back by going to device manager and refreshing devices and it comes back no problem and i can easily access the data until it gets lazy and disappears again.

Any suggestions on how to make it stay?

Thx

tom7343 · 05-08-2009, 07:08 AM

How about looking in "System Log" while your in Computer Management for any errors. "Software Log" again.
Hint..Right click on error and write down message and put it right into "Google" search just as you wrote it.
Easy way.. Leave your Log file Collapsed and go back and forth(Log/Google) with every error you find. There is a huge amount of information about errors at your fingertips. Google start with "error" and enter message.
Sometimes you get a good feeling about fixing things.
Good luck
tom

05-07-2009, 08:35 PM	#1 (permalink)
1921680151 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 11 OS: vista , ubuntu intrepid	Watch... as my hard drive disappears... I got tired of slow USB transfer speeds between my 500GB Maxtor OneTouch4 and my desktop so i took the hard drive out of the enclosure and added it as a secondary internal drive in the desktop. It showed up in vista right away and greatly increased transfer speeds etc. However, after varying amounts of time it unmounts itself and doesn't show up in my computer, disk management, or device manager. sometimes it doesn't even show up on reboot. I can bring it back by going to device manager and refreshing devices and it comes back no problem and i can easily access the data until it gets lazy and disappears again. Any suggestions on how to make it stay? Thx __________________ There is no spoon

05-08-2009, 07:08 AM	#2 (permalink)
tom7343 Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Location: Seattle WA. Posts: 14 OS: XP-SerPK-3/Linux-SuSe 10.3	Re: Watch... as my hard drive disappears... How about looking in "System Log" while your in Computer Management for any errors. "Software Log" again. Hint..Right click on error and write down message and put it right into "Google" search just as you wrote it. Easy way.. Leave your Log file Collapsed and go back and forth(Log/Google) with every error you find. There is a huge amount of information about errors at your fingertips. Google start with "error" and enter message. Sometimes you get a good feeling about fixing things. Good luck tom