whistlerdan
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I am running a SOny VAIO NV109 with an external hard drive that consists simply of a Hitachi deskstar 160gb in a box conected to the laptop via USB. Whilst running several programs this morning i was evidentally trying to get too much information down the usb 1 connection ( it supports usb 2 but i do not yet have that) . Windows showed several messages saying there was a delayed write error and that the data could be lost. The whole system slowed down and when i closed all the programs it then said it could not write to the external disk due to an i/o error. Rebooting my computer did not help, now the 2 partitions on the external disk do not show up in the "my computer" screen .
I am running xp
In the device manager there are no errors. It shows the drive as being plugged in and recognises it but will not give a size/space. I have tried various usb ports and uninstalled the drivers. They re-install immediately with no problem but it doesnt help.
Any thoughs would be appreciated , there was a lot of information on that disk!! I find it hard to believe that it isnt ther anymore but i cant get to it?!
I am running xp
In the device manager there are no errors. It shows the drive as being plugged in and recognises it but will not give a size/space. I have tried various usb ports and uninstalled the drivers. They re-install immediately with no problem but it doesnt help.
Any thoughs would be appreciated , there was a lot of information on that disk!! I find it hard to believe that it isnt ther anymore but i cant get to it?!