A wandering external drive


  1. markg2
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    A wandering external drive


    I have a 2T external USB drive connected to my wife's Win7 machine.

    The drive has developed the habit of disappearing from explorer requiring either a physical disconnect/reconnect of the USB attachment or a reboot of the machine.

    How do you determine if the problem source is the drive or the machine?

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  3. archer
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    Hi,

    Try the method mentioned in this article. Might fix your issue.
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  4. markg2
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    Good reference--I changed to drive's policy to enable the constant read/write and will hold off pending results.
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