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Problems when using e-SATA cable with my External HD
OS: Windows 7: Home Premium 64-bit
External HD: Western Digital My Notebook Home Edition 1 Tb Model# WD10000H1CS-00
Motherboard: ASUS M2N-SLIDELUXE
Problem: When I use the e-sata cable on my external HD half of the time I'll experience data corruption or what seems like data corruption exg. pictures will not open in Irfanview (gives a missing handle error etc.), picture thumbnails are wrong and show incomplete pictures. After I took the e-SATA cable off and put it back onto the setup I had before using the firewire cable I don't have the error handles and files not loading etc.
I like how the e-sata cable is a bit faster than the firewire cable but this is a problem I can't seem to understand. Can someone tell me what to do in this scenario?
I've seen things about the JMICRON drivers or something like that but I don't want to mess around with anything especially essential drivers if I don't know what I'm doing. also I might add that I am running everything in IDE. AHCI wouldn't work when I changed to that in the BIOS. I got a "cannot locate operating system" error.