[pchelpers] Re: USB Portable Hardrive - PC does not start

Gerald Gollinger wrote:
> Scott and Cowboy
>  
> The  problem is when I plug in the USB cable to my PC or notebook the OS 
> stalls.  If I cannot access the OS what good is the peripheral?  On my vista 
> notebook I lost wifi and web access.  I already had word processed 
> instructions on how to restore.
> --- On Wed, 7/16/08, Gerald Gollinger <gerald3nyc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   


I found my problem.
Something is wrong with the USB port in front.
I plugged the drive in a port in the rear and now the drive shows up.

My son has been telling me for a long time that there was something 
wrong with the front USB
ports because some things just didn't work right.

This morning I was backing up to my USB backup drive and started getting 
a "Write delay failure" message.
I moved it to the back USB port and it worked just fine.

BTW FYI I have one of those tabletop DVD players that has a USB port. I 
can plug in a USB
Thumb drive and play videos (avi, divx) from the thumb drive.
But I never could get it to see a USB Hard Drive.
Then today I was reading off the net that I needed to format my USB 
Hard-drive to FAT32.
I did and now my Hard-drive works in the USB port.

Yea!! no more burning cds and dvds to watch a tv program that I recorded.
I just move them to the hard-drive and plug the drive to the USB port 
and watch them.


Dallas


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