Q: The hard drive in question is a Western Digital 30GB drive, Promise Ultra133 TX2 connected to a controller add-in. Ive got Norton SystemWorks installed. When I right-click on the trash, the hard drive is off and running again. When I try to right click it again right away, the menu will not appear again until the drive back online. Windows breaks a bit when the drive is acting stupid, but everything just works fine.
WD s obviously showed no diagnostic errors all.
This drive in another system, and they never no problems, Ive never seen anything like where previously they display a menu for a specific icon will cycle a hard drive.
Update: After performing the diagnosis of WDs site, which of course found no problems to find, as the reset only seems to happen in Windows , I ran the write-function zeros. Then I partitioned a full-it (even NTFS) formatted – now it does not reset the thing. Weird.
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Re:Ok, update:
Installed the new cable, and I removed the jumper. No change in the drive's behavior.
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Re:It's already using the latest driver from Promise, and the latest BIOS. I can try reinstalling the drivers though.
My power savings settings are at Always On – the drive never powers down until I right-click the Recycle Bin.
The Promise card and the HDD attached were in there when I installed Windows; it couldn't find a driver for it, so I installed that after WindowsXP and SP1 were fully installed. Then the drive attached also finally appeared.
You do have this Western Digital drive set with NO JUMPERS installed, don't you? They seem to like this best when there isn't any other drives involved. They have a bad habit of working sometimes and not others if they are set to Master on a single drive setup.
Not exactly – the jumper is on, but it's in that sideways Factory Default position. I'll try it without that, and with the new rounded cable I just got. SVC rules, and the post office is pretty good too! Ordered it on the 25th, it went out that day via First-Class mail – got here on the 28th. If I do Priority Mail from them – 2 days. UPS can't beat that.:)
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Re:<BTW> . . . forgot to mention in my first note . . . You do have this Western Digital drive set with NO JUMPERS installed, don't you? They seem to like this best when there isn't any other drives involved. They have a bad habit of working sometimes and not others if they are set to Master on a single drive setup.
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Re:Is it the only drive, or you have added it later (possibly as a slave)?
It could be something as funny as your power saving settings. It could go into "sleep" mode after some extremely small amount of time, so it has to bring it back to live. If it's a slave drive, check the path for the recycle bin location. Maybe, it's the only thing pointing to that drive out of all the shortcuts on the desktop
Also, it could be a power or some other setting for the pci bus devices (read-ahead type), since this drive sits on the pci plane through the controller card, instead of the standard EIDE channel. The methods of accessing those devices could be different than standard hd's.
Other than that … :confused:
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Re:Sounds like driver corruption. Go to Promise and get the latest driver for that card and install it.
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