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I hate computers
May. 12th, 2011 11:38 pmGot a 2 TB external drive to back up stuff and allow transporting data and vital files.
I was having real problems getting the huge amounts of data transferred. Windows would keep popping up "unsafe removal of drive" and the like. I thought it was the cheap USB card or something.
To fix it, you'd have to shut off the drive and restart it, then pick up the transfer from where uyou left opff.
Well a couple days ago, I had to dig a drive out of Fay's mostly dead system which I;'d been using as a stand for the external drives I was transferring files between.
So, when I moved it back, I'd accidentally dropped the cable for the 2 TB drive. There was another USB cable that I'd used for something else, and that I knew was connected to the back of the computer on the same card. So I used it.
All the problems went away. Seems it was the cable I'd been using that was the problem. The cable that CAME WITH THE DRIVE!!!
Grrrrr.
I was having real problems getting the huge amounts of data transferred. Windows would keep popping up "unsafe removal of drive" and the like. I thought it was the cheap USB card or something.
To fix it, you'd have to shut off the drive and restart it, then pick up the transfer from where uyou left opff.
Well a couple days ago, I had to dig a drive out of Fay's mostly dead system which I;'d been using as a stand for the external drives I was transferring files between.
So, when I moved it back, I'd accidentally dropped the cable for the 2 TB drive. There was another USB cable that I'd used for something else, and that I knew was connected to the back of the computer on the same card. So I used it.
All the problems went away. Seems it was the cable I'd been using that was the problem. The cable that CAME WITH THE DRIVE!!!
Grrrrr.
