[KeyStroke]

I have a new enclosed 3.5" external 250GB HDD. In my desktop, I could not format it. The progress goes until the end and then it says something like "could not complete format". Even when I run diagnoses software on it, it hardly response and works real slow.

So I plugged the HDD into my laptop, and it was working perfectly fine. I was able to format it and transfer files to and from it, even though both systems use Windows XP Pro.

Why is this happening? any idea?

your help is much appreciated

 

[etaf]

what happens now its formated in the PC

do you know what USB you have on PC - 1.1 or 2

 

[KeyStroke]

the USB is 2

Even after i use the formatted HDD on my PC, it takes some time to detect it, and then i can open the drive and see the files, but i can't move any of them because i keep getting an error saying something like "file could not be found" or "could not be accessed" or something like that.

Note that I can use my flash disks just fine.

 

[KeyStroke]

I solved it!

I was using a USB extension (the cable that makes your USB cable taller), but then I removed it and plugged the driver directly and it worked. What the hell...? anyone can explain this??

 

[Rich-M]

Perhaps extension is not 2.0? Is it old?

 

[KeyStroke]

I think it's been here since 2003, so yea, I guess, although it was working just fine before.

I don't know why it result in I/O errors if it's USB1. I thought only the speed should be affected.

 

[Rich-M]

Cables die easily....