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USB HD Problems
Name: Dvorak Date: August 20, 2008 at 04:00:09 Pacific OS: W2kSP4 CPU/Ram: PIV 3ghz/4gb DDR2 Product: Custom
Comment:
Hi all,
I have a 160 gig external usb wd elements hard drive which until recetly worked great. But now, whenever I try to write to it, windows crashes completely needing a hard poweroff.
I think I caused this by messing around in the registry with a different usb drive, trying to make it support surprise removal, or when I opened usbstor.sys in notepad.
How can I fix this problem? I know it is not H/W as linux writes to it fine. Could I just try to delete all references to the drive in the regitsry and plug it in as new hardware?
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