Computer issue
Yo all,
Guess I will throw this out here and see what it can turn up. Hate to make this journal just about tech troubles, but here goes. This is a really weird issue.
So today (Sunday) I was copying some files from my digital camera to my computer. At the same time I was loading a bittorrent file that was rather large. So the computer was chugging a bit but I was sitting back for the most part and waiting for it to finish.
Then all of a sudden my computer says "Path I:/$msft write has failed. Data has been lost." So I'm like ??? and check, and my drives are all still showing up. Anyhow, I then try to access my music drive, which is a Western Digital Essential My Book 250 GB external HDD, and it's contents are blank. The heck?
So I restart. Then my drive won't shut off automatically (the HD drives are supposed to shut off with the computer). Then when my computer reboots it says "USB Unknown device, searching...device could not be found because it has malfunctioned." Huh???
And then my printer (similarly connected via a USB cable) is "unknown and malfunctioned" as well. But my USB mouse is fine...
Checking the hardware, Holly's PC recognizes my USB HDD and my printer fine, as does my Apple. When I try to eject the HDD though it ejects from the system, but the drive does not turn off automatically (as, mentioned before, it is supposed to). I have to shut it off manually.
So I try uninstalling the USB drivers, rebooting in safe mode, uninstalling them there as well as hidden devices. Then I reboot to Windows.
Still the same problem.
Also, my OTHER external HDD, a Seagate, was unplugged at the time this happened. So I tried plugging it into my PC to see and...sure enough, it has "malfunctioned" also.
Anyhow I am doubting it is my hardware that is at issue here, but I have tried to uninstall and reinstall the USB drivers multiple times but with no luck. Does anyone out there have any insight into this issue? I suppose the last resort is the fix-all "clean install" but hope it doesn't come to that. Hard to believe Windows would just up and fux up its own USB ports...oh wait, no it isn't.
Thanks dudes,
Chris
Guess I will throw this out here and see what it can turn up. Hate to make this journal just about tech troubles, but here goes. This is a really weird issue.
So today (Sunday) I was copying some files from my digital camera to my computer. At the same time I was loading a bittorrent file that was rather large. So the computer was chugging a bit but I was sitting back for the most part and waiting for it to finish.
Then all of a sudden my computer says "Path I:/$msft write has failed. Data has been lost." So I'm like ??? and check, and my drives are all still showing up. Anyhow, I then try to access my music drive, which is a Western Digital Essential My Book 250 GB external HDD, and it's contents are blank. The heck?
So I restart. Then my drive won't shut off automatically (the HD drives are supposed to shut off with the computer). Then when my computer reboots it says "USB Unknown device, searching...device could not be found because it has malfunctioned." Huh???
And then my printer (similarly connected via a USB cable) is "unknown and malfunctioned" as well. But my USB mouse is fine...
Checking the hardware, Holly's PC recognizes my USB HDD and my printer fine, as does my Apple. When I try to eject the HDD though it ejects from the system, but the drive does not turn off automatically (as, mentioned before, it is supposed to). I have to shut it off manually.
So I try uninstalling the USB drivers, rebooting in safe mode, uninstalling them there as well as hidden devices. Then I reboot to Windows.
Still the same problem.
Also, my OTHER external HDD, a Seagate, was unplugged at the time this happened. So I tried plugging it into my PC to see and...sure enough, it has "malfunctioned" also.
Anyhow I am doubting it is my hardware that is at issue here, but I have tried to uninstall and reinstall the USB drivers multiple times but with no luck. Does anyone out there have any insight into this issue? I suppose the last resort is the fix-all "clean install" but hope it doesn't come to that. Hard to believe Windows would just up and fux up its own USB ports...oh wait, no it isn't.
Thanks dudes,
Chris