Could have been just a hiccup. One data point does not a trend make.
Keep an eye on it, but as you know with computers sh** happens.
Vincent Winterling
Vineland, NJ
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From: simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com
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Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 3:08 PM
To: simplycomputers2
Subject: [Simply Computers] Seagate expansion drive "disappeared"
I've been backing up to a 500 GB Seagate Expansion drive for 11 months with
no problems. Acronis True Image Home runs every afternoon. In all aspects,
my Win XP computer is running fine. Last night, as usual, I shut down with
hibernate. When I booted up this morning and opened a program that prompts
a backup every few days, it said it could not locate the backup folder.
Windows was not seeing the Seagate drive. Later, I discovered Acronis had
not successfully completed yesterday's differential backup.
Plugging the drive's USB cable into a different port didn't help. I ran
three crucial backups to a second external drive (a 7-year-old Maxtor --
what a workhorse!), and called Seagate. The technician simply had me unplug
both the USB cable AND the power cord, wait a few seconds, plug them back
in, and voila!, Windows sees the drive.
So I'm wondering why this happened. If there were a problem with the power
strip, why did it affect only one of the eight things plugged into it?
Would a drive that's about to crash exhibit this behavior? The drive is
only about 40% full right now, so that's not the problem. When an external
drive "disappears" and needs to be re-powered up, does this point to some
other problem with my computer or OS?
Thanks, SB
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/simplycomputers2
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