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| Thread ID: 121660 | 2011-11-05 01:32:00 | USB3 drive not present after PC boot | BBCmicro (15761) | Press F1 |
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| 1241982 | 2011-11-09 23:11:00 | On a side note, if I remember rightly, it's Lord Percy not Baldrick who compares the Infanta's eyes to the Stone Of Galveston! :D | KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1241983 | 2011-11-09 23:33:00 | (Had 79 critical events overnight :horrified All caused by Win7 WindowsSearchIndexer trying to index the content on an XP boot disc I had connected) Probably it was just unable to scan them due to having no permissions, I'd just ignore them. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1241984 | 2011-11-09 23:43:00 | On a side note, if I remember rightly, it's Lord Percy not Baldrick who compares the Infanta's eyes to the Stone Of Galveston! :D You are right. (I just checked.) I was quoting from memory. What brought it to mind was something Mrs Micro said: I had asked her where Princess Bay was, mentioned in the paper. She said she didn't know. Earlier I had asked her where Goat Point was (a long-standing point of confusion for Wellingtonians). She said she didn't know. When she said she didn't know where Princess Bay was, I suggested it was near Goat Point. "Oh no," she said. "It's not near there." "So let me get this right. Some place you don't know where it is... is not near... some other place you don't know where it is?!" |
BBCmicro (15761) | ||
| 1241985 | 2011-11-10 00:40:00 | Problem solved :) (USB3 drive now automatically appears in Explorer when I boot the computer) The WD guy told me to format it. I wasn't inclined to believe him because the drive worked in every way apart from the boot problem. I formatted it to x0.99, as per my normal practice, and it worked. |
BBCmicro (15761) | ||
| 1241986 | 2011-11-10 03:20:00 | I would not have expected that to fix it - will have to remember that one! | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1241987 | 2011-11-10 07:23:00 | Glad your problem is fixed (not that I was any help!:D ) | KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1241988 | 2011-11-10 20:52:00 | I would not have expected that to fix it - You are right to be sceptical. Although it booted OK this morning, there was one boot yesterday - after the format - when it didn't. I'm also puzzled by the absence of a WD status indicator in the notifications area. When I used this drive on my previous MB (P55A) there was a small WD panel bottom right which gave the temperature status of the drive (possibly that it had shut down due to overheating? I never got that). This panel is totally absent on my new Z68 MB, even before driver, firmware and format changes Both MBs used the same Win7pro64 but the P55A used the NEC USB chip whereas the Z68 uses Etron EJ168 |
BBCmicro (15761) | ||
| 1241989 | 2011-11-10 21:15:00 | I would expect that your WD status indicator icon will be a program you need to install separately, and should either be on the drive itself, or downloadable from Western Digital. Then again, look what happened last time I expected something! |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1241990 | 2011-11-10 21:57:00 | Then again, look what happened last time I expected something! No you are right! I've been Googling. Seems the status indicator is part of an app called Smartware which is primarily for backup. I must have installed it when I first got the drive and connected it to my old MB. Smartware seems to put a VCD (for recovery purposes?) on the drive So finally we might have an answer to this problem: My previous installation of Smartware on the old MB did not work/was corrupt when I attached the drive to my new MB. Formatting was the answer after all... |
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