| Old PC and USB 2.0 PCI Card [message #290793] |
Tue, 16 October 2007 10:55  |
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Ok. So I'm on my old and dying machine (Some sort of socket 478 motherboard with a BIOS last revised in feb of 2002) and I installed a PCI USB 2.0 card that I had lying around so I could use modern hardware, and it installed just fine, it's present in device manager, and I can connect things and Windows finds them.
The problem is, when I connect my USB Hard Disk (An Iomega Silver Series 250GB edition) - Windows goes all weird. It finds and mounts the disk just fine... but if I try to load something, it just gives up and complains about "Delayed write failed - G:\$MFT" or something.
However, I can connect and use my Cruzer USB key just fine, and it loads perfectly. Windows isn't popping up it's normal "This device can perform faster" message, so it's at USB 2.0 speed.
The only difference I can think of is that my USB key is formatted in FAT32 (So I can get at it on just about anything) whilst the drive is formatted in NTFS (I cannot reformat this, it's got soo much on it, more than I can back up)
Any ideas?!
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| halokid wrote on Mon, 11 October 2010 08:46 |
| R315r4z0r wrote on Mon, 11 October 2010 15:35 |
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the hell is that?
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| Re: Old PC and USB 2.0 PCI Card [message #291165 is a reply to message #290793] |
Thu, 18 October 2007 04:30  |
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Are you sure that both machines are running the same version of NTFS? Also, try running chkdsk on the external drive, as it seems that your master file table is a little wonky.
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| Re: Old PC and USB 2.0 PCI Card [message #291413 is a reply to message #291214] |
Fri, 19 October 2007 04:42 |
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That is determined by the version of Windows the drive was formatted under.
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| Re: Old PC and USB 2.0 PCI Card [message #291806 is a reply to message #290793] |
Sun, 21 October 2007 04:35 |
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Sounds like something has either happened to a) the drive or b) the filesystem on the drive. If you can mount it on another machine, copy all the files on that drive over to another and then reformat it. If that doesn't fix the issue, I'd say the drive is going kaput.
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| Re: Old PC and USB 2.0 PCI Card [message #295772 is a reply to message #290793] |
Fri, 09 November 2007 10:51 |
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Woot, double posted bump!
I've fixed it. The issue was the length of USB cable I was using, it appears that this old PC cannot manage powering a cable over that distance through the PCI bus, where as my mum's old (2003-4) laptop could, as can the modern stuff in my house.
I read somewhere the maximum cable length was 5M, this was about 4.
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| BBC news, quoting... |
Supporters of Proposition 8 will argue California does not discriminate against gays, as the current law allows them to get married - as long as they wed a partner of the opposite sex.
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| halokid wrote on Mon, 11 October 2010 08:46 |
| R315r4z0r wrote on Mon, 11 October 2010 15:35 |
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the hell is that?
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