My neighbor upgraded to 7 and he couldn't access his external USB drive, which worked on any other computer he had. He had several people look at the problem ($$$) and couldn't fix it! Including Edmond Wash. As this was one of his business systems he was screwed................
So I put a new drive in the computer, and loaded XP Pro. Everything is working great. I even put the internal drive that was in the laptop in a small carrier, and we can access the files in XP. We've consolidated files off of the previous Drive C and files from his USB drive into a backup location, and cloned a spare Drive C for him.
Bob's a business owner and understands "Quality". So It will be a cold day in hell, before he moves off of XP pro. He's so fed up with Bill Gates "crap" he looking at moving to MAC.
Frustrated......
Win 7 Power set up assigns 20 minutes to external drives. After 20 minutes of non-use it spins it down.
But it seems not to have a method to restart it when you want it. The answer is to go to this power setup and set it to "never"
I went crazy for a week until I found this on a forum.
CB,
I had the same problem about a year ago with OS X 10.5. I had an extra 500gb external harddrive hanging around and I read (everywhere) that I could connect it to the USB port of my Airport Extreme base station and it would become an automatically networked storage device.
Didn't work as planned, though, because of the very same spin-down problem you encountered on Seven.
However, I was given (by my brother-in-law) a 1 Tb Lacie external drive a month ago, and decided to try it again now that I had a new drive and upgraded to 10.6.
Darn thing has been working just fine for a month!
Pete
posted by PM1948
over 2 years ago
CB, thanks for the update on the issue! I find this interesting as several weeks ago the MS experts didn't know what the problem was, nor how to fix it! Wonder if they know now!!!
Pete, you'll love having a large drive.............. The only problem is finding the stuff once you have saved it to the drive. You'll have to become a librarian to keep track of all your stuff! I have a 1 TB NAS Buffalo drive down in a closet! Works great! Everyone can save stuff to it! And I don't have to worry about those Oh S..... problems anymore when someone deletes something............
My old USB Wacom Intuos has quit working under Win7. It has been flawless for years under XP Pro and before, and if I remember correctly, it dates back to Win 95. (I have skipped a couple of upgrades and never had Vista.)
This is a real PITA. I use that tablet every day. I never had a problem with Win 95 or XP Pro, but it looks likes it.s my turn now.
