re: External Hard Drive Causes System to Hang Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 7:45 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by DEX (11847 messages posted) Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites Click Here I see you got it up and running,that's great.. here's some links you may want check out.. http://www.surpluscomputers.com/348368/maxtor-250gb-eide-hard-drive.html http://www.surpluscomputers.com/348171/maxtor-200gb-eide-hard-drive.html http://www.surpluscomputers.com/348039/western-digital-250gb-sata-hard.html ======== Are you a wood worker ?,if so Click Here On Sunday, April 19, 2009 at 9:14 pm, Jesse wrote: >I've got a bit of a problem here. I have a Western Digital My Book 500 GB Hard Drive. >The machine I'm currently on uses a 4 GB hard drive to boot from and obviously that >isn't nearly large enough. But everytime I plug in the external hard drive, it will >cause the system to hang and do nothing, but once you remove it, everything will >continue as normal for no explicit reason. Sometimes after unplugging it and plugging >it back in, it will work perfectly. Then randomly sometimes, it will show up, but >as a 4 PETABYTE hard drive which is just insane! > >Has anyone gotten a large hard drive like this to work with Windows 2000 over USB? >Thanks. The drive works perfectly with any system using XP or higher, even though >Western digital said it should work with Windows 2000 (and it does, but its not very >reliable at all.) I would rather not upgrade to XP, but I will if I need to. Written in response to: External Hard Drive Causes System to Hang (Jesse: Sunday, April 19, 2009 at 9:14 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] External Hard Drive Causes System to Hang (Jesse: Sun, Apr 19, 2009, 9:14 pm) re: External Hard Drive Causes System to Hang (Steve: Mon, Apr 20, 2009, 6:28 am) re: External Hard Drive Causes System to Hang (Jesse: Mon, Apr 20, 2009, 6:53 am) re: External Hard Drive Causes System to Hang (Steve: Mon, Apr 20, 2009, 7:01 am) re: External Hard Drive Causes System to Hang (Jesse: Mon, Apr 20, 2009, 12:38 pm) re: External Hard Drive Causes System to Hang (resolved) (Jesse: Mon, Apr 20, 2009, 8:10 pm) re: External Hard Drive Causes System to Hang (DEX: Tue, Apr 21, 2009, 7:45 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum