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re: External Hard Drive Causes System to Hang Monday, April 20, 2009 at 6:28 am Posted by Steve (23811 messages posted) My guess is your old Computer has usb 1 ports. That can cause that type problem with USB Drives. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: External Hard Drive Causes System to Hang Monday, April 20, 2009 at 6:53 am Posted by Jesse (20 messages posted) Yes it does have USB 1 ports. But the strange thing is, if you unplug it and uninstall the drivers a few times, it will work perfectly. It just has problems mounting the drive. On Monday, April 20, 2009 at 6:28 am, Steve wrote: >My guess is your old Computer has usb 1 ports. That can cause that type problem with >USB Drives. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: External Hard Drive Causes System to Hang Monday, April 20, 2009 at 7:01 am Posted by Steve (23811 messages posted) A usb 2.0 pci card will help, you also need sp 4 to solve some 48 bit addressing problems that windows has on Drives larger then 137 gigs. Doubt the old Computer is worth spending to much money on though. XP would take up half your Hard Drive before you installed any programs, and you really couldn't install much more. For about 35 bucks you could just replace the old 4 gig drive with a internal 120 gig drive, which is what I would do if I wanted to get another year or two out of the Computer. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: External Hard Drive Causes System to Hang Monday, April 20, 2009 at 12:38 pm Posted by Jesse (20 messages posted) I already have Service Pack 4 and I added the registry setting for enabling the 48 bit support. I might go buy the USB card. I looked online and they aren't incredibly expensive. I'm just using it as an inexpensive network storage server. The computer itself works perfectly fine for what I need it for so I really don't want to replace it just yet. On Monday, April 20, 2009 at 7:01 am, Steve wrote: >A usb 2.0 pci card will help, you also need sp 4 to solve some 48 bit addressing >problems that windows has on Drives larger then 137 gigs. Doubt the old Computer >is worth spending to much money on though. XP would take up half your Hard Drive >before you installed any programs, and you really couldn't install much more. For >about 35 bucks you could just replace the old 4 gig drive with a internal 120 gig >drive, which is what I would do if I wanted to get another year or two out of the >Computer. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: External Hard Drive Causes System to Hang (resolved) Monday, April 20, 2009 at 8:10 pm Posted by Jesse (20 messages posted) Alright, everything seems to work perfectly now. I bought a USB 2.0 PCI card and now everything works smoothly. Thanks! 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. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: External Hard Drive Causes System to Hang Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 7:45 am 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. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum