External Hard Drive Causes System to Hang
Sunday, April 19, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jesse
(20 messages posted)
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.
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