Recent content by hcpe

No, I haven't tried installing the game on another drive, not sure I want to if it is causing harm to drives! How do I check the power options for hard drives in windows 7? All I can find are those stupid power profiles... iluvdeal, I may well have to try disconnect my other HDDs to try this...

Yep, chdsk has found nothing. The CPU is not overclocked, and not having any heat issues so that isn't it I don't think. How would I check for file table corruption? My PSU is 650W, which I would have thought would be enough? It seems strange that if it was a power problem that only 1 drive...

Hi Anita, thanks for the reply. Yeah, I have tried it on other sata ports, including on different circuits. Currently I have it on the same sata 3 port my SSD is on, and I have still had the same issue. That being said it doesn't seem to have happened since the last time I played Medieval 2, but...

OK, so the WD diagnostic tool has finished its complete test, and shows that there are no issues with the drive. Which only deepens the mystery as far as I can tell...

Hi all, this is a weird occurrence and I have never seen it before, but I will do my best to describe the issue. It all started a couple of months ago with an old 500GB WD HDD that would seemingly at random disconnect. It would usually still appear in explorer, but would be listed as either...

Awesome, thanks for that! I installed those drivers earlier but for whatever reason they didnt touch the USB hub. When I installed them again they did install, so who knows... Anyway, it worked, so thanks heaps for the advice!

Hi all, I have recently finished a new HTPC based on the Asrock A75 Pro4 - M motherboard, and all is working great with the exception of the rear USB 3 ports. As best as I can tell none of them are working. In device manager (windows 7 64 bit) there are two usb controllers showing up as...