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is my harddrive enclosure the problem?

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L1FE

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So I thought my original harddrive in my BYTECC USB2.0 external enclosure was fooked since it was a 3 year old 40 gig IBM deathstar that had seen a lot of wear and tear (it was my primary music disk and bittorrent holder). Lately it's been acting up on me in the sense that if I was doing something on bittorrent my harddrive would just disappear (getting disk errors in system logs). If I was listening to music and I opened up warcraft 3 there was a 100% chance that the harddrive would disappear.

So I went to Fry's got a 160 gig for 69.99 (I love Fry's) and popped that new one into my external and the same thing happens! I'm thinking of a few things right now:

1. my usb2.0 is crapping out
2. my external casing is crapping out
3. my power supply is crapping out

However, I have an antec truepower 550 so I really don't think it's the power supply (stable rails and all). My usb2.0 ports have been working fine (mobo is ASUS a7n8x-e deluxe), but maybe something is wrong with the mobo since I recently switched to onboard audio?

Anyway, suggestions?
 
just as an update....the old harddrive does indeed work. i think it's just the harddrive overheating then, but if that's the case, is it a normal thing for the computer to just stop recognizing it?
 
Originally posted by: L1FE
So I thought my original harddrive in my BYTECC USB2.0 external enclosure was fooked since it was a 3 year old 40 gig IBM deathstar that had seen a lot of wear and tear (it was my primary music disk and bittorrent holder). Lately it's been acting up on me in the sense that if I was doing something on bittorrent my harddrive would just disappear (getting disk errors in system logs). If I was listening to music and I opened up warcraft 3 there was a 100% chance that the harddrive would disappear.

So I went to Fry's got a 160 gig for 69.99 (I love Fry's) and popped that new one into my external and the same thing happens! I'm thinking of a few things right now:

1. my usb2.0 is crapping out
2. my external casing is crapping out
3. my power supply is crapping out

However, I have an antec truepower 550 so I really don't think it's the power supply (stable rails and all). My usb2.0 ports have been working fine (mobo is ASUS a7n8x-e deluxe), but maybe something is wrong with the mobo since I recently switched to onboard audio?

Anyway, suggestions?
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What does the event log say? Post the errors.

If you put the drive inside your computer, does the same thing happen?
 
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