USB Drive in Win 2K3 Server Problem

Collider

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I'm having a with my USB drive in Windows 2003 server.

Heres my system specs:

P4 2Ghz, 1Gb ram
30g - System drive (OS and program files), IDE pri
160g - Storage and network shares, IDE sec
500g - Backup & xtra storage, external SATAII on USB2
Windows 2003 Server R2, all updates current
MySQL Server, IIS, File server role

The problem is with the 500g SATA usb drive. Drive will run ok after a reboot, but after a while explorer stops responding whenever trying to access anything on that drive. The only way get out of that is to turn off/on the power on the drive. Also I often get a windows msg "windows could not save on the drive, disk may be corrupted" after I turn off/on drive works fine.

I tryed to reformat many times. I even have another identical 500gig drive which had the same exact problem, so I'm def sure its not a hardware fault, but more windows2k3 settings. This setup worked perfectly fine in XP pro.

Is there some setting I must change in order to run external drives correctly?
 

Collider

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My power option is set to always on, disks and everything..

What should I check for theres nothing about the port in the drive properties???

 

robisbell

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no, no. go to Device Manager, and check the usb port settings, and also, your power saving disable it from powering down HDD. also while in device manager, with the drive plugged in, check the settings listed for it.

make and model of this external drive.
 

Collider

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Was able to find the settings you are talking about.

But turns out the problem is much simpler... the SATA cable fits really tightly with the enclosure, after playing around with it turns out the cable is busted after I twisted it a bit it just tore off... so now I gota either look for a new enclosure or find this where i can buy this custom cable...

Thanx for ur help =)