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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Mr. Kennedy on October 09, 2005, 07:14:50 AM

Title: HD Problems
Post by: Mr. Kennedy on October 09, 2005, 07:14:50 AM

My external HD is giving me problems.  When I load it up it\'s fine, but when I try and run anything or copy stuff to it, my computer stops dectecting it.  I don\'t know what to do.

Title: HD Problems
Post by: mjps21983 on October 09, 2005, 08:31:55 AM

What type is it?

Title: HD Problems
Post by: videoholic on October 09, 2005, 01:10:30 PM

Let me guess.....

Seagate.

Title: HD Problems
Post by: mjps21983 on October 09, 2005, 02:40:38 PM

That\'s what I was thinking saw lots of things out there when I google\'d it about Seagate.

Title: HD Problems
Post by: Evi on October 09, 2005, 02:46:57 PM

HDD...

Title: HD Problems
Post by: videoholic on October 09, 2005, 04:53:57 PM

Yeah.  I lost a hell of a lot of pictures of Logan growing up when my Seagate went down.

Title: HD Problems
Post by: Evi on October 09, 2005, 04:55:16 PM

Back up EVERYTHING! Seagate blows. I\'m sorry you lost all that stuff. At least you still have the memories...

Title: HD Problems
Post by: THX on October 09, 2005, 09:04:44 PM

I think Seagate rocks.  Maxtor and IBM have both given me problems, so you\'d be hard pressed to find one company everyone can agree on.

Seagate offers a 5yr warranty on everything they sell so look into that.

Title: HD Problems
Post by: Evi on October 09, 2005, 09:12:21 PM

5 year warranties are always nice.

Title: HD Problems
Post by: Mr. Kennedy on October 09, 2005, 09:16:14 PM

It\'s maxtor BTW... and I think its the connection.  It works fine with my USB connection, albeit a lot slower (cause its USB 1.0), but with my firewire it just dies out...

Title: HD Problems
Post by: Paul2 on October 09, 2005, 11:11:19 PM

oh, I was going to asked you the other day if its may have to do with USB connection but I didn\'t because I didn\'t think it might have to do with USB.

So, that explains it.  Your computer only support USB 1.1 or something?

Hey I am curious now, say if you have two device that are USB 2 compatible, say a computer with USB 2 port and a HDD with USB 2, does it matter if whatever cable you use, you still can transfer the speed of USB 2?

Does cable matter too?  Or does it also require a USB 2 compliance cable in order to support USB 2 speed?

Title: HD Problems
Post by: Mr. Kennedy on October 10, 2005, 08:26:05 AM

the cables are the same...

i bought the firewire card at CompUSA so go figure...

I figure i\'ll probably be getting a new computer soon anyway.

Title: HD Problems
Post by: Paul2 on October 10, 2005, 09:13:42 AM

so, you are saying that you can use any USB cable and it can support speed of 12 Mbps or 480 Mbps just as long as the device support that speed of either 12 Mbits (USB 1.1) or 480 Mbits (USB 2).

it\'s device dependant only, not cable dependant.  If so, that\'s cool.

Title: HD Problems
Post by: THX on October 10, 2005, 10:22:18 AM

Did you think about getting a new ~$15 USB 2.0 PCI card and removing the firewire one?

Title: HD Problems
Post by: Mr. Kennedy on October 10, 2005, 11:39:12 AM

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Originally posted by THX
Did you think about getting a new ~$15 USB 2.0 PCI card and removing the firewire one?

but my iPod...

I have no more PCI slots left..

it\'s ok I\'m getting a new computer soon.

Title: HD Problems
Post by: THX on October 10, 2005, 12:21:16 PM

new compy sounds like the best way but just fyi there are firewire/usb 2.0 combo cards, and you can get a USB cable for the ipod.

I\'d still rather get a new PC tho ;)