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Clint Comer · March 8th, 2005, 07:30 PM

Hey guys. I have a Maxtor one touch 200gb firewire/usb 2.0 ext hard drive and am having some issues. I will be transfering files or conforming files that I capture in Premiere pro and all of a sudden I get a write error pop in my task bar and the drive gets disconected from the pc. It still shows in hardware but it says it was shut down or something due to a problem. I defrag often and I run scan disk when I need to. Am I missing something? Am I doing something wrong? My project file is on a seprate drive and only the video files are on the ext drive. Plus the files that it says it can;t save on the dirve are folders that don;t exist. Like ones with $ in front of them. I am using XP and am not using the one touch software it came with. Any thoughts would help.

Rob Lohman · March 12th, 2005, 06:00 AM

I also have a Maxtor one touch (160 GB), and I must admit I had
a faulting drive (that was replaced).

In what way do you have it connected? Firewire or USB(2)?

What is the file system on the drive?

Steven Chow · March 14th, 2005, 08:36 PM

You should run some test with it to make sure its the drive not the computer. If its a firewire drive, plug in your DV camera and make sure your FW or USB card works. Every so often you'll get a Jacked or defective drive. I had one external fail on me once only because I dropped it, dough. Try pluging this drive into another computer.

David Macy-Beckwith · March 22nd, 2005, 09:59 PM

I just picked up a One-Touch 200GB a few weeks ago and had a couple of errors initially, but once I downloaded and installed the latest updates for Retrospect HD, it's behaved fine. It sounds like your write errors are somewhat intermittent and may be some form of timeout. The error code(s) may be useful. Do you remember what they were?

March 8th, 2005, 07:30 PM	#1
Clint Comer Regular Crew Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Surprise, AZ Posts: 144	External Hard drive Problems Hey guys. I have a Maxtor one touch 200gb firewire/usb 2.0 ext hard drive and am having some issues. I will be transfering files or conforming files that I capture in Premiere pro and all of a sudden I get a write error pop in my task bar and the drive gets disconected from the pc. It still shows in hardware but it says it was shut down or something due to a problem. I defrag often and I run scan disk when I need to. Am I missing something? Am I doing something wrong? My project file is on a seprate drive and only the video files are on the ext drive. Plus the files that it says it can;t save on the dirve are folders that don;t exist. Like ones with $ in front of them. I am using XP and am not using the one touch software it came with. Any thoughts would help. __________________ Vlog On! http://youtube.com/clintus

March 12th, 2005, 06:00 AM	#2
Rob Lohman RED Code Chef Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Holland Posts: 12,514	I also have a Maxtor one touch (160 GB), and I must admit I had a faulting drive (that was replaced). In what way do you have it connected? Firewire or USB(2)? What is the file system on the drive? __________________ Rob Lohman, visuar@iname.com DV Info Wrangler & RED Code Chef Join the DV Challenge \| Lady X Search DVinfo.net for quick answers \| Buy from the best: DVinfo.net sponsors

March 14th, 2005, 08:36 PM	#3
Steven Chow New Boot Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: California Posts: 21	You should run some test with it to make sure its the drive not the computer. If its a firewire drive, plug in your DV camera and make sure your FW or USB card works. Every so often you'll get a Jacked or defective drive. I had one external fail on me once only because I dropped it, dough. Try pluging this drive into another computer.

March 22nd, 2005, 09:59 PM	#4
David Macy-Beckwith Tourist Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Oceanside, CA Posts: 1	I just picked up a One-Touch 200GB a few weeks ago and had a couple of errors initially, but once I downloaded and installed the latest updates for Retrospect HD, it's behaved fine. It sounds like your write errors are somewhat intermittent and may be some form of timeout. The error code(s) may be useful. Do you remember what they were?