External USB 2.0 HDD is offline after connection to PC

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Hello everybody,

I've got a small problem. I shortly got an external case for HDDs with
an USB 2.0 port. When I connect it to my PC running W2k-SP4 it's
recognized and everything is well. The only thing I don't like is, that
the device is offline first, so I always have to open the Disk Manager
and change the state of the HDD from offline to online by reactivating
it.

So here's the question: is there any possibility that the HDD gets
activated automatically as soon as I connect it to my PC?

In my opinion it just should behave as it would be an USB-Stick which
just gets itself the drive-letters and reactivates internally.

And, oh yeah, I assigned the drive-letters to partitions.

One more fact that could be interesting is the following:
the HDD inside the USB-case was an internal one, I just moved it from
my main tower case to the USB-case, so it was already formatted and
partitioned. I don't think that this is so much important, but who
knows, maybe it can help to diagnose the problem.

Thanks a lot in advance,
Bimbom


bimbom
 
Hello everybody,

I've got a small problem. I shortly got an external case for HDDs with
an USB 2.0 port. When I connect it to my PC running W2k-SP4 it's
recognized and everything is well. The only thing I don't like is, that
the device is offline first, so I always have to open the Disk Manager
and change the state of the HDD from offline to online by reactivating
it.

So here's the question: is there any possibility that the HDD gets
activated automatically as soon as I connect it to my PC?

In my opinion it just should behave as it would be an USB-Stick which
just gets itself the drive-letters and reactivates internally.

And, oh yeah, I assigned the drive-letters to partitions.

One more fact that could be interesting is the following:
the HDD inside the USB-case was an internal one, I just moved it from
my main tower case to the USB-case, so it was already formatted and
partitioned. I don't think that this is so much important, but who
knows, maybe it can help to diagnose the problem.

Thanks a lot in advance,
Bimbom


bimbom
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Is the drive Dynamic or Basic? If Dynamic that is the problem.

Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team
 
yes, it's dynamic... any way to chenge it without reformat? or at leas
with reformat.... what's the difference? can an external plug'n'pla
device be basic and not dynamic?

thanks in advanc

bimbo
 
yes, it's dynamic... any way to chenge it without reformat? or at least
with reformat.... what's the difference? can an external plug'n'play
device be basic and not dynamic?

thanks in advance


bimbom
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No I am afraid you can't change it back to Basic without deleting the
partitions. Through Disk Managment when you "revert to basic" that is
what it does. You want any drive to be Basic unless you are doing
software RAID in Windows 2000. That is the only reason to do Dynamic.
Doesn't matter how the drive is connected. Some people rountinely change
all their drives to Dynamic when they shouldn't do that.

Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team
 
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