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RMS
'Mmtask (not responding).'
That's what I get everytime on the 'Close program window' when I press the control-alt-del keys whenever I try to transfer data to
my external 20Gig Buslink harddrive. My machine freezes up. Then I have to turn the machine off and restart---can't reboot or
nothing!
The Buslink drive is the 'H' drive on my computer (Compaq Presario 4880, running Windows 98-Not W98se).
I have three other drives (other than the 'C' drive).
A 100 MB Zip drive. (E).
A 250 MB Zip drive (F).
And a internal CD writer drive (G).
And of course a 3 1/2 Floppy "A" drive.
I have checked and re-checked all connections. I have replaced the USB cable (with another USB cable) that feeds the "H" drive. No
change.
Something else I've noticed when I go to Start>programs>Find.
When the Find: All Files window comes up. On the drop down menu in the 'Look in' box. On the line-'Local hard drives', there shows
both a C and H drive. (C:,H
on the same line.
Then after all the other listed drives, on the bottom line of the drop down menu is the 'H' drive sitting by itself (H.
That seems a little strange.
Also this 'H' drive has never been defragged since I installed it about two years ago. Both Norton and Iomega defrag seem to hang up
whenever I try to use them. And Buslink has no instructions on this.
Is there a way to do a defrag in Dos on this external drive?
I'm not too famiilar on Dos because I never used it. Win95 was on the machine when I bought it new.
I use to be able to transfer date OK, but recently it's gotten worst to do.
I have about 6 gigs of data on the 20 Gig drive now.
I just tried a 20Kb txt file from desktop to 'H' drive and everything froze up.
Data seems to xfer _from_ 'H' drive to desktop (or anywhere else) usually OK. Also I show no conflicts on the Device manager
screen.
Looking for any help or info.
Thanks
RMS
That's what I get everytime on the 'Close program window' when I press the control-alt-del keys whenever I try to transfer data to
my external 20Gig Buslink harddrive. My machine freezes up. Then I have to turn the machine off and restart---can't reboot or
nothing!
The Buslink drive is the 'H' drive on my computer (Compaq Presario 4880, running Windows 98-Not W98se).
I have three other drives (other than the 'C' drive).
A 100 MB Zip drive. (E).
A 250 MB Zip drive (F).
And a internal CD writer drive (G).
And of course a 3 1/2 Floppy "A" drive.
I have checked and re-checked all connections. I have replaced the USB cable (with another USB cable) that feeds the "H" drive. No
change.
Something else I've noticed when I go to Start>programs>Find.
When the Find: All Files window comes up. On the drop down menu in the 'Look in' box. On the line-'Local hard drives', there shows
both a C and H drive. (C:,H
on the same line.Then after all the other listed drives, on the bottom line of the drop down menu is the 'H' drive sitting by itself (H
.That seems a little strange.
Also this 'H' drive has never been defragged since I installed it about two years ago. Both Norton and Iomega defrag seem to hang up
whenever I try to use them. And Buslink has no instructions on this.
Is there a way to do a defrag in Dos on this external drive?
I'm not too famiilar on Dos because I never used it. Win95 was on the machine when I bought it new.
I use to be able to transfer date OK, but recently it's gotten worst to do.
I have about 6 gigs of data on the 20 Gig drive now.
I just tried a 20Kb txt file from desktop to 'H' drive and everything froze up.
Data seems to xfer _from_ 'H' drive to desktop (or anywhere else) usually OK. Also I show no conflicts on the Device manager
screen.
Looking for any help or info.
Thanks
RMS