USB External Drive Bay Problem

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Windows 2000SBS SP4. Bought an external USB drive bay and 3 x 160Gb HDDs.
Plan was to do a weekly backup of the server data to one of the drives, then
remove the drive and store off site. Subsequent weeks would back up to next
drive and so on, cycling through the 3 drives. I initialized and formatted
(NTFS, Basic) the drives in turn and all looked OK. Backed up to the first
drive (xcopy) and verified the copy. Tried to stop the device so that I
could remove it safely, but never got the OK. I had no choice but to remove
the power and USB cable so that I could remove the drive and put the next
one in. Powered the bay back up and plugged in the USB cable. Could see
the next drive but noted that the drive letter was not the original one so I
changed it. Tried a backup and only one file seemed to copy (later
disappeared).. I have tried deleting the partition and reformatting, but it
still does not work. Am I attempting the impossible here? If not, then how
can I make this work? Would be very grateful for help.
Cheers,
Bill
 
Bill said:
Windows 2000SBS SP4. Bought an external USB drive bay and 3 x 160Gb HDDs.
Plan was to do a weekly backup of the server data to one of the drives, then
remove the drive and store off site. Subsequent weeks would back up to next
drive and so on, cycling through the 3 drives. I initialized and formatted
(NTFS, Basic) the drives in turn and all looked OK. Backed up to the first
drive (xcopy) and verified the copy. Tried to stop the device so that I
could remove it safely, but never got the OK. I had no choice but to remove
the power and USB cable so that I could remove the drive and put the next
one in. Powered the bay back up and plugged in the USB cable. Could see
the next drive but noted that the drive letter was not the original one so I
changed it. Tried a backup and only one file seemed to copy (later
disappeared).. I have tried deleting the partition and reformatting, but it
still does not work. Am I attempting the impossible here? If not, then how
can I make this work? Would be very grateful for help.
Cheers,
Bill
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You should be able to do what you want without a hitch. My first guess
would be a driver problem; have you checked w/the enclosure manufacturer for
an updated driver?

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