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Hey all,
Late last year i bought one "Western Digital MyBook Premium ES 500GB eSATA 3Gbps / USB 2.0 External Hard Drive (WDG1SU5000E)" and have had a recurring problem ever since:
When transfering data, whether through normal file transfer or watching video etc. it hangs after around an hour usage. Its shown by interupting any file transfer with the error "Not enough disk space" (or along those lines anyway) when there's 100's of gbs left. It interupts video by simply freezing, refusing to play ANY part of that or any other video. With both of these cases, the LED on the harddrive shows that its still transfering data after these errors, which is strange.
The only method i've figured to get it working again is to turn of the harddrive by holding the power off button on it (at the moment its in USB mode so it has some built in safe-guard thing for data loss... I think) and then changing the slot the usb cable goes onto the computer.
Other relevant information:
- I use it with 2 P.C.s (home and uni) and it does the same for both, they both use XP.
- I formatted it to NTFS pretty much straight out of the box, thinking that NTFS is superior to FAT in everyway (except from greater compatiblilty with other OS, but i don't need that).
- I have it sitting sideways on, like how books are arranged on shelves (well its called a MyBook, so i assumed like other harddrives it can be used vertically....)
- It doesn't get hot, no more than 30c judging by hand (comfortably warm)
- It can be in idle mode for long periods of time without freezing, but not under sustained transfer (e.g. video streaming)
As you can imagine, its incrediably frustrating when watching movies, having to turn it off, replug it back in, and then finding the movie and where you left off.... so I hope you guys can help with your combined infinte wisdom
Cheers,
James
P.S. sorry for the wall of text, and excuse my english, it aint my forte
Late last year i bought one "Western Digital MyBook Premium ES 500GB eSATA 3Gbps / USB 2.0 External Hard Drive (WDG1SU5000E)" and have had a recurring problem ever since:
When transfering data, whether through normal file transfer or watching video etc. it hangs after around an hour usage. Its shown by interupting any file transfer with the error "Not enough disk space" (or along those lines anyway) when there's 100's of gbs left. It interupts video by simply freezing, refusing to play ANY part of that or any other video. With both of these cases, the LED on the harddrive shows that its still transfering data after these errors, which is strange.
The only method i've figured to get it working again is to turn of the harddrive by holding the power off button on it (at the moment its in USB mode so it has some built in safe-guard thing for data loss... I think) and then changing the slot the usb cable goes onto the computer.
Other relevant information:
- I use it with 2 P.C.s (home and uni) and it does the same for both, they both use XP.
- I formatted it to NTFS pretty much straight out of the box, thinking that NTFS is superior to FAT in everyway (except from greater compatiblilty with other OS, but i don't need that).
- I have it sitting sideways on, like how books are arranged on shelves (well its called a MyBook, so i assumed like other harddrives it can be used vertically....)
- It doesn't get hot, no more than 30c judging by hand (comfortably warm)
- It can be in idle mode for long periods of time without freezing, but not under sustained transfer (e.g. video streaming)
As you can imagine, its incrediably frustrating when watching movies, having to turn it off, replug it back in, and then finding the movie and where you left off.... so I hope you guys can help with your combined infinte wisdom
Cheers,
James
P.S. sorry for the wall of text, and excuse my english, it aint my forte