External Hard Drive

A few weird things seem to be happening with my external hard drive all the time. One thing that happens pretty often is windows will give me an error that says something like "This directory is corrupt or unreadable." This is easily fixed with a disk check. I also get a message sometimes randomly such along the lines of "You cannot use this drive until it is formatted." One recent one is that I load some files to it, come back in a day or two and that entire directory is gone. This is really annoying. I leave my hard drive on and plugged in, which I don't think is causing the problem, as I am usually accessing it. I have a SimpleTech SimpleDrive 500GB external hard drive and I have Windows Vista x32 Home Basic SP1. It really annoys me because, I can't put any important information on the drive that I am afraid to lose. Any suggestions on how to fix this or what the problem is?

hello

This is posted on there drivers & software page located here

"An issue has been discovered with older versions of StorageSync software. SimpleTech strongly encourages you to upgrade to the latest version of the software, version 1.42, and do a new backup. You can download this version at the link below."

I would go to that page and see if it apply's to you....good luck

Unfortunately, that does not help. Thank you for the reply though.

Is this the hard drive you own? 500GB SimpleDrive USB 2.0 External Hard Drive (designed by Pininfarina) | SimpleTech :: by Fabrik

If yes The site says it has 1 year warranty & unlimited tech support!!

the 1st thing I would try is to see if they have some kind of diagnostic tool to check for early signs of failure.

If that checks out contact them with any issues.
maybe try installing sp2..

good luck!