Vista - Getting rather fed up now

Hi All,

After a week of messing with vista I finally got everything stable (Touch
wood), until yesterday.
I have a 250GB USB Hard disk which has been great until yesterday when the
drive letter disappeared.
When investigating disk management reported it as "Unreadable", after a huge
panic (very important data on it)
I removed the hard disk from the usb enclosure and added it to my pc's IDE
channel. On bootup the disk appeared correctly along with my data.
I quickly copied it over to my main hard disk then reinstalled in the usb
enclosure to get the same error.

Is this a hardware error or has vista done something ???
Anyone had this problem ?

Put your enclosure at the top of the suspect list.
Try the enclosure on another computer.
--
Ronald Sommer

"DX" <mine@> wrote in message news:OXJkPN0THHA.996@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
: Hi All,
:
: After a week of messing with vista I finally got everything stable (Touch
: wood), until yesterday.
: I have a 250GB USB Hard disk which has been great until yesterday when the
: drive letter disappeared.
: When investigating disk management reported it as "Unreadable", after a
huge
: panic (very important data on it)
: I removed the hard disk from the usb enclosure and added it to my pc's IDE
: channel. On bootup the disk appeared correctly along with my data.
: I quickly copied it over to my main hard disk then reinstalled in the usb
: enclosure to get the same error.
:
: Is this a hardware error or has vista done something ???
: Anyone had this problem ?
:
:
:

Maybe that should be a wake up call to make duplicate copies of your data.
What would happen if your drive just died? Why do people only worry about
their data when a problem exists?


"DX" <mine@> wrote in message news:OXJkPN0THHA.996@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi All,
>
> After a week of messing with vista I finally got everything stable (Touch
> wood), until yesterday.
> I have a 250GB USB Hard disk which has been great until yesterday when the
> drive letter disappeared.
> When investigating disk management reported it as "Unreadable", after a
> huge panic (very important data on it)
> I removed the hard disk from the usb enclosure and added it to my pc's IDE
> channel. On bootup the disk appeared correctly along with my data.
> I quickly copied it over to my main hard disk then reinstalled in the usb
> enclosure to get the same error.
>
> Is this a hardware error or has vista done something ???
> Anyone had this problem ?
>
>
>

I guess there's no pleasure like the pleasure of stabbing a guy who's already
in pain?

"Zim Babwe" wrote:

> Maybe that should be a wake up call to make duplicate copies of your data.
> What would happen if your drive just died? Why do people only worry about
> their data when a problem exists?
>
>
> "DX" <mine@> wrote in message news:OXJkPN0THHA.996@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> > Hi All,
> >
> > After a week of messing with vista I finally got everything stable (Touch
> > wood), until yesterday.
> > I have a 250GB USB Hard disk which has been great until yesterday when the
> > drive letter disappeared.
> > When investigating disk management reported it as "Unreadable", after a
> > huge panic (very important data on it)
> > I removed the hard disk from the usb enclosure and added it to my pc's IDE
> > channel. On bootup the disk appeared correctly along with my data.
> > I quickly copied it over to my main hard disk then reinstalled in the usb
> > enclosure to get the same error.
> >
> > Is this a hardware error or has vista done something ???
> > Anyone had this problem ?
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>