After first converting my My Book from FAT32 to NTFS, I started copying files
to it, which was fine for about 120gb.

Then, suddenly, I get these I/O errors.

I've tried EVERYTHING. I didn't have System Restore on, so I couldn't remove
it, and put it on again. But, just to be safe, I turned it on, made a
restorepoint, and turned it off again...

I've tried deleting INFCACHE.1 in windows\inf.

Nothing worked.

Then I hooked it up to my Windows XP machine, and it works great.



So, now I have an external harddrive - which, on the box, says "Works with
Windows Vista" - that works on Windows XP, but not Vista...

Seriously.

Someone - please, help me!

Regards,

Søren

Soren,

The following update MAY help:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Post back on results.
--
freddy


"Søren Andersen" wrote:

> After first converting my My Book from FAT32 to NTFS, I started copying files
> to it, which was fine for about 120gb.
>
> Then, suddenly, I get these I/O errors.
>
> I've tried EVERYTHING. I didn't have System Restore on, so I couldn't remove
> it, and put it on again. But, just to be safe, I turned it on, made a
> restorepoint, and turned it off again...
>
> I've tried deleting INFCACHE.1 in windows\inf.
>
> Nothing worked.
>
> Then I hooked it up to my Windows XP machine, and it works great.
>
> So, now I have an external harddrive - which, on the box, says "Works with
> Windows Vista" - that works on Windows XP, but not Vista...
>
> Seriously.
>
> Someone - please, help me!
>
> Regards,
>
> Søren

Freddy,

Unfortunately, it seemed not to work. Thought I managed to copy 1 700mb file
to the drive after using the update, further copying after that was
unsuccessful. (Trying from 3 different harddrives, one of them external, to
make sure it wasn't from my source-drives I had the problem)

Is it possible each file corrupts something?
It seems strange, at any rate...

Anyway, thanks for the tip - unfortunately, no dice.

Regards,

Søren
"freddy" wrote:

> Soren,
>
> The following update MAY help:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
>
> Post back on results.
> --
> freddy
>
>
> "Søren Andersen" wrote:
>
> > After first converting my My Book from FAT32 to NTFS, I started copying files
> > to it, which was fine for about 120gb.
> >
> > Then, suddenly, I get these I/O errors.
> >
> > I've tried EVERYTHING. I didn't have System Restore on, so I couldn't remove
> > it, and put it on again. But, just to be safe, I turned it on, made a
> > restorepoint, and turned it off again...
> >
> > I've tried deleting INFCACHE.1 in windows\inf.
> >
> > Nothing worked.
> >
> > Then I hooked it up to my Windows XP machine, and it works great.
> >
> > So, now I have an external harddrive - which, on the box, says "Works with
> > Windows Vista" - that works on Windows XP, but not Vista...
> >
> > Seriously.
> >
> > Someone - please, help me!
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Søren

Soren,

Try reformatting My Book to NTFS using Disk Management in Vista. Post back
on results.
--
freddy


"Søren Andersen" wrote:

> Freddy,
>
> Unfortunately, it seemed not to work. Thought I managed to copy 1 700mb file
> to the drive after using the update, further copying after that was
> unsuccessful. (Trying from 3 different harddrives, one of them external, to
> make sure it wasn't from my source-drives I had the problem)
>
> Is it possible each file corrupts something?
> It seems strange, at any rate...
>
> Anyway, thanks for the tip - unfortunately, no dice.
>
> Regards,
>
> Søren
> "freddy" wrote:
>
> > Soren,
> >
> > The following update MAY help:
> >
> > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
> >
> > Post back on results.
> > --
> > freddy
> >
> >
> > "Søren Andersen" wrote:
> >
> > > After first converting my My Book from FAT32 to NTFS, I started copying files
> > > to it, which was fine for about 120gb.
> > >
> > > Then, suddenly, I get these I/O errors.
> > >
> > > I've tried EVERYTHING. I didn't have System Restore on, so I couldn't remove
> > > it, and put it on again. But, just to be safe, I turned it on, made a
> > > restorepoint, and turned it off again...
> > >
> > > I've tried deleting INFCACHE.1 in windows\inf.
> > >
> > > Nothing worked.
> > >
> > > Then I hooked it up to my Windows XP machine, and it works great.
> > >
> > > So, now I have an external harddrive - which, on the box, says "Works with
> > > Windows Vista" - that works on Windows XP, but not Vista...
> > >
> > > Seriously.
> > >
> > > Someone - please, help me!
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Søren

Hi,

I'll try.

I doubt it'll help, though - I've alredy done 2 full disk scans.
One with WD's own software that took 9 hours, and one with Windows' own that
took 3-4 hours.

I'll post back in a few hours once I've moved the stuff off, and remformatted.

Regards,

Søren

"freddy" wrote:

> Soren,
>
> Try reformatting My Book to NTFS using Disk Management in Vista. Post back
> on results.
> --
> freddy
>
>
> "Søren Andersen" wrote:
>
> > Freddy,
> >
> > Unfortunately, it seemed not to work. Thought I managed to copy 1 700mb file
> > to the drive after using the update, further copying after that was
> > unsuccessful. (Trying from 3 different harddrives, one of them external, to
> > make sure it wasn't from my source-drives I had the problem)
> >
> > Is it possible each file corrupts something?
> > It seems strange, at any rate...
> >
> > Anyway, thanks for the tip - unfortunately, no dice.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Søren
> > "freddy" wrote:
> >
> > > Soren,
> > >
> > > The following update MAY help:
> > >
> > > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
> > >
> > > Post back on results.
> > > --
> > > freddy
> > >
> > >
> > > "Søren Andersen" wrote:
> > >
> > > > After first converting my My Book from FAT32 to NTFS, I started copying files
> > > > to it, which was fine for about 120gb.
> > > >
> > > > Then, suddenly, I get these I/O errors.
> > > >
> > > > I've tried EVERYTHING. I didn't have System Restore on, so I couldn't remove
> > > > it, and put it on again. But, just to be safe, I turned it on, made a
> > > > restorepoint, and turned it off again...
> > > >
> > > > I've tried deleting INFCACHE.1 in windows\inf.
> > > >
> > > > Nothing worked.
> > > >
> > > > Then I hooked it up to my Windows XP machine, and it works great.
> > > >
> > > > So, now I have an external harddrive - which, on the box, says "Works with
> > > > Windows Vista" - that works on Windows XP, but not Vista...
> > > >
> > > > Seriously.
> > > >
> > > > Someone - please, help me!
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Søren

I formatted my harddrive (not quick-format - a real one) and it didn't help.
In fact, the error comes at almost exactly the same time as before...

Regards,

Søren G. Andersen

"freddy" wrote:

> Soren,
>
> Try reformatting My Book to NTFS using Disk Management in Vista. Post back
> on results.
> --
> freddy
>
>
> "Søren Andersen" wrote:
>
> > Freddy,
> >
> > Unfortunately, it seemed not to work. Thought I managed to copy 1 700mb file
> > to the drive after using the update, further copying after that was
> > unsuccessful. (Trying from 3 different harddrives, one of them external, to
> > make sure it wasn't from my source-drives I had the problem)
> >
> > Is it possible each file corrupts something?
> > It seems strange, at any rate...
> >
> > Anyway, thanks for the tip - unfortunately, no dice.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Søren
> > "freddy" wrote:
> >
> > > Soren,
> > >
> > > The following update MAY help:
> > >
> > > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
> > >
> > > Post back on results.
> > > --
> > > freddy
> > >
> > >
> > > "Søren Andersen" wrote:
> > >
> > > > After first converting my My Book from FAT32 to NTFS, I started copying files
> > > > to it, which was fine for about 120gb.
> > > >
> > > > Then, suddenly, I get these I/O errors.
> > > >
> > > > I've tried EVERYTHING. I didn't have System Restore on, so I couldn't remove
> > > > it, and put it on again. But, just to be safe, I turned it on, made a
> > > > restorepoint, and turned it off again...
> > > >
> > > > I've tried deleting INFCACHE.1 in windows\inf.
> > > >
> > > > Nothing worked.
> > > >
> > > > Then I hooked it up to my Windows XP machine, and it works great.
> > > >
> > > > So, now I have an external harddrive - which, on the box, says "Works with
> > > > Windows Vista" - that works on Windows XP, but not Vista...
> > > >
> > > > Seriously.
> > > >
> > > > Someone - please, help me!
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Søren

Soren, (sorry, don't know how to get my machine to do your name correctly).

Have you turned off ReadyBoast (should not have been turned on but never
know)
Have you turned off write caching (optimize for quick removal in policies of
the drives properties).
Have you done a full test/repair of the hard disk (properties tools
errorchecking).
Security settings check, owner should be SYSTEM. SYSTEM and administrators
should have full control.

There are reported problems resulting in this error due to SATA BIOS that
need to be updated, suppose that your BIOS could have some similar problem
in its USB operations (I don't recall you saying the drive is connected via
USB, my assumption).
USB drivers (not BIOS stuff) may also need to be updated from your
manufacturer.

I believe that formating leaves the partion table stuff alone, you might
consider deleting the partion, repartioning and then formating.

All long shots - but you don't seem to be getting anywhere anyway so I drop
in my 2 cents.

Michael

"Søren Andersen" <SrenAndersen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:82514030-05D1-4275-9059-BB305C985BBF@microsoft.com...
>I formatted my harddrive (not quick-format - a real one) and it didn't
>help.
> In fact, the error comes at almost exactly the same time as before...
>
> Regards,
>
> Søren G. Andersen
>
> "freddy" wrote:
>
>> Soren,
>>
>> Try reformatting My Book to NTFS using Disk Management in Vista. Post
>> back
>> on results.
>> --
>> freddy
>>
>>
>> "Søren Andersen" wrote:
>>
>> > Freddy,
>> >
>> > Unfortunately, it seemed not to work. Thought I managed to copy 1 700mb
>> > file
>> > to the drive after using the update, further copying after that was
>> > unsuccessful. (Trying from 3 different harddrives, one of them
>> > external, to
>> > make sure it wasn't from my source-drives I had the problem)
>> >
>> > Is it possible each file corrupts something?
>> > It seems strange, at any rate...
>> >
>> > Anyway, thanks for the tip - unfortunately, no dice.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Søren
>> > "freddy" wrote:
>> >
>> > > Soren,
>> > >
>> > > The following update MAY help:
>> > >
>> > > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
>> > >
>> > > Post back on results.
>> > > --
>> > > freddy
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > "Søren Andersen" wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > After first converting my My Book from FAT32 to NTFS, I started
>> > > > copying files
>> > > > to it, which was fine for about 120gb.
>> > > >
>> > > > Then, suddenly, I get these I/O errors.
>> > > >
>> > > > I've tried EVERYTHING. I didn't have System Restore on, so I
>> > > > couldn't remove
>> > > > it, and put it on again. But, just to be safe, I turned it on, made
>> > > > a
>> > > > restorepoint, and turned it off again...
>> > > >
>> > > > I've tried deleting INFCACHE.1 in windows\inf.
>> > > >
>> > > > Nothing worked.
>> > > >
>> > > > Then I hooked it up to my Windows XP machine, and it works great.
>> > > >
>> > > > So, now I have an external harddrive - which, on the box, says
>> > > > "Works with
>> > > > Windows Vista" - that works on Windows XP, but not Vista...
>> > > >
>> > > > Seriously.
>> > > >
>> > > > Someone - please, help me!
>> > > >
>> > > > Regards,
>> > > >
>> > > > Søren

Soren,

OK, bummer. Did the My Book work properly when it was formatted FAT 32? If
it did, go back to FAT 32.
--
freddy


"Søren Andersen" wrote:

> I formatted my harddrive (not quick-format - a real one) and it didn't help.
> In fact, the error comes at almost exactly the same time as before...
>
> Regards,
>
> Søren G. Andersen
>
> "freddy" wrote:
>
> > Soren,
> >
> > Try reformatting My Book to NTFS using Disk Management in Vista. Post back
> > on results.
> > --
> > freddy
> >
> >
> > "Søren Andersen" wrote:
> >
> > > Freddy,
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, it seemed not to work. Thought I managed to copy 1 700mb file
> > > to the drive after using the update, further copying after that was
> > > unsuccessful. (Trying from 3 different harddrives, one of them external, to
> > > make sure it wasn't from my source-drives I had the problem)
> > >
> > > Is it possible each file corrupts something?
> > > It seems strange, at any rate...
> > >
> > > Anyway, thanks for the tip - unfortunately, no dice.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Søren
> > > "freddy" wrote:
> > >
> > > > Soren,
> > > >
> > > > The following update MAY help:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
> > > >
> > > > Post back on results.
> > > > --
> > > > freddy
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > "Søren Andersen" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > After first converting my My Book from FAT32 to NTFS, I started copying files
> > > > > to it, which was fine for about 120gb.
> > > > >
> > > > > Then, suddenly, I get these I/O errors.
> > > > >
> > > > > I've tried EVERYTHING. I didn't have System Restore on, so I couldn't remove
> > > > > it, and put it on again. But, just to be safe, I turned it on, made a
> > > > > restorepoint, and turned it off again...
> > > > >
> > > > > I've tried deleting INFCACHE.1 in windows\inf.
> > > > >
> > > > > Nothing worked.
> > > > >
> > > > > Then I hooked it up to my Windows XP machine, and it works great.
> > > > >
> > > > > So, now I have an external harddrive - which, on the box, says "Works with
> > > > > Windows Vista" - that works on Windows XP, but not Vista...
> > > > >
> > > > > Seriously.
> > > > >
> > > > > Someone - please, help me!
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > >
> > > > > Søren

Hello Michael,

Tank you for your ideas!
Don't worry about the name - blame my parent for choosing a crazy Danish
name. :-)

I've finally - I think - managed to get everything working. Why, I have no
idea.
Because there had been so much talk about the System Restore partitions, I
decided to give that approach another go. But this time, after I created
restore-points on all my harddrives, I didn't remove them again.

And now it seems to work.

Again - I have no idea why. I'll be testing the drive again tomorrow, and if
I hit any problems, I'll be coming back here for help again. Now you're
warned. :-)

Regards,

Søren

"Michael" wrote:

> Soren, (sorry, don't know how to get my machine to do your name correctly).
>
> Have you turned off ReadyBoast (should not have been turned on but never
> know)
> Have you turned off write caching (optimize for quick removal in policies of
> the drives properties).
> Have you done a full test/repair of the hard disk (properties tools
> errorchecking).
> Security settings check, owner should be SYSTEM. SYSTEM and administrators
> should have full control.
>
> There are reported problems resulting in this error due to SATA BIOS that
> need to be updated, suppose that your BIOS could have some similar problem
> in its USB operations (I don't recall you saying the drive is connected via
> USB, my assumption).
> USB drivers (not BIOS stuff) may also need to be updated from your
> manufacturer.
>
> I believe that formating leaves the partion table stuff alone, you might
> consider deleting the partion, repartioning and then formating.
>
> All long shots - but you don't seem to be getting anywhere anyway so I drop
> in my 2 cents.
>
> Michael
>
> "Søren Andersen" <SrenAndersen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:82514030-05D1-4275-9059-BB305C985BBF@microsoft.com...
> >I formatted my harddrive (not quick-format - a real one) and it didn't
> >help.
> > In fact, the error comes at almost exactly the same time as before...
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Søren G. Andersen
> >
> > "freddy" wrote:
> >
> >> Soren,
> >>
> >> Try reformatting My Book to NTFS using Disk Management in Vista. Post
> >> back
> >> on results.
> >> --
> >> freddy
> >>
> >>
> >> "Søren Andersen" wrote:
> >>
> >> > Freddy,
> >> >
> >> > Unfortunately, it seemed not to work. Thought I managed to copy 1 700mb
> >> > file
> >> > to the drive after using the update, further copying after that was
> >> > unsuccessful. (Trying from 3 different harddrives, one of them
> >> > external, to
> >> > make sure it wasn't from my source-drives I had the problem)
> >> >
> >> > Is it possible each file corrupts something?
> >> > It seems strange, at any rate...
> >> >
> >> > Anyway, thanks for the tip - unfortunately, no dice.
> >> >
> >> > Regards,
> >> >
> >> > Søren
> >> > "freddy" wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Soren,
> >> > >
> >> > > The following update MAY help:
> >> > >
> >> > > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
> >> > >
> >> > > Post back on results.
> >> > > --
> >> > > freddy
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > "Søren Andersen" wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > > After first converting my My Book from FAT32 to NTFS, I started
> >> > > > copying files
> >> > > > to it, which was fine for about 120gb.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Then, suddenly, I get these I/O errors.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > I've tried EVERYTHING. I didn't have System Restore on, so I
> >> > > > couldn't remove
> >> > > > it, and put it on again. But, just to be safe, I turned it on, made
> >> > > > a
> >> > > > restorepoint, and turned it off again...
> >> > > >
> >> > > > I've tried deleting INFCACHE.1 in windows\inf.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Nothing worked.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Then I hooked it up to my Windows XP machine, and it works great.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > So, now I have an external harddrive - which, on the box, says
> >> > > > "Works with
> >> > > > Windows Vista" - that works on Windows XP, but not Vista...
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Seriously.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Someone - please, help me!
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Regards,
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Søren
>
>

Soren

For what its worth,
For my 150GB external usb drive,
the check box for 'automatic restore points' is not set
(system properties / system protection)

Michael


"Søren Andersen" <SrenAndersen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:24600B6C-3704-418C-AC7C-904B40FCF96E@microsoft.com...
> Hello Michael,
>
> Tank you for your ideas!
> Don't worry about the name - blame my parent for choosing a crazy Danish
> name. :-)
>
> I've finally - I think - managed to get everything working. Why, I have no
> idea.
> Because there had been so much talk about the System Restore partitions, I
> decided to give that approach another go. But this time, after I created
> restore-points on all my harddrives, I didn't remove them again.
>
> And now it seems to work.
>
> Again - I have no idea why. I'll be testing the drive again tomorrow, and
> if
> I hit any problems, I'll be coming back here for help again. Now you're
> warned. :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Søren
>
> "Michael" wrote:
>
>> Soren, (sorry, don't know how to get my machine to do your name
>> correctly).
>>
>> Have you turned off ReadyBoast (should not have been turned on but never
>> know)
>> Have you turned off write caching (optimize for quick removal in policies
>> of
>> the drives properties).
>> Have you done a full test/repair of the hard disk (properties tools
>> errorchecking).
>> Security settings check, owner should be SYSTEM. SYSTEM and
>> administrators
>> should have full control.
>>
>> There are reported problems resulting in this error due to SATA BIOS that
>> need to be updated, suppose that your BIOS could have some similar
>> problem
>> in its USB operations (I don't recall you saying the drive is connected
>> via
>> USB, my assumption).
>> USB drivers (not BIOS stuff) may also need to be updated from your
>> manufacturer.
>>
>> I believe that formating leaves the partion table stuff alone, you might
>> consider deleting the partion, repartioning and then formating.
>>
>> All long shots - but you don't seem to be getting anywhere anyway so I
>> drop
>> in my 2 cents.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> "Søren Andersen" <SrenAndersen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message
>> news:82514030-05D1-4275-9059-BB305C985BBF@microsoft.com...
>> >I formatted my harddrive (not quick-format - a real one) and it didn't
>> >help.
>> > In fact, the error comes at almost exactly the same time as before...
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Søren G. Andersen
>> >
>> > "freddy" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Soren,
>> >>
>> >> Try reformatting My Book to NTFS using Disk Management in Vista. Post
>> >> back
>> >> on results.
>> >> --
>> >> freddy
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "Søren Andersen" wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Freddy,
>> >> >
>> >> > Unfortunately, it seemed not to work. Thought I managed to copy 1
>> >> > 700mb
>> >> > file
>> >> > to the drive after using the update, further copying after that was
>> >> > unsuccessful. (Trying from 3 different harddrives, one of them
>> >> > external, to
>> >> > make sure it wasn't from my source-drives I had the problem)
>> >> >
>> >> > Is it possible each file corrupts something?
>> >> > It seems strange, at any rate...
>> >> >
>> >> > Anyway, thanks for the tip - unfortunately, no dice.
>> >> >
>> >> > Regards,
>> >> >
>> >> > Søren
>> >> > "freddy" wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > > Soren,
>> >> > >
>> >> > > The following update MAY help:
>> >> > >
>> >> > > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Post back on results.
>> >> > > --
>> >> > > freddy
>> >> > >
>> >> > >
>> >> > > "Søren Andersen" wrote:
>> >> > >
>> >> > > > After first converting my My Book from FAT32 to NTFS, I started
>> >> > > > copying files
>> >> > > > to it, which was fine for about 120gb.
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > Then, suddenly, I get these I/O errors.
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > I've tried EVERYTHING. I didn't have System Restore on, so I
>> >> > > > couldn't remove
>> >> > > > it, and put it on again. But, just to be safe, I turned it on,
>> >> > > > made
>> >> > > > a
>> >> > > > restorepoint, and turned it off again...
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > I've tried deleting INFCACHE.1 in windows\inf.
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > Nothing worked.
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > Then I hooked it up to my Windows XP machine, and it works
>> >> > > > great.
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > So, now I have an external harddrive - which, on the box, says
>> >> > > > "Works with
>> >> > > > Windows Vista" - that works on Windows XP, but not Vista...
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > Seriously.
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > Someone - please, help me!
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > Regards,
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > Søren
>>
>>