The HD I'm using is a WD 500 GB model. It was supposedly compatible with vista when I bought it, it said it on the box. Long story short, I ended up formatting the disk to have 2 NTFS partitions instead of leaving the HD with the original 1 FAT32 partition. The HD worked flawlessly on both vista and XP (I dual boot). I have a desktop computer with XP Pro SP2 and Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit. I also have a toshiba A205 laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit. Only a couple of weeks ago did my HD start showing strange behavior.
My HD used to work on my laptop, but one day the laptop just said something along the lines of: You need to format the drive before you can use it. *WTF!? IT IS FORMATTED U STUPID COMPUTER* was the first thing I thought.
My HD used to work just fine with my computer when it started up, but now things are different. When starting up into XP I get through the XP loading screen with the blue dotted scrolling bar below the logo just fine, but before it gets to the welcome screen it shows a black screen with my mouse pointer on it. I can move the mouse pointer around just fine, but XP just sits there... and sits there... and sits there for minutes until it finally makes it to the welcome screen.
However, if I plug in the drive after XP has started up, things seem normal again. Windows XP starts up in seconds, I can play my games and run other programs off the HD like normal.
Vista Ultimate 64 bit asks me to format my external HD just like my laptop does.
My HD used to work on my laptop, but one day the laptop just said something along the lines of: You need to format the drive before you can use it. *WTF!? IT IS FORMATTED U STUPID COMPUTER* was the first thing I thought.
My HD used to work just fine with my computer when it started up, but now things are different. When starting up into XP I get through the XP loading screen with the blue dotted scrolling bar below the logo just fine, but before it gets to the welcome screen it shows a black screen with my mouse pointer on it. I can move the mouse pointer around just fine, but XP just sits there... and sits there... and sits there for minutes until it finally makes it to the welcome screen.
However, if I plug in the drive after XP has started up, things seem normal again. Windows XP starts up in seconds, I can play my games and run other programs off the HD like normal.
Vista Ultimate 64 bit asks me to format my external HD just like my laptop does.
Comment