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Problems reading 2TB USB HDD on Server 2003

poops66

Hi all,
this is driving me nuts...
Fresh windows 2003 SP2 setup.
5 x Buffalo 2tb external USB hard drives
It worked for me a few day ago with no problems. I was able to read and write.
Yesterday I went to configure backups and this is what is happening:
Drive detected in device manager
in disk manager comes up as basic disc with partition of 1863.01GB but doesn't say NTFS and so has no drive letter. when clicked on properties getting error message "The operation canceled due to an internal error" . If I try format partition diskman locks up. I can delete partition ok. Tried creating a small 500Gb partition but still having same issue.
I can read USB memory sticks ok.
All 5 hdds are behaving the same way on server. All 5 are perfectly workable on another computers W7, XP.
I have tried re-installing chipset drivers - didn't help.
The only major change I can recall since it was working - ESET Antivirus was installed, but I don't think it could be a problem...
Please Help

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Torqay

MS offers a hotfix for this:

Disk initialization operation quits if an unexpected error occurs

poops66

Torqay wrote: »

MS offers a hotfix for this:

Disk initialization operation quits if an unexpected error occurs

Thanks for your reply. I forgot to mention in my first post that I did come across this hotfix but it didn't install for me as my Server2003 is already SP2

Torqay

Then I'm at a loss, I have 3 machines here with 2k3 Server and no issues with 2 TB drives, internal or external.

poops66

Torqay wrote: »

Then I'm at a loss, I have 3 machines here with 2k3 Server and no issues with 2 TB drives, internal or external.

I am lost myself... :mad: Considering that it worked a coulple of days ago...

Torqay

You didn't ghost the OS drive/partition when all was grand, did you?

poops66

Torqay wrote: »

You didn't ghost the OS drive/partition when all was grand, did you?

nice one... of course not
if I would know where I fall I would lay something soft.....

poops66

If anyone interested....
After trying almost everything I found the culprit... DELL RD1000 device

http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/powervault-rd1000/pd
After disabling it - my HDD started to work!!!

Torqay

Still doesn't explain why it worked grand for a while...