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[kewlbuwl]

OS is XP Pro

Drive is a FreeAgent Desk  ST310005FDA2E1-RK ( FreeAgent Desk™ 1.0-TB USB 2.0 Drive)

Here's the info from Event Viewer.

Event Type:    Warning
Event Source:    Disk
Event Category:    None
Event ID:    51
Date:        8/29/2009
Time:        7:36:44 PM
User:        N/A
Computer:    STARFLEET
Description:
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\D during a paging operation.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 04 00 68 00 01 00 b6 00   ..h...¶.
0008: 00 00 00 00 33 00 04 80   ....3..€
0010: 2d 01 00 00 00 00 00 00   -.......
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ........
0020: 00 8e 00 bc 00 00 00 00   .Ž.¼....
0028: f2 e0 c9 00 00 00 00 00   òàÉ.....
0030: ff ff ff ff 03 00 00 00   ÿÿÿÿ....
0038: 40 00 00 84 02 00 00 00   @..„....
0040: 00 20 0a 12 80 01 20 40   . ..€. @
0048: 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00   ........
0050: 00 f0 77 85 a8 9f d3 85   .ðw…¨ŸÓ…
0058: 00 00 00 00 70 0e 96 85   ....p.–…
0060: 00 00 00 00 47 00 5e 00   ....G.^.
0068: 2a 00 00 5e 00 47 00 00   *..^.G..
0070: 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ........
0078: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 0a   p.......
0080: 00 00 00 00 04 02 00 00   ........
0088: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ........

I first thought it was caused from the disk sleeping. So I changed the settings to not let the drive power down. I also turned off System Restore for the drive. The events went away. I noticed that the drive was getting pretty warm to the touch so I went back and changed the settings to let the drive power down. All was ok for a couple days. Now I'm seeing the warning show again. Time is averaging 1hr between warnings.

I checked the drive with the included software and it tests fine.

TIA

[MrButkus]

Is your "delay write" for that drive turned off ?

See the FAQ or google it.

[kewlbuwl]

The drive is optimized for quick removal. It's the same settings I have set for my other externals and I have no such warnings from them (and never have). I also have Windows Indexing turned off.

Need to get this figured out before I start moving stuff from other drives on to the FreeAgent.

[oldsmith]

Did you ever get this figured out?  I'm having the same issue that started *after* all my files were copied to the go-flex desk (2 tb on usb2).  This talk of power options is irrelevant to me as there are no power savings per hdd on my xp-pro & my settings are 'always on' anyway.  The go-flex is set for quick removal & indexing is on (oops).  Now that I said that; the errors began after deleting some & moving a couple of files?   But that doesn't address your problem as you have indexing off?

[AlanM]

Hello:

Please see the Common Issues thread at the top of this board and search for Accepted Solutions in the forum for help on this issue.

Thanks!