ok, here's a link to a product that i got: https://www.computersurplusoutlet.com/viewproduct.asp?productid=STO-MRBL
it says in plain text "Hot Swappable".
Here's what i'm trying to do. I got 2 of them, one for me, one for my girlfriend's computer. This way, I can put files on here, and stick my hard drive in my girlfriend's puter. </pun> anyway, we're both running windows xp pro. the hdd is formated in NTFS. Here's were we have trouble. anything that was on the hdd BEFORE i put it in the enclosure is perfectly accessible in her computer. now that i got it, and copied a file over onto it, and brought it to her house, windows comes up and says it can't access the file. so we go back to my house, i can access it once, then it gives me the same error. so i copy the file into a different folder on the hdd. then copy it. and copy it again. one of them just has to work! no go. none of them can be accessed. so i bring the hdd back home, and everything is perfectly normal here. I dont' have any experience with this stuff, and was wondering if there's any special options i have to configure in windows to tell it that i want this drive to be hot swappable.
i turned off "Write caching" and "indexing", but i haven't tested to see if this fixed anything yet.
are there any drivers or software i need to install? any help would be great!
thanks!
-Matt
it says in plain text "Hot Swappable".
Here's what i'm trying to do. I got 2 of them, one for me, one for my girlfriend's computer. This way, I can put files on here, and stick my hard drive in my girlfriend's puter. </pun> anyway, we're both running windows xp pro. the hdd is formated in NTFS. Here's were we have trouble. anything that was on the hdd BEFORE i put it in the enclosure is perfectly accessible in her computer. now that i got it, and copied a file over onto it, and brought it to her house, windows comes up and says it can't access the file. so we go back to my house, i can access it once, then it gives me the same error. so i copy the file into a different folder on the hdd. then copy it. and copy it again. one of them just has to work! no go. none of them can be accessed. so i bring the hdd back home, and everything is perfectly normal here. I dont' have any experience with this stuff, and was wondering if there's any special options i have to configure in windows to tell it that i want this drive to be hot swappable.
i turned off "Write caching" and "indexing", but i haven't tested to see if this fixed anything yet.
are there any drivers or software i need to install? any help would be great!
thanks!
-Matt