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    A8JM USB Drive corruption

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by particleman, Oct 23, 2006.

  1. particleman

    particleman Notebook Enthusiast

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    Does anyone else have any issues with the A8JM corrupting their USB storage devices? I have a USB flash drive and several USB HDD enclosures and my A8JM sometimes corrupts the data and file systems on them. I have a desktop as well as a Dell XPS 1710M and neither of those have ever corrupted any of the USB drives. It doesn't happen all the time, but it happens about once every 3 times I use the A8JM with a USB drive. The system is stable and I don't seem to have any issues with the internal laptop HDD. Anyone have any ideas?
     
    particleman, Oct 23, 2006
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  2. gusto5

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    That quite unusual. So far ive used 3 different USB devices (two sandisks and one kingston) on the a8jm and two desktops with no such problem.
     
    gusto5, Oct 23, 2006
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    Make sure that under the 'properties' -> 'policies' tab for the drive in Device Manager, it is set to 'optimize for quick removal'
     
    Jumper, Oct 23, 2006
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    Or make sure to use "safely remove hardware" in the system tray before removing the devices - I think that's a bit safer.

    ~ Brett
     
    Nrbelex, Oct 23, 2006
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    Darrick Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    Are you taking out the USB devices properly (ie, use Safely Remove Hardware before removing them?).. sometimes that can be the cause of corruption

    Edit: NrBelex beat me to this :)
     
    Darrick, Oct 23, 2006
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    particleman Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yep I always right click on the taskbar icon and stop the devices. I have never corrupted a drive on my other computers before but the A8JM has done it to me several times.
     
    particleman, Oct 23, 2006
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