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  1. Minimoke

    External Hard drive sleeps when trasferring large files from it.

    Hi guys, All sorted out now. After trying everything Short throwing it through the window, i thought i would try installing the windows 98 installation disk, jut for the heck of it. after that was finished, everything worked perfectly. I'd just like to say thanks to everyone that helped...
  2. Minimoke

    External Hard drive sleeps when trasferring large files from it.

    Hi Guys, oldtechguy- Yes, transferring smaller chunks works with windows explorer, but in itunes, it will pause even when transferring about 60 songs. Itunes transfers everything it has at once, and there's no way of stopping it as far as i know. I can just wait till it pauses, and repeat...
  3. Minimoke

    External Hard drive sleeps when trasferring large files from it.

    Hi Guys, Changing the power settings didnt change anything, I started transferring about 20 gig of music from the external to the internal drive C:, and about 3 quarters of the way in, the red glow of doom appeared. i've got warrenty, so i might just go down that route. Extremeley...
  4. Minimoke

    External Hard drive sleeps when trasferring large files from it.

    Hi Guys, acewarlock- I'm transferring the songs to the ipod via itunes, and windows explorer for everything else. But the wierdest thing is that even when only transferring about 100 songs to the ipod, it will show no signs of struggle and then suddenly the light turns red, and...
  5. Minimoke

    External Hard drive sleeps when trasferring large files from it.

    Hi Everyone, I have recently recieved an external hard drive as a birthday gift, but am experiencing some problems. when transferring large files [tons of music] my hard drive goes into sleep mode, and the led goes from green to constant red. It flashes green and red when it is in...
  6. Minimoke

    External HDD Toshiba 250 GB PX1220E-1G25 sleepping

    Hi acewarlock, very true, sorry for the inconvenience i may have caused. Cheers, Chris.
  7. Minimoke

    External HDD Toshiba 250 GB PX1220E-1G25 sleepping

    Hi Everyone, I have recently recieved an external hard drive as a birthday gift, but am experiencing some problems. when transferring large files [tons of music] my hard drive goes into sleep mode, and the led goes from green to constant red. It flashes green and red when it is in...

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