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I know this doesn't answer your question directly, but I highly recommend Smart Defrag a freeware alternative http://www.iobit.com/iobitsmartdefrag.html John

Update: As the USB drives are permanently connected I have the settings in 'properties-hardware-policies' at 'optimize for performance'. So as an experiment I 'safely removed' both drives before shutting down. Lo and behold both drives were auto detected on bootup! I tried again with the policy...

My apologies, I included the link that went with the comments without going to the link first - I did afterwards, gave me a laugh too, so wasn't totally pointless(LOL). Had to boot up this morning after 11 hour power cut, thunderstorm last night - first rains since May. USB's still not detected...

The computer is 6 weeks old, all the drivers & the bios were updated to the latest when it was built. The USB drives are attached at the rear. I will check the bios out when I next reboot, but I have not changed anything. It worked fine on laptop, and on desktop for 2 weeks - and then I...

Thanks, I'd have to investigate the sata aspect. The strange thing here is is that it's happening to 2 usb hard drives, admittedly both Maxtor one an old 3200 & the other a 3 month old 500gb One Touch. Once I reinitiallise them with the proceduire I mentioned above they work perfectly, luckily I...

Thanks for your thoughts but in my case the drives are USB HDD and they (2) are both powered through their own power supplies. I do not use IE, I use Opera for browsing and FlashGet for downloading. John

I'm running Fedora 8 (installed in VMware from a LiveDVD) guest on XP Pro SP3 host with no problems. Initially I installed the free VMware Player. Installing VMware tools is a must if you want to run at your native display using a virtual svga graphic card. Currently there is no 3D support so no...

Something that has worked for me : Disable the external USB hard drive in device manager and then select uninstall (still in device manager). Unplug USB hard drive, reboot XP and then reconnect. If there are no other problems XP should detect and install. I believe this problem is related to...