Guest Tim Ogiela Posted July 11, 2007 Posted July 11, 2007 I installed a hard drive in an external USB container. It installed fine. I then partationed and formatted the drive as NTFS. Which also completed successfully. While copying data to the drive, the copy process froze. When I restarted the computer, the drive was no longer visibly available. I unstalled the drive and let the system redetect the drive. At this point it appears to install correctly and then at the finish it says "An error occurred during the installation of the device The specified service does not exist as an installed service." When the process is finished, it starts detecting the drive all over and then comes back to this error message. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Tim
Guest nesredep egrob Posted July 11, 2007 Posted July 11, 2007 Re: New hard drive keeps reinstalling On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:44:03 -0700, Tim Ogiela <TimOgiela@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >I installed a hard drive in an external USB container. It installed fine. I >then partationed and formatted the drive as NTFS. Which also completed >successfully. > >While copying data to the drive, the copy process froze. When I restarted >the computer, the drive was no longer visibly available. I unstalled the >drive and let the system redetect the drive. At this point it appears to >install correctly and then at the finish it says "An error occurred during >the installation of the device The specified service does not exist as an >installed service." When the process is finished, it starts detecting the >drive all over and then comes back to this error message. > >Anyone have any ideas? > >Thanks, >Tim I should take it out of the Case and hang it on the main computer where you can set it up, complete with format and partitions and the place the WORKING disk in the case. I do not think I should do installs in the remote case, ever. For your information, my stats are: Win 2000, Pentium IV 3Ghz 1 Gb memory,ADSL via router DSL 504G 200+200 GB disks partitioned C:D:E;as 9.76GB 88.2GB,88.2GB F: G: as 93.1,93.1 for data 320GB external USB2 for Acronis Images (backups) Borge Pedersen :-) Perth, Australia mailto:b_o_r_g_e@SPAMiinet.net.au remove SPAM and underlines for email
Guest David Webb Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 Re: New hard drive keeps reinstalling I'd suspect the external USB device, it's probably defective. "Tim Ogiela" <TimOgiela@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:FD5C3D89-A93F-4193-B79A-1DB0991CB860@microsoft.com... > I installed a hard drive in an external USB container. It installed fine. I > then partationed and formatted the drive as NTFS. Which also completed > successfully. > > While copying data to the drive, the copy process froze. When I restarted > the computer, the drive was no longer visibly available. I unstalled the > drive and let the system redetect the drive. At this point it appears to > install correctly and then at the finish it says "An error occurred during > the installation of the device The specified service does not exist as an > installed service." When the process is finished, it starts detecting the > drive all over and then comes back to this error message. > > Anyone have any ideas? > > Thanks, > Tim
Guest Tim Ogiela Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 Re: New hard drive keeps reinstalling I have replaced the USB device and I have installed the drive directly to the mother board and I receive the same error. It would appear the Maxtor oem.inf file may be corrupt. I can place the hard drive in another system and it works fine. Tim "David Webb" wrote: > I'd suspect the external USB device, it's probably defective. > > "Tim Ogiela" <TimOgiela@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:FD5C3D89-A93F-4193-B79A-1DB0991CB860@microsoft.com... > > I installed a hard drive in an external USB container. It installed fine. I > > then partationed and formatted the drive as NTFS. Which also completed > > successfully. > > > > While copying data to the drive, the copy process froze. When I restarted > > the computer, the drive was no longer visibly available. I unstalled the > > drive and let the system redetect the drive. At this point it appears to > > install correctly and then at the finish it says "An error occurred during > > the installation of the device The specified service does not exist as an > > installed service." When the process is finished, it starts detecting the > > drive all over and then comes back to this error message. > > > > Anyone have any ideas? > > > > Thanks, > > Tim > > >
Guest David Webb Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 Re: New hard drive keeps reinstalling Are there any yellow ! flags showing up in the Device Manager listing? Device Manager: Start/Run/ type devmgmt.msc Click on OK "Tim Ogiela" <TimOgiela@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:C95589CB-2B20-47B6-B64B-BDE4B88119B9@microsoft.com... > I have replaced the USB device and I have installed the drive directly to the > mother board and I receive the same error. It would appear the Maxtor oem.inf > file may be corrupt. I can place the hard drive in another system and it > works fine. > > Tim > > "David Webb" wrote: > > > I'd suspect the external USB device, it's probably defective. > > > > "Tim Ogiela" <TimOgiela@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > > news:FD5C3D89-A93F-4193-B79A-1DB0991CB860@microsoft.com... > > > I installed a hard drive in an external USB container. It installed fine. I > > > then partationed and formatted the drive as NTFS. Which also completed > > > successfully. > > > > > > While copying data to the drive, the copy process froze. When I restarted > > > the computer, the drive was no longer visibly available. I unstalled the > > > drive and let the system redetect the drive. At this point it appears to > > > install correctly and then at the finish it says "An error occurred during > > > the installation of the device The specified service does not exist as an > > > installed service." When the process is finished, it starts detecting the > > > drive all over and then comes back to this error message. > > > > > > Anyone have any ideas? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Tim > > > > > >
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