USB HDD resources seem to change.

I am currently having an issue when I restart my computer with a WD external USB HDD into my tool. I am using custom software and there seems to be a resourcing problem. The symptoms are as follows:

- If the computer is running and I hot plug in the WD USB external HDD my software will run fine.

- If I restart the computer with the WD USB external HDD plugged in my software will not properly start.

It seems as if different resources are assigned to the HDD depending if it is hot plugged in or when it is plugged in during start up.

Is there any way, one to see what resources the drive is using within Windows XP and two is there a way to fix the resources so it will only use the same ones regardless of how it is plugged into the system.

Thank you in advance.

 

Hi and welcome to the BBS,

Try uninstalling and reinstalling the "software" you talk about. If it runs at startup it could be the problem when it gets it wrong.

Look in Help and Support about hardware/resource conflicts. If you read enough and the problem is a resource conflict, you might be able to overcome it by making a Hardware Profile.

"Resources" for an USB connected hard disk drive? I would rather check in Disk Management that a drive letter has has not been assigned. Check in Disk Management (see Help and Support) if the missing drive is listed, allocate it a dedicated drive letter if it doesn't have one, one that might not conflict with current drives (U, V, W for example). Ahhh..., if you change the drive letter, your software might not know where to find it then, you will need to remake it's settings.

Too many settings? Maybe stick with your current workaround (hot connect or reboot)

Matt