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Post by Ratae on Nov 17, 2014 18:17:23 GMT
Dave is the sync thing auto starting as soon as he plugs it in, he could try removing the sync prog and see if that cuts the net out. Plugging a HDD shouldn't have anything to do with the Ethernet unless there is an IRQ conflict.  Maybe try device manager to see if there is a IRQ conflict with the USB connections. If its windows 7 open device manager, view resources by connection Interrupt request IRQ see if there is a problem there. Maybe uninstall the HDD drivers then reinstall, windows may sort it. He could try removing the sync program, but unless it uses the internet I fail to see why it should cut it out! That IRQ conflict is deffo a possibility, I read somewhere that a powered usb drive is sometimes the cause! |
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Post by nob on Nov 17, 2014 23:06:54 GMT
Dave is the sync thing auto starting as soon as he plugs it in, he could try removing the sync prog and see if that cuts the net out. Plugging a HDD shouldn't have anything to do with the Ethernet unless there is an IRQ conflict. Maybe try device manager to see if there is a IRQ conflict with the USB connections. If its windows 7 open device manager, view resources by connection Interrupt request IRQ see if there is a problem there. Maybe uninstall the HDD drivers then reinstall, windows may sort it. He could try removing the sync program, but unless it uses the internet I fail to see why it should cut it out! That IRQ conflict is deffo a possibility, I read somewhere that a powered usb drive is sometimes the cause! Yep eliminate one thing at a time. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2014 15:33:20 GMT
I'm not sure whether Dickymint ever got his problem sorted out, but he certainly did me a good turn ! I had never heard of Microsoft SyncToy until I started reading this thread but as it sounded like something I could use, I investigated further. I downloaded and installed SyncToy 2.1 64bit, and now use it weekly (or more often if I create a lot of new images) to synchronise my backups (or should that be backs up ?)of all my current image files onto 2 separate external drives. I know Dickymint's original problem related to using an external HDD, but SyncToy runs like clockwork for me. If you see this dicky - thanks  |
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