Recent content by CobaltDawg

Thank you for the article, I have not seen that. The drive that I have does not use any software packages or utilities.. its just a blank drive. I have tried the drive on both USB 3.0 ports and both USB 2.0 ports on the system, none of which show any differences. The drive itself does run...

Yeah mine is the 1.2 TB model. Its an older one, so its not really a surprise to me that it doesnt work. There is hope though. I just happen to have 2 500 GB Western Digital "Mybook" units from several years back. I quit using them because I was worried with them being so old, that they might...

I was beginning to wonder the same thing. The drive is about 2 years old now, so that very well might be the case. Im just worried that if I go out and buy a new drive, and it doesnt work x.x The drive is an Iomega eGo model no. 31943600 It never once gave me a problem in W7, so I'm wondering...

Ok, so after a little fiddling around, I have found the solution. I took my HDD to work and hooked it in to an old Win XP machine that I have laying in my office (one of several x.x). I noticed that the disk loaded up with no problems on this machine, so I ran "Chkdsk :H /F" from the command...

I have discovered a strange issue with my USB ports. My external hard drive was reporting that it encountered an error and needed to be checked. I allowed Windows 8 to automatically fix the error. The wizard got about 70% done and then reported that it had failed. I then entered the...

As a matter of fact, I noticed the change yesterday. I was going to give it a full day before updating everyone. Uninstalling "Skip Metro Suite" seems to have resolved the problem. I have rebooted and/or restarted the machine about 10 times since uninstalling the program, and have not come...

Hmm.. I dont have AVG installed, but I DID install Skype recently. Ill have to test it.

It never started doing this until I had to install some software for my job. It MIGHT be a conflict with Windows 8. However, I also installed a program that forces the machine to boot into a standard desktop instead of Metro. I have just uninstalled it and am monitoring its progress. The program...

I checked the error messages and found a whole bunch of errors in the "Application" section. Details are as follows: "The Open Procedure for service ".NETFramework" in DLL "C:\Windows\system32\mscoree.dll" failed. Performance data for this service will not be available. The first four bytes...

I've come across a strange problem just recently concerning my new Windows 8 PC. Every time I bring it out of sleep mode or most times when I boot it up from a shutdown state, the programs that I open randomly minimize seconds later. This is becoming a very frustrating glitch, as it renders...