ReadyBoost drive disappears

Posted By: pathfinder | Mar 24th, 2008 @ 10:50 AM
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#Mar 24th, 2008 @ 10:50 AM
pathfinder
pathfinder
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
I have a 2gb Sandisk Cruzer Titanium drive that I have ReadyBoost enabled on it.  Anyhow, it seems like after a few hours/days the drive just completely disappears from My Computer.

 I thought maybe it was a just a bug so I installed Vista SP1 and the same thing still happens.

Is anyone else using readyboost?  Does this happen to you.  It could be a faulty usb thumbdrive. 

If I uplug the drive and plug it back in everything works fine for a while. 

One time after about an hour of use, the drive felt very warm to the touch.  Do you think overheating might be the issue?

Any ideas?
#Mar 24th, 2008 @ 11:16 AM
wisemx
wisemx
Live it
I'm using a 4GB Kingston DataTraveler dedicated to ReadyBoost.
Has worked great before and after SP1.
  Salute,
    Mark
#Mar 24th, 2008 @ 11:24 AM
Dr Herbie
Dr Herbie
Horses for courses
pathfinder wrote:
I have a 2gb Sandisk Cruzer Titanium drive that I have ReadyBoost enabled on it.  Anyhow, it seems like after a few hours/days the drive just completely disappears from My Computer.

 I thought maybe it was a just a bug so I installed Vista SP1 and the same thing still happens.

Is anyone else using readyboost?  Does this happen to you.  It could be a faulty usb thumbdrive. 

If I uplug the drive and plug it back in everything works fine for a while. 

One time after about an hour of use, the drive felt very warm to the touch.  Do you think overheating might be the issue?

Any ideas?


My readyboost drive vanished the other day too.  It's only happened once so far. I'm putting it down to 'one of those things' unless it happens again.

Herbie
#Mar 24th, 2008 @ 12:00 PM
ZippyV
ZippyV
Fired Up
Does the drive still appear in the 'Safely remove hardware' icon in the taskbar when the drive is not visible in 'My Computer'?
#Mar 29th, 2008 @ 11:51 AM
pathfinder
pathfinder
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
ZippyV wrote:
Does the drive still appear in the 'Safely remove hardware' icon in the taskbar when the drive is not visible in 'My Computer'?


It took a few days for the drive to disapper.  This morning it was gone.  I checked both the "Safely remove hardware" and also the Device manager "Disk Drives" and neither showed the drive present. 

When I uplug the drive I do get the "duh-dunk" sound and my device manager window refreshed itself, so Vista x64 recognized that the hardware was now gone.

After plugging it back in everything his working for fine (for the next few days).

I have a USB harddrive that never has the issue that is always plugged in.  I use it for backups, since I can't use my Windows Home Server for backups.
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