New hard drive keeps reinstalling

[Tim Ogiela]

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

 

[nesredep egrob]

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:Eas 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
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[David Webb]

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

 

[Tim Ogiela]

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
>
>
>

 

[David Webb]

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
> >
> >
> >