control of external drive?

[spamlet]

(XP Pro)
I have Process Explorer, which tells me a lot about what is happening on the
C: drive, but I find that external USB drives (MyBook 500gigs) are tending
to hang, and I cannot see how to find out what programme is causing it. Any
ideas how to tell what external drives are doing?

Cheers,

S

 

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"spamlet" <spam.morespam@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
news:eczX4uCpKHA.2076@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> (XP Pro)
> I have Process Explorer, which tells me a lot about what is happening on
> the C: drive, but I find that external USB drives (MyBook 500gigs) are
> tending to hang, and I cannot see how to find out what programme is
> causing it. Any ideas how to tell what external drives are doing?
>
> Cheers,
>
> S
>

 

[Patrick Keenan]

"spamlet" <spam.morespam@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
news:eczX4uCpKHA.2076@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> (XP Pro)
> I have Process Explorer, which tells me a lot about what is happening on
> the C: drive, but I find that external USB drives (MyBook 500gigs) are
> tending to hang, and I cannot see how to find out what programme is
> causing it. Any ideas how to tell what external drives are doing?
>
> Cheers,
>
> S

Depending on when the hang happens, this can be a BIOS problem and not
related to the OS at all. Some Dell models, for example, would fail to
boot with some USB drives attached.

 

[spamlet]

Thanks to you both.
Yes the AV would take a long time to get through the two extra drives, but
the last time I got the hang, it continued after the av had been turned off.

Any idea of any way to monitor what is happening on the drives in similar
way to Process Explorer on the on board drive?

Cheers.
S