Gabe3
02-19-09, 07:23 PM
I got a fantom 500gb usb drive(model:GF500EU), hooked up to my computer via usb(no esata) I started a full format yesterday, waited 7 hours and it was only at 33%, I tried to cancel it and it wouldn't cancel so I had to flip the power switch off. I checked event viewer to see why it wouldn't cancel for me, and it showed this "An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk3\DR3 during a paging operation."
I then did a quick format and that worked, I transferred a couple gigs worth of videos to the drive and they were only moving at 10mb/sec. I then tried another full format and watched the percentage and noticed it does about 4% every hour, so at that rate(which it was still moving at for several hours) it would take 19 hours to format.
The drive is in a aluminum enclosure, it gets really hot, it feels like maybe its overheating because I can't even put my hand on it for too long till my skin hurts
I then did a quick format and that worked, I transferred a couple gigs worth of videos to the drive and they were only moving at 10mb/sec. I then tried another full format and watched the percentage and noticed it does about 4% every hour, so at that rate(which it was still moving at for several hours) it would take 19 hours to format.
The drive is in a aluminum enclosure, it gets really hot, it feels like maybe its overheating because I can't even put my hand on it for too long till my skin hurts