slightly OT: trouble with my Mobile Drive Bay and hard drive

musman wrote on 12/23/2004, 7:42 PM
I have one of those removable mobile drive bays (cases, whatever) and the fan in the unit has been causing problems for a while now. Fearing too much vibration for the fan, I took the hard drive out of the case and plugged it in directly to the mother board (i.e. I took the cords that were plugged into the back of the mobile drive bay and plugged them directly into the hard drive- thus bypassing the mobile drive bay).
Then time I opened Vegas it said it could not open my last project. Tried to open the drive in question and my computer said it had not been formatted. Near panic as I thought I had lost all my work.
Then I plugged everything back the way it was, using the mobile drive bay, and everything was fine. All the files there safe and sound.
Does this make any sense? And when I get a replacement mobile drive bay case, will this still be an issue?
Thanks for any help!

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Liam_Vegas wrote on 12/23/2004, 8:14 PM
Are you sure it said that it was not formatted? When the O/S first sees a drive that has not yet been installed it goes into a mode where it is "undefined" (not sure if that is the correct term)... where you simply need to assign it a drive letter. You do this using the drive setup/storage functions found in the computer management tool in XP.
musman wrote on 12/23/2004, 10:47 PM
Yeah, I'm really sure. It asked if I wanted to format it, which scared the hell out of me. Actually, the first time I had the setup going that bypassed the mobile rack I did get a warning from the computer that sounds like what you're talking about. It was a warning in the lower right corner of the screen (XP Pro). I turned the computer off, unplugged and replugged everything exactly the same, and turned it on again. Didn't get any kind of warning until I opened Vegas. Weird.
I was wondering if this was some sort of weird XP thing where it gets all crazy if you change the hardware around it.