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June 23, 2007

"An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk4\D during a paging operation."

I have been getting this error for a few weeks. The error shows up in the XP Event Viewer, which you can get to by choosing Run off the Start menu, entering "cmd" and then typing "%SystemRoot%\system32\eventvwr.msc /s" into the Command Prompt box (omitting the quotation marks). Choose "System" to see the errors. I was getting the error message about every 40 seconds.

Harddisk 4 is in my case an external, USB hard drive. The problem turned out not to be the hard drive. Check your USB cable. Mine was ok, so I got a new enclosure for the drive — the macally PHR 100AC — and hooked it up to a firewire port. So far, it seems to be working perfectly. And the case is a solid piece of work. [Tags: errors]

Posted by D. Weinberger at June 23, 2007 03:55 PM

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