Originally Posted By: Matt Finley
Sorry. Worth a try.

How about checking the cable itself? Try another. And try the drive on another port, and maybe another computer. In other words, isolate the problem as best you can.


Hi again,

All good ideas. I tried each one multiple times, trying to isolate the problem as you suggest. Different cables, different USB ports, alternate computer. I tried everything I could think of. Rebooting, powering down completely. Unplugging the drive and re-attaching after each try. Switching ports and drives. Plugging the drive into another computer. Sadly none of these ideas solved my problem.

Connecting the BIAB drive to another computer didn't help either. It verified that each drive had become corrupted, as opposed to my primary PC having an issue reading and displaying files from a healthy USB drive.

We're all baffled. Although I've been posting here in the Beginner's Forum, I have many years' experience using computers and fixing problems. I've done computer support at work and for family & friends. I'm not saying I haven't made mistakes along the way, but normally I can solve most of my computer problems.

I've also learned the lesson of asking for help when I need it. I don't know what quirk my PC has that nobody else has reported. In the past I've run other versions of BIAB without any complications, on other computers.

Sigh...