Since couple of weeks on my Windows Vista (Dell Precision 470, 2 Xeon with 2G RAM), the external USB hard disk (500GB Western Digital MyBook) is getting annoyed, still could not figured it out what is going on. Suddenly the drive contents becomes empty even though the disk is mounted…and doing a power recycle on the external disk does get the disk remounted and access to the contents…but still was wondering why it is becoming so…
Its not one time or two times, it happened more than 10 times in the last one month. Yesterday even my Sandisk MP3 player became in the same way…this leads to suspect that there is something hidden bug in VISTA which is causing this or might be my system as this is almost 2 years old.