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External USB drive corruption
Hey there guys,
Well let me start off this post by explaining myself. I realize that what I am doing is out of the scope of what should be done here. That said, here is my situation.
I have a WD external, USB powered HD. Best thing ever! I got it because I am a software developer and use it to be able to work on files at home or at work. Now I pretty much figured out that it is that I am having IIS access the external drive for a website I am developing. So I have Windows XP and IIS setup at home and at work and they both have a virtual directory pointing to a web application on the drive. This way I can program and run the app at home or at work seamlessly.
The issue I am having is drive corruption. Today is probably the 10th time I have tried to access files on the drive and get a corruption error. Normally a scan disk sorts the issue out. And I can continue to work (until it happens again). I figured out that I have to completely shut the computer down to be able to remove the drive without corruption.
What is it that is happening here? Is it because the drive is being accessed by IIS? Is there a way to prevent this from happening? Should I stop IIS from accessing the drive?
Nugs
Well let me start off this post by explaining myself. I realize that what I am doing is out of the scope of what should be done here. That said, here is my situation.
I have a WD external, USB powered HD. Best thing ever! I got it because I am a software developer and use it to be able to work on files at home or at work. Now I pretty much figured out that it is that I am having IIS access the external drive for a website I am developing. So I have Windows XP and IIS setup at home and at work and they both have a virtual directory pointing to a web application on the drive. This way I can program and run the app at home or at work seamlessly.
The issue I am having is drive corruption. Today is probably the 10th time I have tried to access files on the drive and get a corruption error. Normally a scan disk sorts the issue out. And I can continue to work (until it happens again). I figured out that I have to completely shut the computer down to be able to remove the drive without corruption.
What is it that is happening here? Is it because the drive is being accessed by IIS? Is there a way to prevent this from happening? Should I stop IIS from accessing the drive?
Nugs
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That is what is happening, the wizard is not able to shut the drive down. Also stoping IIS does not seem to stop accessing the drive right away. It seems as though when i stop IIS i still have to wait 5min or so for it to stop accessing the drive. This kinda leads me to think there is another process accessing the drive? Could that be or does stopping IIS take some time to take effect?
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Nugs
sorry... i mis-spoke. you end the IIS service via command line:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/003ed2fe-6339-4919-b577-6aa965994a9b.mspx?mfr=true
you could write a batch script that runs the IIS disable so it is more convenient to use. you could do the same for IIS restart.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/003ed2fe-6339-4919-b577-6aa965994a9b.mspx?mfr=true
you could write a batch script that runs the IIS disable so it is more convenient to use. you could do the same for IIS restart.
argh. i guess you can do it from services.msc as well... it's world wide web publishing service...
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Thanks for all the advice...
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if you suspect IIS, you can shutdown the IIS service in services.msc and then use the hardware removal wizard.