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Anyone ever see something like this? A client of mine has a WDC USB drive. He's running WinXP Home. After the compuer boots to the desktop, the drive light comes on on the USB drive and stays on for 10 minutes. Computer runs sluggish during this time, Explorer Windows freeze until it's done.

Only process using a lot of cycles is Explorer - maybe 5 - 10%.

If I leave the drive disconnected until after it boots, then conenct the drive it's fine.

I've disabled just about everything I can think of with no luck. I thought maybe NAV was scanning the drive because it was removable but I disabled that and it's still doing it.

I disabled every startup item and it still does it so it might be a service. Damn annoying.

Umm, check to make sure your indexing service is turned off. That might be it.

what's the mobo - some of the nforce mobos (epox in particular) have odd issues with USB2 - I know one of my 8rda+ was a royal pain when using usb stuff - son't remember the workaround exactly - there was a lot of stuff on amdmobo.com at the time - it might be related to that

I know one of my 8rda+ was a royal pain when using usb stuff

Ditto

Don't know what the mobo is, but it doesn't have on-board USB 2.0

The client bought an add-on USB 2.0 card for it.

And the drive is FAT32. Seems like all the external USB drives come pre-formatted FAT32 for compatibility with Win98/ME systems.

That happens 'sometimes' if I leave mine on too. But not always. It must be as others mentioned, some bugs with usb on certain mobo's. Or the os trying to read it as a normal drive. I just leave mine off till I need to access them.

I just leave mine off till I need to access them.

Ditto again

I'd do a full scandisk and defrag on the drive.
Rob