Problems with Vista after disconnecting external USB key without using 'remove hardware safely '.
A week ago, I unplugged my external Seagate USB drive without using a 'Remove hardware safely' first of my Vista pc. Since reconnecting the drive, I had a series of problems. The drive itself seems to be ok. I am able to read and write to files on the disk. I'm not able to do is the following:
(1) open disk management. It hangs on "Connecting to Virtual Disk Service".
(2) stopping or starting without windows to snap or take an extra long time to stop or start.
(3) failed to start Google Picasa3 or Adoble Photoshop Elements 7. They both hang him. I am able to use other programs such as Microsoft Office, Outlook, Miro, Norton Antivirus.
Points 1 and 2 above work fine if the drive is not connected. I plugged the drive into another computer (Windows 7) and ran Seagate disk checking utility. He came clean back (no bad sectors) so that the drive is NOT corrupted. (Check of the Seagate utility disk hung on my pc Vista.) It seems that something related to the disk under Vista service is corrupted.
I also see "driver has detected an error in the controller on \Device\Harddisk2\DR2." event message for different devices. I also tried a restore to a point just before that the problem occurred.
I don't want to reinstall Vista therefore looking for a solution. Thank you.
Janis
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