power on screen, but wouldn't get anywhere on the Power on Self Test. I found that by turning the buslink drive off, the memory test would start up, and if I turned the buslink drive on mid-memory test, the computer would crash.
So I thought this was just a problem with my system - it turns out that every PC (work Compaq, work Dell, friend's Dell) I tried this on, the Buslink would kill the power-on-self-test every time. I tried swapping this drive out for another one. Here's what happened-
Third: same thing Fourth: same thing Fifth: same thing
I tried calling and emailing customer support, and they said that it wasn't their problem, that it was something wrong with my PC, and I would have to call the manufacturer.
Satisfied with BUSLink.......2001-07-15
I have been using BUSLink USB hard drive for over a year without any problems/incidents. I have moved it back and forth between laptop and desktop and different OS's without incident.
Short version: Corrupt data on Win98 & System crash on Win2k.......2000-11-16
Long version: Bought a Buslink 20GB USB external hard drive when my 13GB internal hard drive could no longer keep up with my mp3 habit. Based on its transfer rate and storage capicity (not to mention its extreme portability) I thought, Great! and I ordered it.
Installing the drive was a snap. I was using Windows 98SE at the time and the supplimental disk that came with the drive loaded fine. I plugged the drive in and zap, it appeared under My Computer like it was born there. I dragged a folder on to it and zip, it copied in pretty good time (about 50MB in 30 sec). Great, I thought and MOVED (not copied) some of my backed up info (application settings etc...) on to the drive. Again, no problem. Then I moved a music folder (with perhpas 1.5GB worth of mp3s). I left it to copy...
When I got back there was a error message on the screen saying there was a read error transfering a file and after clicking OK it finished moving the files. I thought the problem might be long file names so I thought whatever. Then when I looked on the drive all the folder names were screwed up with 'My Do0__$32#s' instaed of 'My Documents.' I tried to open that folder and it told me that it did not exist. Same with the other folders or some would let me open the to find the same problem within the sub folders. I also could not copy stuff back on to my internal hard drive, getting a sharing violation or something.
I went to Buslink's website and made sure I had all the right software but nothing seemed to work. I emailed tech support and heard back in a few hours telling me that the problem was with the windows backup utility. After telling them that I was simply dragging and dropping I was told to reformat the drive which I did. Things looked good again. I could drag small things to the drive. Unfortunatly when I dragged a bigger folder (300MB) on the problems began all over again.
I called tech support and we tried to repartition the drive which ended up making it invisible and unreadable. After being on the phone for 45min or so tech support said "Good luck, you can send us the drive to fix or return it to the merchant you bought it from."
Needless to say I returned it.
After working 2 year in computer technical support I'm pretty sure it was not user error but the product that caused the problem. After losing a good abount of data I bought a 45GB internal hard drive and am very happy with it. My brother-in-law got my old 13gig drive.
Beware...
P.S. I also tried to get it going on Windows 2000 Pro. After loading the drivers successfully I turned on the drive and it crashed my computer like it was pulling the plug on it.
Product Description
T-Bot is quite possibly the cutest thumb drive ever! With beads and springs for appendages and a dust cover for an adorable head, it's prepared to carry your data wherever you go. Equipped with fast USB 2.0 speeds and a Windows Vista ReadyBoost upgrade, it's even more functional than it looks. Trust your data to T-Bot! Requires Microsoft Windows Me/2000/XP/Vista or Mac OS 9+. Colors vary
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SAMSUNG 80GB USB HARD DRIVE - 2.5" Portable Hard Drive with Case
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False advertising.......2007-11-29
They claimed the product is Linux compatable, but there are no drivers for it anywhere. We couldn't get Ubuntu, Dream Linux, or Suse to recognise it. This was very frustrating since that was the only reason we bought this drive. My husband did something to make it work on Ubuntu finally, but it took all night and a lot of hacking.
We did test it on Windows though, and it worked perfectly on that.
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Satisfied with Purchase.......2001-11-23
