Gpdrive

[Drag]

Forgive me if a thread like this has been created before, but I'm a little shaken up at the moment.

Ok, so I decided to try GPDrive, so I put it on my SMC, started it, and put the USB in. It worked just like normal, but when I exited the program (by pressing select), the "removable drive" icon didn't go away in explorer. So, I started GPDrive again, and put the USB in, and the icon went away and came back. When I exited, again, it didn't go away. So I decided to turn the GP32 on in regular vanilla GP32 mode, and that ding that plays when you connect hardware didn't play, so I turned the GP32 off, and I was slapped by a BSOD.

So my computer rebooted, and when windows came back up, it was laggy, and I coulnd't do anything, because nothing would work, so I intentionally BSOD'd again to reboot again, and when it came back up again, same thing, but this time I was able to get into start>run and enable safe mode. Reboot, safe mode, everything's fine. So I get out of safe mode, and windows boots fine, but kinda is acting strange (not all icons appeared in the system tray), so I rebooted a final time, and now everything seems completely 100% normal.

I'm using XP, and I think this may just be a mess up on my part. When gpdrive was active, I tried to 'eject' the drive, but windows wouldn't let me, it came up with an error. Then I tried to eject the drive with the gp32 off, and windows said the drive was in use, and wouldn't let me.

I'm shaken up a little bit, but everything seems to be fine now. Sorry, but I'm afraid to use gpdrive again after this. :S (I know I know, my loss, but I'm comfortable with PC-Link anyway.)

So yeah, did I forget to do something, or does gpdrive just do this?

 

[Blah]

Doesn't do that to me. To exit, press select, and then unplug you GP32. Don't go down to the "safely remove hardware" thingy. The icon should dissappear.

 

[frolik]

How do you intentionally BSOD? well, I'm sure there are many ways, but why would you want to?

 

[Drag]

I intentionally BSOD'ed because clicking shutdown wasn't doing anything. I sat there for like a minute and a half, never took that long. And I BSOD'ed by repeating what I did: USB connect at GPDrive mode, reboot, USB connect at normal GP32 mode, and disconnect.

Do you have to wait at all for the icon to disappear? I hit select and then turned the gp32 off. I didn't 'safely remove hardware' because that was put there for my router.

 

[mth411]

Also, phodrive is the updated version of gpdrive, you might want to go grab that instead.

Also, my xp takes 10 to 30 seconds sometimes to lose the icon for stopping a device, which you don't need to do with gpdrive/phodrive.

 

[Drag]

But when the icon goes away, does the "hardware disconnected" sound play, like it's supposed to? That way, you can connect the GP32 in normal mode, and use PC-Link.

So I guess it takes some time for XP to realize the removable drive isn't connected anymore. That makes sense, as I wasn't waiting a long time for the icon to go away. I kinda paniced when the "hardware disconnected" sound didn't play when gpdrive exited, and I turned off the gp32.