acidrain Posted January 22, 2007 Report Share Posted January 22, 2007 I am receiving this error, "Error: The device is not ready." I have an external hard drive that i am using. When confronted with this error I checked the site and forums and could only find one topic suggesting that the drive letter had been changed. Mine has not, but to be sure i went into the prefrences and browsed for the download location, and re-set it to the external hard drive, but i am still receiving this error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 23, 2007 Report Share Posted January 23, 2007 Have you ever used any other external drive? Even if you haven't, this still sounds familiar... I recall someone experiencing the same thing as you (external drive plugged in and all)...Edit: Yah, that'd be this thread... Are you sure all your downloads are pointed to the correct drive? Have you tried disconnecting the drive and reconnecting it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidrain Posted January 28, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2007 I have tried disconnecting and reconnecting the external hard drive but still no luck. I am Able to save to my internal hard drive perfectly fine. I have even tried disabling my antivirus program but i am still getting the same error message. ;( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 28, 2007 Report Share Posted January 28, 2007 And you've checked to make sure that none of the torrents are being downloaded to a non-existent drive letter (look at the Save As path in the General tab), right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidrain Posted February 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2007 Yes the drive letter is still the same. However I've tried a new torrent a week later and it works. However the existing torrents to that drive are still giving me the same error. Does this mean i have to completely restart those torrents??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 3, 2007 Report Share Posted February 3, 2007 No, you can always reload the torrents and point µTorrent to the correct file locations on disk -- it'll automatically recognize the files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philosopherdog Posted March 14, 2007 Report Share Posted March 14, 2007 Here's a trick. Make sure 1) set the location of your external drive in your preferences, under the download tab. Thing is in my case it still insisted on the old location even after doing this and starting the torrent again. So, simply right click and go to advanced and set download location. Set the location manually and force start again. Should work this time. You can do a bunch of torrents at the same time. Hope that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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