We continued to have unending problems with QuickStart Edition.
We contacted the drive manufacturer that QuickStart came with... they walked through a downloadable diagnostics tool. We unloaded the BE services. Ran the tool and it wrote and read a 2G test fle with no problem.
We reinstarted the BE services, and problems resumed...
We ended up taking the advice given earlier in this thread.... uninstall it and don't look back.