External Hard Drive Woes

PrinceofLowLight · Post by **PrinceofLowLight** » 2006-04-23 03:25pm

Recently, someone tripped over the power cable of my external hard drive and pulled the plug out. This happened to occur while I was downloading something onto it. Ever since, Explorer has shut down after a bit of use.

It's been weird. Sometimes it'll work fine for hours and then die. Sometimes it will crash as soon as it loads. Sometimes it only crashes if I try to write something onto it, or access something.

I tried reformatting (after borrowing a friend's external and using a handy file recovery program to save my data.) That didn't leave me in any better a position. I thought I was fine because it worked for a few hours, but now it's acting up again.

If reformatting didn't fix it, will anything?

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2006-04-23 03:40pm

Try using it with another computer for awhile and see if you can replicate the errors.

What OS are you using?

PrinceofLowLight · Post by **PrinceofLowLight** » 2006-04-23 03:44pm

I'm using XP Professional.

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2006-04-24 10:48am

Do a scandisk to check for corruption