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extarnal hard-drive woes

JamieC2003

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ive had my packard bell external harddrive for about 9 months now and its a right pain in the backside! It seems to need to 'warm up' before it will connect to my laptop, which can take about 5-10+ minutes (i expected it to be like a normal hard drive, which started up and was good in under a minute), and a more recent problem is that if it comes up in 'My Computer' (under removable drives) as 'Local Disk (E:)' and i try to click on it, it freezes the computer until i switch the drive off again (it should appear as 'PB_SAFE:'). Any helpful tips, anyone, short of smashing the thing?
 
i definetley installed the software before plugging in the drive, so i dont think its that
would formatting the drive delete eveything on it? because the reason i got the drive was because my laptop hard drive doesn't have the capacity i need for all my media work (im a media student), and with the ammount of stuff on there at the moment (20-30gb) i just dont have the space to back it up if formatting and partitioning does mean deletion
 
Ive just discovered that if i leave the drive switched on for half an hour or so before connecting it, and plug it in the usb port in the back of my laptop rather than the one on the sides, then it doesn't seem to have much of a problem, but it works very slowly for about an hour after it connects until its up to what i'd expect, if that
 
I bought a couple of 500Gb "My Book" USB external drives. No drivers to install, plug in and go. Haven't had one problem yet!
 
Yip,i have the western digital my book 320gb, it works very well,i switch it on and off everyday, had it for about 7months now, no problems! However, when i first got it, i read some forums telling me that i had to change my file system on my drive from fat to ntfs. There were some kindof problems with using the fat system, i think it was about the fat system not being able to support lots of files that ppl usually put on their external hdd, maybe its the same with your drive. Try changing your file systems, maybe that would help!
 
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