I have two Maxtor Personal Storage Portable Hard drives and one of them for some reason is acting weird. The one that is messed up is the 80 gig hard drive. I am unable to right click anything on that hard drive and when I do it freezes and become unresponsive for about 2 minutes. I have enough space on it and I mainly store music on it. I had defragmented the hard drive but that didn't do anything. Also, when I unplug the power and plug it back the autoplay instead of taking like 1 min it takes about 15 min and I can see all of the individual files load. Any suggestions?
2007-05-17 12:41:54 · 3 answers · asked by FUnChicKen 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
I have run Norton Antivirus on it and it's come up clean
2007-05-17 12:49:56 · update #1
It's not my usb cable
2007-05-17 13:00:59 · update #2
It could be a bad hard drive or it might be a bad USB cable. You can try switching the USB cable and see if that helps. If not you can run a scandisk on the hard drive to find a bad sectors. Go to My Computer right click on the hard drive and choose properties - Click on the Tools tab - Under Error Checking press Check Now - Put a check mark in both boxes and click start. It will take a little while for it to finish.
2007-05-17 12:49:46 · answer #1 · answered by darylzero46 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
im not sure if this works on portable drive but why not try..
download a disk doctor..
2007-05-17 12:45:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not really sure about these types of things, but is it possible that you have a virus on it?
2007-05-17 12:45:35 · answer #3 · answered by Jamie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋