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Hockey_fan100

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    External Hard Drive Problem- Linked To Windows Explorer
    « on: August 12, 2009, 08:59:15 PM »
    Hey everyone, I am new here, and I am having some trouble fixing my external hard drive.

    First of all I am using: Windows Vista Home Basic, Acer Aspire 3680-2354 Laptop/Notebook, 1 GB Ram.

    Whenever I plug in my External Hard drive into my laptop, I get two error messages:

    "Windows Explorer has stopped working"

    "Windows Explorer is restarting"

    Then my desktop blinks with its icons on it, and then re appears. This has a continous cycle. Every 20 seconds or so it restarts.

    Heres the catch:

    I reformatted my hard drive, removed everything on there cause I backed up my files onto other computers and deleted everything on there. I re put the files back onto the hard drive, and it still does this windows explorer thing.

    Another thing is whenever I do not hook up my external hard drive to the laptop, my laptop is fine, free of anything.

    *This problem only happends when I hook up my external hard drive into my laptop.  :'(


    I have been trying for days to fix this problem, but still no luck.

    Please help, it will be much appreciated!!!! :D
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    Re: External Hard Drive Problem- Linked To Windows Explorer
    « Reply #1 on: August 12, 2009, 09:07:19 PM »
    Does it work with other computers?
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    Re: External Hard Drive Problem- Linked To Windows Explorer
    « Reply #2 on: August 12, 2009, 09:08:29 PM »
    Your external drive is probably infected...
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      Re: External Hard Drive Problem- Linked To Windows Explorer
      « Reply #3 on: August 12, 2009, 09:36:17 PM »
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      Does it work with other computers?

      yes, it does work with another computer, I also have a Windows XP computer, and it works fine when I hook up the external there.


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      Your external drive is probably infected...

      thats what I was thinking too. Is there a way to fix this?
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      Re: External Hard Drive Problem- Linked To Windows Explorer
      « Reply #4 on: August 12, 2009, 09:42:00 PM »
      Scan it with an antivirus program.
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        Re: External Hard Drive Problem- Linked To Windows Explorer
        « Reply #5 on: August 12, 2009, 10:17:29 PM »
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        Scan it with an antivirus program.


        I have tried that too. I tried it with AVG and Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware.

        It didnt pick up anything.

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          Re: External Hard Drive Problem- Linked To Windows Explorer
          « Reply #6 on: August 12, 2009, 10:50:08 PM »
          UPDATE:


          I forgot to mention that I also used "CMD" to scan it for anything unusual, with the command: sfc /scannow.


          It appears that I have corrupted files in system 32, but I dont know if that affects the external hard drive or if thats related to this problem...

          I thought I just throw that out there maybe its related or maybe not...
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