External Hard Drive issues

[knighth]

Alrighty, so here is my dilemma.. I have this iPRO drive 500gb external hard drive. It is a usb one and it has NTFS as its type. Recently it has become extremely slow (Like 10 minutes to delete a 0 byte file) , I have already optimized it in the properties for high performance, I tried doing a specific  chkdsk /f and it didn't work. I can't seem to "Eject" it because it says it in use. So what I am trying to figure out is how can I fix it so its as fast as it used to be and if I have to reformat it or something what can I do to keep all the files on it.

It has 350gb free out of 465gb, it has frozen my computer a couple of times and whenever I enter of the folders I have it just stops working. Same as when I select 2 specific folders in there, the porn ones haha. (I can't delete them either -_-)

Thanks in advance. Ask for any extra information and it will be given ^.^

[Geek-9pm]

Myself, I would stop using it.

External USB Hard drive is not a good chose for regular use. It should be used as a one-a-day backup device. And even then whit a caveat or two.

The exception is well-designed commercial external things that has very good software support. If this was from a mahjor maker, you should contact them and find out what went wrong.

[knighth]

Myself, I would stop using it.

External USB Hard drive is not a good chose for regular use. It should be used as a one-a-day backup device. And even then whit a caveat or two.

The exception is well-designed commercial external things that has very good software support. If this was from a mahjor maker, you should contact them and find out what went wrong.

Yeah well I already have it and I think it is made by "iMation" which has pretty terrible customer support. Like there's no way of talking to anyone about problems. All they have for support on the site is Q/A's -_-

[knighth]

...bump

[Salmon Trout]

Don't bump. We don't like it. Especially after only 2 hours. 

Sounds like your drive is toast. Get a new one.