Hey, well - I have been using this external hard-drive for a couple of months now. It is a "acomdata" brand 250 GB that attaches to the computer using USB, your pretty standard external hard drive, I'm guessing. Anyways, recently my computer totally freezes when I turn it on. It had never done it before, but now, when I turn the external drive on, the computer freezes and I have to shut it off, and turn off the external hard drive. The funny thing is, my brother has the exact same computer as me, cause we bought 2 of the same at the same time - and it works fine on his computer. So I cleared off my computer using those recovery discs that come with my computer, and it still freezes. But, works just fine with my brothers computer ... WTF? This BLOWS because I have so much shit on that harddrive (read: porno) that i need , and its for it to work on one computer and not the other, especially after one has been "reset" to factory, do you think the actual USB ports themselves have anything to do with it?
Help! Thanks dudes.
Until then ........